Interesting piece in the Times today about Jenryck's wife - American/Israeli lawyer who acted in UK on behalf of various Russian plutocrats ...
This is terrifying. We are infantilising and dementing ourselves. Or rather, allowing plutocrats to reduce collective intelligence for their own obvious and nefarious ends. www.npr.org/2024/10/03/n...
False claims about the hurricane and the government’s response got millions of views on social media. Emergency management researchers say it makes it harder for useful information to surface.
That's it, I fucking quit. Burn all the Ivies and especially j-schools to the ground, and salt the earth. rebuild something accessible with state money. tax the shit out of plutocrats to pay for it.
(Checked, they come up for renewal every few years. So, she is up for renewal soon, and the plutocrats are revolting)
The plutocrats yearn for absolute control.
Trump articulating a crude version of droit du seigneur was a feature, not a bug. It's neofeudalism all the way down for our plutocrats. They don't believe in quaint notions of democracy and common welfare.
YES YES GO TO FUCKING DUBAI. TAKE ALL OUR FUCKING PLUTOCRATS WITH YOU. aaaannnnnd STAY THERE.
we moved away from silicon valley because of how this fucker ruined everything we loved about it. it was already on its way ever since eugenicist plutocrats mowed the whole thing down and built their capitalist hellscape on the ruins before we were born, but this guy has done a number on it
Mark Zuckerberg has remade his image from a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a cool, athletic AI visionary in the eyes of Silicon Valley tech founders.
Mark Zuckerberg has remade his image from a dorky, democracy-destroying CEO into a cool, athletic AI visionary in the eyes of Silicon Valley tech founders.
Don’t beg politicians and plutocrats for a better world Compete with politicians and plutocrats to build a better world We can do it better than they are and they can catch up or be left behind