First, here's a photo of Greg and his friend. They sure seem nice.
Greg's transportation network drops people off in far-away US cities.
It could be redeployed to strategically disperse Russians and their agents. Why do I say that? ... 2/10
Basically, people who want to burn it all down so they can usher in something “better”. They don’t all have to agree on what comes next. So the clever ones can manipulate the naive into strange and dangerous alliances.🧵
... Bring about Armageddon? Let’s accelerate that! End the US dollar so we can have financial liberty with crypto and gold? Let’s go! Speed up capitalism so we can get to Mars and fulfill our destiny as a multi planetary species - no time to waste...
Aug 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
THIS IS HUGE.
@judgeluttig, whom Pence turned to for legal advice on 1/6 AND Laurence Tribe AND Federalist Society scholars agree
that the 14th Amendment already disqualifies Trump.
Cc @MuellerSheWrote
But who will enforce it? Read on (quoting the Federalist Society profs)...
“you could simply describe Trump as a never-ending poop cruise, guaranteed to create new content daily. And I don’t know how Licht can solve that systemic problem, with or without Trump.”
#CNN
I have ideas in the next post…
vox.com/2022/8/26/2332…
Imagine a network that filled those no-breaking-news hours with mind-blowing civic education and systems-level narratives. Examples: What @maddow did with #Ultra. @doctorow dissections of the #enshittification of big tech and media. @HC_Richardson-style historical parallels…
Mar 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Anyone else tired of this highway to dystopia? Here’s the deal:
Tech scales. Looking back, you know what we scaled? Advertising.
Synonym for advertising? Manipulation.
Thought it was sneaker companies and your benign democratic leaders that had your data? 1/🧵
Well, yeah, but also billionaires and Putin and MBS.
And now AI will push even more drivel and deep fakes and phishing and disinfo at us. Hmmm… 2/
Mar 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m not done reading Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan but already must recommend it. Here’s just one passage:
“[Narxcare] trawls medical and other records to assign patients an Overdose Risk Score. One classic failing of the system has been misinterpreting medication…” 1/4
that people had obtained for sick pets; dogs with medical problems are often prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines, and these veterinary prescriptions are made out in the owner’s name. As a result, people with a well-founded need for opioid painkillers for…” 2/4
Mar 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Libertarians seeking bailouts are *not* hypocritical. A short 🧵
Libertarians advocate for “economic freedom.” Wealth should be allowed to beget more wealth, free of societal constraints. And of course wealth provides power 💥, which in turn then begets wealth and power, and on and on. 2/11
Feb 2, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
At the heart of society lies a paradox.
Total disorder and total order are not opposites.
By failing to understand this, we fight about the wrong things and repeat the cycles of history.
A 🧵 about power, institutions, and life itself…
(or on medium) scafaria.com/the-paradox-at…
Imagine a society without any institutions. It’s not even a society at that point, really… no family structures, no schools, no police, no stores. It’s total disorder, breeding chaos, violence, and every man for himself.
Jan 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I’ll fix your headline:
“Republicans take United States AAA credit rating hostage, scheme up demands list so they can cut social security.”
First paragraph should read… washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023…
Fortunately, as Koch-backed group Heritage have themselves written, the government is already precluded from allowing itself to default.
per @TimothyDSnyder
"systematic seizure of Ukrainian women and children and their deportation into the vastness of Russia...some three million people have been deported, disproportionately young women and children. At least two hundred thousand and as many as 700,000 children."
Oct 15, 2022 • 23 tweets • 11 min read
Watching the UK🇬🇧 self-immolate❤️🔥, first with Brexit and now the disastrous libertarian economic policies of Liz Truss, it’s time to debunk the Scarcity Myth. 1/🧵 #ScarcityMyth
If you’re catching up on the UK, read this @jaredbrock post.
“Churches and pubs are applying for grants to become ‘warm spaces’ just to keep the nation alive this winter. No one else can afford to turn their heat on.” #ScarcityMyth 2/ survivingtomorrow.org/britain-is-try…
This 30-second clip of Doug Mastriano provides a quick look at the prospective PA governor.
honored by Q adherents + election liar + power to decertify votes...
Jul 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s how Bannon, the Mercers, and Putin weaponized neuroscience to declare war on democracy. 1/🧵
#neuroscience #antifascism #democracy
@JJMama2001 @CultExpert I slept on this and realized I buried the lede. The point of the Russia/Bannon/Mercer op known as Cambridge Analytica was to build a cult recruitment pipeline. It worked. @VelvetBlade shares more here. @davetroy and @CultExpert are experts.
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