Carl Sagan called it over 30 years ago. And the saddest thing is that too many under 30 don’t even know what the fuck he was talking about. For the very reasons he was talking about. #WASF

https://stzl.ink/9wjruk

Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:

- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains

As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:

"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."

In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

#usa #uspol #currentevents #wtf

@firefoxwebdevs Glad resources are being spent on features nobody asked for instead of fixing decades old bugs 🫡

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders...

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Let me put this as simply as possible: If the 60 Minutes editorial team cuts out most of their interview with Trump to make him look his best, and he still comes across as completely demented, then it is extremely likely that Trump actually is completely demented.

The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth.

They would rather lose elections than change.

The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis.

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/03/zohran-mamdani-knows-how-to-win/

If you want to be part of The Resistance,
it will cost you your smart speaker, your Ring doorbell, your smart glasses, and your AI assistants.

Mass surveillance is incompatible with revolution. Get rid of it.

#BeTheResistance #Privacy #MassSurveillance

@Gryficowa (2/2) What I'm saying is that our government in this country has gutted our public education to the point that the majority of the country is quite literally illiterate, and the reason why our legislature has done that is because you are not able to manipulate a well-educated populace. You need to have people be uneducated in order to have them believe lies, which is what right-wing ideology is based on, and that is the entire point of cutting the education funding, they wanted this.

@Gryficowa(1/2) 1. I am part of gen z myself. 2. This is about the United States. 3. There is statistical evidence that gen Z (at least in the US) Is extremely uneducated. 3. I'm not blaming gen Z, I'm blaming the people that gutted education. 4. I agree with you that yes the issue is people on forums like 4chan are grooming children into being right-wing extremists, but that is only able to happen because these kids can't even read at a 6th grade level, which was the point of cutting education

"Gen Z is more conservative because they've seen neo-liberalism fail for decades"

No babe education has been gutted and dumb people are easier to manipulate and they don't know anything about history they failed it in highschool.
#uspol #history #genz #usa #funding #education

Does anyone else just feel like news programs have just become state media?

Even with NPR, everything they report is either information from the government that is easily verifiable to be false or heavily mischaracterized. with every story you have to decipher what is and isn't blatant propaganda.

#uspol #usa #news #ICE #gaza

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina-re-intros-bill-to-kill

If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.

Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.

#Privacy #AgeVerification

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I appreciate you Barak

"People died in three mass shootings over the weekend, two of which were allegedly by Iraq War veterans with very mysterious politics, like all their Trump yard signs and lawsuits against gay people for genociding straights. We’ll obviously never know why the Left did it this time."

~ Marcie Jones

#guns #MassShooting #Michigan #Texas #NorthCarolina #NewOrleans #violence
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This is corporate media today:
•ABC: fires Jimmy Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Stephen Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Terry Moran for slamming Stephen Miller as “world class hater”
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words & hateful actions”
•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi style state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

Corporate media has failed. All to appease Trump. This is what state media looks like. What a disgrace.