I don't believe this unassailable fact will ever stick. The media is too beholden to power and money. When we did Tesla Takedown, I'd give exhaustive interviews laying out Elon's murderous actions and the writer would ignore them, paint us as agitators and DOGE as Elon's 'cost cutting' initiative.
He's not working, it's not the president's house, and you're celebrating the assisted suicide of a once great nation.
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out:
A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.
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The fact that they weaponized a term and practice by a Black scholar— Saidiya Hartman— to justify AI, supposedly to benefit people whose history is currently being erased from archives *using* AI is rich!
Work of Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot is helpful in understanding origin of gaps.
Kevin M. Kruse
The Verge
it’s not even hick shit. it’s rich suburban guys cosplaying as hicks shit
Citizen.Coping
Today in people who've never heard of Elijah McClain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
I was there, standing next to trade unionists, queers, children, retired people, people of faith, neighbours, who all took a firm stance against bigotry and cruelty and promoted community.
it's ironic that a camcorder video of a McDonald's circa 1988 can elicit a million responses about how good it used to be, how we've really "devolved," when at the time a McDonald's was considered to be the epitome of soulless dead-end suburban corporatized life.
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In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
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Markwayne Mullin: "I spoke to the president this morning. On his birthday, he's still working. We have a big day today and we're celebrating it in a big way in front of the president's house at the White House."
In "Silencing the Past" Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot says "silences" enter the production of history at four moments:
1) the making of sources
2) the making of archives
3) the making of narratives
4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)
THE STREET ARE OURS: THOUSANDS OF ANTIRACISTS RECLAIM THE STREETS IN GLASGOW AND HUMILIATE FAR RIGHT THUGS
Glasgow reclaimed the streets from the far right today!
the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit
