Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by sping

nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 1d

[to mafia thugs extorting me in a “protection” racket] excuse me, but you took an oath to protect me

2 65 630

Reposted by sping

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 2d

Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand

Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars

1st Argentinian Edition"

6 160 680

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

“hard-right” funny way of saying Neo Nazi, GQ.

10

Reposted by sping

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

It's just awesome that all of the most powerful people in the world openly acknowledge that "low skill workers" do all of the most important work while also continuing to maintain a system that ensures the overwhelming majority of people are perpetually poor, miserable and dying.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

2 22 80

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

It's just awesome that all of the most powerful people in the world openly acknowledge that "low skill workers" do all of the most important work while also continuing to maintain a system that ensures the overwhelming majority of people are perpetually poor, miserable and dying.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

2 22 80

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

Hell yea thank you for sharing

1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

unrelated to the equestrian but I'm loving the new pfp

1 1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 2d

2026 is really shaping up to be year of Getting Off Of The Computer

1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 3d

The type of shit people say when they’ve never read a book before

1 1

Reposted by sping

notriv3th3ad.bsky.social @notriv3th3ad.bsky.social · 3d

The continuity of agenda between 🔴🔵, who vie for management of this empire while leaving you to starve, drowning in a multitude of debts, is plainly evident. The truth is the Biden admin could’ve ended genocide in ‘23 just as the 🇺🇦🇷🇺 war could’ve ended years—and hundreds of thousands of deaths—ago.

Hamas Agreed To Same Gaza Deal More Than a Year Ago But Netanyahu and Biden Rejected It: Israeli Negotiator - News From Antiwar.com

Hamas agreed to the terms of the current Gaza ceasefire deal more than a year ago, but at the time, the potential agreement was rejected by both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-US P...

news.antiwar.com

1 5

Reposted by sping

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 5d

8 45 360

Reposted by sping

notriv3th3ad.bsky.social @notriv3th3ad.bsky.social · 5d

Since it’s Halloween season and you wanna be freaked the fuck out you should spend the weekend learning about NSO group and its Pegasus software

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

1 2 4

sping @boogerstyle.com · 5d

It reminds me of the type of people that get impatient and aggressively speed up to pass you to cut you off only to immediately get stuck sitting right in front of you at a traffic light and pretending that nothing happened.

1 1

Reposted by sping

𝘕𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮.𝘫𝘱𝘦𝘨 @nihilism.bsky.social · 6d

María Corina Machado is a far-right leader connected to fascist-paramilitaries. Machado supports the privatization of state-run entities in Venezuela, including oil company PDVSA, which would cause mass poverty. She fucking sucks shit and does not deserve "peace" remotely associated with her name.

Washington presses regional governments to secure Maduro’s ouster in Venezuela

The Venezuelan crisis has exposed all bourgeois nationalist governments of the Latin American pink tide and their pseudo-left apologists as instruments of US imperialism.

www.wsws.org

4 5 10

sping @boogerstyle.com · 5d

Export controls on “critical software” Satya Nadella is probably shitting his pants right now. Microsoft is already struggling to navigate mounting cost from their awful AI investments. MSFT is over 6% of the S&P 500 btw.

CivicTracker @civictracker.us · 5d

Trump states the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on China starting Nov 1, 2025, in response to China's planned export controls.

Donald J. Trump via Truth Social: It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing...

sping @boogerstyle.com · 5d

Seriously! I’m curious to hear which company is revealed to be the “investment group.” For anyone who may be unfamiliar: NSO Group was also sued last year over their involvement in the assassination of Jamal Kashoggie. They’re completely, transparently malicious.

Reposted by sping

Slim Clickems @sneakyness.com · 5d

Another point for "I'm buying a fliphone and writing all my own java apps for it"

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

1 1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 5d

Holy fuck this is bad yall

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

1 1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 7d

Ugh what the fuck… this sucks so bad. I knew I should have just fucking got on mastodon instead.

1 1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 7d

Democracy is hard to do without honesty!! I understand why officials are afraid to tackle it head on but yeah definitely, it’s kind of the elephant in the room atm.

1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 7d

It’s important that he try to do at least something. If he is legitimately unable to reign in the police people need to be made aware that the state police have gone rogue, because it has big implications for the state of government.

1 1 1

sping @boogerstyle.com · 8d

Wishing u a speedy recovery!

1

Reposted by sping

daniel daimler @ddmlxr.bsky.social · 8d

'enshittification' simply is a symptom of a far more concerning development which already had been diagnosed 100 years ago (if not very much longer before that) and later most pungently put by Baudrillard among others, the contentification of the real

1 1 2

Reposted by sping

S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 12d

Why are we doing this. Why are we allowing them to burn money and resources like this for something no one wants. Burn this shit to the ground

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 12d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

buff.ly

2 5

sping @boogerstyle.com · 12d

The genie is out of the bottle I suppose

1