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Tehanu
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settler Canadian / neuroqueer / gender-improvised (she/him) pfp: photo of stoat standing on a rock banner: two eyes staring from a sad, blue void, from Dan Sneberger’s cover for The Left Hand of Darkness
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The Bastards Who Heisted the Louvre
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goddamn what the fuck lol.
Oh shit is Annapurna run by Ellison’s daughter???
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Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE
The network state is tech-oligarchy’s plan to fast-track the return to feudalism. Not that this isn’t the trajectory of unchecked capitalism anyway, but it is the current form of that trajectory, aiming to totally absorb government into finance and accelerate naked, unimpeded colonialism worldwide.
Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/
They want to turn Gaza into a Network State
The Tony Blair Institute is heavily backed by Larry Ellison & was “involved in plans to create a new ‘Trump Riviera.’” That vision “envisages creating a ‘blockchain registry for land’ to underpin the construction of up to 8 ‘AI-powered, smart planned cities on the inner side of the Gaza Ring.“ …1/
Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal
Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.
bylinetimes.com
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“Larry Ellison’s Oracle & Peter Thiel’s Palantir now form a single operational spine for digital governance and defence, from cloud infrastructure to predictive analytics. And Trump’s Gaza peace plan looks like the vehicle thru which that spine could extend into Gaza’s reconstruction.” 10/16/25 …1/
Dagsson is here
Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
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Me designing the brand new temple: one day when this is all ruins there will be a guy standing here
“…corporations will be confronted, therefore, by serious problems of population management, and they will have very specific demands on the state. Their machine knowledge will be designed to ensure that the state intensifies its powers of surveillance, repression, and human warehousing.”
“Until now, work provided the means for individuals to extract substantial revenues from the economy; on that basis, democracy became not only feasible but even necessary. Work … was never merely economic: the entire political system, too, was built on a twentieth-century pattern of employment”
Rana Dasgupta: Trump Is Only a Symptom of a Deeper Problem
This analysis of the changing American nation-state argues that Trump's presidency is a distraction from bigger problems.
yalereview.org
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Fuck the UCP holy shit
🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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bookvaccine.alberta.ca
The scenario in which there are oligarchs powerful enough to succeed at their AI con and force LLMs onto the rest of society is the outright fascist and dystopian scenario. That higher ed has largely capitulated to the scam means it had already been deskilled. We need to understand how and why.
“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
Until this point I thought it was all green lol. I don’t know why I assumed that since Canadian money is also multi-coloured. My brain lives a life of its own sometimes
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If sovereign data servers outside the reach of US law are the goal, why doesn’t the government just create a Crown corporation to build & run them?
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.
Canada wants to detangle its data from U.S. tech giants. Can it be done?
In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty
www.theglobeandmail.com