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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 8h

I think the plan is to kill most of them, as much as they can, through starvation, bombing. Some will be displaced, and there is a real risk that survivors will be shoved into permanent camps and used as cheap labor like slaves, to serve the billionaire’s projects.

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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 19h

I think Transhumanism remains a metaphor — and a dangerous one — mobilized to capture policy and to naturalize technical and economic agendas under the guise of human advancement.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 20h

Though the Berggruen Institute claims to host “debates,”its magazine Noema consistently promotes frameworks like computational functionalism,where life,mind,and intelligence are reduced to information processing.Dissenting views exist,but they’re sidelined, never centered.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 3d

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 20h

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 20h

Transhumanists admit they lack an ethical and philosophical framework. The “philanthropic” Berggruen Institute — whose publication is @noemamag.com — is building it, using “ethics” to legitimize a post-human ideology where life is information and AI is evolution, turning control into policy.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 21h

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 20h

Transhumanists admit they lack an ethical and philosophical framework. The “philanthropic” Berggruen Institute — whose publication is @noemamag.com — is building it, using “ethics” to legitimize a post-human ideology where life is information and AI is evolution, turning control into policy.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 21h

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

iai.tv/articles/how...

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 21h

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

iai.tv/articles/how...

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 23h

This is so wrong.
During the pandemic, Germany gave billions in bailouts to big corporations — not repaid.
Politicians involved in mask fraud were convicted or cleared by loopholes, but kept the money.
Now small businesses and freelancers are being forced to return their tiny aid.
Outrageous.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

AI is simpler than a Mycoplasma—the tiniest living thing. When something that simple can take your job, the problem isn’t intelligence, but the economy’s contempt for life.

#AI #Ethics

journalrecord.com/2025/09/05/a...

AI-driven job displacement a growing concern

U.S. unemployment rises to 4.3% in August; AI adoption sparks worker anxiety over job security and displacement.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Jeff Bezos set out to destroy one of our main newspapers that held billionaires like him to account and it worked!

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Andrea Di Turi #FacetheClimateEmergency @andytuit.bsky.social · 1d

"Five Palestinians killed by israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire"

#israeleStatoTERRORISTA #israeleStatoCANAGLIA #israelestatoGENOCIDA ha violato il cessate il fuoco

dove sono #labuonastampa giornaloni e media mainstream?

FATE VOMITARE!! ANDATE AFFANCULO!!

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Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Just George Oh🦇🎃👻🐈‍⬛🕸️ @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently... 🙄

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

it's easier to release hostages from gaza than releasing the epstein files

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J'dis ça j'dis rien @jdiscajdisrien.bsky.social · 3d

Gaza

#genocide
#Gaza

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

More details at these links

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

transparentelection.org

The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

www.americanprogress.org

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

6/6 So no — AI cannot rescue democracy. It’s being used to secure the order that democracy once threatened. And until that order itself is confronted, all talk of “AI for democracy” is just interface management — the narcotic of participation masking the reality of control.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

5/6 AI is here not to fix inequality, but to amplify it — to automate extraction, surveillance, and social control. Even a “participatory” AI would only stage the illusion of agency inside a system built on exploitation. You can’t code your way out of inequality; you can only redistribute power.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

4/6 olitikverdrossenheit is real because people have already understood: it doesn’t matter who they vote for. The same alliances between money, data, and government remain. Voting has become an elite ritual for cultural signaling while material power flows upward.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

3/6 The same corporations now preaching about “democratic AI” are the ones hollowing out democracy itself — lobbying governments, extracting subsidies, dodging taxes, writing regulation in their favor. They’re not partners in democracy; they’re its creditors.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

2/6 People aren’t choosing comfort; they’re being coerced. AI functions like a drug deliberately engineered to addict. Addictive interfaces, algorithmic engagement, and convenience as compulsion.its a strategy.And it targets children too, invading schools, shaping attention from the earliest years.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

1/6 Nothing like having the Head of Research for Eric Schmidt — ex-Google CEO and one of the architects of the current system — telling us that people are “surrendering” to AI.
They’re not surrendering. They’ve been dispossessed.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

What a relief!

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

Uses network analysis to show how elite philanthropy helps maintain elites’ power rather than contesting structural inequality.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

A legal/finance-oriented critique of the logic behind tax subsidies to charitable giving.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

Critiques how strategic philanthropy often fails to deliver systemic change; calls for models that empower communities rather than impose top-down solutions.

ssir.org/articles/ent...

Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong (SSIR)

Dramatic advances in the scale and sophistication of strategic philanthropy have not improved societal conditions at a national level. We propose empowerment philanthropy as a new approach to fosterin...

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