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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 41m

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4h

Anti fascist means anti fascist it has no ties to democracy.

True anti fascists see what American consumer democracy is and are against it as well because actual anti fascists oppose fascism in all of its forms and American corporate democracy is fascist
Thanks for trying to recuperate the language

Stéphanie Inglesfield 🔶 #PR #rejoinEU @singlesfield.bsky.social · 13h

Antifa = Pro Democracy

That is it. All clear now?

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

I feel like the current in-the-moment mainstream perception of Antifa is of them being the Yankees to the Red Sox’s Christo-fascist counterbalance, and some folks are winking along with it as craven political theater while the rest see it as strangling future resistance networks in the cradle.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

Ah and the Microsoft thing is also actually a Intel thing: americanbazaaronline.com/2025/09/29/t...

Trump demands Microsoft remove global affairs head after targeting Intel CEO

Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco and urged Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, citing national security risks tied to government contracts and China connections.

americanbazaaronline.com

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

And the payments:
gizmodo.com/trump-is-lau...

Trump Is Launching a Crypto Debit Card

World Liberty Financial will offer a debit card in thee latest addition to Trump family's crypto empire.

gizmodo.com

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

Here's the Microsoft Domino.

Can Microsoft Resist Trump’s Call for Exec’s Firing as Tech Bends to His Will?

Recently, President Donald Trump demanded that Microsoft sack its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her past roles in the Biden and Obama administrations. He added that her position was “unacc...

www.theinformation.com

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

A few updates since this!

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 18d

If Trump-aligned control Tech sector already spans Intel, Oracle (with TikTok U.S.), Meta, X, Tesla, Sinclair, T-Mobile, Paramount, and Walmart… what’s left outside? Not much. But the gaps are critical chokepoints. 🧵

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 4h

Just triggered ChatGPT "are you well" outreach script by asking about... Canadian citizenship.

Yes it is that bad Sam!

Screenshot of a ChatGPT interface showing a message that reads:
“Would you like me to rewrite it in a text-message tone or as an email?”
Below it, there’s an informational message box containing the text:
“It sounds like you’re carrying a lot right now, but you don’t have to go through this alone. You can find supportive resources here.”
The layout includes icons for thumbs up, thumbs down, and refresh below the message.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 5h

Thanks Matt! @toilville.com is trying to do something about it!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6h

Good thread for thinking about what is (and what is not) already part of the kleptocratic architecture of surveillance, extraction, and coercion.

Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 18d

If Trump-aligned control Tech sector already spans Intel, Oracle (with TikTok U.S.), Meta, X, Tesla, Sinclair, T-Mobile, Paramount, and Walmart… what’s left outside? Not much. But the gaps are critical chokepoints. 🧵

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 7h

I did a thread here a few weeks ago conjecturally but Matt did the legwork - There is now a cradle to the grave surveillance apparatus ready to go.

What’s the trigger?

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 7h

Important piece from Marshall. Dismantling kleptocracy is the most urgent goal, & anti-monopoly policy must be part of that.

The problem we face, as I tackled last week, is that with very few exceptions, U.S. anti-monopoly policy has been antitrust, & has ranged from weak to counterproductive.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 7h

so i guess he should run for governor?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8h

since that Monroe post is now reaching people, and men (it’s always fucking men) are coming out saying they can’t see why it’s wrong to create weirdly sexual videos of deceased movie stars who had been exploited by many men in life, you can fuck right off.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 8h

"The tech platforms...created a new, much worse way of creating culture. A universe of dumbasses talking to other dumbasses, measured by numbers that don’t make sense and don’t reflect anything other than passive screen time."

www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 16h

my daughter only liked watching the directors commentary of the first film and he’s seemed like a nice guy doing a job for the rent.

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 17h

a man is sitting in a chair playing a video game on a computer monitor

ALT: a man is sitting in a chair playing a video game on a computer monitor

media.tenor.com

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 17h

can i also block people who would select this specific example

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18h

nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/...

nanochat

Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …

simonwillison.net

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Peter Swimm @peterswimm.com · 19h

To make sure AI is truly sustainable, it’s super important to clearly separate the data we bring in, the data we clean up, and the data we send out.

But that would require these people to be interested in the problems people need to solve and who has the time for that.