alright enough corpo-wailing from me, back to being a work drone.

More days than not, the "beep boop" doesn't hit me in the feels the same way it did a decade ago. The "beeping blorp" just flops. Not even a bop.

TIL that "Ars Technica" means the art of technology

Lol, I'm actually looking for a mention of the tactics of infighting that COINTELPRO mentioned when they worked to infiltrate dissent groups.

Them: "What's that you're reading?"

Me: "oh, nothing, just a book about the government".

The book: https://archive.org/details/cointelpro_papers/page/n9/mode/2up

This video is good and a reminder that the government will lie first before telling the truth. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282. This is not even like a side-thought: "national security" is the means of the United States of maintaining its existing means of operation with no interruption, no reform and no changes.

Imagine how many articles we've read today that has a bunch of "briefed" journalists who do truly believe that the same government that spent billions on killing Indigenous peoples to form itself would, this time, tell any sort of complete truth.

The fact that we have FOIAs should be a bigger reminder to not fall for that.

This, https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1487175300115054593, is how Snowden routinely reminds me that he a white boy for the Souf, lol.

I'm combing through his Twitter randomly (which I'm curious if he still uses it) and saw this https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1619381527569391616. This logic is very hopeful in the idea that a judical system will fix the issues of the paramilitary forces of a state in the USA. Itmakes me wonder if we need to do more teachings/learnings about how and why policing exists in America, how its form of policing got exported to many places (like South Africa post apartheid, more explicitly and retroactive training from the Israeli Defense Force to civilian police in places like New York City and Portland).

Got like 2.5 years left and if Snowden's right about this, it's going to be via Apple's Vision Pro acolytes who have ignored the years of VR (and just truly do not give a fuck about the harms of Foxconn). https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1585589721971003398. Watch WWDC get a VR component in 2027.

The act of mental decolonization is a very wild process. It's not linear. It's constant — society itself carries many artifacts of older colonization and the throngs of modern forms. But those moments where people are very excited to make these connections and build either their own defenses from it or find new ways to represent and identify themselves are always so joyous.

We need to stop making commercial apps. Like full stop. https://www.platformer.news/marissa-mayer-sunshine-shine-app-design-cofounder-quits/

Oh, sure, your country of 95% Africans can have your little election. But only if you choose to have no army, no police and have your election options selected by the client-state coalition backed by the US and UN. Fuck this shit. I'm wanting Famni to get back into power but damn. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article286650320.html

Best maps of Haiti I can find online are ones produced by the United States Army. Specifically, the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, based in Virginia (public info).

The role of art is to provide a space for critique and we've lost that completely in this age. It's not socially safe to push back on what oligarchy define as "high art", despite the same system actively rejecting any chance for "inclusive" art when it comes to awarding it (which is signal enough that the institution will not accept you until it's profitable). It's always — always — fuck billionaires (and, shit, millionaires, while we're at it) if you're being honest about demanding systematic change for people.

It's a bit poetic that one of the few airports still open in Haiti for safe travels is named after a president who actually did something to help Haiti. A Marxist president focused on the growth of local countries being independent of the violence of the United States and Western imperialism as a whole.

Me when y'all elect another Black president who wants us to glass Africa for profit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-haredim-benjamin-netanyahu-court-military-conscription-gaza-war

https://www.thewrap.com/the-matrix-5-drew-goddard-new-movie-warner-bros/ Another one.

Mentioned this lightly before, but I'm a writer-contributor to Reboot's fourth volume named "Luck". You can get a copy at https://shop.kernelmag.io/products/kernel-4. This issue has a lot in it, of which you can read more about athttps://www.kernelmag.io/4/editors-note

Now that I have a wee bit more stability, I'm thinking about the outlets I want to support. I had to start from scratch with this, so it'll take me a year to do this because of assessment windows. The last month gave me confidence in donating to https://truthout.org.

I blame Aristotle writing down of the game of Yes & No for the foundational reason why men have so much joy asking questions that have no bearing in life outside of giving them a twisted sense of satisfaction when it comes to defending their joy of consent violations.