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The famous "Picard facepalm" meme is from the Star Trek episode "The Drumhead," aired in 1991, in which the crew becomes ensnared in a vicious spiral of national security paranoia, xenophobia, irrational suspicion and runaway confirmation bias and begins to carry out an ever-widening witch hunt against innocent crewmembers, baselessly and opportunistically accusing them of being "Romulan agents," stripping them of their rights and requiring them to prove their innocence.
Picard, having opposed it all along, is eventually hauled before the inquisition himself, provoking the famous "facepalm" gesture. He then refuses to defend himself, instead making a general plea for the entire system of rights that is under attack.
"With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
His opponent, the inquisitor, enraged by this, loses control and exposes herself as an authoritarian, and her spell is broken.
The episode was originally an allegory for McCarthyism in United States history. It should be required viewing for European establishments today, now a decade deep into a reenactment of the very same pathology, extending a culture of national security suspicion over everything, converting every domain of civilian life into a source of "threats," stigmatising differences of political opinion as "disinformation," thuggishly smearing opponents as being "pro-Russian" and eroding the framework of fundamental rights that gives our societies any claim to being democracies in the first place.
Those of us who know the importance of those rights will have lost count of how many times over recent years, listening to European political leaders lurch further into this psychosis, we have felt like putting our head in our hands in the universal gesture of dismay.
RIP Patrick Stewart
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I tried to tell you all.
Private Equity Invents “Act of AI” to Pause Loan Defaults Indefinitely
Private equity firms are trying to sneak “AI disruption” into loan contracts as an “act of God” , like a hurricane or pandemic.
That would let their companies delay fixing missed payments or other defaults for as long as they claim AI is hurting the business.
Money managers who lent the money are now digging through their paperwork, worried they already signed up for this open-ended escape hatch
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Ursula K. Le Guin in 2014:
“Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting voices who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being…We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable—but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
During the feudal era, the greed and power of kings ruled society until the people fought back.
Now, in the capitalist era, the greed and power of billionaires rule society. Like the kings, they think their reign will last forever, but it will only last until the people rise up and change it.
Different eras, similar struggle. The struggle of the people to liberate ourselves from the greed of the ruling class and the power and wealth imbalances of top-down hierarchical societies.
As powerful and inescapable as capitalism feels, it has no power without the people and the workers who make it run! Once the people figure this out en masse the world is ours to collectively share together!
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So help me, God, not one red cent of taxpayer money should bail these people out. Not one penny.
🚨 CONGRESS IS NOW DISCUSSING WHAT HAPPENS IF MAJOR AI COMPANIES GO BANKRUPT.
House Democrats have introduced a resolution calling for AI companies to receive ZERO taxpayer funded bailouts if they collapse.
AI spending by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle, Meta and SpaceX is expected to top $7 trillion from 2025 to 2030, per S&P.
Big Tech is expected to borrow a record $420 billion in 2027 alone.
Now, lawmakers are discussing what should happen if those massive investments go wrong.
The resolution calls for:
• No taxpayer funded bailouts for failing AI companies.
• No emergency loans, cash injections or debt guarantees from the Fed, Treasury or FDIC.
• Failed AI companies to go through normal bankruptcy proceedings.
• Executives responsible for reckless or illegal conduct to face accountability.
• Government support to protect workers and retirement savings instead of corporate executives.
The resolution is not legally binding, and it does not mean lawmakers know an AI crash is coming.
But it shows the risk is now being taken seriously in Congress.
And there is a reason to pay attention.
AI companies are spending enormous amounts of money today based on expectations of future demand and profits.
If those expectations fail, the damage could spread beyond AI companies to banks, lenders and investors financing the expansion.
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This is why I don’t believe that Israelis are “brainwashed”. They know exactly what’s happening, actively support it and collectively lie to the world to cover it. We aren't dealing with an ignorant society, but a fundamentally evil cult.
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“Being left-wing can create a little problems sometimes in the United States, but I would have fun with it! There’s nothing like being at a dinner party in Beverly Hills with fancy guests and telling them you’re a socialist.”
Rest in Peace, Patrick Stewart ✊
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patrick stewart as lenin in the 1974 series fall of eagles: “don’t trust the liberals, they will betray you.”
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An Israeli actress was being interviewed but thought they were on commercial break so she started telling the truth about Israel only to find out afterwards they were live on air:
“I’m no longer proud to be Israeli. It’s a terrible feeling. I’m ashamed of who we are as a people…Everything that is happening now is a result of the occupation: The religious coercion, the settler violence, the Jewish terrorism, and the arrogance. The minority [the Palestinians] have a right to fight for their freedom.”
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THE FIRST DUTY OF EVERY STARFLEET OFFICER IS To THE TRUTH
WHETHER IT IS SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
OR HISTORICAL TRUTH
OR PERSONAL TRUTH
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Heart rate, perspiration, and other studies show that narcissists/ psychopaths do not experience fear.
In fact, they anticipate moments that would create fear in others with exhilaration.
Imagine the significance of this in people driven by power and control!
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Elizabeth Holmes has the classic left right facial hemisphere asymmetry of the predator (eg narcissist). It’s the basis of the smirk. Cover one side of her face and there’s a smile. Cover the other side and it’s a ‘dead’ face.
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You’re never voting your way out of this disaster. It’s organized crime.
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The idea that fascists are fleeing to the US to escape justice says a lot about where we are right now.
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A Florida nurseryman has spent 33 years breeding mangoes on his own land, and almost none will ever reach a grocery store…
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The “1% of the population” was created by Bob Hare who created the tool (the PCL-R) used most commonly around the world to diagnose psychopaths. It does not contain the attributes of control or sadism and focuses on those who engage in violent physical crime. Read into that what you will.
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This is a coup attempt. They’re turning off traffic lights and canceling bus routes and flights and ferries on election day. The world needs to be paying attention
