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  • Scrolling past headlines like this one while the Curb your enthusiasm theme plays on loop.

  • I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.

    You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?

    Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp

  • Why does it need to take decades though?

    I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets from the broligarchs who run these companies, and giving them to the victims of their creations, the issue would be solved very quickly.

    Also, having people upload their ID seems like just another obvious surveillance ploy/invasion of privacy in the name of safety. These people who have given us nothing but reasons not to trust them, just keep offering us more and more solutions to the issues that they've created.

    "We're doing this for your own good. You should say thank you."

  • It's so fucking creepy. It's not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.

    At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?

    Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

    Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

    Regulations are keeping your businesses from thriving? The ones you seem to be building to intentionally cater to pedophiles and harm children? Half of these creepy ass broligarchs are already confirmed to be in the Epstein files.

    They're pretty open about what they want the future to look like, and the shit they've already got going, like the inescapable 24/7 surveillance where they can pick and choose the victims they want to legally abduct and traffic is just the beginning. And we're supposed to just pretend we're all fucking stupid enough to go along with it?

  • Everybody has the capacity to be an asshole once in a while. To asshole is human.

    But in general, people who go out of their way to stir shit up, or be an asshole/intentionally rude about something, then play the victim when they get called out for being an asshole. Waste of fucking space and energy. Just go live on a fucking island with all the other passive aggressive assholes.

  • Are you fucking nuts? This man cannot be trusted. Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Mexico, Canada. Why do you think he created space force in the first place?

  • Attending the summit, Kratsios, the White House representative, addressed middle powers’ fears. “Real AI sovereignty means owning and using best-in-class technology for the benefit of your people,” he said. “Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations. America wants to help.”

    “America is the only AI superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of meaningful AI sovereignty,” he went on. “American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk. They build it; it’s yours.”

    .... Are you fucking kidding me. America wants to help? America is being held hostage by these shitbag oligarchs. It needs help.

    Also, American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk?

    Who TF are you kidding with this bullshit. Nobody paying attention to any of the bullshit DOGE did (that we know about so far) under the anti-regulatory administration you work for. Given you're the big AI policy guy, and you paved the path for everything DOGE did it in 2025, during your run in Trump's first administration, this should really be considered your fault as much as it is Musk's fault for taking the bait, and becoming the fall guy on behalf of you and your mentor Peter Thiel.

    2018: The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom

    What a brilliant fucking idea Michael Kratsios had in 2018, what could possibly go wrong?

    2025: DOGE's access to federal data is 'an absolute nightmare,' legal experts warn

    2025: DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues

    Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance to take advantage

    But that's the opposite of what Kratsios sez Merican tech is good at...? Is he lying? How could we ever know?

    2026: Government Data Breach Sparks Fears Millions May Need New Social Security Numbers

    Yeah..., seems like pretty solid evidence these people don't know what the fuck they're doing, and they never have. Or alternatively, if they do, their interests are purely selfish. They never should have been trusted with power, and if they weren't such sociopathic narcissists they wouldn't be able to maintain a straight face while telling such bold faced lies to the rest of the world.

  • Surely this will fix everything that is currently wrong in Louisiana.

    Who needs hospitals or voting rights when you can have the 10 commandments installed in every classroom instead.

  • Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.

    I made my character a giant, and I'm pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.

  • Got damn commies

  • I was thinking he looked like a fed, but maybe it's a different steel pan player named Glen Samuel.

  • Emails in 2015 and 2016 show that Epstein would have another officer, Glen Samuel, come to Little Saint James to perform steel pan drums—a side gig Samuel informally advertised at one point on his Facebook page. In a January 2015 email thread, Epstein asked an associate to clarify Samuel’s rate. The associate replied, “Mr. Samuel says he does not intend to charge you. He considers you a friend and was doing this for you. If you wish to give him something, he is appreciative, but there is no fee.” Samuel did not respond to a request for comment.

    I already posted the Guardian article, but they didn't include the name of the agent who played steel drums for Epstein or the part about him insisting he perform as a favor to a friend.

    Even though this whole things is so far beyond the realm of bizarro world, for some reason reading about the steel pan CBP agent performing on pedo Island was especially salient in a "how the fuck is this reality?!?" kind of way.

    Anyway, I think I might have found an album he made for sale on eBay.

  • Imagine being a victim and trying to explain what happened to you (assuming you're even allowed to leave the island alive, which some witnesses claim not everyone did).

    So you're saying you seemed to be targeted and singled out by CBP before being detained, and then flown via private jet to a small island where you were forced to be a sex slave?

    And a very random hodgepodge of recognizable celebrities, politicians, Wall Street executives, scientists, and other members of the global elite were also on the island you were taken to, and either participated in assaulting you or at least witnessed your assault but did nothing to stop it?

    And you also claim at one point you saw the CBP agent who originally detained you, perform the steel pan drums for the elite hodgepodge?

  • In the summer of 1919, after the war’s conclusion, Hitler was assigned to the Education and Propaganda Department of the German military in Bavaria. The department was run by Captain Karl Mayr, whose orders were to use army assets to keep the civilian population under surveillance in order to avoid future unrest and uprisings. (This was a reasonable mission, considering the wave of uprisings, several of them communist in nature, in the final days of the war.)

    Well that's certainly strange. That it all seems to go back to civilian surveillance and concerns about communist uprisings. What's this Karl Mayr guy's story?

    Mayr later became Hitler's opponent, and wrote in his memoirs that General Erich Ludendorff had personally ordered him to have Hitler join the German Workers' Party (DAP) and build it up.

    Who?

    After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany's defeat and the settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews. ... He also took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and 1923 Beer Hall Putsch before unsuccessfully standing in the 1925 election for president. Thereafter, he retired from politics and devoted his final years to the study of military theory. His most famous work in this field was The Total War, where he argued that a nation's entire physical and moral resources should remain forever poised for mobilization because peace was merely an interval in a never-ending chain of wars.

    as an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918...When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the "November criminals" who had "stabbed the nation in the back" in order to seize power.

  • The 75 people just stood by and watched ICE murder a citizen in broad daylight. When in reality those 75 people could have not only stopped the murder from happening, but likely killed those 6 ICE agents and prevented a future tragedy.

    Surely civilians joining together in a mob to take out Trump's gang of lil rascals would be the end of it right?

    President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States.

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded Palantir Technologies Inc. a five-year blanket purchase to expand the department’s use of artificial intelligence and large-scale data analytics platforms across its agencies.

    Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday.

    Graciously explicit' job post reveals Trump's DHS expanding shadowy apparatus: report

    Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List

    The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law

    The onslaught was, undoubtedly, fuelled by algorithmic calculations and the automatisation of warfare. (Fatafta and Leufer 2024). Indeed, AI-driven targeting enabled the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to find targets faster than they could be struck (Mhajne 2025). In practice, this meant that once the bombing began, there was a virtually endless “pipeline” of targets. One intelligence officer stated, “the targets never end”. Once an attack is launched, the commander has “another 36,000 waiting” (McKernan & Davies 2024). The integration of these AI systems has accelerated the pace and expanded the scale of attacks to a degree that experts say “incomparable with any 21st-century air campaign”, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s civilians (Airwars 2024).

    Foremost among these AI tools is a system code-named “Lavender,” an algorithm developed by Unit 8200 (Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit) to automate the identification of human targets. An investigative report by +972 Magazine and Local Call (Abraham 2024) revealed that the Lavender algorithm assigns each person a probabilistic score indicating the likelihood that they are members of an armed group (Mhajne 2025). Six Israeli intelligence officers involved in the process testified that the system marked up to 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants and identified their homes as targets for attack (Abraham 2024). These were predominantly low-ranking individuals.

    Good luck bringing 75 guns to a Palantir drone fight, Mark Wahlberg.

  • Saboteur!

  • One officer was invited to perform the steel pan drums on Little St James on multiple occasions

    Mort Zuckerman, Leon Black, Bob Kerrey, Joel Klein, Joi Ito, Woody and Soon Yi Allen, and Tom Pritzker – as well as “Customs Agent Bill Routch”.

    Fucking weird ass fever dream Scooby Doo shit... All of this is weird as fuck, but there's just something so unbelievably fucking weird about imagining some asshole border patrol agent was playing the fucking steel drums on pedo Island on multiple occasions, possibly for an audience that includes Woody Allen and Soon Yi while all of this disgusting bullshit is happening.

    You're almost certainly helping this guy traffick women and children. Meanwhile everybody's wearing their fucking tommy Bahama casuals and having a blast relaxing to the island sounds of CBP agent dickhead's cover of 'Hot, Hot, Hot.'

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Rubio visits eastern Europe to bolster ties with pro-Trump leaders

    www.reuters.com /world/rubio-visit-eastern-europe-bolster-ties-with-pro-trump-leaders-2026-02-15/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

    time.com /7378735/navalny-poison-frog-toxin-russia/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Navalny Poisoned With 'Dart Frog' Toxin, Europeans Say

    time.com /7378735/navalny-poison-frog-toxin-russia/
  • Heritage Foundation Crazy Board @sh.itjust.works

    A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals? (Salon, 1999)

    www.salon.com /1999/03/19/feature_216/
  • Heritage Foundation Crazy Board @sh.itjust.works

    An Enigmatic Heir's Paradoxical World (WaPo 1999)

    www.washingtonpost.com /archive/politics/1999/05/03/an-enigmatic-heirs-paradoxical-world/0f097eb0-140d-4f4a-b81f-6da5a91038bb/
  • Music @lemmy.world

    Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Earth 3

  • politics @lemmy.world

    What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein

    www.thenation.com /article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/
  • politics @lemmy.world

    ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent

    prospect.org /2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/
  • News @lemmy.world

    ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent

    prospect.org /2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/
  • Interesting Shares @lemmy.zip

    The Church League of America Collection of the Research Files of Counterattack, the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

    findingaids.library.nyu.edu /tamwag/tam_148/
  • News @lemmy.world

    This Private Prison Group Wants to Operate ICE’s Warehouses. It Also Called the Plans ‘Concerning.’

    www.notus.org /immigration/geo-group-immigration-detention-warehouses-earnings
  • Interesting Shares @lemmy.zip

    HUGE C.I.A. OPERATION REPORTED IN U.S. AGAINST ANTIWAR FORCES, OTHER DISSIDENTS IN NIXON YEARS (New York Times Dec. 1974)

    www.nytimes.com /1974/12/22/archives/huge-cia-operation-reported-in-u-s-against-antiwar-forces-other.html
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL ICE contractor GEO Group, was originally Wackenhut Corrections, owned by hard right warlord, George Wackenhut, who claimed to hold largest collection of files on suspected American dissidents

    www.muckrock.com /news/archives/2017/jan/10/george-wackenhut-fbi/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Priests say ICE contractor GEO rejected shareholder vote on human rights review

    www.reuters.com /legal/government/priests-say-ice-contractor-geo-rejected-shareholder-vote-human-rights-review-2026-02-09/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Illness Is Rampant Among Children Trapped in ICE’s Massive Jail in Texas

    truthout.org /articles/children-are-getting-sick-inside-ices-massive-family-jail-in-texas/
  • DiWHY @lemmy.world

    My kid's mini Mardi gras float is due tomorrow, and apparently so is everybody else's.The only hot glue sticks I could find last minute turned out to be too big for our glue gun...

  • News @lemmy.world

    National Guard soldier leaves rifle in French Quarter bathroom

    www.wwltv.com /article/news/local/national-guard-soldier-leaves-ar-15-in-french-quarter-bathroom/289-872f1063-adf4-4518-ad6f-c0a25e68abac
  • politics @lemmy.world

    AOC Says Cuba Blockade Part of “New Era of Depravity” Ushered by Gaza Genocide

    truthout.org /articles/aoc-says-cuba-blockade-part-of-new-era-of-depravity-ushered-by-gaza-genocide/
  • pics @lemmy.world

    Passed some beautiful lights on my way home

  • Music @lemmy.world

    Surfbort-'Jessicas Changed''