Capitalism has convinced people that new always equals “better” so if you want to rebel against Capitalism start to recognize that “new” is often just a way to extract more money from you.

Existing (or “old”) things can be functional and beautiful, and often easier to repair.

The word “old” should not be an insult. Not to things or to people.

Big news: @alex and I are over the moon to welcome Naomi Klein to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to discuss “AI” and the military industrial complex. Join us for the livestream:

Monday, Feb 9, noon PT,
https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

In 2025, Big Tech—just ten major companies—spent €49 million lobbying Brussels. That’s more than pharma, finance, and automotive combined.

Google funds all sixteen major European think tanks shaping EU policy. Not *some* of them. All of them. Amazon and Meta fund most of the rest.

This is no longer “poor old me, I need a bit of help,” this is full regulatory capture. With a view to becoming even more embedded into businesses and governments, and getting whatever favorable legislation passed or diluted to suit them.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-record-levels

@OGjester ask the Democrats

Zac Polanski has written to Wes Streeting:

'I know that you have had a close relationship with Peter Mandelson & I will be seeking through every means at our disposal to establish whether there have been any personal, formal or informal contacts with Peter Mandelson or his lobbying company between yourself, other ministers and Department of Health or NHS England officials on behalf of Palantir'!

The gloves are off...

#politics #Palantir #Greens #NHS

More pathetic men. Yes, probably your science "hero" is one of them.

via @rebeccawatson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9FZXUgv4

I'm an electrician.

I dare you to use ChatGPT to wire a plug.

This is why AI is absolute horse shit.

#chatgpt #aibullshit #aiisdangerous

@TheOneSwit oopsie

@Godfrey642 I agree on the reset, but I don’t see it as a matter of switching genders. I see it in terms of unchecked power and resources control, which should be switched to distributed resources and systems to avoid people gaining power

Corey Robin literally wrote a whole book about this (while somehow pretending fascism was a separate, third thing, which I'm sure he regrets now) but it can be summed up in a popular quote you've seen online...

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

That really is it.

I mean, the fact is that conservative thought doesn't exist. There's no framework besides power. So that's why their ideas are disconnected from reality - because their ideas aren't based on reality at all, but rather what gives them power, and strips power away from others so they can be controlled and exploited.

It's not that they're out to lunch - it's that they never showed up to lunch in the first place and are playing an entirely different game than you since the late 1700's

Starmer campaigned on "Change" (that empty signifier). Gave us instead a reheated, serially corrupt establishment apparatchik.

Chickens and perches come to mind.

"0 arrests"
but also
"0 questioning"
"0 trials"
"0 apologies"

https://mas.to/@anna_lillith/116014432244298569

#Patriarchy is alive and well, I would say thriving.

https://mas.to/@anna_lillith/116014421777685089

Patriarchy only needs an unequal distribution of wealth that supports an hierarchy with men on top. It feeds the worst instincts of men and therefore they're all too happy to comply.

It's a grift, an endless grift that keeps being reinforced even by those who call themselves "allies" (solidarity not included).

/endof

I stop here, not because the ones above are the only or the most important episodes, they're just the ones I happen to have tracked within the last 7 to 10 days.
But I'm sure you're smart and you don't need more to see the pattern, don't you?
There is one thing all these men have in common: they're all - all of them - healthy sons of the patriarchy. They are no exception. Yes even the "Leftist". Because #Patriachy doesn't need capitalism or neoliberalism.

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