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After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Endlich beweist die #EU wieder ihre ganze #Stärke und #Entschlossenheit. 💪
Zum Glück sind die europäischen

Chiphersteller: Niederlande geben Kontrolle über Nexperia wieder ab - Golem.de
Der Streit um den Halbleiterproduzenten Nexperia hat die Lieferketten gefährdet. Nun übernimmt China wieder die Kontrolle.

Ex-Raiders QB Lands Head Coaching Job After Retiring From Football https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aj-mccarron-birmingham-stallions-head-coach/

Of course, economic pressure isn't the only tool we have. Diversity of tactics is critical. I'm not going to tell anyone not to throw buckets of screws into the parking lots and driveways of ICE facilities or blockading facilities with burning dumpstes. Even if i don't promote those types of tactics, we should all STFU if we see people doing them. We all have a place. There are things we can all do. Everything is on the table and it should be, because ICE agents will intimidate you, steal your car, and even murder you for just filming them.
You can cower in fear, or you can stand up and fight with everything you have. Which or those do you want to remember yourself doing?

»Der Begriff ›Halluzinationen‹ hat sich durchgesetzt, aber psychologisch ist das etwas ganz anderes. Da geht es um Sinneseindrücke, die in Wirklichkeit kein reales Gegenbild haben. Deswegen sollte man bei Sprachmodellen eigentlich von Konfabulationen sprechen. Es gibt nämlich eben auch Patienten, die tatsächlich nur Wörter aneinanderhäkeln. Und das nennt man Konfabulation, aber wahrscheinlich ist der Zug abgefahren.«
Quelle:

Wird künstliche Intelligenz uns überflügeln, Katharina Zweig?
KI könnte Jobs überflüssig machen und Menschen dümmer. Übernimmt sie gar die Weltherrschaft? Da sind Zweifel angebracht, meint die Sozioinformatikerin Katharina Zweig im Interview.

Vielleicht können wir uns darauf einigen, dass Bayer:innen beim Zeugungsakt die Bayernhymne singen müssen und dann das Ganze zu den Akten legen.

#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön und manchmal ganz schön kalt. Obwohl wohl für die Jahreszeit zu warm (knappunter 0) und zu wenig Schnee. Es sind Leute übers Eis gegangen, hatte mich nicht getraut, andermal
#Lulea

Trump: 'We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not' (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-greenland-military-denmark-nato.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p127#a260109p127

A body made entirely of head-like organs
Using state-of-the-art single-cell and gene expression analyses, the researchers mapped the cell types of young post-metamorphic sea urchins.
They found that the adult body plan is largely "head-like."
Genes that in other animals define trunk structures are active only in internal organs such as the gut and the water vascular system.
In sea urchins, a true trunk region is missing altogether.
An 'all-body brain&…

Researchers discover an 'all-body brain' in sea urchins
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an "all-body brain" whose genetic organization resembles that of the vertebrate brain. The team also identified light-sensitive cells distributed across the entire body—comparable to structures found in the human retina.

Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details: