«Milei has dashed his ship of state against the rocks, quite simply, because he followed the cracked compass called libertarianism. Libertarianism doesn’t work. Its core assumptions aren’t true. It’s the intellectual equivalent of huffing paint. But the pro-capitalist press outside #Argentina, for their part, ignored Milei’s obvious flaws and hyped him up because they wanted him to be the real deal.»
The article shows how other countries want to run off that cliff too…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is-why-you-dont-let-libertarians-run-your-country
Overheard two construction workers from the big building site around the corner in line at the donut shop this morning:
Worker1: I gotta open the app - I collect points.
Worker2: See, that's what I was telling you about, that's capitalism. They get you with the useless things like points.
From the neoclassical station entrance
— with its massive emerald-green sliding steel doors, pyramid-like roof and domed ceiling
— to the wide concrete staircases leading down to the cool, musty underground platform and tracks, the station exudes a peculiar mix of mystery and urban decay.
“Be careful, there’s iron dust, mud and oil everywhere,” says Mamoru Iwai,
Keisei Ueno Station’s stationmaster and my guide inside Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station,
«In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?»
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html