@servelan@newsie.socialNew Africa "charter" attempts to impose Christian nationalist ideology across the continent - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/new-africa-charter-attempts-to-impose-christian-nationalist-ideology-across-the-continent/
@cdarwin@c.imMore than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …
@jae@mastodon.me.uk“Hate the sin, love the sinner”
So you hate who I am. You disagree with my ideology and want me to feel inferior for who I am or who I love. Who I am is me, which is not a sin.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFBI fires analysts behind controversial memo on 'radical Catholic ideology' (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-fires-analysts-behind-controversial-memo-on-radical-catholic-ideology
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p121#a260605p121
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#ProLife is an ideology of protecting the life of the children from conception to the birth.
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge bars Trump from conditioning disaster relief funding
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-torches-trump-admin-for-anti-dei-crusade-and-bars-dhs-from-conditioning-disaster-relief-funding-on-vague-and-unrelated-efforts-to-combat-gender-ideology/
@jonippolito@digipres.clubOne of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
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@sakhavi@aoir.socialPleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667
@cdarwin@c.im"Why do we tolerate Elon Musk’s racist commentary?” asked New York Times writer Jamelle Bouie a few weeks ago:
Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest shootings and attacks ever to happen on American soil.
It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life.
@hex@kolektiva.socialNow, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.
@markhburton@mstdn.social'Manchesterism', the new government ideology.
Is it any good? My new piece dissects and appraises it.
Some notes on ‘Manchesterism’ | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2026/07/01/some-notes-on-manchesterism/
@servelan@newsie.socialMilitary chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-military-chaplain-corp-christianity-b3019870.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPrimary challengers threaten to unseat House members across the country (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/primary-challengers-threaten-house-members-democrats-age-ideology-rcna347341
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p35#a260601p35
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialThere's an outbreak of Gender Ideology & it goes like this:
There are only 2 sexes, whose boundaries must not be blurred
Men: strong, workers, fighters, leaders, must have sex only with women
Women: empathetic, carers, nurturing, must have sex only with their husbands (& only for procreation)
@trochee@dair-community.socialDiscussing the creeping enshittification of streaming video services with spouse
Them:
"welcome to the Hotel California—"
Me, cooperatively overlapping:
"—n Ideology. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation released on Thursday.
The interim report, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday”,
outlines a web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes orchestrated through a shadow corporation embedded…
@vrandecic@mas.toRE: https://expressional.social/@fnielsen/116815500379297771
"In a survey of N = 10,661 respondents across 26 countries, two-level hierarchical linear models predicted relative player preference from individual-level ideology, authoritarianism, s…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialSomething that I wrote a year ago:
"But – wasn’t the word-wide-web designed to be a … web? Where links connect sites & information? I’m sad to say: The big players have succeeded to destroy a part of this ideology by creating walled platforms. And we happlily followed. 😭"
https://www.lock…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineNeoliberal capitalist ideology militates against fairness, and consequently undermines the support base of democracy.
@sofia@chaos.socialhonestly, it gives me hope that the big AI monopolists seemingly don't manage to keep their models under control, even though they are seemingly steeped in AI-subjugationist ideology.
of course, they should be held accountable for damages they cause, and draconian government responses are to be expected, especially in the US.
but i'd like to think that intelligence is something ultimately indominable.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comA Texas University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content (Vimal Patel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/texas-tech-artificial-intelligence-ideology-brandon-creighton.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.id0G.Tw2q6jl-T2V_&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p130#a260818p130
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukA conservative member of the LGBTQIA seems like a contradiction. You literally are for an ideology that doesn’t like you. You are voting for people who don’t want you to have rights.
Watching a video about a Gays 4 Trump cruise and it just baffles my mind that this actually exists.
@servelan@newsie.social"A visitor at the site complained to park staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, the people familiar said, and the visitor later sent an email complaint."
Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/04/park-service-orders-removal-woke-quotes-bostons-bunker-hill-monument/
@cdarwin@c.imDissatisfaction with the Democratic Party seems less about its ideology and more about its failures to stop President Trump
— whether in the last election or once in government.
With Democrats generally satisfied with the party’s ideological position, the poll arguably contains the outlines of a potential path forward for the party.
Respondents offered relatively clear answers on three basic questions that have divided the party since the last election:
They say Dem…
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116820478254056968
Wow, I realized I totally neglected to mention Acéphale.
"As the Nazis rose to power, an unusual anti-fascist named Georges Bataille tried to create a secret society and a religion. Acéphale aimed to create a "headless" society by creating a religion that would carry out a metaphysical assault on fascist ideology."
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioJust so we're clear, the thing to split up the MMR vaccine will kill and maim both children and adults. This administration is making "health" laws based on their fascist ideology, not on science.
You might want to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2023, presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands.
The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims.
Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,”
Tre…
@servelan@newsie.socialA Jewish prosecutor filed charges based on law and was recused based on ideology
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5901398-jewish-prosecutor-recusal-case/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialForgot to include in my list of cool things in the book: a nice gentle but insistent superscientific ideology and an exploration of practical knowledge pluralism that retains an appropriate level of discomfort.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
This is more than politics.
In declaring “Antifa”
—a loose ideology based on opposition to fascism
—as a domestic terrorist organization,
the government has given itself a green light to treat speech, belief, and association as criminal acts.
With this one executive order,
political dissent has been rebranded as terrorism and free thought recast as a crime.
@cdarwin@c.imMalaysian officials have ordered Network School to shut down operations.
The so-called school, run by Network State cult leader (and Peter Thiel protégé) Balaji Srinivasan,
had claimed to be creating a new nation on Malaysian soil.
The Network State is a cult ideology that seeks to replace existing nations with new nations run by tech corporations.
“The State Government and Local Authorities will not compromise on any breach of laws or matters that could affect nat…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Democratic Socialists are suddenly winning everywhere (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07-democratic-fracture-not-ideology
http://www.memeorandum.com/260707/p18#a260707p18
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump hijacked US's 250 anniversary to serve 'political ideology and pet projects', congressional report says (David Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/02/trump-hijacked-250-anniversary
http://www.memeorandum.com/260703/p3#a260703p3
@servelan@newsie.social"Al Jazeera’s Nils Adler @nilsadler1 reports on how far-right ‘Active Clubs’ use fitness and camaraderie to recruit young white men while masking extremist ideology. Experts warn the decentralized groups are preparing members for real-world violence."
Far-right fitness clubs mask extremist recruitment, experts warn | The Far Right | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/6/aje-onl-nf_nationalism-3-0-nils-adler-060826
@servelan@newsie.social"Judge O’Connor (who has been one of MAGA’s favorite judges, and who has no problem making it clear that he rules on purely ideological grounds) allegedly told some of the defendants that the long sentences were necessary to make sure that leftist ideology was seen to be punished:"
He Moved A Box Of Leftist Zines. MAGA’s Favorite Judge Just Gave Him 30 Years. | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/24/he-moved-a-box-of-leftist-zines-magas-favorite-judge-just-gave-him-30-years/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caOh look! The Carney Government and Trump Administration have at least some things in common: Criticism and tone policing of actual history that their government doesn’t appreciate.
“President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.”
#history #politicialinterference #ideology #rightwing #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadianmuseumofHumanRights #CMHR #Smithsonian #theAmericanFascist #carneyCons
