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In case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details and booking details.
Free!
https://degrow…

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."

Just in case you've missed this, we are bringing together the #degrowth clans in the UK to build the movement.
Sheffield, 17 October.
Details of event and how to book.
Free!
https://

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Three factors make the fascist threat very real.
1) The still serious electoral threat of the far right.
2) Megadonations from super-rich individuals “competing with each other to buy reactionary, racist influence in British politics” .
3) The link between the emerging far right and a global movement backed by the government of a great power, which has troops on our land, from which it launches bombing raids.
Big money, the far right and the US empire | Morning Star

The mayor is saying our measure, which brings in $100m a year to build affordable and social housing through the **Mayor's Office of Housing,** is unaccountable and won't get spent on building housing.
Dude. You're the mayor. You'll be in charge of spending it. If that's true, it's not an argument against our measure, it's an argument for a different mayor.
Anyway, vote Yes on I and come to our kickoff this Sunday!

Fair Housing, Yes on I - San Francisco Ballot Measure | Join the Movement
Prop I dedicates existing tax revenue to its intended purpose of funding affordable housing, social housing, and eviction defense.

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text
https://ift.tt/92znS6J
full name / name of organization: Black Performing Arts Area (Popular Culture Association/American…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Theater execs are split on the Paramount-WBD deal, as Paramount offers to guarantee 30 films annually for three years; California's AG wants asset divestitures (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/am…

An Offer They Can't Refuse: Theater Execs Split on Whether to Join Paramount-Warner's Merger Movement
Theater owners are split on whether to back Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. or continue to resist, despite David Ellison's 30-movies-a-year pledge.

Free Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/free-software-political

Free Software is Political
Free Software is, and has always been, a political movement.

A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

The SEAR Movement - Women In All Seasons
A podcast for women navigating motherhood, menopause, identity shifts, emotional wellbeing, and the many changing seasons of life...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-sear-movement/

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

I can't 😂 I just can't
Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
https://www.404media.co/smear-campaign-says-anti-flock-movement-is-chinese-propaganda/

@… Hermione Granger runs a one-woman abolitionist movement to free them from slavery and everyone treats her like she’s a nut case, even the muggle-born who have not been conditioned over a lifetime in the wizarding world’s despicable worldview.

Nearly full now:
Degrowth UK Gathering.
Sheffield, Saturday, 17 October, to consider how to build the #degrowth movement here.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/08/03/degr

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

The Everyday GLOW Show
This podcast is for everyday women who want to feel good in their bodies, build strength that sticks, and finally make movement part of real life, without the guilt, extremes, or overwhelm...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-ev…

It's #WaterfallWednesday and this one came to my mind. You might see a nice waterfall. I spent 3h there. Really! In hindsight I didn't know where all the time went but I enjoyed seeing the #waterfall from all kinds of angles and shutter speeds.
3h very well invested liveti…

How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

Stop Killing the Internet: A Global Movement for a Better Internet
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions, and building a better internet.
🔓 https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com

Stop Killing the Internet
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions, and building a better internet.

"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

"It was a lack of leadership from the [Democratic] campaign to not engage at the level of the candidate when the other guy was showing up to have meals with people,” Berry said. It “was a night-and-day difference”.
One more example of how #Democratic "leaders" - the "moderates" and their highly paid consultants - failed at the fundamental task of engaging with the v…

Democrats ignored the uncommitted movement for Gaza in 2024. Now, it’s winning elections
By linking progressive politics with nominally Arab American issues, organizers are building winning coalitions

#ScribesAndMakers Day 30:
What was the last song you listened to?
River Guide You by The Movement
https://youtube.com/watch?v=raDvwX3dJpk

Pakistan imposes new rules requiring journalists working for foreign media to obtain authorization before reporting outside Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore (Elian Peltier/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08…

Pakistan Starts Sweeping New Crackdown on Journalists
With a protest movement in Kashmir challenging its authority in the region, Pakistan restricts independent reporting by local and foreign media.

Free Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/free-software-political

Free Software is Political
Free Software is, and has always been, a political movement.

"Inside the global movement to build more wildlife overpasses: 'It's like the whole world is open to wildlife now'"
#Animals #Wildlife

Highway overpasses see a global boom: 'It's like the whole world is open to wildlife now'
Decades of research have proved that wildlife crossings, combined with roadside fences, prevent deadly collisions, protecting both animals and people.

To truly listen is to encounter a world before our interpretations divide it; a place where sound is not merely an object for the human ear, but an event in which body and cosmos briefly become the same movement.

A little good news from Brazil. The MST, Landless Workers' Movement, gains a historic 4 seats in the national parliament and 4 in state legislatures.
Brasil | El Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra gana 8 lugares en la Cšmara de Diputados y las asambleas legislativas – NODAL

Brasil | El Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra gana 8 lugares en la Cámara de Diputados y las asambleas legislativas – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

So... First, this is a great example of the enemy of your enemy not being your friend:
https://todon.eu/@radical_chic/117427249480571937
I can hope that this will cause Adobe to help her the AI bubble popped sooner and/or that it breaks Adobe's market share, but I'm not going to use these tools, nor will I cheer too loudly if the result is that copyright restrictions actually get applied and stop LLM coding (even though stopping LLM coding is unambiguously good). (This is very much not a "clean room" implementation if Claude's training data includes any Adobe source, which it very well might.
Second, assuming this does not cause courts to suddenly start actually applying copyright law correctly, it represents a terrifying new reality for legacy software companies, given their dependence on software monopolies for a lot of their income. The people who have been building on open source all along have the better business model here, but this becoming the norm is more destructive than helpful to the open source movement, since "just rebuild it" seems easier than actually using or contributing to an existing open-source project.
That said, these tools are certainly full of serious bugs. They would be even if they had been written by humans in this timeframe, although in that case you'd probably have an order of magnitude fewer issues. These bugs will result in things like "if you open this PDF with the tool, your computer gets taken over by a virus". That occasionally happens with Adobe products too, of course, but it will happen more frequently and won't be fixed as fast/well in these tools.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The American #Evangelical movement is no different than the Taliban.
Apologies if that offends anyone, but I firmly believe that.
I have nothing against #religion per se.

La protesta contro i data center sta unendo l'intero spettro politico, contro i miliardari delle Big Tech
La battaglia contro la costruzione dei datacenter negli USA sta superando la polarizzazione politica a livello locale, cosa accadrŠ a livello nazionale? Può essere un esempio di come quando c'è di mezzo una questione locale le persone dovrebbero superare le idee politiche per il bene della loro comunitŠ?

Thank you for signing the pro-human AI declaration!
So far the loudest people on AI have been the billionaires. What's been missing has been a huge people-power movement fighting back and making sure WE the people write the rules -- not Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg!
We are urgently trying to reach one million people before September when the declaration will be delivered at a major AI conference.
Could you share this on every social and messaging network that you are …

Stop the billionaire race to replace humanity
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are racing to see who can conquer AI first – at all costs. They're treating the entire world as a laboratory, and we are their test subjects. But AI was bui

There's some pretty weird discourse on here comparing self-hosting to the trad-wife movement. Like, no?
Anyways, self-hosting is entirely the wrong framing. Ownership of your data is what matters, and we need products and apps that respect that. That might look like self-hosting, that might look like p2p (why does a password manager need a *server*??), that might look like free software, that might look like community hosting (eg, riseup), that might look like legislation...

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignment with ecological limits. However, degrowth in the UK currently exists as an informal network rather than a cohesive movement. This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK.

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Movement of celestial bodies is so cool. Here you can see #Moon and #Venus movement in just one day comparison. Yesterday versus today. #Space

Nonprofit Tarbell Center for AI Journalism pledges $10M by 2027's end to fund new and legacy media covering AI, including $480K for NPR's Machine Gods podcast (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/04/2026/ai-nonprofit-will-s…

Exclusive: AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism
A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is funding coverage of artificial intelligence.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Love, Laughter And Kindness
It is part of building a community for a global kindness movement led by children. A kind world is a better world for all...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/love-laughter-and-kindness/

Event: October Sheffield.
"This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK. Together we will consider the potential for establishing the foundations of a degrowth movement in the UK, and planning for a UK presence at the International Degrowth Conference in 2027."
Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement – degrowthUK

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/millions-long-term-coastal-flooding-risk-uk-climate-action

The movement on the ball from the angle behind the net. ❤️
#LFC

Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents

> Linus says AI tooling is OK, and Linux is a technical project rather than a social movement
> A subset of people flip because the BDFL isn't onboard with their mission to make every single thing political
> I'm annoyed because now I have to find a way to filter out people talking about politics in Linux without filtering out Linux
I will nonetheless persist with my "No Politics Unless It Shits In My Yard And Then Only As Much As Is Absolutely Require…

Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up "backwards and poor" and that "China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement" (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/31/trump-data-centers-midte…

Feminist icon and Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem died at age 92 in her NYC home; she co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and authored nearly 12 books (Katharine Q. Seelye/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/…

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

For a few years now, I've been wondering if I fit into the Free Software world. It feels very much like we need one that's specifically anti-fash, anti-capitalist, and pro-labor, but still focused on empowering users with the freedom to use their devices as they see fit. Sure, there are individual projects like that, but as far as a movement.. that's never really been the focus.

You were right, Miliband tells Palestine solidarity movement
But campaigners warned that the Foreign Secretary's ‘silence on Palestine Action and on the government’s attack on the right to protest is in danger of appearing hypocritical’
| Morning Star
https://

San Francisco repair cafe keeps 212 pounds out of a landfill 👏👏👏👍
https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/mission-repair-cafe-san-francisco-environment/

Mission District’s first repair cafe: 59 fixes, 212 pounds kept out of a landfill 
The Mission Repair Cafe, a collaborative repair workshop, is the latest addition to San Francisco’s zero-waste movement.

San Francisco repair cafe keeps 212 pounds out of a landfill 👏👏👏👍
https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/mission-repair-cafe-san-francisco-environment/

Mission District’s first repair cafe: 59 fixes, 212 pounds kept out of a landfill 
The Mission Repair Cafe, a collaborative repair workshop, is the latest addition to San Francisco’s zero-waste movement.

Community Kind - A 100 Women Podcast
a podcast about the people, projects, and ideas at the heart of Australia's collective giving movement...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/community-kind/

"what is driving the Christian Nationalist movement nuts right now is that progressive faith leaders are claiming their proud tradition in America and running - and winning - on a moral vision for our inclusive, just, and diverse democracy that clearly attracts voters across partisan divides."
MAGA 'outraged' as core voters turn against Trump in red state races: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-christian-voters/

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Are you in the UK and positive about #degrowth?
Would you like to see a stronger, effective degrowth movement here?
Then join us in Sheffield on Saturday, 17 October, to consider how best to achieve that.
https://

Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October,  9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignmen…

Prism and other nonprofit outlets that focus on "movement journalism" and exposing injustice are struggling with funding as the Trump administration targets DEI (Uyiosa Elegon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.

Political attacks and funders’ retrenchment have put movement journalism at serious risk.
Movement journalism has been a source of hope. But political attacks and funders’ retrenchment have put it at serious risk.

Hatoum now works as a Senior Supervising Attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP),
which challenges policy and practices that violate American citizens’ civil rights,
particularly in areas like voting or immigration.
The organization is organized into different programs, each with its own focus,
and Hatoum’s team specifically advocates for the humane treatment of people living and traveling through the Texas borderlands.
Often, his clients are arrest…

Home | Texas Civil Rights Project
TCRP believe that by serving the rising social justice movement in Texas with excellent legal representation and bold strategies, we can respond to the needs of the communities we serve.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

"Proposed mechanisms for delivering action like citizens’ assemblies are a response to the sluggishness of existing institutions, but do not address its cause — the power of the capitalist class.
"Agreeing what we ought to do doesn’t guarantee that it will happen: the climate movement needs to ... recognise that this is fundamentally a class struggle and a battle against capitalism itself.

Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors
The new Xfinity Shield service combines cybersecurity, parental controls, and Wi-Fi motion sensing in a new app for Comcast internet customers.

Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so deadly #Japan

Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so deadly
Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so devastating. By drilling deeper into the seafloor than ever before, researchers discovered a thin, slippery layer of ancient clay that allowed the massive rupture to race all the way to the ocean floor, triggering enormous seafloor movement and a powerful tsunami.

Mothergroup The Podcast
A movement of mothers sharing their darkest day - and how it transformed them. Exploring the relationship between hardship in motherhood and consciousness and spirituality...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/storie

'Five people were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of explosive and terror offences.
'They have all been released on police bail with “stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others.”'
Interesting: threat can't be so very high if they are on bail?
Iran denies ties to RAF Fairford bomb plot | Morning Star

If it sounds like a duck, flies like a duck, eats like a duck and dislikes like a duck, let's call it a duck instead of a neo-duck or a parkloving swimming bird
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/the-nazis-drove-bauhaus-out-of-town-now-the-far-right-is-waging-another-war-against-the-movement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

@… avoid the UK, there is a strong transphobic movement here. Being an American protectorate means the UK also adopts the worst of the US with enthusiasm.

A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/a-growing-movement-is-working-to-evict-ice-from-its-buffalo-command-center/

Thank you SF Young Democrats for endorsing Prop I!! The kids are alright!
Join these beautiful young people in supporting our campaign to build affordable housing with no new taxes: #sfpol

Fair Housing, Yes on I - San Francisco Ballot Measure | Join the Movement
Prop I dedicates existing tax revenue to its intended purpose of funding affordable housing, social housing, and eviction defense.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Philosophical movement #2
"See it, say it, sorted!'
Name the philosophical movement(s) that the UK National Rail tagline appears to refer to.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Small actions matter.
Not everything has to scale. Not everything needs to be a movement.
Sometimes it’s enough to keep showing up, where you are, as you are. I explore this, and more, on my free substack. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Philosophical movement no. 3:
"I am always about in the Quad."
Name what set of ideas this quotation alludes to.
Again, there could be more than one answer.

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

Feditrivia.
Try this: name the philosophical movement the expression refers to.
#1 "We're 'ere because we're 'ere because we're 'ere".
Bonus to identify the source.
If I get any responses I'll try another tomorrow.

oh this is gold. Wsocial still exists and has a constitution now @…
Our constitution. Social media has filled the public conversation with bots, outrage and machines pretending to be people. The Constitution of W is our answer: ten articles, written down so you can hold us to them. Real people. The same rules for everyone. No advertiser, investor or political movement with a veto. Your account data hosted in Europe. And the freedom to leave, taking your posts and followers with you.
https://ltw2f.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/1t6Af4OiGsE8LIlZsp5zJ0jcK0xxJ3/oJC0tj27GUnu

It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to tell their output apart.
There is a cosmic-scale gap between the long-term value to a company in paying a salary to a human vs. getting an LLM to "do" the "same" work, but it's a gap that many people are investing heavily in hiding right now, and CEOs and managers become incredibly gullible when you promise them they won't have to deal with humans who might ask for raises, even though it should be obvious you plan to jack up prices once they're locked in. They also aren't well-known for a deep understanding of how their workers actually generate value, and tend to be easily distracted by shiny but shallow demos, which is exactly what LLMs can produce well.
Even in the most optimistic scenario I can imagine for these developments, the myth of upward mobility that's been a lynchpin for defusing class solidarity among wage laborers is going to take a significant beating. There's a completely obvious game plan underway to try to use fascism to shore up the power of the wealthy against any kind of mass movement, and to play the ancient divide-and-conquer game along race and gender lines just as usual, so the range of outcomes is huge, but every time you use an LLM you're pushing this closer to a sharper conflict.
#AI #LLMs

Yes on I kickoff today in Duboce Park was a huge success! That’s (1) our campaign manager Jacob speaking, (2) Deepa Varma from Tenants Together, (3) Kristin Hardy from SEIU 1021, who talked about how affordable housing is their top, top, top, top priority to keep their members in the city.
Afterward we asked shops if we could put up signs. Donate or find the next volunteer event at

Fair Housing, Yes on I - San Francisco Ballot Measure | Join the Movement
Prop I dedicates existing tax revenue to its intended purpose of funding affordable housing, social housing, and eviction defense.

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras

"It is always good to know the views of any group that seeks to control the country, and fortunately, the Evangelical side of the Christian Nationalist movement has not been shy about laying out its plans for the rest of us"
**The American Public Is Being Gas-Lit by the Religious Right About Religious Liberty** | Marci A. Hamilton | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2026/08/26/the-american-public-is-being-gas-lit-by-the-religious-right-about-religious-liberty

California's billionaire tax could 'kickstart a movement' that spreads to more states and countries | Fortune
https://archive.ph/5nDlu

"A Wired investigation found that cops can search for vehicles and their drivers using prompts describing location, time, and patterns of movement."
Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates
https://gizmodo.com/flocks-new-ai-tool-does-much-more-than-track-license-plates-2000800372

Anti-abortion movement eyes Interpol to target mifepristone pills
https://19thnews.org/2026/08/abortion-interpol-operation-pangea-mifepristone-pills/