Zogenaamd "onnodige medische zorg wordt geschrapt.
Tia of beroerte? Geen ECG meer.
Eierstokkenkanker? Nog maar 6 controles na behandeling in plaats van 15.
Echt, fuck dit paracetamolletjes land.
Een enorm aantal medische richtlijnen wordt komend jaar herzien. Ze zijn onderdeel van het Less is more-traject, waarbij artsen op een "verantwoorde manier" stoppen met zorg die minder effectief lijkt, legt een woordvoerder van de Federatie Medisch Specialisten (FMS) uit.
Normaal gesproken wordt eerst gewacht met het stoppen van zorg tot de verminderde effectiviteit ervan daadwerkelijk is aangetoond. Maar in dit traject wordt eerst gestopt met zorg en later geëvalueerd of dat de juiste beslissing was.
Dat noemt de Federatie Medisch Specialisten dus "verantwoord". Maar dat is het dus niet, het wordt letterlijk op geen enkele manier verantwoord.
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Nu.nl: "Onnodige zorg verdwijnt: 'Geen standaard operatie bij blindedarmontsteking'"www.nu.nl
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De Kop van Trump
Er stond een ingezonden brief in de Volkskrant die ik hier even uit mijn hoofd parafraseer. Een mevrouw meldt dat het misschien verdedigbaar is dat de krant nieuws over Trump brengt, maar vraagt of het echt nodig is om elke keer een foto van hem erbij te plaatsen.
Toen ik dat las dacht ik: Verdraaid! DAT is de reden dat ik de laatste tijd zo vaak snel doorblader naar de volgende pagina. Ik probeer blijkbaar onbewust die weerzinwekkende oranje paddenkop uit mijn blikveld te houden.
Zo ontstaat mythologisering van mensen: permanente herhaling van hun portret. Het werkt ook bij acteurs in films of series en mensen die om andere, vaak ondoorgrondelijke redenen veel op TEEVEE verschijnen: na een x aantal closeups heb je het gevoel dat je zo iemand kent. Zo zijn we evolutionair toegerust. En dat is bij zo'n zwetende, vette fascistenkop als die van Trump wel het laatste wat ik wil, het gevoel hebben dat ik hem ken.
Sterker nog, iedereen die weet wie Trump is en bereid is een artikel over hem te lezen weet hoe hij er uitziet. Er is geen enkel journalistiek argument voor.
Hierbij dus een oproep aan redacties om bij artikelen over Trump voortaan kattenfoto's te plaatsen.
Bij voorbaat dank.
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Voor je dagelijkse dosis foto's van katten raad ik je #cats als standaard zoekterm aan. Zo doet Mastodon mij dagelijks glimlachen.
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"Keijzer wil dat grotere gemeenten zo min mogelijk sociale huur bouwen. In deze gemeenten zal dus de wachttijd voor betaalbare woningen verder oplopen. Dat raakt niet alleen de vier grootste steden, maar ook gemeenten als Vlaardingen, Zaanstad, Nijmegen, Enschede, Helmond en vele andere gemeenten met een bovengemiddeld aandeel sociale huur. Zij moeten straks vooral voor de hogere inkomens bouwen."
En daar geeft de extreemrechtse #MonaKeijzer asielzoekers de schuld van.
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Opinie | Volkshuisvesting afbreken en asielzoekers de schuld geven: let er nog iemand op?
Woningbouw: Door de nieuwe volkshuisvestingswet groeit het tekort aan sociale huurwoningen en krijgen statushouders de schuld, ziet Zeno Winkels. Stop met de afbraak van sociale woningbouw.NRC
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Koch Network spent decades ruining public education to produce illiterate white supremacists like these.
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The American literacy level continues to fall. 6th grade average reading level.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, and Uihlein are desperate to thwart the existence of an educated proletariat.
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The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.Jon Schwarz (The Intercept)
Why am I reminded of the car wash scene in Dodgeball? Haven't seen that movie in a long time and I don't see a car or a ball anywhere in this picture.
Edit: nvm. There are cars in the background. That explains it. Hadn't noticed them.
"goverment" without the "N" is a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grader trying to learn to spell the word.
You even say the 'n' in the word. We pronounce it as [ gu-vern-(with the n)-ment. ]
If these people don't know how to spell it, they should get out of the government. Get a job where you can spell your job. Hey ICE agent, can you spell H-E-B?
Looking the the photo: "Ha, someone from the West country flew to the Russia and make some photos, lol"
Looking again: "OH SHI~!"
Illiteracy governs
Sidewalks are public areas, the right to protest on public areas is supported by the constitution
State Property and Public Area is not the same, property is robbed of human rights.
personally i like the red "kill yourself!" better 
*this is not a threat/statement of intent or call to action*
So assuming this is a space reserved for the government, as they can't spell, make a badge that says US GOVERMENT (their spelling) put on the car dashboard, and park there.
Just keep this photo as evidence.
If they take you to court, point out to the judge the spelling error and that you were parked legally in that context.
"Stupid is as stupid does." – Forrest Gump
GroenLinks-PvdA pleegt verraad, precies zoals ik verwachtte.
Maar... migratie met 80% verminderen?? Een migrantenquotum? Zelfs strafkampen voor mensen die geen enkele wet overtreden??
WTF, hun verkiezingsprogramma is nog veel erger dan ik had vermoed.
Tien punten waarom dit een ramp is:
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👉 Laten we NSC en PVV kopiëren
Onder het mom van solidariteit kopieert deze voormalig linkse partij de antimigratie retoriek van extreemrechts. Het migratiesaldo mag van GroenLinks-PvdA nog maar 40 tot 60 k per jaar zijn: 5 keer zo weinig als nu.
Daarmee noemt GL/PvdA precies hetzelfde aantal als het mislukte partijtje NSC (nul zetels in de peilingen). Wat is het plan, gaat GL/PvdA binnenkort ook bestaanszekerheid en de rechtsstaat tot top-prioriteit verheffen, om dan vervolgens met de PVV in zee te gaan?
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👉 Het kan niet.
En nu moeten we dus de argumenten die we al jaren gebruiken tegen fascisten en racisten, herhalen tegenover GroenLinks-PvdA:
EU migratie kun je nauwelijks, en asielmigratie kun je helemaal niet beïnvloeden, en zeker niet met 80% verminderen.
We zijn simpelweg verplicht om asiel te verlenen aan mensen met een terechte claim. We willen zelf ook naar andere landen kunnen reizen en daar kunnen werken. En binnen de EU mag je migratie niet verbieden, daar hebben we het Schengen verdrag over gesloten. Het gros van de migranten zijn mensen die binnen de EU verhuizen: jij mag in Frankrijk of Polen gaan wonen, en zij hier.
Al het andere is klets.
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👉 Het is volkomen hypocriet
Nederlands rijkdom hebben we opgebouwd door andere landen leeg te roven. GroenLinks-PvdA wil nu een groot hek zetten om de buit.
Weet je trouwens hoeveel Nederlanders er op dit moment in het buitenland wonen? Net geen miljoen mensen. En zoals het CBS daar bij schrijft: "De gepresenteerde aantallen zijn vrijwel altijd een onderschatting van het feitelijke aantal in het buitenland woonachtige personen."
Maar als anderen hier willen wonen, dan is dat ineens een probleem...
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👉 Dit terwijl we migratie juist keihard nodig hebben.
Nederland vergrijst als een dolle.
GroenLinks-PvdA spendeert wel een paar woorden aan de zorg en de bouw die niet stil mogen vallen (want als je nodig bent is je huidskleur of nationaliteit ineens niet meer zo belangrijk blijkbaar), maar intussen is dat gewoon lariekoek: met een migrantenquotum is het godsonmogelijk om genoeg jonge mensen in dit land te krijgen om het werk te doen.
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👉 Vluchtverdrag wordt versnipperd
Er is geen grens aan de schaamteloosheid waarmee GL/PvdA extreemrechtse standpunten omarmt. Zo moeten de grenzen dicht voor asielzoekers die dan buiten Europa maar asiel moeten aanvragen.
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👉 Kampen voor mensen die geen wet overtraden
En zelfs de strafkampen van Yesilgöz komen terug in het verkiezingsprogramma: 'overlastgevende' en volgens GL/PvdA meestal 'kansloze' asielzoekers zouden in Dilan's (door de rechter illegaal verklaarde!) '*procesbeschikbaarheidslocaties*' moeten worden opgesloten.
Dat woord 'procesbeschikbaarheidslocatie', is pure NewSpeak, overigens uitgevonden door Yesilgöz. Het is zoiets als een koloniale oorlog een 'politionele actie' noemen. Een procesbeschikbaarheidslocatie is simpelweg een kamp waar je mensen in stopt om ze te straffen voor hun bestaan, en ze het leven onmogelijk te maken.
Yesilgöz haar smoes was dat ze dan beschikbaar waren voor hun asielprocedure (Dat is iets wat bij kansrijke asielzoekers blijkbaar helemaal niet nodig is). De rechter haalde er een dikke streep doorheen, waarna Yesilgöz haar maatje Faber (PVV) het plan doodgewoon opnieuw lanceerde.
Want whatever, rechters zijn toch maar links tuig, nietwaar GroenLinks/PvdA?
In de procesbeschikbaarheidslocatie hebben asielzoekers veel minder rechten dan daarbuiten, zelfs al verbiedt Europese regelgeving om asielzoekers in categorieën op te delen en verschillend te behandelen. Ze hebben geen bewegingsvrijheid, krijgen geen geld voor voedsel of kleding - ze worden simpelweg weggepest.
We hebben het hier over mensen die geen enkele wet hebben overtreden. Dat is de reden dat deze zogenaamde 'overlastgevers' niet gewoon worden opgesloten door politie en justitie.
GL/PvdA ouwehoert dat ze Vreemdelingendetentie zo min mogelijk wil toepassen, maar propageert tegelijkertijd de opening van meerdere van deze detentiekampen voor asielzoekers die, nogmaals, geen enkele wet hebben overtreden.
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👉 GroenLinks-PvdA herhaalt rechtse onzinframes over veiligelanders en lapt daarbij internationale wetgeving aan haar laars
Even verder in het verkiezingsprogramma gaat GL/PvdA verder met het kopiëren van rechtse antimigratieklets. Van GL/PvdA moet iedereen die uit een "veilig land" komt "effectief terugkeren".
Ten eerste: "veilige landen" zijn een uitvinding van rechts waar helemaal geen rechtsgrond voor bestaat in de internationale verdragen. Het is een truc om grote groepen asielzoekers bij voorbaat nauwelijks kans op veiligheid te geven. Dat zagen we pas geleden nog, toen er binnen ons huidige extreemrechtse kabinet werd voorgesteld om Syrië tot veilig land te verklaren, en meteen de ambtsberichten over de daadwerkelijke veiligheid daar voortaan tot staatsgeheim te verklaren.
Ten tweede: ook als een land daadwerkelijk 'veilig' is (voor de meeste mensen), wil dat niet zeggen dat het voor iedereen veilig is. Een land kan bijvoorbeeld over het algemeen veilig zijn, behalve voor LHBTIQ+, of voor een kleine groep dissidenten. Deze mensen hebben volgens het mede door Nederland opgestelde Vluchtverdrag gewoon recht op asiel, veilige lander of niet.
Maar GL/PvdA wil ze voortaan "effectief terugsturen"... Want ehhhh... zoals ome Frans zegt: ‘Bij alles wat we voorstellen is solidariteit ons kompas.’ 🤢
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👉 GroenLinks-PvdA stelt een moordenaar aan om criminaliteit tegen te gaan
Lachwekkend én om te huilen wordt het, wanneer de partij roept dat Frontex 'de handhaving moet versterken' om 'illegale pushbacks tegen te gaan'.
Zoals iedereen met enig verstand van asiel weet, is Frontex juist één van de hoofddaders van illegale pushbacks, maar nu mag deze WC Eend in het kwadraat, de mensenrechten gaan handhaven met nog meer wapens en surveillance?
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👉 Hoe verlies ik stemmen? Deel 20357
* Gewetenloze faalhazen *
Stel nu dat je volkomen gewetenloos bent. Stel dat je gewoon lekker zetels wil scoren door asielzoekers en arbeidsmigranten op te offeren, terwijl je met een warme glimlach "solidariteit" zegt.
Is dat dan effectief?
Nee.
GL/PvdA is een kannibalistische partij. De enige groei die ze heeft, bereikt ze door stemmen af te snoepen van kleinere linkse partijen. Hoe GL/PvdA ook opschuift naar rechts, ze trekt geen stemmen van het midden of rechts.
Want ook al zijn mensen die op CDA, VVD of PVV stemmen in dat opzicht echt niet slim, volkomen dom zijn ze ook niet. Waarom zou je voor dit nieuwflinkse GL/PvdA stemmen? Voor dit slappe aftreksel van PVV en VVD? Als je ook gewoon voor het origineel kunt gaan?
GroenLinks-PvdA was al één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken voor het super snelle opschuiven naar rechts van de samenleving. Door nu zelfs een aantal radicaal rechtse standpunten over te nemen, en de oorlog aan migratie te verklaren, wordt dat nog vele malen erger.
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👉 Niks leren van het falen van BBB, NSC en VVD, maar het als voorbeeld zien
VVD en PVV willen niets lievers dan dat hét thema van de verkiezingen migratie wordt. En GL/PvdA tuint er met open ogen in.
Zelfs nadat de VVD precies dezelfde fout maakte in de vorige verkiezingen, en daarmee haar toppositie verloor.
Zodra Yesilgöz bij de vorige verkiezingen migratie tot hoofdpunt maakte, verloor de VVD zetels aan de PVV, die als grootste uit de bus kwam. En voila, bij de komende verkiezingen denken zowel D66 als GroenLinks-PvdA: "wat leuk, laten we dat ook eens doen!"
Je krijgt er zin van om jezelf met een hamer bewusteloos te meppen.
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Waar Yesilgöz het u nog één keer uit liegt, kiest Timmermans voor het kopiëren van Faber en van deze gewetenloze faalhaas, maar dan met nóg slappere ruggengraat. Het is werkelijk ongelofelijk.
Bronnen:
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Hebben we dit door het volk betaalde monument opgericht, zodat de PVV fascist Bosma daar op vier mei een krans kan leggen?
Of moeten we blij zijn dat iemand het lef heeft om de boodschap van het monument op de Dam, nog duidelijker naar voren te halen?
De gemaskerde stillen, de centristen en de liberalen weten het antwoord wel. Stoepkrijt (want dit is niet eens verf) is erger, veel erger dan de dood van meer dan 100.000 Pal es tijnen.
Centristen staan volledig achter de boodschap, maar willen er vooral niets aan doen.
Ze maken zich zorgen over het draagvlak, en proberen daarom zelf vast dat draagvlak te ondermijnen.
Centristen zijn áltijd voor demonstratievrijheid, maar niet voor déze demonstratie.
Ze zijn voor álle mensenrechten, behalve deze mensenrechten.
Tegen elke oorlog behalve deze oorlog.
Tegen elke politiestaat behalve deze politiestaat.
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"They're terrified."
"Did you not realize what this would be? Being fucking gestapo, being Nazis?"
People in Missouri confront ICE. Run them out of restaurant.
Via @/pabloreports
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The sunglasses bro is a wannabe knock off wishful Temu version of Jesse Plemons character in Civil War ?
Civil war a movie that sooner rather than later is changing its status from fiction to documentary
Unfortunately, it does not appear that this courageous confrontation stopped them from arresting harmless workers. They don't seem to have left because of the resistance. They left because they had finished what they came to do.
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Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement HSI agency conducted an operation at restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas, detaining 7 workers and taking 4 to 5 into custody Wednesday.KSHB 41 News Staff (KSHB 41 Kansas City News)
Delta airlines has announced a new surveillance pricing plan: they're going to feed an AI the nonconsensually harvested personal data that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold on you to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:
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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.Irina Ivanova (Fortune)
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Data-brokers hold all kinds of data on you, from the "legitimate" information about everywhere your car has driven, to everywhere point in space that the Bluetooth radios on your phone and headphones have passed, to everything you've bought, to every website you've visited and every search you've performed. They also buy data that has been straight up stolen from you by spyware implanted on your phone:
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A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors
Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to divorce lawyers and other industries.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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All of this can be merged into a single file that you have no right to scrutinize, let alone redact. Biden's Consumer Finance Protection Bureau passed a rule banning all this shit, but Trump illegally killed off that rule:
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Capitalism's highest form of creativity is finding ways to rip you off, and the business world's most creative minds have found a million ways to exploit this data, including surveillance pricing.
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For example, McDonald's has invested in a startup called Plexure that offers to help restaurants jack up prices on payday, when you can afford to pay more:
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And then there's the Big Three "Uber for nurses" apps, who use surveillance data to calculate wages for nurses, offering lower hourly rates to nurses who are carrying a lot of credit-card debt, on the grounds that they are too desperate to turn down a lowball offer:
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And just as these gigwork apps are deciding what your labor is worth, surveillance pricing systems decide what your *money* is worth, charging you more than another otherwise identical customer, for an identical product, meaning your dollar is worth less than that other customer's dollar:
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Now we have Delta, which promises to do the same thing, but for plane tickets. Obviously, the aviation industry has long practiced a form of "price discrimination," charging radically different sums for the same seat, based on when you buy the ticket, or when you plan to return.
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But this is different, and to explain why, here's a link to an article by the great Hubert Horan, who may be best known to my readers for his incredible breakdowns of Uber's finances, but whose life's work is as an aviation analyst:
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Horan draws a distinction between surveillance pricing and "second degree price discrimination." Surveillance pricing targets you, personally, based on your personal information.
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Hubert Horan: Can Airlines Get Passengers to Accept AI-Driven Personalized/Surveillance Pricing? | naked capitalism
Delta has fevered dreams of AI-engineered individual pricing to boost revenues. But would this work in practice?Yves Smith (naked capitalism)
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"Second degree price discrimination" charges everyone *like* you the same price: like, everyone who buys a roundtrip ticket without a Saturday night stay is charged extra on the grounds that they are probably a price-insensitive business traveler whose fare is being paid by a corporation.
Surveillance pricing is *first*-degree price discrimination, with every customer seeing a different price.
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Horan argues that second-degree discrimination created efficiencies, for example, by offering cheap last-minute seats to people thinking about going away for the weekend, who fill seats that would otherwise go empty. Horan says these efficiencies have tapped out, thanks to the application of straightforward pricing algorithms to tickets.
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Now, Delta wants to squeeze more profits out of price discrimination, but by employing first-degree discrimination, they're doing so without any benefit to fliers (unlike second-degree discrimination, which made many fliers better off because they were able to score cheaper tickets). This makes Delta's surveillance pricing a "pure transfer" - shifting wealth from fliers to shareholders with no benefit to those fliers.
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Delta is doing this in partnership with an Israeli firm called Fetcherr, whose sales pitch denies that they are using surveillance data to price tickets, despite what Delta has claimed.
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Horan doesn't know what to make of this, but he speculates that because Fetcherr bills itself as an AI company, Delta thinks it can impress investors by claiming that it will goose prices by combining surveillance (well understood to be a way to benefit corporations at the expense of their customers) and AI, a hype-filled technology that is endlessly impressive to credulous investors.
A bigger mystery is how Fetcherr plans to do surveillance pricing without surveillance.
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Horan points out that the company's founders come from hedge funds, where automated high-speed AI trader-bots fed on tons of public market data are routinely used. He thinks it's possible that "Fletchrr doesn’t understand airline pricing very well." Also, being finance bros, they thought "airlines were 'outdated' 'undisrupted' and had seen few recent technological advances."
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Horan continues, the reason airlines aren't updating their algorithmic pricing is they've already done it all, having pioneered the field.
Horan's favored explanation for the disconnect between what Fetcherr and Delta claim they're doing is, on the one hand, they're obscuring the fact that they're doing surveillance pricing (to avoid regulators and consumer backlash), but on the other hand, they want to telegraph (to investors) that this is *exactly* what they're doing.
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It's what Uber already does, repricing both the labor of its drivers based on their economic desperation, and the cost of your fare based on what its surveillance dossier suggests you're willing to pay. It's certainly increased Uber's margins - by effecting a pure transfer from riders and drivers to shareholders.
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But Uber rides are last-minute, small dollar purchases, which decreases the likelihood that a rider will shop around before booking. By contrast, Horan says, most fliers buy well in advance, from online travel sites that show them *lots* of competing prices.
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One thing Horan doesn't mention here is that British Airways has just done a top-to-bottom rejig of its frequent flier program to severely penalize anyone who buys tickets from one of these sites, effectively requiring its fliers to buy from BA.com. For example, I booked a $300 Alaska Airlines ticket on Alaska's website, using my BA frequent flier ID.
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Under the old system, this would have been worth 10 tier points out of the 1500 needed to get Gold status (0.66%). Under the new system, I got *12* points out of the *20,000* needed to get Gold (0.05%) - a 93% reduction in the reward value of this flight.
Which is to say that if you don't book on BA's site, you effectively *cannot* make status. BA has *also* announced a surveillance pricing deal with an AI company .
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This gambit will block its best fliers from getting a better price from an online travel agency.
One other key difference between Uber and Delta: Uber has gone to great lengths to hide the fact that it's doing surveillance pricing from both drivers and riders. Delta issued a press-release!
There's a certain kind of neoclassical economist who *loves* surveillance pricing and praises its "efficiencies."
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These apologists claim that by increasing the amount of "information" in the system, we encourage sellers to discount to customers who can't afford as much, making everyone better off:
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This is nonsense. Sellers don't want to "increase the amount of information in the system." They want to *spy on you*. If you doubt it for an instant, just ask the firms that scrape airline websites for up-to-date pricing information:
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This method allows online agents to sell airline tickets on-site for a higher price with added fees.Aaron Bailey (Simple Flying)
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Not only will airlines sue you for trying to find out what their fares are, they'll *also* sue you for figuring out how to get a better deal on their fares:
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They're hardly unique in this: price-gouging grocers *also* threaten people who scrape their prices to spot collusion and price-fixing:
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Companies that do surveillance pricing are violently allergic to *sousveillance pricing*.
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When they spy on you, that's progress. When you monitor their behavior, that's piracy.
As an aside, this reminds me of one of the AI industry's most egregious hoaxes-du-jour: the pretense that "agentic AI" is just around the corner, and soon we will be able to ask a chatbot to (e.g.) comparison shop across multiple website for the best airfare and book us a ticket:
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Apple may look late to AI but it's aiming for something different
While other tech companies rush to dominate artificial intelligence with bold promises and uneven results, Apple is building something slower, quieter, and more durable.Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)
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This absolutely totally *does not work*. You should *not* give your credit-card number to a chatbot and ask it to go out an buy you *anything*, lest you end up paying $30 for a dozen eggs and buying tickets to a baseball stadium in the middle of the ocean:
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AI agent demos are so dismal that AI companies are no longer claiming that "agentic AI" will involve chatbots that nagivate the web as is.
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OpenAI has released a new AI agent called ChatGPT Agent — and it still suffers from the same big problems as its predecessors.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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Rather, they're claiming that every website will eventually re-tool so that it can be reliably and predictably addressed by an AI agent, with all of its user interface elements well-labeled and/or addressable programatically, via an API.
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This is a remarkable sleight of hand! First of all, re-engineering every website to embrace a common set of labels and API fields is a gigantic engineering feat - formally called "the semantic web" - that has been attempted since *1999* without *any* meaningful progress:
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In fact, the first viral article I ever published online was "Metacrap," a critique of semantic web efforts. That essay is now *24 years old*:
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In that essay, I suggest that there are multiple reasons that companies will not voluntarily retool their sites to make it easier to comparison shop. One important reason is that companies don't believe their products are comparable with competing products (or they don't want *you* to think so). Coach wants you to think that its $40,000 handbags can't be replaced with a well-made $100 bag or even a $0.10 plastic bag.
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They are not going to voluntarily categorize their handbag in a way that facilitates these comparisons.
Then there are companies that *do* want to be compared to rivals, for disingenuous reasons. That's why we saw such a proliferation of junk fees (stupid surcharges tacked on at checkout time): hotels, airlines and car rental agencies knew that the majority of their customers shopped for their offerings on comparison sites.
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By offering a low sticker price, a company could win on price comparison, even though it was substantially *more* expensive after its junk fees were factored in.
Finally, there's the fact that companies want to lie to you, and adding "semantics" to the web does nothing to prevent such lies, and indeed, makes them easier to tell.
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Think of all the Amazon sellers who use deceptive product photos to make you think you're getting (e.g.) a useful kitchen spatula, when they're selling a spatula so small that it appears to be engineered for a dollhouse; or companies that sell powerbanks that look like a useful portable battery but can't even recharge an LED flashlight, etc, etc. AI agents can't tell if metadata is correct or not!
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Every complex ecosystem has parasites; that goes triple for the web. We won't fix agentic AI by asking people to accurately label their offerings, not when they stand to benefit by lying:
pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/her…
And if we *could* rejig the web to make it hospitable to agentic AI, we wouldn't need AI to make this happen.
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Fetching airfares for several routes and comparing them isn't something you need an AI-style inference engine for - it's a straightforward algorithmic problem that can be easily solved. The part that agentic AI purports to solve isn't figuring out which airfare out of a list is cheapest - it's *compiling the list itself*, from unstructured data retrieved from heterogeneous websites that are doing everything they can to prevent the compilation of such a list.
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This is a well-known AI gambit. First, announce that agentic AI will be able to automate tasks that only humans can manage today; then insist that everything has to be changed to be amenable to the new technology. This is exactly what the self-driving car grifters (who were on the leading edge of the AI grift) did. First, they announced that AIs would be able to pilot cars in spaces filled with human drivers, walkers and cyclists.
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Then, when it became clear that this would result in slaughtersome robot-on-human violence, they demanded that humans curtail their behavior to avoid upsetting the robot.
They call this "the pogo-stick problem":
> “I think many AV teams could handle a pogo stick user in pedestrian crosswalk,” Ng told me. “Having said that, bouncing on a pogo stick in the middle of a highway would be really dangerous.”
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> “Rather than building AI to solve the pogo stick problem, we should partner with the government to ask people to be lawful and considerate,” he said. “Safety isn’t just about the quality of the AI technology.”
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Automation is real and can deliver real benefits to people. Sometimes, automation requires that other systems be adjusted to facilitate its functioning. But this is a gambit. It's a scam.
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New limitations in deep learning — called “AI Winter” by skeptics — could pose a serious problem for autonomous car projects by Tesla, Waymo, and Uber.Russell Brandom (The Verge)
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AI agents aren't going to replace human labor. The only way we'll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people who benefit from the status quo and have every motivation to obstruct this project.
Good luck with that.
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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on a side note: it is possible to query/traverse wikipedia itself, as a semantic web using SPARQL query.wikidata.org/
(but yeah, this is different than making the WWW itself be semantic (but still interesting (at least I think so...)))
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In every feudalistic society, it was necessary to restrict the movement of labor, especially agricultural serfs.
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Tied to aristocrats' land from womb to tomb.
Pricing the 99% out of air travel is a also a mechanism to restrict travel for the anticipated 1.2 billion climate refugees.
Bought by Koch Network's sociopathic oil oligarchs.
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Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among world’s least peaceful, analysis findsJon Henley (The Guardian)
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If you get a chance, go to see “Make it Happen”. Play starring Brian Cox as Adam Smith and Sandy Grierson as Fred Goodwin, aka Fred the Shred. The story of the rise and downfall of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Posting online so that the data brokers will see this and pass it along to Delta:
Because of this, the maximum I'm willing to pay to fly on Delta is now -500. Yes, Delta would have to pay me $500 for me to fly on any flight with them now.
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🚨 WARNING: Google is trying to force you into using #Gemini AI on Android in #Gmail, #WhatsApp & other apps - hijacking your data for "AI training"
This is opted in by default – so check your Settings to opt out.
Here’s how: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g…
On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. | Tuta
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity.Tuta
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Disabled it, but no luck uninstalling. Can't afford a pixel so graphineOS isn't an option.
Really fed up of privacy being limited to people with money and tech skills. There needs to be a way for everybody to have privacy.
Sin la app de gemini puedes hacer esto:
-Ir a la app de google.
-Dar click en tu foto de perfil.
-Ir a configuración.
-Ir a asistente de google.
-Ir a asistentes digitales de google (elegir entre asistente de google y gemini).
-Elegir el asistente de google en vez de gemini.
-Ir de nuevo a la seccion de asistente de google.
-Ir a la parte de "Tus Apps".
-Ir a la parte de Whatsapp.
-Desactivar: "Permitir que asistente aprenda de esta app" y "Permitir que asistente elija esta app".
Willem Schinkel schreef een kritisch opinieartikel over de herbewapening van Europa.
Tommy Wieringa valt hem daar nu hard om aan.
Tommy Wieringa doet daarbij precies wat Willem Schinkel voorspelde, door Schinkel voor Poetin apologeet uit te maken, en te suggereren dat iedereen die niet voor een bewapeningsexplosie is, wel fout moet zijn. Het is van een intellectuele armoede, die me eerder voorgewend dan werkelijk lijkt te zijn.
Ik zag ook een paar dingen in het opinieartikel van Schinkel waar ik het niet volledig mee eens ben. Ik ben het er trouwens wel mee eens dat de NAVO een rol heeft gehad in het ontstaan van de oorlog, maar net als Schinkel ben ik van mening dat de rol van Rusland vele malen groter was - beetje flauw dat Wieringa dat weglaat.
En Wieringa bevestigt direct Schinkels gelijk door hem neer te zetten als... inderdaad, Poetin Versteher, of in de woorden van Tommy: "Bij Russia Today zien ze hem graag aanschuiven als duider." Wat een enorme stropop drogreden zeg.
Wieringa gaat verder op die tour, door te stellen dat Schinkel schrijft dat Russische wanen "voortkomen uit de eeuwenlange pogingen van het Westen om Rusland te veroveren."
Dat is echter helemaal niet wat Schinkel schrijft.
Willem schrijft:
"Een oriëntatie op vrede die de cirkel van escalatie en bewapening doorbreekt, behelst vanzelfsprekend niet dat Rusland verantwoordelijkheid ontloopt voor de oorlog in Oekraïne, en voor oorlogsmisdaden zoals het vrijwel dagelijks bombarderen van burgers. De-escalatie en een oprechte, niet door wapenindustriële belangen gekleurde gerichtheid op vrede vergen wel een begrip van wat de ander motiveert, en van diens verhaal over de geschiedenis. In geval van Rusland behelst die eeuwen van West-Europese pogingen Rusland te veroveren. Russen die met dat verhaal leven, zullen een andere lezing geven van het richting Rusland kruipen van de NAVO dan Nederlanders."
Hij schrijft dus eerder dat het idee dat het Westen Rusland al eeuwen wil veroveren, één van de Russische wanen is. En overigens, dat Wieringa zich daar niets anders bij kan voorstellen dan Hitler en Napoleon, is volkomen belachelijk. Blijkbaar is hij de Witte Legers en de Koude Oorlog vergeten.
Schinkel wordt tot Poetin apologeet verklaard omdat hij zegt dat je ergens niet uit kan komen als je de ander niet begrijpt. Maar er is een verschil tussen iemand begrijpen, en het met iemand eens zijn. Dat Wieringa dat niet wil begrijpen lijkt me onwil: zo dom is hij niet.
Het is een feit dat Europa bang wordt gemaakt voor oorlog, dat het naar de pijpen van Trump danst die gewoon meer omzet wil draaien in de wapenfabrieken, en dat er (zeker vergeleken met België) geen enkele echte discussie is geweest in Nederland voordat er (door een demissionair kabinet!) besloten werd dat we de komende jaren miljarden moeten bezuinigen op onze samenleving omdat er nu eenmaal killer robots geproduceerd moeten worden.
Van mij mag je best van mening verschillen of het verstandig is om te bewapenen tegen Rusland. Maar misschien kunnen we daarover van mening verschillen zonder de typische oorlogsretoriek van "wie niet met ons is, is tegen ons en een landverrader".
Schinkels artikel kun je hier lezen als je weinig geld hebt.
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Hello Americans on Mastodon, I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.
So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
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If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
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This is new and unusual. To get an idea of how weird this is, let's take a quick tour of some of the many times the US federal government has officially persecuted entire groups of people.
And what (if any) pushback there was at the time.
1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."
About half of the deported people were US citizens.
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Few if any Anglo Americans seemed to have a problem with this.
Mexican Americans ran the court battles, protests, and educational campaigns against forced deportation on their own. While they were struggling to keep their families together day by day.
WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.
The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.
Some white Americans did publicly oppose rounding up their Japanese neighbors. They were in the minority & overruled.
Resistance was limited to individual efforts to tone down the impact of incarceration- tending jailed neighbors' farms while they were away, sending supplies to the camps, etc.
Operation Wetback, 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported.
And yet again, many were documented migrants or US citizens.
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Public outrage over the many US citizens deported caused Operation Wetback to get its funding pulled. … After 3 months & over 1 million people deported.
This was the fastest a purge ever got rolled back. But it still took people a while to notice & stop it. At the supposed peak of US unity.
Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.
Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.
But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.
The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.
There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.
Sometimes, replacing tribes with settlers wasn't enough. The federal gov't put in the work to keep the new guys down too.
When coal miners went on strike, they sent in the National Guard. To push people back into the mines at gunpoint.
My grandma left Harlan Co so she didn't get stuck in company store debt for life.
So it's frustrating to hear things like "This is the darkest timeline" and "late-stage capitalism."
Yes things suck & you gotta vent. But... do people think the US started in 1960?
We really forget our country, and capitalism, *started* with people on the auction block.
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When you know what the US has been about this whole time, that really puts the current moment in perspective.
We've been up to some ugly, ugly stuff. And it usually gets either silence or applause.
2025 is a whole different animal. The response has been strong and immediate. We had *preemptive* mass mobilization.
By millions of people who *aren't* being targeted by raids, jailing, and deportation. (Yet. 🙃)
That's never happened in US history before. This is different.
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That's why the right keeps sniveling about how they're under attack. Even while they're successfully pulling off another purge.
They're not used to getting yelled at when they blow taxpayer dollars on witch hunts, they're used to getting high-fives at the country club.
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We still have a long way to go. And it's frustrating bc we have leaders who supposedly want to run our country better, and they plain don't have the levers to do much. I'm not making excuses.
I'm just pointing out how weird it is for the US to even *have* leaders who want to do better.
We have so much more going for us than any generation that's tried to stop these things before.
And yes, that's left us without much of a playbook on how to do this kind of change quickly.
These movements usually take decades or centuries to build up steam.
This time, we already had one in place when the problems started. That's weird & nobody knows what to do.
So if you're looking at the US & thinking "This isn't the country I know," you're 100% right. It's not.
We're actually fighting back in real time for once.
I know it doesn't feel like much to be proud of right now, because we're nowhere close to done.
But you deserve to know- in the middle of all of this, we ARE making history right now.
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Thanks Sarah. It's important perspective, both on the brutal history of this flawed nation and how things are tangibly different today than in the past.
For what it's worth I totally understand the, it's worse than it's ever been, I don't recognize this country, sentiment. I think for a lot of us (some millennials, gen Z & beyond) it's "worse than it's been in my lifetime", and it's not just the horrendously racist and cruel acts of 🧊 and their ilk, I think it's colored by the rest of the environment. The rollback of rights that seemed solidified, whether from before some of our lifetimes or for much of it (or especially our adult lives), everything that feels like a reversal of progress, even the 🏒-graph greedflation, all at once. I empathize with how hard it is not to see doom when you can't afford your rent or even a 🍔 (at home or fast food), your healthcare is getting taken away, your neighbors are getting kidnapped, and you or your 🏳️⚧️ loved ones are being actively targeted.
Didn't realize how much I needed to hear this, especially today.
Thanks for taking the time to put this out there.
thank you for this thread, it's often useful to listen to people who have been dealing with oppression and fighting fascism for 400 years. Here is Dr. Cornel West & Rev. Amos Brown on America's chickens come home to roost moment.
Supportive evidence:
"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." - #EricaChenoweth, #SohaHammam, #JeremyPressman, and #ChristopherWileyShay June 12, 2025
"... at least through April and May, protesters associated with the anti-Trump movement were extraordinarily nonviolent in their tactics." [1]
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American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.Erica Chenoweth (Waging Nonviolence)
There's another factor at play here, also. Not only are we seeing a backlash in realtime but, possibly even more important, we're seeing into the perspectives of the target populations, also in realtime, in a way that hasn't been possible or available before.
The humanity of the marginalized groups is much more visible than previously. & that humanity is MUCH harder to gloss over with propaganda than it used to be.
the solutions are there, plainly, same ones as before.
Lacking is will. Apathy kills.
This is deeply heartening to read — I’m a few days late, but thanks.
I’m a history teacher and yet I still constantly need reminding of historical context, because it’s the counterbalance to the urgency one feels (and should feel) in being in the moment.
I think I hear you, this scale of response this quickly being new. That, makes sense and suggests how key it is to get more coverage of that resistance and especially its successes out there, so that it can keep growing quickly.
Curious if you are you drawing on any particular sources that bring a lot of that history together?
Thank you for this perspective. I really needed it.
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, TO BE SET RIGHT.”
-Carl Schurz
Here in the UK, we've been doing it for far longer, and far more violently, in even more places around the globe - and i fear that the MAGA crowd will, with their usual fear of being second best, re-double their efforts to take the title.
A whole new generation that wants you breaks free from this cycle is a thing of great hope, it's just a pity we have to wait for the previous generation to die before they can ascend, especially as those in charge see no reason to let go of power.
I'd be interested in the "more opposition from white folks than you'd think" part.
And they all came back after a nice visit with cousins in #Mexico.
Humans are among the most migratory species on the planet! nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/arti…
#Immigration #Resist and #DoNotComply with #ICE #Gestapo.
Strong immigration policy must see humans as a migratory species
Former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour says countries can't manage their borders without talking to their neighboursnationalmagazine.ca
American exceptionalism strikes again.
We think of ourselves as special, so anything we personally experience is the superlative, because it's happening in our present.
This is what they mean about people who don't study history.
We are not setting the benchmarks on anything except as relates to the climate crisis. Which isn't new, either, but which is demonstrably worsening.
"They're rounding people up just because of their skin color and locking them up!"
Yeah, like you said, I'm just glad people are speaking up about this in a big way because this has been happening for decades. I think one of the key differences is that they've dropped the pretense that what they're doing is "justice."
Liberals have been more than happy to lock black and brown people up en masse as long as they can run them through the system first. If someone is convicted of a crime, they're completely okay with throwing them in prison. Does "convicted" mean "guilty?" Should what they were convicted of even be a crime? We've never really had a meaningful conversation about that in this country.
But the numbers really speak for themselves. Things *were not okay* before Trump was elected. When this fascist regime falls apart, we *cannot* go back to how things were before.
Sure you're making history.
Don't expect anyone to respect it.
Do we wish Americans Happy independence day'?
From who exactly?
From the thousands dying now abandoned by USAID, or those in Ukraine who suffer by the reduction in military aid? Or maybe from Palestinians shot by so called 'American aid contractors'? Or maybe the 132,000 trans people who will now be denied medical care?
Yeah. Happy 'Independence Day', assholes.
This is a great, informed take. Not rose colored glasses but forward thinking and historically grounded. I couldn't agree more about the whole 'this being the worst timeline' being really problematic. That's a cop out; that's throwing your hands up; that's giving yourself an excuse to give up and not try. It's showing a lack of imagination, if you truly cant think of worse things. There were times during the Cold War people lived in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. It's also showing a lack of historical knowledge, especially knowing that the underlying issues of what is happening (racism, sexism) are foundational particularly to Western culture, and human culture in general. We've never actually had a reckoning with our past (or present). To think that these issues were just going to go away quietly is naive, or that somehow with education we had suddenly become not-racist. It's also not surprising that we are having a hard time forming a coherent resistance party given how much technology has changed politics in the last 20 years, and given the diversity and complexity of global problems we are facing. Let's give this issue, the rise of violent ultra-nationalism in the 21st century, its due as the complex historical problem that it is and not get frustrated when we can't solve it or defeat it in six months. But like you say, there are signs that American society as a whole, not just those directly persecuted, are resisting in ways that are novel. We are far from powerless here and I'm really tired of takes that paint us as such.
People pretend that we just became a #WhiteSupremacy.
No.
It has been bipartisan and centuries old.
This is the death throws, and they are willing to throw out everything to keep it.
Nothing is off the table for them.
But everything they do can be undone.
EVERYTHING!
We just need the will.
NSC en SGP gaan toch akkoord met de asielwet van Faber, na de vaagst mogelijke toezeggingen over de strafbaarstelling van illegalen en iedereen die hen helpt.
We hadden het al van jullie verwacht, stelletje verachtelijke fascistenvriendjes.
Do your worst.
Als wetten onmenselijk worden, is het onze burgerplicht om ze te overtreden.
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Een interessant interview in de Financial Times met AI-critica Emily Bender, over de overwaardering van Large Language Models:
ft.com/content/9029cc1c-4a3f-4…
AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’George Hammond (Financial Times)
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Bender is te gek. Check ook haar podcast "Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000" samen met Alex Hanna.
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En ze heeft net een boek uit wat ik nog niet gelezen heb:
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Help vanavond nog! Stop de asielwet!
Als de Tweede Kamer morgen voor de asielwet stemt, zullen ongedocumenteerde mensen strafbaar worden. Ook organisaties en mensen die hen helpen, kunnen dan vervolgd worden. Dit betekent dat ongedocumenteerde mensen vogelvrij worden verklaard door onze staat, nog kwetsbaarder zijn en elke dag opgepakt kunnen worden.
De partijen achter deze wet hebben op 1 juli misbruik gemaakt van het feit dat Kamerleden van GroenLinks-PvdA en Partij voor de Dieren op de herdenking van Keti Koti waren. Op de dag van de herdenking van ons slavernijverleden stemde de Tweede Kamer daardoor met een meerderheid voor een aanpassing aan de Asielwet om mensen te illegaliseren. Mensen zijn eerder strafbaar gesteld in Nederland: Joden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
We kunnen de wet nog tegenhouden! Morgen stemt de Tweede Kamer hierover. NSC is tegen de toegevoegde strafbaarstelling en kan, net als de CDA die al overstag is, nog overgehaald worden om nu tegen de wet te stemmen en deze tegen te houden. Daarom starten we samen met Here to Support een mailactie.
Roep NSC op geen mens illegaal te maken: stop de asielwet!
Als de Tweede Kamer morgen voor de asielwet stemt, zullen ongedocumenteerde mensen strafbaar worden. Ook organisaties en mensen die hen helpen, kunnen dan vervolgd worden. Mail nu naar NSC-Kamerleden om deze wet tegen te houden!campagnes.degoedezaak.org
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Lafbek. En typisch #VVD, principes zijn alleen bedoeld om campagne mee te kunnen voeren.
nos.nl/artikel/2572816-staatss… #Budapest #Pride 🏳️🌈
Staatssecretaris Paul loopt niet mee in Budapest Pride, lhbti-organisaties boos
Met haar keuze is de Nederlandse regering niet vertegenwoordigd bij het evenement dat verboden werd door de Hongaarse regering.NOS Nieuws
En ze is er wel. Zie op de achtergrond in deze foto:
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Groetjes uit Hongarije!Waar we op bezoek bij de burgemeester van Budapest, óók een andere burgemeester tegenkwamen. 🙌🏽 💜
#budapestpride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Het lijkt me trouwens dat deze oproep van #Wilders aan #Orbán strafbaar is.
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Staatssecretaris Paul loopt niet mee in Budapest Pride, lhbti-organisaties boos
Met haar keuze is de Nederlandse regering niet vertegenwoordigd bij het evenement dat verboden werd door de Hongaarse regering.NOS Nieuws
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Twitter en vrije meningsuiting.
Kan ie weer eens veroordeeld worden... duurt alleen een paar jaar. Maar zeker het proberen waard.
Hoi mensen!
In het onwaarschijnlijke geval dat deze server online is en je dit bericht kunt lezen:
ik heb het een beetje gehad met de traagheid en onbereikbaarheid van friendica.world.
Je vindt me terug op
grymt@social.trom.tf
(= andere Friendica server)
en op
@Grutjes
(= Mastodon)
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Het gebruik van generatieve AI zet je eigen hersens op ----- flatline.
Verdomd interessant onderzoek.
De proefpersonen zijn random verdeeld over drie groepen, die allemaal dezelfde opdracht moesten doen.
Groep 1: zonder hulpmiddelen
Groep 3: met behulp van ChatGPT.
Uitslag: De ChatGPT groep had veel minder hersenactiviteit.
Alsof dat nog niet veelzeggend genoeg is, vroegen ze alle groepen daarna om nog een opdracht te doen, maar nu allemaal zonder ChatGPT.
De mensen die de eerste opdracht met ChatGPT hadden gedaan, vertoonden bij deze laatste opdracht NOG STEEDS minder hersenactiviteit.
Het effect van het gebruik van generatieve AI houdt dus ook nog eens aan!
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