Like a shepherd, who sets a wolf among the sheep
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the REAL MTG retweeted
Next thing you know this guy will be telling us the key to a happy marriage is not getting a king-sized bed
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The AfD leaks are absolutely massive, so massive I don’t think anyone has completely gone over all of it.
But what we know so far it’s incredibly dark. This is a violently radical party doing its best not to show its true colours. And succeeding.
❗️ The AfD leak site's thousands of emails shows nazism from party members and staff labeled under racism/antisemitism.
We went through the worst:
1. A 2018 email forwarded by Alexander Gauland concerns a "Hitler-Wallfahrt", a Hitler pilgrimage, by a former judge at the party's Thuringia arbitration court.
2. A member joked in a district WhatsApp group about turning refugees into handbags and boots, an allusion to the Nazi camps.
3. A district chairman quit, saying a board member sent a "Heil Hitler" Christmas card with a swastika and it was laughed off.
4. A Bavarian official urged party leaders to chant "Merkel verrecke", roughly "Merkel, croak", every day.
5. Federal party staff discussed luring a photographer to an event to remove him by force. The thread signs off "Heil und Sieg".
6. A 2025 NRW email is titled "Sale of swastika flags and drugs at the info stand".
7. This year alone, branches moved against members over a Nazi banner with a swastika, a Hitler impression and a call for machine guns against Arab clans.
the REAL MTG retweeted
Being rightwing means believing that there is some kind of natural hierarchy, and honor in knowing one's place in it. It encourages servility up the hierarchy and cruelty down the hierarchy. Being servile and cruel is loser shit. Surely most young men don't want to be losers.
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The author is dead! (Crowd cheers) But the author function lives on (crowd boos) Rather than attributing the text to a single origin point, we as critics must map the complex web of institutions and power relations that constitute "authorship" (crowd yawns, disperses)
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So the guy who birthed the idea of slowing down Starlink to aid Russia—a decision that resulted in death and risk to US personnel in Ukraine—is also the biggest donor to the Republican party and is single-handedly trying to tilt the Texas Senate race to the GOP. I have that right?
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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk came to Donald Trump with the plan to throttle Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starshield satellite internet network, sources have told the Telegraph.
The tech billionaire made the proposal during the US President’s row with Volodymyr Zelensky over strikes on Russian oil refineries.
‘The reality is that they were both in it,’ a senior source said of Musk’s and Trump’s involvement.
But after a night of carnage in Kyiv caused by the slowdown, Musk was alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.
The SpaceX boss then proceeded to tweet, blaming the US administration, and ultimately, President Trump for authorising the slowdown.
‘He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it,’ the source said.
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Ah, now I get it. I thought the AI catastrophe meant a model escaping its sandbox, launching nukes or hacking the power grid.
Turns out it spots the AI debt bubble, shorts its own creators and crashes the financial system with trading bots.
The singularity is a margin call.
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AI cracking unsolvable math problems while being kinda mid at writing is a much-needed W for humanities majors after a rough 21st century.
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I think I wrote exactly that, and it is still right. Organizations are a form of narrow superintelligence. My university, or Walmart, can do things that a human cannot, often using complex processes no one designed explicitly.
I will go further: the failure to deeply consider how to make AI work together with existing organizational superintelligences is a big reason why we have not yet seen any large impact of AI on scientific discovery or economic productivity despite high levels of AI ability.
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Wages are not a share of profit. They're a cost of production, deducted before profit exists. What's left over is surplus value - the part you produced but didn't get paid for. Calling your wage a "share" is the exact inversion the boss wants you to believe.
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terence mckenna was one of the first non-jewish minds i really listened to for many hours, ever. and he told me over and over again to prepare for things to get extremely weird. he told me when i grew up people were going to use computers to show each other their dreams like we show each other vacation memories on the doors of our refrigerators. and that again, things were going to get exponentially weird. he was right about everything. the world did end in 2012. were somewhere new now
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Jensen Huang: “Do the kids need to read Huckleberry Finn? I mean, I don’t even know what city I live in.”
[the crowd goes wild]
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in some sense I feel like western civ kinda collapsed in 2008. the financial collapse was bad but the utter lack of accountability was worse. welfare for the billionaire class and austerity for the rest of us. everyone in my generation not working in tech had their economic prospects decimated. they’re not on twitter so who gives a fuck. media and political institutions failed to keep the pressure on or extract any meaningful concessions from the people responsible. it’s like that movie trope where the teenagers lose respect for their dad when they realise he has been cheating on mom. the mask came off, our elites were proven to be rotten to the core and for the past 18 years we’re just compounding more evidence that common people are powerless and being ethical is for suckers. the left should have been talking labour rights but they got nerdsniped by the pronoun wars. meanwhile we keep playing the shell game hoping these billionaire fucks save us with the everything computer, as if this new tech revolution is gunna turn out any better than the last one. the polite thing to do is to pretend we don’t notice. build a cute little life off the grid and practice your nervous system regulation. I keep wondering when will people get tired of being powerless but the end is not yet in sight. anyway rant over now I will return to being cheerful because what else are you gunna do. peace