This 💯

I mean in his defense he literally was just an actor (for the most part). He was chosen to fill a role.

I don’t say that in defense of Reagan’s presidency, but if it wasn’t him, it literally would have been somebody else. I think we can see the same in Trump.

Oligarchs don’t name themselves king for a reason (with the exception of Bush Sr. and he failed to get reelected). His kid did slightly better, but almost his entire presidency was him just doing what his dad’s friends told him to do.

They also don’t like to pick people who might fall out of line. Like the fact that Milton Friedman called fucking Nixon a “socialist,” and the fact that the end of Nixon marked the beginning of Heritage Foundation, really says a lot.

They wanted total control, and to do that they needed to find somebody who could look into the camera and say his lines without giving it a second thought.

The Awakening (2026)

He’s melting them with his telekinesis

I have to say I’m a bit worried he’s banking on receiving unlimited access to an insane level of surveillance data to use in the the $50B digital prison he’s building in Louisiana

Jeff Landry’s Intelligence Chief is Spying on New Orleans with Project NOLA

Louisiana’s use of NDAs in AI data center push raises questions over transparency

Needs more data centers

The memo directs agencies to rebalance their portfolios toward foundational research, and prioritize physical science over life science.

I mean yeah, why not. Listening to Peter Thiel’s hand puppet has certainly made America great so far.

Who needs funding for life science research when we got parasites and diarrhea outbreaks? Every American a walking incubator at this point.

What about community data ecosystems, and community AI partnerships?

https://www.healthjustice.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2Flow-chart-Health-Justice-NEW-UPDATE-26-oct.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002965542500199X

Exactly, so why not demand ownership of our data?

When you look at data sovereignty in indigenous communities people are already establishing ways to do this.

What’s even more concerning than social networks, jobs, daily commutes, shopping habits, sexual preferences, political views etc. is health data. Not only is that extremely private, corporations recognize the monetary value is incredibly high.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/16/health-ai-electronic-health-records-hipaa-deidentified-data-market/

Artificial intelligence models are ever-hungry black boxes that need boatloads of bits and bytes from a wide stream of real-world data in order to produce insights about patients and their care. To satisfy this need, a trove of companies have popped up to buy patient data from hospitals and sell it to those wanting to train AI or do research.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321525001775

In today’s digital era, data has evolved into an invaluable asset often described as the new oil making its governance especially consequential for Indigenous communities. Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) affirms the rights of Indigenous peoples to govern, control, access, and benefit from data that derive from their peoples, lands, and knowledge systems (Carroll et al., 2020). This principle has direct implications for population health because data governance influences how priorities are defined, how prevention and care strategies are implemented, and how health outcomes are assessed across communities (Rhodes et al., 2023). A long history of exclusion from decisions about data collection and use has produced exploitation, misrepresentation, and persistent mistrust in data-driven health initiatives (Fox, 2020; Mello and Wolf, 2010).

There are some models of data sovereignty where people are being given direct control of their health data, and it cannot be legally used for anything without their permission. Even if it’s granted permission to be used once for a certain piece of research, it’s then locked away again afterwards.

There’s also examples where people are paid directly/individually for allowing access to their data.

Imagine the value to be leveraged by people if all data (civic, digital, health) was locked away from corporations. And not sold, temporarily leased to whoever individuals or communities choose to lease if to.

I’m head over heels in love with the idea of communities taking back control of their data and using it to leverage power.

But I also think we should be thinking in terms of how do we achieve this before 2126 bc we need to establish and gain control before it can be used to train anymore shitty oligarchy controlled AI that keeps failing to perform in the real world.

Even if this is just step one of a marathon, it seems like something most cities should be aiming to catch up with sooner rather than later:

https://debeaumont.org/programs/made-for-health-justice/

About MADE for Health Justice Modernized Anti-racist Data Ecosystems (MADE) for Health Justice partners with communities who are creating, using, and governing civic data on their own terms to advance health equity and more just decision making.

I must confess to this not being in my wheelhouse at all. I just started reading about the. esterday and I’m very interested in them as a people empowerment middle finger to the oligarchy

No idea how realistic this is but I find the idea of people eventually using these to achieve complete data sovereignty very interesting.

https://www.coalitioncommunitiescolor.org/ccc-news/2025/9/17/coming-soon-portlands-newest-digital-community-garden

I do appreciate hearing from people who actually understand what it’s saying though

Idk Trump is without a doubt the worst (so far) and doesn’t bother to even dress it up as anything else but when I read this:

New Gallup polling also finds that only 53% of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, the lowest reading in the trend dating back to 2001.

My first thought was “Ruh Roh…”

Every authoritarian overreach, breach of civil rights and liberties in the name of safety, invasion of privacy, and abuse of executive power, was made possible by the Patriot Act and the Bush administration’s response to 9/11.

The creation of ICE and homeland security (once again for our own safety).

Information control and the idea of a post truth society vs a reality based community that seems to be getting smaller and smaller by the year.

Propaganda and fear meant to box people into black and white thinking is an echo of McCarthyism but was most famously stated as “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.”

That frame of mind/tribalistic thinking was normalized in the 50s, signed into law in the early aughts, and the same day Charlie Kirk was assassinated and Trump signed NSPM-7, allowed the already overly vague and easily abused definition of terrorist/terrorism to be expanded to include political opposition and basically anybody for anything, because the king says so.

Not long after NSPM-7, the king and his administration began targeting fishing boats in Venezuela with drone strikes and breaking into homes in the United States without search warrants due to similar vague claims about threats of terrorism and safety. And even though they’ve mainly focused on immigrants so far, they’ve quietly continued to test the waters and see how far they can expand that definition by linking groups of protestors to gangs and possession and distribution of drugs to foreign drug cartels (while also literally making closed door deals with wealthy drug cartels and their families, bc they do whatever TF they want. Organized crime is still organized crime, but it’s legal for certain people).

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-orders-targeting-antifascism-aim-criminalize-opposition

https://www.newsweek.com/what-is-nspm-7-over-3000-nonprofits-sound-alarm-on-new-trump-directive-10807321

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-indictments

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/donald-trump-gao-report-shell-companies-money-laundering-drug-cartels/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/left-wing-extremist-groups

"Here’s what concerns me—Trump is saying, ‘I can define who’s a terrorist, and that means I can kill him.’ At the same time, we’re seeing executive orders defining whole parts of Democratic Party as domestic terrorists,” said Chakrabarti. “Here we’re seeing NSPM-7, which says any anti-American or anti-capitalist or anti-Christian speech, is extremist speech.”

While claiming to protect the US from drug traffickers, he added, the administration has created “a task force of 4,000 agents who are being taken off of drug trafficking and human trafficking, and the actual crime, and being put on prosecuting those people who are saying anti-capitalist things.”

“Do you think that’s okay?” he asked the other panelists. “Can you put two and two together about what’s going on here?”

They really ramped things up with Renee Good and seemed to back down a bit after Alex Pretti, but they’re definitely not done. People should not be letting their guard down, because without a doubt they’re going to get more brazen just before and especially after the midterms, and as the king keeps reminding us, he wants to normalize the idea that there are no limits to his executive power. (And SCOTUS has continued to quietly ensure that’s true).

Tldr: I question if it’s really a coincidence Trump makes W.'s legacy look so much better by comparison, because W. and his administration enabled all of this. (And tbf to “both sides,” I do honestly feel that the Dems that came after W. in Congress and the White House deserve a middle finger for not making any real effort to undo any of it when they had the chance.)

Edit: Also, if you’re interested in understanding the legal path of exactly where we’re headed and why you should be very angry every time Trump or JD Vance slips in some bullshit normalizing the idea of unchecked executive authority (aside from the obvious), I recommend more people familiarize themselves with the legal theory of Common Good Constitutionalism.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/25141335

the constitution is not meant to uphold liberty, but to be interpreted by a modern authority in order to promote the greater good.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/4/common-good-constitutionalism/

When you want to be pumped to celebrate America’s 250th birthday but remember all the history you weren’t taught in school.

Officers were responding to a fucking shoplifting call.

promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.

I had heard of hitting your jaw with a hammer, which is definitely all kinds of batshit insane, but in addition to Looksmaxxingn in general and this whole sentence sounding very Epsteinesque, aren’t penis pumps alleged to be the cause behind his distinctive egg/lemon shaped dick deformity?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-victim-describes-his-extremely-deformed-fruit-shaped-penis/

For a better understanding of how Epstein used the internet and tech to target and undermine the education, mental health and well being of youth, (to clarify, this is in addition but not unrelated to his other criminal activity), I recommend the Behind the Bastards episode about Epstein and Activision:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-build-the-modern-world-323226341

Dude was strategically planning ways to use video games and social media to target America’s youth with the ultimate goal of creating a society of sexist, misinformed, uneducated, and insecure voters who would be willing to vote against their own interests and easier for the elites to control.

In many of the cases in the essay, chatbots responded to users with mystical language to suggest that users have heightened spiritual importance. The bots also implied that users were speaking with a cosmic being who was using the chatbot as a medium.

Idk, I feel like a true misanthrope would be able to read these 2 sentences and at the very least immediately swear off AI chat bots, if not move to a completely isolated cabin in the woods with no electricity or internet.

It’s like the broligarchy birthed a bastard child that’s just a composite of humanity’s worst qualities. All the traits they projected on to the masses as evidence to justify their antidemocratic savior complex bullshit. Impulsive/poor decision making, superstition, paranoia, narcissism.

They’re investors, not inventors, but they’re 100% convinced this bullshit is going to be man’s greatest and longest lasting contribution to existence, and that their names will go down in history as the technocratic leaders who changed the world… And their own delusions are probably being fueled by the same fucking chat bots, and sharing data between platforms in a never ending sycophantic circle jerk that’s spreading exponentially like the dumbest fucking virus to ever exist… I just… 🤦‍♀️

Tldr: These people don’t deserve the title of misanthrope.

Edit: I guess I should add the caveat that in the case destruction of humanity/civilization was always the actual goal of some 4-D misanthropic chess master behind the curtain, then bravo and hats off to them for being a real one, I guess?

I feel like there needs to be a more accurate name for whatever the phenomenon of AI fueled sycophantic delusion is. Because clearly it’s something, and more and more people seem to be noticing it.

It’s like the people who are closest to the person spiraling can see they’re watching a train headed towards a brick wall, and they can’t stop it. But the person experiencing the delusion is often still fairly high functioning, so other people who are a bit more removed from the situation tend to to be very dismissive of the comparison to psychosis.

At least until the poor decision making of the delusional person expands to their world, and everything starts going tits up for them too. Then suddenly they’re like “Gorsh, he just seemed so confident and he was wearing a suit, so I assumed he had his shit together. But now that he’s draining MY bank account, I think something might be wrong with his brain.”

Like what’s a better way to describe the high functioning level of AI fueled delusional? Where he hasn’t sold all of his assets and moved to the desert so he can fully devote himself to whatever breakthrough he believes he’s on the verge of discovering (yet), but somebody should really stop this guy before he does any more damage to himself or others?

Soft Psychosis?

In the 1980s, Gelernter made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system he and Nicholas Carriero designed (which he named for Linda Lovelace, the lead actress in the porn movie Deep Throat, mocking the naming of the programming language Ada in tribute to the scientist and first attributed computer programmer, Ada Lovelace).

Imagining the smug little chortle he must make every time he delivers that punchline…

Glycolic acid (AHA) is awesome for this kind of thing. You should be able to find a toner that contains it in the skin care aisle at most drug stores. Also get some Neosporin.

If you can’t find toner with glycolic acid try to find a face wash with that or salicylic acid if you can’t find glycolic.

Witchhazel might do in a pinch. Peroxide is better than nothing, but won’t work as well do deeply exfoliate.

It sounds like you might have damaged the nail bed under your fingernails. In the future avoid sticking anything under your fingernails bc the skin is very sensitive.

Step 1: Wash your hands really well with a wash cloth, soap, and warm water. Don’t go under the nail with the wash cloth, just use it to scrub around the outside well. (If you can in the future look into getting a softer scrub brush for your nails instead of sticking anything rough under it).

Step 2: If you can find the toner, soak a cotton boll with it so it’s saturated. Either let that sit on top of your nail or squeeze it with your nails so the nail kind of “digs” into the cotton, but again, don’t force anything solid under your fingernail. Keep it there for about 5 mins then let your finger air dry.

If you can only find the face wash, just gently rub it around your fingernails and let it sit there for a few mins then wash it off. (A nail brush works very well with the face wash, but even with the brush, following up with toner is even better bc it soaks in really deep).

Glycolic acid and salicylic acid are chemical exfoliants, so a lot of physical scrubbing isn’t really necessary.

Step 3: Apply a antibacterial ointment like Neosporin to the area. You also might want to pick up a cheap antifungal cream and try that with the Neosporin or after if the Neosporin doesn’t help.

You might need to repeat a few times, but if none of that seems to be helping or you notice a red line spreading from your nail up your hand and arm, go to an ER ASAP.

The only other thing I can think of is maybe applying a little bit of something like a clay mask under the edge of your nails and seeing if you can draw it out. If it’s oil this might actually want to be something you try after step 2.

https://aztecsecret.com/

AI will fight WWIII while causing the economic collapse and giving you really bad medical advice that creates the next and last pandemic. The final frontier. Just as God intended.