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[?]TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀 » 🌐
@TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com

@aral I just want to know when we can throw and in !

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    [?]Voting is Your POWER » 🌐
    @digyoursoul@universeodon.com

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    [?]Jack William Bell » 🌐
    @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com

    Why is it people who (rightly) tore a new asshole for his pie-in-the-sky Mars obsession are now celebrating him for his only slightly less unrealistic Moon plans?

    > Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth? Musk used to call the Moon ‘a distraction.’ Now he says is building a city there. theverge.com/science/880672/sp

    Does no one, even *inside the industry* have a clue just how complex, dangerous, and unbelievably expensive it would be to create a moon colony?

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      [?]Chuck Darwin » 🌐
      @cdarwin@c.im

      France summoned billionaire
      to a
      “voluntary interview”
      as authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X,
      the Paris public prosecutor’s office said.

      “A search is being conducted today at the French premises of the X platform,”
      the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

      The investigation was then broadened after additional reports criticised the AI chatbot Grok’s role in disseminating Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes on X,
      the prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.

      The social media platform, which has denied the allegations, also in July called the investigation “politically motivated”.

      In late January, the European Union hit X with an investigation over Grok’s generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors.

      newssummedup.com/summary/Franc

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        [?]Terry Hunter 🌈⭐✌🏼✌🏿✌🏻✌🏽 » 🌐
        @TerryHunter@universeodon.com

        🤔💭
        Hmm... I wonder why everyone refers to Trump and Republicans as Nazis and calls ICE the Gestapo???

          [?]TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀 » 🌐
          @TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com

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          [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
          @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

          this may be the first thing i've ever posted where i got significantly more engagement on the than on the hellsite. feels like the hellsite might be throttling discussion of the somewhat.

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            [?]Kevin LaRose,aka Grumpasaurus » 🌐
            @Thumper1964@mindly.social

            I’m wondering if there is an actual decent out there or are they all money-grubbing jerks? I’m kind of leaning toward the jerks. Taylor Swift and Dolly Parton could both be billionaires several times over, but they either give most of their money away or invest it in worthwhile causes. That’s being responsible, or in Biblical terms, good stewards. And then there’s who has said he actually aspires to be the world’s first trillionaire. Nice aspiration there, Elon, considering the only real way to make that happen is to squeeze everything he can out of the resources he has, including those who work for him. Yeah, I’d say he was a jerk.

              [?]TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀 » 🌐
              @TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com

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              [?]ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋 » 🌐
              @Lydie@tech.lgbt

              "Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"

              EDIT: unpaywalled: archive.ph/IJe1c

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                [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                @kkarhan@infosec.space

                Shitter, Musk, CSAM, Grok, AI [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                Seriously, how much must release till there's a literal arrest warrant for and his engineers and his businesses (not just "") are banned as ?

                youtube.com/watch?v=TEKYOPI6D_4

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                  [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
                  @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

                  uspol,socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                  xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

                  xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.


                  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -csam -safety -musk

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                    [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
                    @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

                    uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                    DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

                    Musk allies spin DOGE as having a

                    Archive: ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/jnndg
                    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -trump -musk -budget

                    A man with a black cap featuring the word DOGE is speaking with a visible bruise on his face.

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                      [?]Chuck Darwin » 🌐
                      @cdarwin@c.im

                      While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
                      it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.

                      In 2025,
                      💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
                      entered the lexicon,
                      a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
                      that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
                      as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inhuman.

                      The year ended with a Vanity Fair photographer capturing a close-up portrait of 28-year-old White House press secretary
                      that appears to show visible injection spots on her lips.

                      Billionaire ,
                      the self-proclaimed “First Buddy.” also invited the world to take a closer look at his sexual proclivities in 2025,
                      having installed himself in government to run the pseudo-agency Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while proclaiming he would destroy the
                      “woke mind virus.”

                      Musk wants everyone to think it’s progressives who are weird,
                      mostly because they accept trans people.

                      Instead, we learned that he has a fetish for impregnating women,
                      which he justifies with an even stranger claim to be single-handedly battling the imaginary threat of depopulation.

                      Musk frequently hits up strangers on X to ask if they’re interested in having his babies
                      — of which he has at least 14 already.

                      If they’re game or greedy enough to say yes, he reportedly tends to forgo the typical impregnation technique
                      — which most people cite as the most fun part of the process
                      — in favor of having a doctor do it for him with IVF.

                      Musk’s kink swept through MAGA.

                      🔥To hear movement leaders talk,
                      it’s a woman’s duty to be pregnant as often as possible,
                      ideally non-stop.

                      ” content that fetishized female submission and over-the-top fecundity was everywhere in right-wing bubbles in 2025.

                      When pop star Taylor Swift became engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce,
                      Charlie Kirk ranted that she needed to
                      “submit to her husband”
                      and “have lots of children.”

                      🔥MAGA media was also awash in disinformation painting birth control as dangerous and unnatural,
                      enabling the Trump administration to destroy millions of dollars worth of contraception,
                      rather than let poor women have it.

                      Nearly all women who have sex with men use contraception at least some of the time.

                      But in 2025, MAGA was infected with online ideologies like “
                      — short for “involuntary celibacy”
                      — and the “,”
                      a misogynist worldview that treats dating as a dominance battle between men and women,
                      instead of a shared activity.

                      It’s why Nick Fuentes professes pride at being a virgin.

                      The online right is flooded with sexually dysfunctional straight men
                      who argue that their romantic woes aren’t due to their own failures,
                      but because feminism has “ruined” women.

                      Bored, angry men are a lucrative audience, so it makes sense that the grifter-heavy right would churn out endless content appealing to the bruised egos of these malcontents.

                      But their dysfunction is seeping into politics in ways that are increasingly distorting and dangerous.

                      The phrase that cinched this bizarre, inverted worldview in 2025 was
                      .”

                      Technically, it was coined in late 2024 by Fox News’ Jesse Watters to describe Stephen Miller,
                      who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff.

                      But the term got new life in September when Miller’s wife Katie repeated the phrase on Fox News in a moment that was too confusing to be upsetting to anyone outside of the bizarre world of MAGA sexuality.

                      On some level, it seems they were trolling Stephen Miller,
                      who by conventional standards does not exactly exude sexual magnetism.

                      salon.com/2025/12/31/the-right

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                        [?]EVSHIFT » 🌐
                        @evshift@channels.im

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                        [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
                        @cryptadamist@universeodon.com

                        @m0xEE things are so bad on X (the everything app) that even buterin is calling out for manipulating the algorithm to push russian talking points

                        @VitalikButerin
The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged...

I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top.

It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism.

(I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe)

It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.

                        Alt...@VitalikButerin The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged... I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top. It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism. (I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe) It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.

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                          [?]John Pappas » 🌐
                          @RadicalKindness@mindly.social

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                          [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
                          @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

                          uspol,socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                          Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act

                          The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.


                          arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -checkmark -services-act -musk -ads

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                            [?]Anthony » 🌐
                            @abucci@buc.ci

                            Anyone concerned with the present dangers of deployment should listen to @emilymbender@dair-community.social and @alex@dair-community.social deconstruct Driving US Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States in their excellent podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/15280581-episode-34-senate-dot-roadmap-dot-final-dot-no-really-dot-docx-june-3-2024

                            "Automated Immiseration" is how I read, at a coarse level, what's being proposed. Austerity politics handed down by machines.

                            The endgame of austerity economics has historically been some variation of fascism. Clara Mattei's meticulously-researched book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism is a deep dive into how this has played out, especially after WWI. Mattei brings receipts: she has direct quotes indicating economists at the time knew full well what they were doing. The purpose of austerity measures, as spelled out explicitly by the people who invented them, is to discipline citizens and laborers--to keep them from getting any ideas about receiving too many benefits from government--and to re-affirm the position of capital holders at the top of the pecking order.

                            One comment I had about the "reskilling"/"upskiling" part of the conversation: I don't have the references on hand, but I believe it's been amply documented that "upskilling" almost never happens. It's a word that's thrown around as a salve, to reduce alarm about intended market destruction and job loss.

                            If upskilling were a serious part of this so-called roadmap, there'd be more specific plans for whose jobs will be displaced, which colleges and universities will educate these displaced folks, how that education will be funded, and which jobs are waiting for them on the other side. The upskilling plans, if serious, would be as detailed and spelled out as the AI/corporate plans are. If the upskilling plans were serious, the presidents of Ivy League and state universities, vocational institutions like coding bootcamps, and other educational institutions would have been present to share their insights and views, especially as regards the realism of re-training as many people as this roadmap and the rhetoric of boosters suggests might be displaced. It'd be wise to include high school educators as well, since such a significant shift in the workforce affects students in high school as well. I didn't read the backgrounds on all 150-ish participants in these Senate forums, but I didn't see or hear about a large contingent of educators among them. As it stands the roadmap document only vaguely refers to "legislation" that doesn't yet exist.

                            Frankly, I see little that sounds serious in this "roadmap" aside from the danger it represents. It reads like a whitepaper a corporate middle manager would pound out (using probably) in an afternoon. Emily and Alex referred to Chuck Schumer as "an fanboy", and I think that's what this document reflects. This is The Boring Company of government policy proposals.


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                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                              @abucci@buc.ci

                              Sorry. Your Car Will Never Drive You Around.

                              Brutal takedown of the bullsh&*# that is "self-driving cars": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

                              It's a long video but frankly you can get the gist of most of it by scanning over the chapter titles. "Hitting Fake Children". "Hitting Real Children". "FSD Expectations" is a long list of the various lies has told about "full self driving" Teslas. Also the "Openpilot" chapter has a picture of Elon Musk's face as a dartboard.

                              The endless hype and full-on lies of the self-driving-car con from roughly 2016 to 2020 resembles the about like going on right now. If you've been in this industry long enough and have been honest with yourself about it you've seen all this before. Until something significant changes we really ought to view anything coming out of the tech sector with deep suspicion (https://bucci.onl/notes/Another-AI-Hype-Cycle).