AcidiclyBasicGlitch

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I'm like "Fuck the broligarchs, you can kiss my whole asshole If you 'on't like regulations you can press fast forward"

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed. Not sure how many children and innocent civilians you have to intentionally murder for absolutely no reason in 2025 to get charged with a war crime, but it must be a pretty high bar bc...

I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. This would have been the inverse of how a federal government is supposed to work. Rather than keeping individuals from being exploited at the state level, the exploiters are now at the federal level creating policy. They've had a plan in place since Trump's first term, and they don't want blue states interfering.

Governors of states are already looking to remove federal safety regulations to build small modular nuclear reactors in order to power these dumb fucking data centers they will likely be using to store very unethical surveillance data.

They are also planning to use AI to more efficiently build nuclear reactors. While removing federal oversight and safety regulations that have been in place for 50 years... What could possibly go wrong?

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

99 problems but this bitch ain't one.

 

Exclusive: Experts say use of heavy munition in Monday’s strike that killed dozens may constitute a war crime

The Israeli military used a 500lb (230kg) bomb – a powerful and indiscriminate weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area – when it attacked a target in a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza on Monday, evidence seen by the Guardian has revealed.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41460374

Lockheed Martin

Palantir

Volvo

•World Banks: BNP, Paribas, and Barclays

•Asset Management Firms: Pimco (owned by the German-based financial services company Allianz) and Vanguard

Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), (world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, increased its investment in Israeli companies by 32% since October 2023.)

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and for global corporations to be held accountable for “profiting from genocide” in Gaza.

A report by Francesca Albanese to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday points to the deep involvement of companies from around the world in supporting Israel during its 21-month onslaught in Gaza.

“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” the report says

While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and, now, genocide,” the report says.

The report says the Israeli military has benefited from “the largest ever defence procurement programme” for the F-35 fighter jet, made by Lockheed Martin with the involvement of more than 1,600 other manufacturers and eight states. It says Israel was the first to fly the warplane in “beast mode”, carrying 18,000lb of bombs at a time.

The US technology firm Palantir comes under particular criticism in the Albanese report for its close partnership with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), with which the company agreed a strategic partnership for Palantir to assist its “war-related missions”.

The Albanese report also criticises heavy equipment manufacturers such as Volvo for allegedly supplying heavy machinery used in mass demolitions of homes, mosques and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank.

“These companies have continued supplying the Israeli market despite abundant evidence of Israel’s criminal use of this machinery and repeated calls from human rights groups to sever ties,” Albanese says in the report. “Passive suppliers become deliberate contributors to a system of displacement.”

“Some of the world’s largest banks, including BNP Paribas and Barclays, stepped in to boost market confidence by underwriting these international and domestic treasury bonds, allowing Israel to contain the interest rate premium, despite a credit downgrade,” it says.

It names asset management firms including Pimco (owned by the German-based financial services company Allianz) and Vanguard as major buyers of Israeli treasury bonds.

The report also points to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, for having increased its investment in Israeli companies by 32% since October 2023.

On Monday, Norway’s biggest pension fund, KLP, announced it would no longer do business with two companies – the Oshkosh Corporation in the US and ThyssenKrupp in Germany – because they sell equipment to the Israeli military that could be being used in Gaza. Neither company is named in the UN report.

In her recommendations, Albanese calls for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel, and urges the international criminal court “and national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes”.

 

Lockheed Martin

Palantir

Volvo

•World Banks: BNP, Paribas, and Barclays

•Asset Management Firms: Pimco (owned by the German-based financial services company Allianz) and Vanguard

Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), (world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, increased its investment in Israeli companies by 32% since October 2023.)

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and for global corporations to be held accountable for “profiting from genocide” in Gaza.

A report by Francesca Albanese to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday points to the deep involvement of companies from around the world in supporting Israel during its 21-month onslaught in Gaza.

“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” the report says

While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and, now, genocide,” the report says.

The report says the Israeli military has benefited from “the largest ever defence procurement programme” for the F-35 fighter jet, made by Lockheed Martin with the involvement of more than 1,600 other manufacturers and eight states. It says Israel was the first to fly the warplane in “beast mode”, carrying 18,000lb of bombs at a time.

The US technology firm Palantir comes under particular criticism in the Albanese report for its close partnership with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), with which the company agreed a strategic partnership for Palantir to assist its “war-related missions”.

The Albanese report also criticises heavy equipment manufacturers such as Volvo for allegedly supplying heavy machinery used in mass demolitions of homes, mosques and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank.

“These companies have continued supplying the Israeli market despite abundant evidence of Israel’s criminal use of this machinery and repeated calls from human rights groups to sever ties,” Albanese says in the report. “Passive suppliers become deliberate contributors to a system of displacement.”

“Some of the world’s largest banks, including BNP Paribas and Barclays, stepped in to boost market confidence by underwriting these international and domestic treasury bonds, allowing Israel to contain the interest rate premium, despite a credit downgrade,” it says.

It names asset management firms including Pimco (owned by the German-based financial services company Allianz) and Vanguard as major buyers of Israeli treasury bonds.

The report also points to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, for having increased its investment in Israeli companies by 32% since October 2023.

On Monday, Norway’s biggest pension fund, KLP, announced it would no longer do business with two companies – the Oshkosh Corporation in the US and ThyssenKrupp in Germany – because they sell equipment to the Israeli military that could be being used in Gaza. Neither company is named in the UN report.

In her recommendations, Albanese calls for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel, and urges the international criminal court “and national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes”.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bruh you (Bush, not OP) are to blame for a big ole chunk of the authoritarian powers this man has.

They had to create an entire office of civil rights and liberties dedicated to DHS just because of the patriot act. Now we still have all the government overreach allowed by the patriot act, and a president who decided if a civil rights office gets in the way of his violating civil rights, he would just shut it down.

I posted an article earlier about how it apparently really hurt his chances in the election thats scheduled next April but it got removed.

Not sure if somebody is just reporting them, but it was the second article related to Hungary and the Pride march that wasn't a repost but still got removed for some reason.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's more like laughing hysterically because the person trying to bury you alive accidentally got himself trapped in the coffin with you.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Today sucks for so many reasons, but this put a smile on my face. This lost 99-1!! 🤣🤣🤣

Who? Man nobody has heard of desperate for warmth of spotlight.

Didnt they have the same reaction when somebody ate a cheese steak with a knife and fork? The things they fixate on...

Maybe if we keep squawking about a bunch of dumb shit, nobody will notice how many rural Americans are about to be fucked 6 ways from Sunday by this big beautiful bill. Then we can spin it as this guy eating with his hands made you lose your healthcare.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41274094

NOTE: The City Council’s criminal-justice committee is slated to discuss surveillance cameras at 10 a.m. today (Monday).

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is spying on you and lying about it. On May 29th, 2025, the Washington Post revealed NOPD’s secret collaboration with Project NOLA to use banned Chinese facial recognition cameras all over New Orleans to spy on you. There are more than 5,000 cameras across NOLA. All of them are run by Project NOLA executive director Bryan Lagarde, a former NOPD cop.

I had no idea they were meeting about this today in one hour! I even checked the meeting agenda last night, and didn't see anything related to surveillance.

I was prepared for the meeting on July 10th, and once again, I only found out about this bc I went out of my way looking for any mention of this.

Zero information from City officials or any mainstream local news. Only one mention from a small independent publisher that has been tracking this bullshit since the Palantir scandal of 2018.

I am getting so sick of this evasive bullshit!

Anyone that happens to see this, please watch the live stream at 10 am if you can:

https://cityofno.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=185

If it doesn't work on mobile, it should work on desktop. If they do that pre-meeting, meeting adjourned BS again, close out the window and re-open the Livestream.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41274094

NOTE: The City Council’s criminal-justice committee is slated to discuss surveillance cameras at 10 a.m. today (Monday).

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is spying on you and lying about it. On May 29th, 2025, the Washington Post revealed NOPD’s secret collaboration with Project NOLA to use banned Chinese facial recognition cameras all over New Orleans to spy on you. There are more than 5,000 cameras across NOLA. All of them are run by Project NOLA executive director Bryan Lagarde, a former NOPD cop.

I had no idea they were meeting about this today in one hour! I even checked the meeting agenda last night, and didn't see anything related to surveillance.

I was prepared for the meeting on July 10th, and once again, I only found out about this bc I went out of my way looking for any mention of this.

Zero information from City officials or any mainstream local news. Only one mention from a small independent publisher that has been tracking this bullshit since the Palantir scandal of 2018.

I am getting so sick of this evasive bullshit!

Anyone that happens to see this, please watch the live stream at 10 am if you can:

https://cityofno.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=185

If it doesn't work on mobile, it should work on desktop. If they do that pre-meeting, meeting adjourned BS again, close out the window and re-open the Livestream.

I love Raymond Scott! Be sure to also bump all volumes of soothing sounds for babies

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Somebody drove through my neighborhood earlier today ~12pm with this song cranked to the absolute maximum volume. It caught my attention and I knew I had heard it before but couldn't remember the name.

Then (I'm assuming it was the same person) drove by playing it again at maximum volume like 20 mins ago. It sent me on a mission to remember it so I could listen to the full song. 10/10 earworm.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's only as intelligent as the people that control and regulate it.

Given all the documented instances of Facebook and other social media using subliminal emotional manipulation, I honestly wonder if the recent cases of AI chat induced psychosis are related to something similar.

Like we know they're meant to get you to continue using them, which is itself a bit of psychological manipulation. How far does it go? Could there also be things like using subliminal messaging/lighting? This stuff is all so new and poorly understood, but that usually doesn't stop these sacks of shit from moving full speed with implementing this kind of thing.

It could be that certain individuals have unknown vulnerabilities that make them more susceptible to psychosis due to whatever manipulations are used to make people keep using the product. Maybe they're doing some things to users that are harmful, but didn't seem problematic during testing?

Or equally as likely, they never even bothered to test it out, just started subliminally fucking with people's brains, and now people are going haywire because a bunch of unethical shit heads believe they are the chosen elite who know what must be done to ensure society is able to achieve greatness. It just so happens that "what must be done," also makes them a ton of money and harms people using their products.

It's so fucking absurd to watch the same people jamming unregulated AI and automation down our throats while simultaneously forcing traditionalism, and a legal system inspired by Catholic integralist belief on society.

If you criticize the lack of regulations in the wild west of technology policy, or even suggest just using a little bit of fucking caution, then you're trying to hold back progress.

However, all non-tech related policy should be based on ancient traditions and biblical text with arbitrary rules and restrictions that only make sense and benefit the people enforcing the law.

What a stupid and convoluted way to express you just don't like evidence based policy or using critical thinking skills, and instead prefer to just navigate life by relying on the basic signals from your lizard brain. Feels good so keep moving towards, feels bad so run away, or feels scary so attack!

Such is the reality of the chosen elite, steering us towards greatness.

What's really "funny" (in a we're all doomed sort of way) is that while writing this all out, I realized the "chosen elite" controlling tech and policy actually perfectly embody the current problem with AI and bias.

Rather than relying on intelligence to analyze a situation in the present, and create the best and most appropriate response based on the information and evidence before them, they default to a set of pre-concieved rules written thousands of years ago with zero context to the current reality/environment and the problem at hand.

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