30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

I suspect these are mostly about realising the authoritarian dream of a panopticon and AI is the cover story.

Yep! It’s called primary endosymbosis and it’s one of the coolest things around! (I think.) The endpoint of a process where two parts of symbiotic relationship morph into an organ in an organism.

The first case of primary endosymbosis resulted in the mitochondria and thus all multicellar life. That’s pretty cool.

Another time created the chloroplast and thus all plantlife. Again, yay for primary endosymbiosis!

A few years ago scientists discovered that it happened really recently, resulting in an organism with a “nitroplast” for in house nitrogen fixing. So in the far distant future there could be an entirely novel branch of life, potentially as different from what we know as redwoods are from cats.

Mitochondria are so much more than that!

They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep.

I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.

I don’t think it’s correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.

What the american people want has almost no bearing on what the elites who control the american empire decide to do.

No major policy has matched public opinion since the end of the civil rights era. In gender, ethnicity and wealth, our representatives are not representative of us either.

It’s naive to think we live in a democracy.

I was gonna recommend Othan by Heilung, it sounds like casting a spell.

I don’t know that it’s wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an “all news is good news” approach to hype generation.

Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I’m skeptical.

The belief that that land is ours by right, promised to us by an angry man in the sky - aka zionism - is ideological fuel for the genocide we’ve been inflicting on the palestinian people.

If genocide is the problem, then zionism is a big part of the problem.

elected him

Someone doesn’t understand how our oligarchy’s electoral system works.

The little US person should be dressed in a fast food employee outfit or Revolutionary War era clothes, to fit with everyone else.

She’s depicted here with dark hair, she’s just wearing a yellow headdress.

There’s a great story in i think the pseudepigrapha, where child jesus is playing with his friends and gets upset and turns one of his friends into a pillar of salt and mary comes and yells at him to turn the kid back.

This this this. It’s basically impossible to get that rich without having endangered others.

That’s so weird! What’s terfy about green and lavender? And why have a three-part design when their whole deal is binary?

If i was designing a terf flag it would be blue and pink with a thin black line in between.

Don’t get me wrong, i hate transphobia and oppose the insecure morons who can’t cope with the diverse reality that is the human experience of gender. But i also hate bad flag design.

Being angry at normal people because the rich have the ability to buy elections is not productive.

After decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo, foreign interference, dark money and legalized bribery, US elections just do not reflect the will of our population. A famous princeton study showed that no major policy initiative has reflected public opinion since the civil rights era. It’s conclusion was that functionally we are an oligarchy and not a democracy.

The rich who run the show deserve the scorn and blaming anyone but them helps them.

Single gene can directly cause mental illness

🙄 Sure, i believe you clickbait headline.

Children with null variants were 87 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder and six times more likely to have an anxiety disorder by age 12, and around 12 times more likely to develop a mood disorder by age 11.

😮 Oh… well… fuck. Okay, that’s a lot.

And fully co-operating with ice means breaking countless laws.

So, logically, all NOPD are criminals!

North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don’t think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.

Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.