JOHNSTONE

I keep thinking about a talk I listened to by Julian Assange back in 2017 where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media and information in ways that are too subtle for the human mind to notice. Reading by Tim Foley.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims that anyone who opposes Trump’s war with Iran is being blinded by Satan. Like, the actual, literal devil character from the Bible. Reading by Tim Foley.

The real source of power in our world is not money, nor resources, nor armies, nor weapons. The real source of power in our world is narrative, and the ability to control it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Now that the war in Iran is costing Israel support from American voters, they're trying to pretend they had nothing to do with that whole mess. Reading by Tim Foley.

"The Republicans didn't lose the midterms because Americans dislike war, they lost because the Iranians beat the shit out of them." Reading by Tim Foley.

The New York Times has published a story about a supposed Iranian plot to use chemical weapons which nobody actually believes. Reading by Tim Foley.

I never want to hear another American compare their media's malpractice to North Korean propaganda ever again. Westerners are more aggressively propagandized than any other population on earth. Reading by Tim Foley.

"There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force revolutionary change whenever we want." Reading by Tim Foley.

As CENTCOM meets with Trump to plan more Iran strikes, the war propaganda is dumber than it has ever been. Reading by Tim Foley.

The viral Red Baron Pizza worker and his $500,000 fundraiser is not a feel-good story, it’s a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. Reading by Tim Foley.

Australia's "antisemitism envoy" Jillian Segal has released a new report claiming that the primary threat to Jews in our country comes from left-wing pro-Palestine activists, which Segal hilariously labels "issue-motivated antisemitism". (Genocide. The "issue" is genocide.) Reading by Tim Foley.

We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if we want to. We are completely free to do that. Reading by Tim Foley.

That's how things work under capitalism. The law primarily exists not to protect people or the environment, but to protect the interests of capital. Reading by Tim Foley.

Reading by Tim Foley: There are Polymarket ads in fortune cookies. There are pop-ups in our prayers. There are paywalls on the monasteries, and the monks are millionaires. Well little Johnny’s gone to war. He joined the McMarines. The Iranians must be liberated and blown to smithereens. Light a candle in the chapel, John, and pray to Western God, and listen to the homily the preacher wrote with Cl...

A few months ago I said, "You're being told there's a dangerous explosion of Jew hatred to cover up the fact that there's actually a very healthy explosion of Israel hatred." The Bell review is here admitting that my assertion is correct. Reading by Tim Foley.

President Trump is telling the press that he is done negotiating with the Iranians and that something will be happening "fairly soon", while America's other president, Benjamin Netanyahu, proclaims that the time has come to topple Tehran once and for all. Reading by Tim Foley.

The review, led by Sir David Bell, mentions the word "political" or "geopolitical" no fewer than 125 times. It mentions the word "Israel" or "Israeli" 60 times and the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" 35 times. Reading by Tim Foley.

"I love this weird little community I get to interact with on a daily basis, sharing ideas, art and poetry about news, politics and spirituality with whomever happens to feel inspired by them." Reading by Tim Foley.

"In the opinion of Anthropic executives, it would be worth killing exactly 50 humans to roll out the next AI model, but anything more than 50 would be a tad excessive." Reading by Tim Foley.

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Asked about concerns over falling defense stocks on CNBC, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet replied, “Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it’s permanent.” Reading by Tim Foley.

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Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression. Reading by Tim Foley.

The trapper is patiently pacing us into accepting mass surveillance, unfettered artificial intelligence advancement, militarized robots, police drones, digital currencies, propaganda, censorship, and the AI-assisted manipulation of the flow of information. And then, when the time is right, the gate will come crashing down. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel is so evil that it’s actually illegal for Israelis to tell the truth about it. Benjamin Netanyahu has just ordered Israel’s military, its attorney general, and its security agency Shin Bet to investigate and prosecute the soldiers who anonymously shared their experiences in the Gaza Strip with the award-winning investigative documentary “NAZA”. Reading by Tim Foley.