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"The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else." Reading by Tim Foley.

A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for "hateful" speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Pentagon plans to live-stream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, and my head is so very heavy, and everything is covered in the ashes of a burning planet. I found the corpse of a water spirit down by the creek where my parents live. She used to play with me when I was small. She was tangled in plastic and mail-order clothes, and someone had torn off her wings. She would have...

All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the guts in the middle of the day while we casually scrolled our phones, forcing us to run to the toilet to vomit up our lunch. Reading by Tim Foley.

No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. Everyone understands. Reading by Tim Foley.

Ever since the UK Green party's "Zionism is racism" motion we've been seeing this narrative circulating that Jews are somehow exempt from the basic human duty to oppose genocide and apartheid, just because support for Israel happens to be common among the Jewish community. Reading by Tim Foley.

On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining the ideology as "an ethnonationalist political project." Reading by Tim Foley.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"Stop. He’s a genocidal monster. That’s his only legacy. End of story." Reading by Tim Foley.

Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Pike committed a horrific violent crime as a young woman after a life of nightmarish abuse. She was physically and sexually abused by her mother's live-in boyfriend, was raped by a neighbor when she was eleven, and attempted suicide at the age of twelve. And now she is on a respirator in a hospital as doctors fight to save her life, presumably so that the state of Tennessee can try to kill her aga...

"When you’re talking about human interaction, which is what art is at its very nature, it absolutely does matter if there’s someone on the other end of it." Reading by Tim Foley.

It’s an absolutely specious claim that artificial superintelligence will benefit everyone. Humanity’s problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg. It’s like a serial killer telling us we can stop serial killing by making serial killers smarter. Reading by Tim Foley.

The bread was designed in a lab to be furiously addictive, and the circuses track your preferences to serve you up all your favorite performances. Empire psychosis keeps us in a constant state of distraction and escapism, always scrambling to avoid the here and now like we're trying to climb out of our own skins. Reading by Tim Foley.

Transhumanism. Space colonization. Virtual reality. ASI. Immortality. These are all visions which revolve around escape. Escaping from the human condition. Escaping from our planet. Escaping from reality. Running, running, running away in a mad scramble to get anywhere but here. Reading by Tim Foley.

Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if you don't think about it too hard. Reading by Tim Foley.

I strongly disagree with the idea that it's unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. Reading by Tim Foley.

The most obvious and imminent threat right now is not that artificial intelligence will outsmart us and escape our control, it’s that it is being fully controlled by humans who are stupid and evil. Reading by Tim Foley.

Some Words About This Whole Caitlin Johnstone Project by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Not everyone will remember it but there was a time when this was almost impossible to imagine." Reading by Tim Foley.

"This is a Trump-appointed US government official knowingly lying to the public so they will continue to support Israel’s US-backed abuses of the Palestinian people." Reading by Tim Foley.

As American rapper Macklemore becomes a frontline for renewed mainstream discourse about Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Israel apologists have been falling all over themselves to circulate the demonstrably false narrative that the artist has a history of antisemitic behavior. Reading by Tim Foley.

American oligarchs kicking an artist off a tour for supporting Palestine is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake these days. Reading by Tim Foley.

Awakening To The Truth On Every Level by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley