QuadDamage

Very interesting stuff.

Throwing a bone to a minority within his base, and even then some South African refugees have actually left the US recently.

Good post. There is also the cult factor with the current AI/LLM euphoria in where Silicon Valley is selling their ML tech as an omnipresent god and everyone must bow to its superintelligence.

The second level is about attacking the idea of solidarity and connection: Because “AI” will not replace you (again, “AI” cannot replace the absolute majority of workers!) “but someone using AI will”. This sets up kind of a Thunderdome in which we all have to fight against each other for scraps/jobs. This framing implies that you should not unionize and connect with your fellow workers but that you should see them as your enemies, as the people who will take your job and your ability to provide for your family. We know this dynamic, it’s exactly how the right presents migration as “attack”. It also normalizes violence again turning all of existence into an endless fight against one another (unless you are one of the few people in power of course).

This is the latest attempt at socially engineering a cattle pen, atomize everyone into only trusting chatbots and you have a very malleable population.

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Why not release them?

Theatrics.

Maybe MTG actually has some moral convictions that are leading to her breaking from the traditionalists on these issues

Other way around, she's breaking up with the NRX/dark enlightenment faction (the technologists) as the traditionalists don't want a surveillance state.

The goal seems to be oust Trump and replace him with JD Vance. I'll cheer this administration eating itself alive, but I will also call out this "maybe they're not so bad" complete horseshit narrative every time I see it.

This is absolutely what is happening, Trump is basically a figurehead who's beholden to a bunch of people unlike in 2016.

Really all what Trump needs to do is to keep the AI bubble afloat until next year, if it crashes before then his administration is toast.

They didn't, in their eyes all of this is "revenge" for for the 2020 riots and woke. That all being said, I do think the government is employing Strategy of Tension in order to make the masses screech for a surveillance state.

Agreed, it's a bit of shame because I like the idea of GNOME but the execution and project priorities are just terrible.

LXQT is also good for people who want a Qt based enviroment but don't like kwin.

*BSD is looking better and better.

Agreed in the long term, linux is becoming a mess imo.