AcidicBasicGlitch
@AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 day ago:
No it’s not clickbait, he really is a fucking moron.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 days ago:
I had the same visceral reaction reading the title of this post
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 days ago:
Oh fuck me! The standard of living has already taken such a giant nose dive during my lifetime. First it was corporations and now this shit? You have got to be fucking kidding me.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
He’s Trump’s science advisor, Peter Theil’s protege, and son in law of Brexit Secretary Sir David Davis. The best of the best.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Yeah it was a dumb thing to say, that’s the point
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Have you never seen a dystopian scifi movie? If this administration somehow attempted to time travel, you don’t think the world would look exactly like it does now?
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
I mean, if we are to go by Kratsios’ speech, it would appear they are just the first brave and innovative enough to take advantage of technology already existing but intentionally weighed down by regulations. This timeline being a result of their brave innovation makes a lot of sense.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Maybe in your house, but in the White House, I’m not so sure. Mr. Kratsios holds a political science degree (with a focus on Hellenic studies) and appears to have no hard science qualifications.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
No joke, he was actually Trump’s acting director of OSTP during his first administration. During that time, people were critical of him because he lacked any qualifying experience in science.
Democratic members of the House actually wrote a letter begging Trump to pick a real science advisor to avoid a potential disaster. Trump eventually picked a meteorologist as his official science advisor several months later. If not for Anthony Fauci’s meddling, those two would have been solely responsible for handling the COVID pandemic under Trump.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Just to be clear, the point is that Kratsios seemed to be making a sciencebro sales pitch about U.S. innovation under Trump, but given how delusional and unethical this administration has already been when it comes to making a name for U.S. tech supremacy, people took it seriously.
Wasn’t expecting such a weirdly strong reaction to pointing this out, but yikes.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
You just gave me a mental image of the dumbest BTFII reboot.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Nope. But given our elite technologist leaders often have some dangerous ideas about innovation and “improvements to society,” that don’t quite align with reality, I can’t say I blame people for worrying they might actually try.
- Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wildingin.mashable.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
I would make an inappropriate Ted Kaczynski joke if I didn’t know everything we do is being constantly monitored at all times by a bunch of turds with zero sense of humor.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
I’m just wondering how Trump squares an explanation for this with the fact that we’re in a technology war with China. Why would we make ourselves more vulnerable to them?
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
They’re doing so much of this shit quietly, but when you start to put each piece together it should be frightening to anyone that doesn’t believe Russia is our BFF.
In late Feb, just after the whole Zelenskyy White House visit, Hegseth issued an order to Cyber Command to halt all planning against Russia including cybersecurity offensive strategies.
He gave the order to Commander Timothy Haugh, who is also head of the National Security Agency. Haugh told the outgoing director of operations, and cyber command begun putting together an official document of why this is a very bad idea.
I missed this completely until yesterday, but it turns out that Haugh and his NSA deputy were both suddenly ousted from their positions less than 2 weeks ago.
No reason was given they were just told “your services are no longer required.” Apparently Laura Loomer requested Trump have them removed and made some vague accusations against them bc they had been installed under Biden.
I admit I hadn’t heard of CVE program before today. Since we are BFFs now and Russia is “totally not a threat” to the U.S., I guess it’s supposed to be ok because friends share everything. But wouldn’t this also make us incredibly more vulnerable to China and any other country?
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- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, seeing this sudden shift to openness talking about this when knowing how controlled the narrative is even here, makes me think this might be part of the narrative they’re now trying to push.
I could definitely be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this brought up here a few times and even last night there was an AskReddit about what Americans would feel is the final straw to have Trump removed from power.
I actually was talking about this in a post a few days ago. JD Vance suddenly succeeding Trump as president, would not fix anything, and it would likely make things much worse
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s snarky. I agree with you, but also because I really have no faith in elected representatives doing what they’re supposed to.
Specifically, this election and the Senate confirmation hearings are what make me say I wish we could have more say in cabinet positions.
I’m in Louisiana and one of my senators was literally the deciding vote for RFK’s fitness. It sounds naive now but I actually had faith he would do the right thing. Even though he’s a Republican, he’s also a doctor. He’s spoken out in the past about supporting vaccines and stood up to Republicans on the issue.
I watched the hearings and heard RFK say things I know my senator disagrees with. Many people in Louisiana, including myself, wrote him an email saying we were glad to have someone like him in the position to make such an important decision. Yet, he decided to fall in line with his party even though he had every reason not to.
Since we can’t trust elected officials to be the safeguard they’re supposed to be, I think we should have more say in who actually gets selected for cabinet positions.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to let a president pick his cabinet. I feel like allowing people to select at least a list of candidates for the president to select a cabinet member from would be an ok compromise.
If this country actually survives this apocalyptic BS which is a giant fucking question mark, whoever the next president is, will need to be willing to actually fight for this country without giving a fuck about re-election or pleasing donors.
I don’t know if the answer is to pack the court or to just pressure the shit out of the judges to do the right thing, but we all should have revolted when citizens United happened. I don’t think anyone really understood a group of billionaires that have been thirsting for power for decades could take advantage the way they have, but that’s on us and now we are definitely paying the consequences.
If they can overturn Roe V. Wade when so many Americans were actually against the decision, they can overturn citizens United, and we should be raising hell until they do.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s most people’s view, but if you honestly think it stops with control of the U.S. you’re in for a surprise. The only way to stop this is through uniting against oligarchy.
The Heritage Foundation has affiliates established in all 50 states and world wide. They’ve been planning this shit for decades. Similar to how everyone knows Putin would never stop with Ukraine, he will take and take until he has control of all of Europe and eventually global control if he has his way. These people will never be satisfied with control of the U.S., their ultimate goal is global domination.
Idk if you’ve heard of Deloitte and all the shady shit tied to their “consulting group” and the CIA/FBI? This administration is trying to get rid of them, but not to “drain any swamps.” It’s to replace them with their own group.
Not sure what country you’re in, but word of advice, be on the lookout for Guidehouse consulting. These fuckers are everywhere, and trying to offer their consulting services to all levels of government. I literally just learned while typing this, that despite the fact the economy is in the toilet, on top of the billions in contracts the U.S. govt already has, the department of defense announced yet another [multi million dollar contract with Guidehouse yesterday](Guidehouse Lands $250M Army Contract for Financial Support Services). Wonder what that’s all about?
Today me, tomorrow you.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
It definitely would be nice to have more voter involvement in VP and cabinet picks.
I feel like even if people couldn’t be motivated to vote against Trump in the election, it would have been a lot easier to unify people to vote against someone like RFK Jr. for health secretary.
If we can never have any choice other than a 2 party system of Republican and Democrat, maybe we could at least start having something like a mixed cabinet, so that the policies and mandates being created are more representative of different ideas on different issues instead of any single ideology.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
I agree we need more checks and balances to power grabs, but the people in charge want less bc they claim it only prevents them from doing what needs to be done to help Americans.
“Your life would be so much better off if we could just cut through all this red tape. It’s not the tariffs that are destroying the economy, it’s the regulations that are keeping change from happening.”
Soon it will be “You’re starving and your children are dying, because of red tape. These judges blocking my orders are screwing everything up. If you want things to get better, we must remove the corrupt judges that are hindering progress.”
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
If he needed to be elected, I agree 100%. But since he’s VP, he assumes the presidency if Trump is no longer president. His lack of charisma doesn’t really stop him from doing anything.
A few months ago when he was arguing that judges shouldn’t be able to interfere with the president’s executive power, he was arguing what right wing Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule has been arguing for a long time.
Vance and Vermeule believe that the constitution should be interpreted to enforce law and order rather than to protect liberty. Vermeule has written extensively about the legal architect of the Nazi agenda, Carl Schmitt. Schmitt used legal means to grant Hitler unchecked executive power. He argued that it is the job of the leader to protect the law, and because of this. Führerprinzip essentially allowed the German constitution to remain in name only and placed Hitler’s will above all written law. So, because it was Hitler’s will, when he began proposing genocide as necessary for the good of Germany, there were no legal means to stop him from carrying it out.
This is why Vance argues against federal judges. It’s not that he doesn’t understand checks and balances, it’s that he wants to destroy them. He wants an Americanized Führerprinzip, that will allow the executive power legal authority over all written law.
He hopes that if he normalizes that idea and pushes it enough, eventually others will accept it as common knowledge. Vermeule and supreme court justice Alito are also Catholic integralists, and believe that medieval inspired Catholic faith should be the basis of public law. Alito flew a flag in support of the Jan 6 insurrection attempt. His judicial decisions and most of the right leaning members of the SC almost always side with Trump. He would definitely sell this country and argue the constitution allows for something like American Führerprinzip if it also meant Catholic integralism would be adopted by those in power. There are also several powerful Catholic integralists involved in the Heritage Foundation and project 2025.
I really think Vance converted to Catholicism so recently bc he knew that it would make him more attractive to the Catholic integralists. It seems like Peter Theil may have been the main reason he did.
Sorry to ramble, but the T.L.D.R. if you want to see the scariest aspects of project 2025 come true (like the IRL handmaid’s tale) without any legal means to stop them from happening, then Vance is your man to get the job done.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
I’ll say, it wouldn’t fix anything. Vance is way more psychotic and calculated. He’s actually waaaay more dangerous than Trump.
Vance combines the philosophy of a Nazi legal theory loving ivy league elites like Adrian Vermeule, with Curtis Yarvin, and Peter Theil. In a lot of ways I think Trump buffoonery keeps people distracted from a lot of their evil shit, but I also honestly feel like Trump’s ego demanding he always be the focus of attention, is acting as a chaotic buffer to keep their plans from working out as smoothly as they would like. I think Musk was even probably more of a distraction than we realized, and the only reason he’s becoming less involved is because Kratsios is able to do just as much awful shit that nobody wantsbut look normal by comparison to the chainsaw wielding maniac that was proudly getting like 7 hours of sleep a week. I’m honestly not sure if Theil set him up once again like he did with PayPal. Or did Musk know he was just the face of that would take the blame for holding the country hostage while robbing us of money that will now be sunk into an absurd number of AI projects with Thiel’s protege at the helm as Science Advisor?
I wish we could just get the entire dishonest administration removed from office, but we can’t even get most members of the House and Senate to acknowledge they’re actively trying to destroy the United States because they seriously believe their loyalty will be rewarded. Bc the fuckers that plan to replace everything with shitty AI would definitely never be able to replace them.
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- Something about calling health insurance companies "payers" when discussing "Payer/Provider Strategy Architecture" really gives me the icktoad.social ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 0 comments
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- Have you heard of Guidehouse Consulting? You should check to see if they're up to any shady shit in your neck of the woods.toad.social ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Guidehouse Consulting Partnered with Homeland Security Investigations for Data-Driven Solutions 2 days into the new Trump Administration 3 weeks ago:
The consulting company that Louisiana Governor’s DOGE taskforce met with in secret back in late Jan/early Feb has an 8 year contract with the FBI and has been partnered with Homeland Security since Jan 22nd, 2025.
nola.com/…/article_920e929c-e32e-11ef-915a-dbb1b1…
- Guidehouse Consulting Partnered with Homeland Security Investigations for Data-Driven Solutions 2 days into the new Trump Administrationwww.theconsultingreport.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 1 comment