AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
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 Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 6 days ago:
Also, not sure if you’ve already read this, but I just stumbled across this book connecting the Michigan cases with the cases in my city, as well as cases involving operations in Chicago and California. Fucking wild.
I’m really glad I saw your comment bc otherwise I never would have really made the connection when Fox Island was mentioned.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
Democracy was literally the remedy for it and we’ve allowed democracy to be removed from the hands of the many in favour of the few.
Exactly, the entire point of having a government is supposed to be to protect society from these people.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.
You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?
Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
Why does it need to take decades though?
I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets to be paid to victims, the issue would be solved very quickly.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
It’s so fucking creepy. It’s not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.
At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?
- Comment on World Leaders Near Declaration on AI, Indian Government Says 1 week ago:
Attending the summit, Kratsios, the White House representative, addressed middle powers’ fears. “Real AI sovereignty means owning and using best-in-class technology for the benefit of your people,” he said. “Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations. America wants to help.”
“America is the only AI superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of meaningful AI sovereignty,” he went on. “American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk. They build it; it’s yours.”
… Are you fucking kidding me. America wants to help? America is being held hostage by these shitbag oligarchs. It needs help.
Also, American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk?
Who TF are you kidding with this bullshit. Nobody paying attention to any of the bullshit DOGE did (that we know about so far) under the anti-regulatory administration you work for. Given you’re the big AI policy guy, and you paved the path for everything DOGE did during Trump’s first administration, this is really your fault as much as it is Musk’s.
Government Data Breach Sparks Fears Millions May Need New Social Security Numbers
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 week ago:
Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.
I made my character a giant, and I’m pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 week ago:
I feel like he would just buy his luxury in prison like Pablo Escobar.
I think the worst punishment for people like Thiel and Musk would be to have their assets seized and any future wages garnished to be paid to the victims of their crimes, while they’re forced to attempt to survive in the society they’ve helped create.
The consequences they face will serve as an example and deterrent for others like them and one of two things would happen. Billionaires suddenly experience empathy/gain a conscience and conditions improve for all of society, or, billionaires continue to maintain the conditions they’ve created while one by one falling victim to their own creations. Most likely they check themselves out very quickly rather than attempt to survive the nightmare they had no problems inflicting on others. Either way equals a net gain for society.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 week ago:
I could use an extra $2500.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 week ago:
Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we’ve all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 1 week ago:
Here is something you can’t understand No consequences when I, kill a man
Yo, probably nothing to see in the Epstein file My pendejos know Donny can’t be a pedophile DHS army of pigs coming to kidnap your child They’ll try to put you in a box, feddy fascist style Lights on, corporate radio
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
You can bet it doesn’t need to be rebuilt because it never stopped and Epstein was just part of an international ring that involved people from all kinds of positions of authority. In my city alone there were law enforcement , boy scout leaders, and Catholic priests all enabling each other and helping to cover up their crimes while flying people in from all over the world to do this fucked up shit.
Thats one city. Imagine that kind of fucked up shit has been happening all over the world for decades or maybe even centuries. No way in hell it ever stopped because Epstein was indisposed.
You know that plot in the original true detective about the Louisiana pedophile murder ring? It turns out that was almost certainly based on real stories.](www.neworleansunsolved.com)
- Comment on BASED? 2 weeks ago:
TLDR: Because I added citations after the TLDR at the end of the unedited post and included the word Edit: to indicate it was added afterwards
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
Good point, i’m pretty sure it was assuming slab foundation. I kinda remember it being specific to ranch style homes in a part of the country where the land was completely flat
- Comment on BASED? 2 weeks ago:
I agree it’s hard to know what’s part of divide and conquer political psyops and whether that was the intention or not of the person that created it.
I personally scrolled by this and read it as a debate about feminism in its most basic sense (equality for all) vs traditionalism and patriarchy (heirarchy based control). Not as an attack on men or meaning to exclude anyone who doesn’t fall into the heteronormative categories which exist as a consequence of the heirarchies demanded by traditionalism and patriarchy.
Like the propaganda behind conservative traditionalism has always relied on convincing people of the idea that all of modern society’s problems are simply due to moving further away from the traditional values of the past. It’s somewhat circular logic that offers easy and appealing solutions to those being targeted, while relying on supporters to either remain unaware of or intentionally ignore some of the very obvious problems caused by the conservative heirarchies the traditionalist movement hopes to preserve and strengthen.
For example, addressing the declining standard of living with each successive generation, lack of affordable housing, affordable education, and job opportunities in the United States. Traditional conservativism often targets young men by offering them easy solutions to these issues by claiming they were caused by the feminist and civil rights movements moving American society away from the traditional values (heirarchies) that were already in place. DEI practices that arose from those movements mean that the resources previously available for young men to build the American dream, are now unavailable because they’re being handed to women and minorities while young men have been forgotten. Essentially, these movements have upset the natural order of things, and until that order is restored, there will be no way to fix the problems.
It’s true that opportunity, housing, affordability, and standard of living have all noticably declined in the U.S over the last 50 years. The argument that the lack of available resources in the U.S. in 2026 is due to the most salient social movements of the 60’s and 70’s is an easy conclusion to make, but it requires you to ignore what was simultaneously happening in the background of those movements.
While blaming equality movements and toppling of established heirarchies, it ignores the fact that since the 1970’s wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the 1%. It ignores the fact that the 70’s also marks the establishment of the first conservative think tanks (Heritage Foundation), which were funded by billionaires, and created in direct response to the civil rights movement, in order to establish influence and promote conservative economic and social policies.
Tldr: To restore and preserve the conservative natural order and heirarchy, the policies promoted are always backed by traditional values that require division by default.
The traditionalist movement argues a woman’s place is in the home, supported by a hardworking man. While equality based movements would argue a woman’s place, (like any autonomous human being, regardless of class or identity male, female, cis, trans, NB), is wherever they want it to be, whether that’s at home, working, single, married, straight, queer etc. The entire point is there are no pre established roles set out for her or anybody else. Opportunities and resources are available to everyone, rather than kept locked away under the control of a small but heavily insulated and protected 1%, who then decide how to divide up whatever resources they’re willing to allow the other 99% to share.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
I feel like I remember somebody saying they tend to cause flooding or water damage? Like I guess the foundation can separate and water seeps in? I could be completely misremembering that though.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
I can definitely see why people dislike the colors but there’s something about the 70s (I prefer to think of it as avocado) green paired with wooden mid century mod decor
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
“AI will replace a humanities degree, so don’t bother going to college,” says billionaire who went to college. “I need you to use your hands to build batteries for my shitty AI that doesn’t work.”
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Venture Capitalists Are Using Profits From Genocide to Fund AI-Powered Weapons 3 weeks ago:
It’s behind spent on Military AI not just AI
And it’s not just going into Palantir it’s going into every Palantir wannabe startup, and they’re making claims to advertise their product that sound like some jackass at DHS is responsible for making up bullshit tailored to the individual startup
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 4 weeks ago:
Yes! It is so sad this seems like such a bold move, but we’ve just become so fucking conditioned to bullshit politicians gaslighting us about why everybody else is just going to have to go without in order to keep giving handouts to the most entitled and useless pieces of crap just because they’re already wealthy.
Why? Allegedly because they generate more money… But do they really? Have they ever?
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 4 weeks ago:
It feels ridiculous I have to say this, but it feels so good to hear about a politician just immediately saying “oh yeah, we needed to figure out where to make cuts, and these shitty AI chat bots seemed like an obvious place to start.”
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 5 weeks ago:
Whatever makes you happy. It can be helpful to mix it up to with things that provide you a creative outlet, so if you like making music, then try to always set aside dedicated time to do that.
Learn to identify what the doom feels like. Take the time to write down how it feels so you recognize it when it starts to set in. How do you feel emotionally? Physically? How does it feel in the beginning vs once it’s really taken hold?
Write that down somewhere just for you. You can even just delete it once you write it down if you think you can remember it. It’s really just an exercise to help you identify it when it starts to happen. When you feel the doom setting in, consider that a signal from your body telling you to take a step back and take a little break. Give yourself a set amount of time to focus on that instead. If music isn’t helpful try video games for 10-20 mins, just be sure not to let it suck you in and become a new substitute that keeps you checked out.
If that’s not helpful, maybe try a new hobby out even if you’re not good at it. Mindfulness practices can even be something you think of like an exercise where you start with dedicating 1 minute then gradually increase to 5 minutes whenever your body is signaling it feels overwhelmed.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 5 weeks ago:
Allow yourself escapism and breaks where you get lost in the things you enjoy even if you feel guilty. It will keep you from burning out
- Comment on Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview 5 weeks ago:
And they will not ask for forgiveness. They will tell you that you should apologize for trying to stand in the way of their progress, while they send society back to the stone age.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 43 comments