Extreme prejudice

 He had found passion for acting, but not purpose in life.

That changed in the 1980s, Ford said, when he discovered the nonprofit Conservation International. As he continued starring in episodes of “Star Wars,” the “Indiana Jones” series, “Blade Runner” and more, he found his true purpose in activism on behalf of the environment.

“Humanity is a part of nature, not above it,” he continued, making a plea for environmental justice, social justice and protecting indigenous communities. “These communities have long understood that the trees, the mountain, water, soil are not commodities, they are relatives to be cherished.

“We can all play a role by embracing that wisdom in our day-to-day lives, by loving the planet, by honoring nature’s authority, her generosity, the bounty she affords us, the justice of her example,” he said. “Because the world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you is a real mess.”

“Find a place for yourself,” he continued. “Whatever talent or ambition you have, find some way to put it to work. Build something that didn’t exist yesterday. Stand up for someone who can’t stand up for themselves. Bring people together that weren’t talking before. That’s leadership. That’s what moves the needle.

“Your generation has far more power than you may realize. And if you harness that power, if you find your leadership, your issues, your voice, the world will not be able to ignore you.”

He ended with a few more inspiring final words: “This is your time. Own it. Enjoy every second of it. Because what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing that you haven’t fully lived it. Congratulations. Go change the world.”

Double Dutch

 A CNN split screen of Trump saying he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation and Vance claiming that Trump didn’t say that?  Thank you for your lack of attention to such matters.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Grand Old Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

The Che Guevara of Shonk

 He pushes for more state control of the economy.  loves KGB leaders like Xi Jinping and Kim Wrong Un and wears red a lot whereever he trails toilet paper junk bonds.

Class struggle anarchists must be ecstatic.

" You like me!  YOU REALLY LIKE ME! "

Its good he's dying and David Graeber is dead.  Saves us killing them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tomorrow

PDFile Potus inspects latest batch

 ⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Someone just opened a pop-up kiosk in NYC displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files.

Walk in. Read. See for yourself. 

https://blossom.primal.net/087a7350bf810b2c862a9bb55e2b30347bdec49123d04b0aeb9efe27ddb8f3e9.mp4

⚡️🇨🇳🇺🇸 NEW - Hordes of little Chinese kids jumping up and down, waving American and Chinese flags, greet Trump and Xi. 

https://24242.io/d8fda3269c721560fabf2b420d76f76f44033862a88ca587a2a59f1434b03cd7.mp4

Boobie brothers

 This one goes out to all the major league losers at Arseholes News

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKdeIj9MBs

May your God go with you

Transhuman Theorists gone wild

 " . . .They still don’t have solutions to the problems they are birthing but believe that their mere awareness will serve them well. As long as they are the masters of their choices, and as long as AI development doesn’t just become a competitive race, they can live in peace.

Hassabis’s belief differed from that of billionaire investor and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, who had first bet on an upstart called OpenAI in 2015 but later committed a billion-dollar fortune to DeepMind. Hoffman felt that multiple AI labs could separately gun for success, similar to a multiparty democracy in which, Mallaby writes, “this pluralism would be balanced by a shared commitment to bedrock values.” In the years since, Hoffman’s hunch has largely prevailed—but the “bedrock values” have frayed, not just in tech but also in the very democratic systems that inspired the analogy. That tension—between optimism and unease—finds a neat distillation in the words of transhuman theorist Ray Kurzweil, who captures the enduring reaction to superhuman intelligence in three beats: “Wow!, Uh-Oh, and What Other Choice Do We Have but to Move Forward?”

John Randolph (actor) - Wikipedia

NO CHOICE, RIGHT! 

Just being evil for decades

 " . . . 2014 for $650 million because he saw this as his best shot at developing AI at his pace, using their resources. At the time, Google’s venerable motto, “Don’t Be Evil,” was hanging in the balance but didn’t yet ring hollow. . ."

FROM

Maybe the World Will Muddle Through Somehow | Los Angeles Review of Books

On June 14, 2013, Facebook reported that the U.S. government had authorized the communication of "about these numbers in aggregate, and as a range." In a press release posted to its web site, the company reported, "For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests) – was between 9,000 and 10,000." The company further reported that the requests impacted "between 18,000 and 19,000" user accounts, a "tiny fraction of one percent" of more than 1.1 billion active user accounts.^[123]

That same day, Microsoft reported that for the same period, it received "between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 consumer accounts from U.S. governmental entities (including local, state and federal)" which impacted "a tiny fraction of Microsoft's global customer base."^[124]

Google issued a statement criticizing the requirement that data be reported in aggregated form, stating that lumping national security requests with criminal request data would be "a step backwards" from its previous, more detailed practices on its website's transparency report. The company said that it would continue to seek government permission to publish the number and extent of FISA requests.

PRISM - Wikipedia

"If these companies received an order under the FISA amendments act, they are forbidden by law from disclosing having received the order and disclosing any information about the order at all," Mark Rumold, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told ABC News

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