{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":20,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter","displayName":"Steve's Place","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-original-tmp20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-96-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-48-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-24-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"182810"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/182810-96-20231008190146.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"ASCAP member. Once was in R&D at Apple & Compaq. One NASA launch. Designed stuff. Made things go. Made things stop. Collected data. Sysadmin. Musician. Lead guitarist. Songwriter. Oregonian again after many stops.Profile picture: Head of a man in a hazmat suit from an album.Header picture: Colors of Ukraine.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/@steter","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"steter","displayName":"Steve's Place","note":"ASCAP member. Once was in R&D at Apple & Compaq. One NASA launch. Designed stuff. Made things go. Made things stop. Collected data. Sysadmin. Musician. Lead guitarist. Songwriter. Oregonian again after many stops.Profile picture: Head of a man in a hazmat suit from an album.Header picture: Colors of Ukraine."}},"content":"RT @steter It's not JUST a racist thing, although of course it's very much a racist thing. It's a familiar story with #fascism<\/a><\/span>: they've pared down human imperatives to the smallest little cluster of fascist mores, chief among them the need to expand and fill the maximum possible space with the maximum number of fascists.U.S. "pro-natalism" is congruent with Italian fascism's "fecundita" and with the Third Reich's motherhood obsessions, a mainstay of their propaganda imagery just as babies are a propaganda weapon in U.S. #media.<\/a><\/span>(cont'd)","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.stevesworld.co\/users\/steter\/statuses\/116973494758854784\/activity","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973360468406441","objectType":"note","content":"

The one ambition that any of the techlords have that can be construed as aspirational is #space<\/a> but I've already gone into how grim is their notion of space colonization and resource-extraction. It slots right into their notion of eternal wars over space empires: the only possible way they can keep their war machine churning over the long haul is by pushing off Earth. <\/p>

They're getting extremely antsy about this and they must have a lot of dismal economic forecasts coming in from their pet intellectuals. The \"population crisis\" chatter hints at the problems they want solved double-quick.<\/p>

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Do you think #ElonMusk<\/a> respects \"the light of consciousness\"? or even plain ol' #life<\/a> itself? \"Humanity\" to him is a thin smear of techno-elitists (and their various masters).<\/p>

I was writing earlier about the great \"Western\" monomyth, their unifying story that explains why the Universe exists and what humans are supposed to do here. It's pertinent here because adherence to the monomyth is roughly equivalent to what the prevailing culture of the United States thinks of as being a good and civilized person. It's all the various tenets of Christofascist \"patriotism\" distilled into a single heroic fable whose nucleus is the Roman tale of Cincinnatus.<\/p>

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Do you think #ElonMusk<\/a> respects \"the light of consciousness\"? or even plain ol' #life<\/a> itself? \"Humanity\" to him is a thin smear of techno-elitists (and their various masters).<\/p>

I was writing earlier about the great \"Western\" monomyth, their unifying story that explains why the Universe exists and what humans are supposed to do here. It's pertinent here because adherence to the monomyth is roughly equivalent to what the prevailing culture of the United States thinks of as being a good and civilized person. It's all the various tenets of Christofascist \"patriotism\" distilled into a single heroic fable whose nucleus is the Roman tale of Cincinnatus.<\/p>

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One of the dirtiest of dirty secrets in the #tech<\/a> sector is a very simple one: the \"techno-optimism\" and the \"e\/acc\" and all the other ways of superficially honoring the notion that the technology corporations of the United States are guiding everyone into a future of abundance and high-tech miracles, the practical spirit of U.S. #technology<\/a> is profoundly conservative, hidebound, stagnant, and focused only on an exceedingly thin assortment of hot topics...basically whatever they perceive as the easiest ideas to monetize.<\/p>

All the burbling about #innovation<\/a> and #building<\/a> and all the rest of the optimistic noise is mostly noise. It's not clear the degree to which any of the people crowing about \"acceleration\" really have anything noble in mind, however abstract and tenuous.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973024314975982","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973024314975982","objectType":"note","content":"

One of the dirtiest of dirty secrets in the #tech<\/a> sector is a very simple one: the \"techno-optimism\" and the \"e\/acc\" and all the other ways of superficially honoring the notion that the technology corporations of the United States are guiding everyone into a future of abundance and high-tech miracles, the practical spirit of U.S. #technology<\/a> is profoundly conservative, hidebound, stagnant, and focused only on an exceedingly thin assortment of hot topics...basically whatever they perceive as the easiest ideas to monetize.<\/p>

All the burbling about #innovation<\/a> and #building<\/a> and all the rest of the optimistic noise is mostly noise. It's not clear the degree to which any of the people crowing about \"acceleration\" really have anything noble in mind, however abstract and tenuous.<\/p>

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The legend might even be true, properly historical, and I still roll my eyes at it. One could never possibly trust such a system to work properly more than once. Once you start lapsing into absolute dictatorship even a little, people get to wanting more of it. It becomes just as it's become in \"the West\" and especially in a United States boiling over with cultists of Christ the King: nobody can imagine any other way of doing anything.<\/p>

And it's such a rotten way to do things. The techlords demonstrate themselves. They are bad at shit, yet #tech<\/a> culture and U.S. #media<\/a> still treats these stumblebums like movie stars.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973065446405922","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973065446405922","objectType":"note","content":"

The legend might even be true, properly historical, and I still roll my eyes at it. One could never possibly trust such a system to work properly more than once. Once you start lapsing into absolute dictatorship even a little, people get to wanting more of it. It becomes just as it's become in \"the West\" and especially in a United States boiling over with cultists of Christ the King: nobody can imagine any other way of doing anything.<\/p>

And it's such a rotten way to do things. The techlords demonstrate themselves. They are bad at shit, yet #tech<\/a> culture and U.S. #media<\/a> still treats these stumblebums like movie stars.<\/p>

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Cincinnatus was a great inspiration to U.S. colonists and thus there's a city of Cincinnati and various orders and organizations consecrated to Cincinnatus. He was a legendary Roman farmer, esteemed from the Republic days, a great soldier who was called upon to save Rome from an invasion of some sort (or maybe just one of Rome's many many civil insurrections) so they drafted him as dictator<\/u>, whence he did the ideal thing that everyone mimics now: he took absolute power for six months (the statutory period) and then went back to his farm. <\/p>

What a hero. I'm doing the Charles Foster Kane clap here.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973056144575894","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973056144575894","objectType":"note","content":"

Cincinnatus was a great inspiration to U.S. colonists and thus there's a city of Cincinnati and various orders and organizations consecrated to Cincinnatus. He was a legendary Roman farmer, esteemed from the Republic days, a great soldier who was called upon to save Rome from an invasion of some sort (or maybe just one of Rome's many many civil insurrections) so they drafted him as dictator<\/u>, whence he did the ideal thing that everyone mimics now: he took absolute power for six months (the statutory period) and then went back to his farm. <\/p>

What a hero. I'm doing the Charles Foster Kane clap here.<\/p>

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I keep hectoring about this matter because without all that soppy gushy coverage of #Musk<\/a> from the earliest days of his quite suspiciously orchestrated publicity campaign, in which Elon was seeded not merely into tech and business journalism but widely through U.S. #entertainment<\/a> and even written into a #StarTrek<\/a> series (thus subtly projecting Elon Musk into the distant future), it's doubtful that Musk could have gotten very far.<\/p>

He was never good at anything. He was never actually good at anything, there's not a trace of evidence for Elon Musk's competence, yet merely because of all the publicity and because Maye Musk (probably) scammed Musk a ROYAL FELLOWSHIP of all things--like he was actually a real scientist or engineer and not a flim-flam man--everyone went along with it. @SciMag<\/a> and @arstechnica<\/a> etc. all went for it.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973116722068264","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973116722068264","objectType":"note","content":"

I keep hectoring about this matter because without all that soppy gushy coverage of #Musk<\/a> from the earliest days of his quite suspiciously orchestrated publicity campaign, in which Elon was seeded not merely into tech and business journalism but widely through U.S. #entertainment<\/a> and even written into a #StarTrek<\/a> series (thus subtly projecting Elon Musk into the distant future), it's doubtful that Musk could have gotten very far.<\/p>

He was never good at anything. He was never actually good at anything, there's not a trace of evidence for Elon Musk's competence, yet merely because of all the publicity and because Maye Musk (probably) scammed Musk a ROYAL FELLOWSHIP of all things--like he was actually a real scientist or engineer and not a flim-flam man--everyone went along with it. @SciMag<\/a> and @arstechnica<\/a> etc. all went for it.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973116722068264","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973091420153780","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973091420153780"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"entertainment"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"musk"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"startrek"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/arstechnica"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941699","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:39+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973116722068264"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

Think of the sheer staggering volume of total bullsh\u0131t about #ElonMusk<\/a> has poured out of @arstechnica<\/a> and @popsci<\/a> and @forbes<\/a> and a bazillion other #media<\/a> outlets and individual commentators and people with YouTube channels and podcasts. <\/p>

There's been a precious few granules of proper investigative #journalism<\/a> into Musk over the years, undertaken at great personal risk because Musk does not deal quietly with his problems and the people who vex him. <\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973091420153780","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973091420153780","objectType":"note","content":"

Think of the sheer staggering volume of total bullsh\u0131t about #ElonMusk<\/a> has poured out of @arstechnica<\/a> and @popsci<\/a> and @forbes<\/a> and a bazillion other #media<\/a> outlets and individual commentators and people with YouTube channels and podcasts. <\/p>

There's been a precious few granules of proper investigative #journalism<\/a> into Musk over the years, undertaken at great personal risk because Musk does not deal quietly with his problems and the people who vex him. <\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973091420153780","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973065446405922","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973065446405922"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"elonmusk"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"journalism"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"media"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/universeodon.com\/users\/popsci"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/arstechnica"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941698","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:39+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973091420153780"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

There were other signs of trouble, and in any case it SHOULD be a policy of U.S. #journalism<\/a> never to believe anything a business-person says in public because they're always selling something, and selling means lying. It's utterly infuriating and unsettling to me\u2014though I know the reasons for it, roughly\u2014that @arstechnica<\/a> etc. are blinkered or corrupt enough to take people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman at their words. <\/p>

These people aren't the future. They never were. It should have been incredibly obvious that they were scum, mere betrayers and exploiters of #science<\/a> and #technology<\/a>.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973139090605586","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973139090605586","objectType":"note","content":"

There were other signs of trouble, and in any case it SHOULD be a policy of U.S. #journalism<\/a> never to believe anything a business-person says in public because they're always selling something, and selling means lying. It's utterly infuriating and unsettling to me\u2014though I know the reasons for it, roughly\u2014that @arstechnica<\/a> etc. are blinkered or corrupt enough to take people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman at their words. <\/p>

These people aren't the future. They never were. It should have been incredibly obvious that they were scum, mere betrayers and exploiters of #science<\/a> and #technology<\/a>.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973139090605586","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973128884632201","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973128884632201"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"journalism"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"science"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"technology"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/arstechnica"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941701","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:38+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973139090605586"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

Now I'm going to be a bit charitable here.<\/p>

While I do think that it's a scandal there's no general understanding of the sciences in U.S. #media<\/a> and #journalism<\/a>\u2014and I'll go so far as to suspect that a number of top-level journalists are functionally illiterate, only able to communicate in slogans and jargon and simple charts\u2014it should not have been necessary for @arstechnica<\/a> or @newscientist<\/a> or @TheEconomist<\/a> or ANY big news outlet to be scientists in order to notice that Elon Musk wasn't what his marketing campaign said he was.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973128884632201","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973128884632201","objectType":"note","content":"

Now I'm going to be a bit charitable here.<\/p>

While I do think that it's a scandal there's no general understanding of the sciences in U.S. #media<\/a> and #journalism<\/a>\u2014and I'll go so far as to suspect that a number of top-level journalists are functionally illiterate, only able to communicate in slogans and jargon and simple charts\u2014it should not have been necessary for @arstechnica<\/a> or @newscientist<\/a> or @TheEconomist<\/a> or ANY big news outlet to be scientists in order to notice that Elon Musk wasn't what his marketing campaign said he was.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973128884632201","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973116722068264","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973116722068264"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"journalism"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"media"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/users\/newscientist"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/arstechnica"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941700","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:38+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973128884632201"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

The commentariat has become infested with people who have no other reason to be in #media<\/a> or #journalism<\/a> than social-climbing and seeking the proximity of men of influence (and the occasional woman), giving themselves freely over to corruption and nepotism and swapping bribes.<\/p>

People like Matt Yglesias and Jesse Singal and the other hyperpolitical journalists are always hoping they might luck into a plum role that really brings in the bucks and the access to power, like being a campaign advisor or a star role on #Substack<\/a> or something like that.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973178152659742","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973178152659742","objectType":"note","content":"

The commentariat has become infested with people who have no other reason to be in #media<\/a> or #journalism<\/a> than social-climbing and seeking the proximity of men of influence (and the occasional woman), giving themselves freely over to corruption and nepotism and swapping bribes.<\/p>

People like Matt Yglesias and Jesse Singal and the other hyperpolitical journalists are always hoping they might luck into a plum role that really brings in the bucks and the access to power, like being a campaign advisor or a star role on #Substack<\/a> or something like that.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973178152659742","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973166185606447","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973166185606447"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"journalism"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"media"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"substack"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941704","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973178152659742"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

That's what Elon Musk always deserved. He was patently a fraud, transparently a cheat and a fake, a person who was mainly good at nepotism and getting other people to cover for his blunders. But U.S. #media<\/a> and #journalism<\/a> and #politics<\/a> were all hot to pile onto the 100% fake synthetic Elon Musk bandwagon which must surely have been built chiefly at the behest of his mom, Maye Musk, who has always been quietly standing behind her difficult unpredictable son all these years, who connived with Walter Isaacson in writing Musk's official hagiography.<\/p>

How on Earth could all the journalists and reporters not noticed? There's many answers to that. Journalism has given up the better part of its lifeblood to capitalism, and it's hep to hate journalists again.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973166185606447","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973166185606447","objectType":"note","content":"

That's what Elon Musk always deserved. He was patently a fraud, transparently a cheat and a fake, a person who was mainly good at nepotism and getting other people to cover for his blunders. But U.S. #media<\/a> and #journalism<\/a> and #politics<\/a> were all hot to pile onto the 100% fake synthetic Elon Musk bandwagon which must surely have been built chiefly at the behest of his mom, Maye Musk, who has always been quietly standing behind her difficult unpredictable son all these years, who connived with Walter Isaacson in writing Musk's official hagiography.<\/p>

How on Earth could all the journalists and reporters not noticed? There's many answers to that. Journalism has given up the better part of its lifeblood to capitalism, and it's hep to hate journalists again.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973166185606447","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973151067884314","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973151067884314"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"journalism"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"media"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"politics"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941703","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973166185606447"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

And I assert that one of the biggest warning signs, something that should have raised far more questions than it did, was the degree to which these purported titans of #tech<\/a> were devoted solely to telling us what was NOT possible.<\/p>

From the first their premise to being prophets of infinite possibility has been openly fraudulent. #ElonMusk<\/a> actually got people to hating trains and public transport as general U.S. opinion. It was easy for him to defraud governments for his silly Hyperloop, and altogether too easy for Musk to escape what @SciAm<\/a> and @ArsTechnica<\/a> etc. should have been giving Elon Musk from the start: nonstop execration.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973151067884314","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973151067884314","objectType":"note","content":"

And I assert that one of the biggest warning signs, something that should have raised far more questions than it did, was the degree to which these purported titans of #tech<\/a> were devoted solely to telling us what was NOT possible.<\/p>

From the first their premise to being prophets of infinite possibility has been openly fraudulent. #ElonMusk<\/a> actually got people to hating trains and public transport as general U.S. opinion. It was easy for him to defraud governments for his silly Hyperloop, and altogether too easy for Musk to escape what @SciAm<\/a> and @ArsTechnica<\/a> etc. should have been giving Elon Musk from the start: nonstop execration.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973151067884314","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973139090605586","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973139090605586"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"elonmusk"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"tech"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941702","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973151067884314"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

This ties directly into the can't-do spirit, the incredibly bleak and straitened sense of priorities which the technology sector and #SiliconValley<\/a> have imposed on the United States. It's simply summed up: they've got their own vision of the Apocalypse and foresee a future of ever worsening war and cultural collapse until arriving at a stagnant state of space-faring tyranny like something out of Dune or #Warhammer40K<\/a>.<\/p>

The whole point of the \"acceleration\" is merely to go faster. The easiest way to go faster is to shed as much as possible. The technofascist future is one that furnishes only the very thinnest layer of social organization atop a self-governing war machine.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973202808392314","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973202808392314","objectType":"note","content":"

This ties directly into the can't-do spirit, the incredibly bleak and straitened sense of priorities which the technology sector and #SiliconValley<\/a> have imposed on the United States. It's simply summed up: they've got their own vision of the Apocalypse and foresee a future of ever worsening war and cultural collapse until arriving at a stagnant state of space-faring tyranny like something out of Dune or #Warhammer40K<\/a>.<\/p>

The whole point of the \"acceleration\" is merely to go faster. The easiest way to go faster is to shed as much as possible. The technofascist future is one that furnishes only the very thinnest layer of social organization atop a self-governing war machine.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973202808392314","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973191034672905","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973191034672905"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"siliconvalley"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"warhammer40kthe"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941706","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973202808392314"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

#Technology<\/a> journalism must be hyperbolically corrupt, because the fatal mixture of obsession with money and obsession with the supposedly magical powers of #tech<\/a> is incredibly corrosive to ethics, like mixing nitric and hydrochloric acids in order to get a mixed acid (aqua regia<\/u>, the queen of aqueous acids) capable of dissolving just about anything.<\/p>

There's truth in what William Gibson (q.v. @GreatDismal<\/a>) said about the super-rich no longer being remotely human. Quite other forces are at work, which I propose to analyse here.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973191034672905","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973191034672905","objectType":"note","content":"

#Technology<\/a> journalism must be hyperbolically corrupt, because the fatal mixture of obsession with money and obsession with the supposedly magical powers of #tech<\/a> is incredibly corrosive to ethics, like mixing nitric and hydrochloric acids in order to get a mixed acid (aqua regia<\/u>, the queen of aqueous acids) capable of dissolving just about anything.<\/p>

There's truth in what William Gibson (q.v. @GreatDismal<\/a>) said about the super-rich no longer being remotely human. Quite other forces are at work, which I propose to analyse here.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973191034672905","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973178152659742","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973178152659742"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"tech"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"technology"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/GreatDismal"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941705","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973191034672905"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

It's all the familiar stuff: Evil will always worsen, Good will always feel more and more outnumbered, populations will dwindle and leadership will contract down to single emperors and generals and such. #Christian<\/a> extremists love the fuck out of #Warhammer40K<\/a>.<\/p>

As with the dismal fantasy war porn of PJ LOTR, that Warhammer \"in the future there is only war\" stuff is right up their street. They all want to be lil crusaders for technofascist Jesus, all the more so if they're completely unfit to be warriors.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973211956255269","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973211956255269","objectType":"note","content":"

It's all the familiar stuff: Evil will always worsen, Good will always feel more and more outnumbered, populations will dwindle and leadership will contract down to single emperors and generals and such. #Christian<\/a> extremists love the fuck out of #Warhammer40K<\/a>.<\/p>

As with the dismal fantasy war porn of PJ LOTR, that Warhammer \"in the future there is only war\" stuff is right up their street. They all want to be lil crusaders for technofascist Jesus, all the more so if they're completely unfit to be warriors.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973211956255269","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973202808392314","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973202808392314"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"christian"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"warhammer40kas"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941707","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:35+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973211956255269"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

Meanwhile of course the #tech<\/a> sector has aggressively gamified war. #Games<\/a> indoctrinate young persons into joining the U.S. military or the IDF or some other outfit for violent enforcement of \"Western\" hegemony. The technology of war has itself become gamified, devoted to permitting the modern soldier to be maximally dissociated from what they're doing, like the staff of missile sites who might never actually see the missile itself. <\/p>

Needless to say, the techlords have gotten into war propaganda in a big way and this has been a decisive influence on corporate #socialmedia<\/a>. These media are intended chiefly as vectors for propaganda.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973234171931421","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973234171931421","objectType":"note","content":"

Meanwhile of course the #tech<\/a> sector has aggressively gamified war. #Games<\/a> indoctrinate young persons into joining the U.S. military or the IDF or some other outfit for violent enforcement of \"Western\" hegemony. The technology of war has itself become gamified, devoted to permitting the modern soldier to be maximally dissociated from what they're doing, like the staff of missile sites who might never actually see the missile itself. <\/p>

Needless to say, the techlords have gotten into war propaganda in a big way and this has been a decisive influence on corporate #socialmedia<\/a>. These media are intended chiefly as vectors for propaganda.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973234171931421","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973222273944098","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973222273944098"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"games"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"socialmedia"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"tech"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941709","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:34+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973234171931421"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

That actually helps cement the total-war spirit in place, however. This is a powerful social force, the feeling of resentment that the non-soldier feels at their civilian status which, under authoritarian rule, is kept inflamed till it's unbearable.<\/p>

It becomes easy for such self-loathing persons to allow themselves to become something really dishonorable and treacherous, justifying their crimes as legitimate in a state of total war. Everyone can be a soldier or a cop if they just want it bad enough. <\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973222273944098","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973222273944098","objectType":"note","content":"

That actually helps cement the total-war spirit in place, however. This is a powerful social force, the feeling of resentment that the non-soldier feels at their civilian status which, under authoritarian rule, is kept inflamed till it's unbearable.<\/p>

It becomes easy for such self-loathing persons to allow themselves to become something really dishonorable and treacherous, justifying their crimes as legitimate in a state of total war. Everyone can be a soldier or a cop if they just want it bad enough. <\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973222273944098","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973211956255269","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973211956255269"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941708","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:34+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973222273944098"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

And just as with the telescreens, sometimes the corporate #Internet<\/a> will address itself to the end user directly, and of course it's always listening and collecting every last possible scrap of personal information, secretively and without the user's consent.<\/p>

The #tech<\/a> barons openly sneer at the premise that they've a duty to honor the common public's privacy. They regard their invasions of privacy as fait accompli<\/u> and also voluntary on the users' part. Only those of low IQ, say the geeklords, could possibly even expect privacy on the Internet.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973256378201921","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973256378201921","objectType":"note","content":"

And just as with the telescreens, sometimes the corporate #Internet<\/a> will address itself to the end user directly, and of course it's always listening and collecting every last possible scrap of personal information, secretively and without the user's consent.<\/p>

The #tech<\/a> barons openly sneer at the premise that they've a duty to honor the common public's privacy. They regard their invasions of privacy as fait accompli<\/u> and also voluntary on the users' part. Only those of low IQ, say the geeklords, could possibly even expect privacy on the Internet.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973256378201921","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973247118053278","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973247118053278"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"internet"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"tech"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941711","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973256378201921"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

They are something like the telescreens of Orwell's 1984, with the computer or smartphone or laptop supplying the actual screen and microphone and camera. Through #Twitter<\/a> and #BlueSky<\/a> and #YouTube<\/a> and all the other corporate social media pours a constant stream of propaganda.<\/p>

Facts and figures are popular in Oceania and so it is with Twitter and all other U.S. #media<\/a> terminally obsessed with regarding statistics (almost always used fraudulently) and polling results and official government figures as intrinsically newsworthy and requiring no real analysis or criticism.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973247118053278","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973247118053278","objectType":"note","content":"

They are something like the telescreens of Orwell's 1984, with the computer or smartphone or laptop supplying the actual screen and microphone and camera. Through #Twitter<\/a> and #BlueSky<\/a> and #YouTube<\/a> and all the other corporate social media pours a constant stream of propaganda.<\/p>

Facts and figures are popular in Oceania and so it is with Twitter and all other U.S. #media<\/a> terminally obsessed with regarding statistics (almost always used fraudulently) and polling results and official government figures as intrinsically newsworthy and requiring no real analysis or criticism.<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973247118053278","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973234171931421","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973234171931421"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"bluesky"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"media"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"twitter"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"youtube"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941710","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973247118053278"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-original-tmp20260509194250.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-48-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-24-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"392172"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/392172-96-20260509204318.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA.","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mxchara","displayName":"Mx. Chara Aznable (they\/them) of Pnictogen","note":"I'm Mx. Chara Aznable, guiding spirit of the Pnictogen Wing DID plural system, living in Seattle WA."}},"content":"

Anyway. For whatever reason, @arstechnica<\/a> and @popsci<\/a> etc. have never quite noticed the emptiness of the #ElonMusk<\/a> vision, the paucity of his ideas, the flimsiness of his promises. <\/p>

You'd think they'd notice the obvious things at least, and resist the cowardice that must come from knowing any negative reporting on Musk will bring in all his cultists raining down hate mail and death threats. But they do that ANYWAY! It's like with Republicans, they're always hateful. They may hate with greater intensity when the news is bad but is that any excuse for reporters to abandon their duty to the public interest?<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-14:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973285504357811","object":{"id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973285504357811","objectType":"note","content":"

Anyway. For whatever reason, @arstechnica<\/a> and @popsci<\/a> etc. have never quite noticed the emptiness of the #ElonMusk<\/a> vision, the paucity of his ideas, the flimsiness of his promises. <\/p>

You'd think they'd notice the obvious things at least, and resist the cowardice that must come from knowing any negative reporting on Musk will bring in all his cultists raining down hate mail and death threats. But they do that ANYWAY! It's like with Republicans, they're always hateful. They may hate with greater intensity when the news is bad but is that any excuse for reporters to abandon their duty to the public interest?<\/p>

(cont'd)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973285504357811","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/ap\/users\/115855847980876292\/statuses\/116973267491531587","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973267491531587"},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"elonmusk"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/universeodon.com\/users\/popsci"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/arstechnica"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-24:objectType=thread:nonce=9fd5067d71968ad3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12941713","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-24T06:18:32+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/seattle.pink\/@mxchara\/116973285504357811"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6573302","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}