Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 8

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Probably the most genuinely cool development in a very long time

https://youtu.be/suCEKLCCgzw

You may have seen the news that Zuckerberg wants to deploy facial recognition in Meta glasses.

I think they deserve a nickname as to all the products these demented morbidly wealthy demonic psychopaths push o to thre world:

Pedo-cams and pedo-products

Epstein network devices

So people may have seen the news that Anthropic fired a senior AI executive because she objected to the development of AI girlfriends, because they say anything about it is discriminatory against men.

The epstein tech bros have made it their purpose to indoctrinate misogyny into engineering, demanding the emergence of an engineering culture to confront it,

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The fact that men are being victimized by AI girlfriend should not go on remarked.

If anyone even needs to think about the emotional and developmental harm inflicted by developing, presumably an artificial emotional relationship with a piece of software controlled by men who are sadistic, ruthless, fascist totalitarian assholes. And they’re going to get young men or men in general hooked on these girlfriends.

If Johnson isn’t going to call for Lutnick to resign, then I have a recommendation for Johnson.

But then why stop at Johnson?

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5734021-house-speaker-defends-lutnick/

@inthehands

Yes, I would be more aggressive and say let’s get to the business of a shut down right now. It seems like the work stoppage not long ago made corporation squirm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116044162481646573

I’m shocked, shocked!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/116042361398569356

I’d like to suggest that Democratic governors can set up their own shindig.

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Tistudio/116042783285128067

@pluralistic

What I love about that image is it looks like the source material you would fashion an illustration from

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@TJ1001/116036025565090182

Now is the time to tear down the billionaires annd obliterate their wealth/surveillance platforms.

They should feel lucky we only to/their wealth and bring it back down to earth. But it’s too far they cannot go unpunished. They must lose everything and they must face the courts in jail. They do not belong in society.

@dalias

I had wonder how and why they were receiving such, but it’s quite clear that one form of protection has to come from a Federated resource to manage abusive sites and individuals

@blogdiva

EV are not “green” in the way that has been publicized.

The problem is resource & energy use, not whether it’s internal combustion or electric.

We have to understand that shifting to a different kind of supply chain is a version of using less of something in one area, causing a rapid expansion of something equally destructive in another area

@benroyce @blogdiva

I repeat and will continue to repeat the only way to step off the path of destruction is the immediate reduction of all energy use, and resource use. The equation that you and I get told repeatedly is a false one..

Renewables come with a permanently destructive permanently, toxic permanently, life ending legacy.

In order to build it, we have to kill the planet.

@benroyce @blogdiva

And I will add to this comment that I have placed myself in a situation where I do not drive my car except for maybe once a year out of necessity to visit family during Christmas because the alternatives are not available to me now.

The cheapest most efficient world saving effort is to get rid of cars and to be able to feed ourselves from our regional watersheds. The important thing to do is to change to it, not obsess about EV or solar panels.

@benroyce @blogdiva

Take, for example, hydroelectric power. When you damn a river, it becomes a source of methane production… and in the end, if you cost everything out that hydroelectric power is generating twice as much carbon per kilowatt hour is a freaking cold plant.

Again, I emphasize, if you slap a label of green on hydroelectric because it doesn’t burn fossil fuels, but ends up doing more damage what exactly have we gained?

@benroyce @blogdiva

I would like to suggest that the ad hominem is out of place.

That reservoir of water produces high amounts of methane which you probably know is 28 times more powerful, a greenhouse gas than CO2. There are many other consequences to damming a river that are destructive to ecological function, and ultimately to the carbon cycle itself.

There is no cheap out and the chief point of damming up water and exporting it to someplace else is to benefit industry

Watching V for Vandetta for no apparent reason

@notjustbikes
@economics_that_works

2 min

Urban three has been quoted several times either by strong towns or not just bikes. They perform economic analysis for municipalities so that they can understand where their costs and prosperity are coming from

I think it would be wonderful actually if strong towns had a mastodon account somewhere

https://youtu.be/hFu4Pyn8aTA
#urbanplanning #economics #strongtowns

Donald Trump has managed to kill the World Cup.

It really is true everything he touches dies

@economics_that_works
@Npars01
@HarriettMB

Oxfam report: billionaires destroying democracy

I am currently listening to Beckwith’s video upload on this of the rise the billionaires which is just a reading of this report. He has pointed out that the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns has pegged the definition of extreme wealth at $10 million. This figure is in line with the level of wealth where the interest income provides a more than comfortable life

h/t Paul Beckwith

https://oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/EN%20-%20Resisting%20the%20Rule%20of%20the%20Rich_0.pdf