Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)

This isn’t representation—it’s digital blackface with imperial intent.

It’s camouflage.

The message is war.
But the messenger looks like someone you’ve learned to trust.

The AI video I saw showed a young “Black servicewoman” in combat greens surrounded by other service personnel in a 'desert' holding her phone like it was recording her, celebrating a successful bombing on Iran.

I think the caption was something like a Matthew 5:9 scripture quote, "Blessed are the peacemakers." (a pun on the type of missile, I guess.)

But she wasn’t real.
No real woman said those words. (And how effing dare they tap into the whole church thing.)

Someone generated her to perform consent.

To make empire sound like empowerment.

Black women carry cultural credibility.
We’ve been truth-tellers, moral anchors, movement leaders.

We signify justice, resistance, clarity.

So now? We’re being simulated to sell messages we never co-signed.

Problematic as hell.

🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?

There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.

Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾

When it comes to dating, these days I feel like the angel who came to Sodom.

Me: ☝🏽Verily, I will not burn down this motherfucking place if I can find a righteous Heau.☝🏽

The Heaux: 🤡[no social skills; bad politics; unsolicited pants selfies; vague vibes; emotional fuckery; 'Pleasure Dom' BS; unexamined patriarchal nonsense; can't fuck]🤡

Me: 👿Gotdammit.👿

🔥FOOSH🔥

The pretense at legality is gone.
The US govt is just abducting non white people off the street.

Gee, when has this happened before?

Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!

Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.

There's a Hong Kong activist giving advice to American protestors on Tik Tok and his recommendations are really good. Sharing them here.

1. claim moral high ground and use a unifying code to create a manifesto under which folks can protect lawful rights: FIRE (Free Immigration Resist Expulsion), and use this consistently. His messaging here is really smart.

2. have a clear organizing structure: rapid response; legal; media/comms; logistics; command; propaganda; liasons; extraction

3. release propaganda and tell a clear story: Illegal immigration is a lie; we are all immigrants and WE make America great.

4. decentralize and synchronize: split into smaller groups and target opponents; use uniformity; use domestic (US/CA) flags to reinforce message that WE BELONG here - it reframes 'foreign invader' narrative. Create media traps and disseminate globally.

5. prepare non-fatal incendiaries for direct action, if necessary (this one will scare folks) to create chaos.

6. leverage political warfare to win

I'm disassociating from the horrors in Gaza.

A nation that lures starving people to a fake aid station and then picks them off by sniper, one by one, should be a pariah state.

And so should the country arming them.

On Tik Tok, a guy asked a purely click-baity question: If you could get rid of ONE thing on the planet, what would it be?

It's the kind of post designed to elicit a lot of engagement.

After reading that Daily Kos post about Trump's new ethics office head, I have my answer: the manosphere.

Just *foop* it's all gone: the podcasters, the infrastructure for it, the monetizing, the advertisors, the creators, the listeners, the -stans. All of it just sucked into a black hole.

Earth would heal.

UPDATE!

The House Republicans removed this provision -- for now!

The sector and our friends rallied!

Thank you, Fediversians, for spreading the word and making those calls!

#ProtectNonprofits

Cackling in Black American.

#FuckPlantations

1. NO ONE can afford to live on 1 household income.

2. What happens to single-parent households? The elimination of child care credits and supplemented childcare pushes those parents right up against a rock/hard place. The pandemic showed us what happens to those parents. (Who are primarily women.)

3. AND coercing (White) women to give up economic independence for Trad Wife life is right out of a white nationalist playbook. (Because this is certainly NOT directed at Black or brown women. We literally do not matter in this vision.)

^^^This is why they are devaluing higher education, stripping repro healthcare, and resegregating the workplace, and testing the ways to restrict movement across state lines and borders!

White nationalist culture-building relies on generations of young women being uneducated and trapped in the home without access to a wider world or ambition.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/republicans-babies-children-parents-work-b2749524.html

Fuck.

Spread the word and light up those phone /email lines.

We just learned yesterday that the majority on the House Ways and Means Committee added language to the reconciliation bill that would give the administration unchecked power to revoke nonprofit tax status for organizations.

Section 112209 raises profound constitutional concerns, as it opens the door to restrictions on free speech and could be weaponized against organizations that promote civil rights and liberties and racial justice.

They paused that nonprofit EO because the sector immediately mobilized and was prepared.

These sneaky shits hope we don't notice this time around.

Have a favorite nonprofit? Speak up on their behalf.

#uspol #nonprofits

@The_Icarian

Where did we think we'd end up if not here?

Every post Reagan president, particularly since GWB and the Patriot Act, has chipped away at our access to the courts.

What did we think the next step was going to be once the FBI began to entrap Muslim men on bogus 'terrorist' plots and send them to Guantanamo indefinitely? Or once the US began to use rendition sites all over the world? Or when the US rewrote the rules about the use of torture?

Everything that the US said was ok to use on an 'enemy' was eventually absolutely going to be turned back on us.

How could we *not* think this was going to be next?

Maybe because generative AI is, like I've said, a comparable to a really eager yet dim college intern named Chad.

Chad needs lots of direction, hand holding, is a literal and limited thinker, doesn't do his homework, and needs to pay attention more to the quality of his work.

Chad is the nepo baby on the team no one can rely on, but sometimes he comes through for special projects.

The only way Chad is coming for a job is if his dad owns the company.

#AI

A person somewhere said the other day, Your day gig should be the thing where you solve the thing that makes you mad. Your free time you do the things you love.

That little tweak to the bromide 'do what you love' pinged in my head for a little bit.

This is why I have the job I have. I'm working on the thing that makes me mad.

Dear tech people.

NOW is absolutely the time for you to reach out to your friends and colleagues in places like Palantir, Microsoft, Meta, etc., and start propagandizing them.

They are participating in and facilitating the destruction of human lives.

They are collaborating with fascists for a paycheck.

Convince them to choose a side. Not by being passively silent. But actively *choosing* the world they want to see.

Force that moment.
Invite them to leave the Death Star.

Because this fucking apparatus *needs to be stopped.*

BAMP.

Dear GOD, what must be DONE to end this madness.

"Nonetheless, he remains detained locally at ICE’s request, said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesperson at the Florida Immigrant Coalition who attended Thursday’s hearing.

“Everything tracks for him being sent to an ICE detention center,” he told NBC News in a phone interview."

Everything tracks.
Everything.

Race.
Skin color.
Nationality.
Ethnicity.

Every single DAY this is allowed to continue, we hurtle closer to a point of NO return.

We are running out of TIME, for the love of God.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800

Every story about another grad student being sent to an ICE camp for political activism or speech (or zero evidence of anything, really) sends me into a fucking rage.

And yes this is on top of the already ragey rage I'm feeling at all the people of the Global South being sent to central American torture prisons so America doesn't have to do its own dirty work on its own soil.