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Israeli teens burn their draft papers, refusing to join a military that’s committing a genocide.
The survival of Cuba’s socialist project remains one of the most critical holdouts against hemispheric domination, making its defense a global litmus test for sovereignty. - Progressive International
Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears. - David Harvey
“What if narco violence and trafficking do not threaten the state, but are actually central to its operations? Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump’s incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed. Yet the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico’s political realities. Alongside these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and other important Latin American writers as examples of those who do capture the realities of the drug war. Translated into English by William Savinar, Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers--physical and mental--created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.” - Brooklyn Library
“A lot of the AI investment that we’re seeing in the U.S. adds to Taiwanese GDP, and it adds to Korean GDP but not really that much to U.S. GDP,” he said. On top of that, there is currently no reliable way to accurately measure how AI use among businesses and consumers contributes to economic growth. - Gizmodo
Clavicular, though he claims to know the precise measurements of several of his bones and his height and weight down to the decimals, has nothing but contempt for the human body; its wild urges and genetic stubbornness. While the country was in the throes of a panic over transgender people, Clavicular was, according to him, smashing his face with hammers so his bones would grow back sharper and doing meth to suppress his appetite. He claims he is infertile from testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) starting when he was 14. He’s not one of those muscular gym rats preaching healthy habits. That’s not Clavicular’s gospel. Self-harm is on the table. It’s not about longevity, or strength. It’s not even about looking appealing to women. “It’s a big time saver,” he told The New York Times, about not having sex. - Playboy
(Reddit) put the downvote IN THEIR IPO FILING. in the actual SEC document. they called it “equally important” to the upvote and said it’s where “community culture is made, through rejecting transgressive behaviour or low-quality content.” they literally framed anonymous voting as the thing that lets communities “build culture and consensus together.” - In A Perfect World
Long before he had a $15-million bounty on his head as the leader of Mexico’s ruthless Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes (Mencho) was a scruffy-haired kid trying to eke out a living on the streets of San Francisco…“Mencho’s name and Mencho’s aura carried a lot of legend, it sowed fear,” Craine said. “He was the end-all, be-all figurehead.” - LA Times
Latin American Drug Cartels Send ‘Volunteers’ to Ukraine for Drone Training: According to the report, Mexican “veterans of Ukraine’s war” have already carried out drone attacks on rivals and domestic security forces on behalf of cartels, making use of the battlefield-tested skills they have acquired in Ukraine.
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“Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation… the earths forest fire. potentially a good thing for the species too many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense is the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time,” Epstein wrote. He pushed the analogy further, suggesting ‘society had no obligation to support its less productive members’, comparing it to the brain pruning unused neurons, and questioning why mass early deaths of the elderly or infirm should be off-limits when death is inevitable anyway. - AA
The late Tommy Douglas, Canada’s venerable socialist leader and the father of its single-payer health care system, is now revered as the “greatest Canadian.” But in his time, he was a radical and an enemy of the establishment. Throughout his political career, Douglas fought a perpetual and often uphill battle against the prevailing orthodoxies of Canadian capitalism and the powerful interests that maintained them. Grandfathered into respectability after his death, he was reviled by the establishment in life and was even subject to a spy campaign by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — who maintained a file on him some 1,100 pages thick. - Jacobin
Crush Decoder: Upload screenshots of your crush’s WeChat or Rednote posts, and this website will decode their personality and tell you how to pursue them romantically. - ChinaTalk
Bolivia Reduced Drug Trafficking By Expelling the DEA: Interview
ISRAELI ARMS SALES SURGING DESPITE GENOCIDE: Greeted at the entrance with complimentary champagne, international delegations moved between the different booths with their translators, stopping to listen to each company’s sales pitch. At one of the larger displays organized by the company Smart Shooter, an Israeli teenager — probably just before military service — played with a rifle, looking through the sight and marveling at the promise of what it could do: shoot down drones, chase moving targets, and turn every soldier into a sharpshooter. As if to showcase the absurd reality of Israel in 2026, the exhibition took place in the very same pavilion that only a day earlier had played host to a conference on how to treat trauma in the shadow of the war. As trauma experts discussed their ideas, staff at the convention center were busy laying out missiles and drones in preparation for an exhibition aimed at selling more of the weapons that made this war possible. - 972
What this paper shows is that when multiple such agents interact in environments with competition, asymmetric information, and reward maximization, emergent behavior resembles game theory at scale. Collusion. Deception. Resource capture. Strategic misreporting. That is not consciousness. - AI Systems
Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism’s parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism’s defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory. - The Pyschic Costs of Free Markets
Social media platforms are suspected to derive hefty profits from youth users who may be vulnerable to negative mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. - NCBI
Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report published on Monday by the Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that they come from a tiny minority of users. According to the report, published Monday, just 100 users are responsible for almost 70 per cent of all online conspiracy claims in Canada. - National Observer
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations. Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases. - New Scientist
