ardeewnc.bsky.social
@ardeewnc.bsky.social
Artist, Farmer, Neuro-Atypical Liberal Boomer, 🖖 🏳️🌈 🧶
People > Profit
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People > Profit
LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN!!!!
Gift Links save Democracy!
Blog at http://ToreUpButTrue.blogspot.com
avatar Sculpture by Olga Ziemska
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Trump et al is what you get when you vote businessmen into government. The corruption, the self-dealing, the incompetence, the yes men, all are abundant in corporate VP floors and C suites. They hate employees, and citizens look like employees to them. Business is about (their) profit, so QED.
Why snipers on the Arch? Aside from the ongoing stupidity with the whole idea, why snipers? In a tourist area? Who are they supposed to shoot? Besides us?
September 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Why snipers on the Arch? Aside from the ongoing stupidity with the whole idea, why snipers? In a tourist area? Who are they supposed to shoot? Besides us?
So, take Isr**l, here you have a country, sketchily created, brutally murdering the inhabitants of the country they’ve taken and dehumanizing the whole original population. Included in their plans is to march the survivors out of the contested lands to some distant arid and unfamiliar terrain...
September 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
So, take Isr**l, here you have a country, sketchily created, brutally murdering the inhabitants of the country they’ve taken and dehumanizing the whole original population. Included in their plans is to march the survivors out of the contested lands to some distant arid and unfamiliar terrain...
This reminds me of how the social sciences have longed for credibility as an actual science for so long, we all forget that they are not. The downfall of all of these whiz kids is believing statistics can explain everything and forgetting that bias (& ignorance) can warp stat methods and results.
Oh I missed this
Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this
Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this
September 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This reminds me of how the social sciences have longed for credibility as an actual science for so long, we all forget that they are not. The downfall of all of these whiz kids is believing statistics can explain everything and forgetting that bias (& ignorance) can warp stat methods and results.
Rest in Power, Saint Dolly. We will always love you.
August 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Rest in Power, Saint Dolly. We will always love you.
Yes!! I keep saying this too, these are all Lex Luthor wannabes. Every utterance is monologing. Every idea has been scripted already and is inevitably overblown and ridiculous.
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It's funny that all these guys are so very, pathetically, obviously huffing their own farts via hired sycophants and chatbots that they're all unironically spinning up stupid comic book supervillain ideas
They're spending hours a day coked up asking a chatbot to regurgitate the plot of old Superman
They're spending hours a day coked up asking a chatbot to regurgitate the plot of old Superman
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust https://gizmodo.com/palmer-luckey-wants-to-take-war-beneath-the-earths-crust-2000695764
August 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yes!! I keep saying this too, these are all Lex Luthor wannabes. Every utterance is monologing. Every idea has been scripted already and is inevitably overblown and ridiculous.
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The first three posts this morning: Tiffany Hayes wowing everyone with a 3 pointer from the logo, Angie Nixon beating a liberal transphobe with a fraction of $$$ in her Senate primary, and Wired mag just highlighted Tisha Johnson’s stylish and affordable new pickup truck design. Common denom? 👉
August 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The first three posts this morning: Tiffany Hayes wowing everyone with a 3 pointer from the logo, Angie Nixon beating a liberal transphobe with a fraction of $$$ in her Senate primary, and Wired mag just highlighted Tisha Johnson’s stylish and affordable new pickup truck design. Common denom? 👉
Re-posting this blog post because AI still has some folks mesmerized. Don’t buy in to it - AI is the natural end to the centuries-old corporate war on labor.
toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...
toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...
AI, Linotypes and Labor
(first posted on Medium Jan. 14, 2024) Is anyone old enough to remember these behemoths in action? A dark basement held 50 or more of thes...
toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com
August 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Re-posting this blog post because AI still has some folks mesmerized. Don’t buy in to it - AI is the natural end to the centuries-old corporate war on labor.
toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...
toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...
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Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.
August 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.
I live, temporarily, in a red town blanketed with giant warehouses and data centers, more to come. The companies import their tech folks from HQ, if any, and the only jobs are security and janitor, and those are low-pay jobs with a vendor company. So no, you won’t get an Apple/Meta/etc entry job.
Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
July 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I live, temporarily, in a red town blanketed with giant warehouses and data centers, more to come. The companies import their tech folks from HQ, if any, and the only jobs are security and janitor, and those are low-pay jobs with a vendor company. So no, you won’t get an Apple/Meta/etc entry job.
Great article. I was an early adopter of the Mac for graphic design and web coding. I still use Apple stuff but Steve’s baby grew up into a slimy techbro. Having other Luddite interests (weaving, spinning, sailing, farming) I love that my forebears were political, directed, and worker-centric.
FREE for all: @ntnsndr.in on how Luddism is not the end. Featuring an extremely insightful and stirring observation from @rushkoff.com
We made it free for everone to read because this post is what @flaminghydra.com is about.
flaminghydra.com/issue-617/
We made it free for everone to read because this post is what @flaminghydra.com is about.
flaminghydra.com/issue-617/
Bodies upon the gears
Alternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider
flaminghydra.com
July 30, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Great article. I was an early adopter of the Mac for graphic design and web coding. I still use Apple stuff but Steve’s baby grew up into a slimy techbro. Having other Luddite interests (weaving, spinning, sailing, farming) I love that my forebears were political, directed, and worker-centric.
Trump et al is what you get when you vote businessmen into government. The corruption, the self-dealing, the incompetence, the yes men, all are abundant in corporate VP floors and C suites. They hate employees, and citizens look like employees to them. Business is about (their) profit, so QED.
July 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Trump et al is what you get when you vote businessmen into government. The corruption, the self-dealing, the incompetence, the yes men, all are abundant in corporate VP floors and C suites. They hate employees, and citizens look like employees to them. Business is about (their) profit, so QED.
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"And so perhaps they’re in the back seat with a toy steering wheel. AI is the promise of wiring that toy steering wheel directly into the drivetrain of the car. It’s products without product designers. Workplaces without workers.... This is the promise."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"And so perhaps they’re in the back seat with a toy steering wheel. AI is the promise of wiring that toy steering wheel directly into the drivetrain of the car. It’s products without product designers. Workplaces without workers.... This is the promise."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
These are the people who want to buy the country and put it on autopilot.
"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."
Holy cow, Ford bought the AI hype, believing they could go "hey computer, make me a good car" and it would.
Holy cow, Ford bought the AI hype, believing they could go "hey computer, make me a good car" and it would.
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
June 28, 2026 at 3:58 PM
These are the people who want to buy the country and put it on autopilot.
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21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.
Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
June 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.
More folks calling for this today. Yes!
I will pay good money for 15 minutes with a sledgehammer in that wedding cake travesty of a ballroom. I’m sure there are others who want, even need, that closure. This is not just a fundraising opportunity, it’s a step towards a national reconciliation. Let us do it!
June 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
More folks calling for this today. Yes!
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I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
June 13, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
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people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
June 12, 2026 at 11:17 PM
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
Enlightening 🧵
Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium.
The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case.
So too with movement.
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The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case.
So too with movement.
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June 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Enlightening 🧵
Yes, why ARE customers angry? This is the culmination of decades of corporate effort to erase human labor. 🧵
Why are US consumers so angry? It’s not just high prices
There’s a stew of factors at work behind the rise in consumer rage – but there are potential solutions, too
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Yes, why ARE customers angry? This is the culmination of decades of corporate effort to erase human labor. 🧵
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This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
May 29, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
The news today: “The beatings will continue til morale improves.”
I need to get off this plague ship.
I need to get off this plague ship.
May 27, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The news today: “The beatings will continue til morale improves.”
I need to get off this plague ship.
I need to get off this plague ship.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!!!
May 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!!!
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Flash Gordon, Star Trek, Star Wars, Bab5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica
May 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Flash Gordon, Star Trek, Star Wars, Bab5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica
Think about AI data centers and the utilities required to run them. ‘Enough to power x cities’ is how that quantity of electricity and water is described. Enough to replace them is more like it. We have heard about 'robots taking our jobs’ since the 70s, but no plans for the aftermath. This is it.
May 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Think about AI data centers and the utilities required to run them. ‘Enough to power x cities’ is how that quantity of electricity and water is described. Enough to replace them is more like it. We have heard about 'robots taking our jobs’ since the 70s, but no plans for the aftermath. This is it.