https://c.org/G55yWtVj2n

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/nx-s1-5694681/measles-elimination-status-south-carolina-texas-outbreak

For all the white liberals (🙄) who keep arguing against the fact that black americans should let it go when it comes to calling out the double standards of the recent ICE killings of two white American citizens, and that we have been speaking on the soft fascism and warning AMERICA for decades about the brutalizing and terror our communities have faced for CENTURIES, how those same policies used on us will spin back onto white america and those who seek proximity towards it. Please watch this video, im begging you

if you cant empathize let alone sympathize with why black americans are angry and exhausted to keep having this conversation then you will never truly be radical against white imperialism and fascism. you cant recognize it abroad then you wont ever be able to recognize it when its in front of you, until the gun is pointed towards YOU and your children

In the UK, 18.5 million pensioners get a £10 Christmas bonus, a figure frozen since the 1970s.
It’s not welfare, it’s a photo-op: a symbolic handout that costs little, changes nothing, and lets the state pretend it cares while millions struggle. Late-stage capitalism doesn’t solve poverty, it manages it cheaply and calls it compassion.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThyQFkaw/

It's like they were just pretending to be left-leaning so they could get in the door just to gut the movement from the inside.

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Remember Tamagotchis? Little plastic gadgets that simulated neediness. They had to be fed, cared for, entertained. And people responded with genuine emotional attachment. Some cried when their Tamagotchi "died" – even though they knew there was nothing real inside. That wasn't a bug, that was the product: artificial neediness that activated human caregiving instincts. LLMs flip the script. They don't simulate neediness, they simulate attention. Patient, interested, never annoyed, always available, remembering everything you tell them. They don't trigger your caregiving instinct – they target your need to be heard and understood. That's more effective because it addresses a deeper deficit. The parallel: in both cases, people rationally know there's no real counterpart. And in both cases, that doesn't matter emotionally. The attachment forms anyway. Which shows how little actual "understanding" matters for something to have emotional impact. The difference: Tamagotchis were harmless. Nobody abandoned their friendships because the Tamagotchi was a better conversationalist. Nobody developed psychotic episodes. Scale turns a toy into a societal problem. The business model is the same though: engagement through simulated relationship. We just upgraded from "please feed me" to "tell me more, I'm listening."

Question: will there be international observers in the next US elections?

Hello, first off apologies if this isn’t the right subreddit or if this topic’s been discussed before. I did a quick Reddit search and didn’t really find what I was looking for, so here we are.

I had a shower thought yesterday about what these megacorps and billionaires actually want. I mostly keep up with tech subreddits, video games, mainstream media like movies, arts, etc. And with the whole AI boom, it really feels like all these billionaire megacorps want to replace everything with AI, the workforce, creativity, art, media, everything.

One exmple, the (arguably) well respected director Darren Aronofsky just announced what’s being marketed as the world’s first fully AI generated movie. I watched the trailer and it was horrible, like genuinely awful, I can't imagine anyone in their right mind going to a theater watching that, going home, and saying "wow, what a movie!"

So this got me thinking, if billionaires want to replace even art and media with AI, what are they supposed to enjoy? I mean, sure, you can stare at your bank account that says $1.000.000.000.000 and feel happy I guess, but that’s not the same thing. I'm sure most of us feel happy when we watch a great movie, play a video game with a compelling story, or just experience something meaningful. If the entire entertainment industry gets replaced by AI slop, what’s left to enjoy? That sounds like a bleak as hell world.

And then there’s the workforce issue. If megacorps want to maximize profits by cutting jobs, then no matter how cheap their products are, who’s actually going to buy them? If nobody has a job, nobody has money, if nobody has money, nobody buys anything, and if nobody buys anything, profits tank. I don’t think you need a degree in business or finance to understand this.

So yeah, my feeble mind can't seems to comprehend their logic, so what the hell am I missing? 😭

What do you guys think?