Visualizations of Hamlet's Stages of Insanity: Mapping the gradient between "sane" & "insane" over time is a powerful tool one can use to make sense of current affairs.
tag > Politics
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China, a Pioneer in Regulating Algorithms, Turns Focus to Deepfakes (wsj)
Beijing’s internet regulator, the CAC will begin enforcing regulation—on what it calls “deep synthesis” techn, incl AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software—starting Tuesday.
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"The less men think, the more they talk" - Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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The longevity and sudden demise of superstructures
"Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak of it." - Woodrow Wilson (1913)
"The First Casualty of War is Truth." -Rudyard Kipling
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude & producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the FINAL Revolution." -Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, (1961)
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Today in the fall of western civilization: A moment of silence please in appreciation of our current moment in history, where insane monsters have 'successfully' turned almost everything (culture, science, politics, economy, news, etc.) into a giant militarized psyops clown show bullshit spectacle 🤡 Bravo!
"Next week the New York Times in partnership with WEF partner Accenture is supposed to be hosting a live event with Sam Bankman-Fried. Sitting next to him will be Zelensky, Zuckerberg and U.S. Treasury's Janet Yellen."
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? - Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare.
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A primary challenge & opportunity our generation faces is how we deal with the rapid collapse of most traditional institutional / organisational models (nation, governance, science, business, healthcare, religion, etc.) & how to redefine our relationship to nature, self & others.
"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others." - CarlJung
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In early 2014, Taub and Smith posed for a photoshoot for a New York magazine story about San Francisco. It depicts the two standing naked in line to ride a Google Bus. Jessica Powell, Google's vice president for product and corporate communications, responded by saying there should be "no nudes on the bus. It might interfere with the Wi-Fi."
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Bigger, stronger, faster, meaner, more, more, more
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Need for System Change Reminder - Art by @crazyheadcomics
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World leaders meet to discuss the urgent and complex problems - Art by Leuing
