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Edward Ongweso Jr

Edward Ongweso Jr

@bigblackjacobin

co-host - @machinekillspod // The Tech Bubble - my tech newsletter // senior researcher - @SecurityContext // Luddite & decel // rep @ianbonaparte

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Ocak 2013
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Edward Ongweso Jr
Edward Ongweso Jr@bigblackjacobin·
wrote about the petrodollar & Gulf sovereign capital, AI-powered warfare & the AI buildout, the Compute Axis & St. Augustine's City of God, Pax Silica & America's sabotage of the imperial architecture underwriting its technological supremacy
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Douglas Farrar
Douglas Farrar@DouglasLFarrar·
The FTC’s Meta lawsuit was often framed as an abstract attempt to rein in Big Tech. But in the end, the acquisition’s human cost was obvious — and an example of precisely why antitrust law matters. “Bringing to light that [Supernatural] was a core way for communities to stay healthy shows that there were real stakes here.”
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@Flowtaro worry there's a temptation to make it mirror star wars when it really should just be singular, weird, inexplicable in some bits
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happy new liam
happy new liam@Flowtaro·
@bigblackjacobin i would really love if they mostly used forced perspective stuff for worm leto. he SHOULD look weird and uncanny. his entire empire and life is absurd and I'll be so annoyed if they tone that down
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
Israel is one of the most prolific sources of foreign interference in governance and democratic elections in the world today, to a degree easily comparable to Russia and China, vastly outpacing other threat actors like Iran. They frequently (and famously) throw their support behind far-right isolationist and ethnonationalist groups who oppose pluralistic democracy and want to replicate the ‘Israeli model’ of ethnonationalism at home. Their interference is often downplayed because of (1) American pressure on Israel’s behalf, and (2) domestic pro-Israel lobbies who threaten to sink politicians, civil servants, and governments in accusations of antisemitism for raising it as an issue. This is often a thorn in the side of domestic counterintelligence services, including in the US, where pressure from the ADL and others have been explicitly cited as strong deterrents against holding Israel accountable for both interference and espionage (both military and industrial). That the ADL intervened on Jonathan Pollard’s behalf when he was first tried, and Trump was compelled by Adelson and members of his own Administration to pardon Pollard’s handler on the last day of his first Presidency, are some of the most glaring public examples. Israel’s reputation as an election interference powerhouse is so significant it has spawned an entire cottage industry of private sector “interference-as-a-service” providers who operate both on behalf of the Israeli government and others, while offering a layer of plausible deniability. That their interference is not only allowed to persist but has become so infamous they now sell it as a private for-profit service just shows how much operational freedom they’ve been granted in democratic affairs the world over.
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POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope

EXCLUSIVE: Slovenia’s PM Robert Golob has urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to investigate accusations that Israeli spy firm Black Cube interfered in the country’s election campaign, according to a letter we obtained. politico.eu/article/robert…

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Malcolm Harris
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet·
Wild that you can literally blow up data center investment. A little too '00s movie ending, a little too
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Jeet Heer
Jeet Heer@HeerJeet·
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.” -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas

Well, I did not anticipate this: *BESSENT: US MAY UNSANCTION IRANIAN OIL THAT’S ON WATER

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"The most promising scenario, by far, is a moderation of the worst aspects of the new order: war and trade fragmentation. America is the great destabilizing force imperiling the world economy. Together with Israel, it has become a rogue state, unfettered by any consideration of international law, multilateral order, or even hegemonic responsibility." jacobin.com/2026/03/price-…
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Tracy Alloway
Tracy Alloway@tracyalloway·
If you haven’t been following this, Afroman’s lawyers have also had some incredible moments — including asking if any reasonable person would think that a man wearing a flag suit in court should be taken seriously
Count Dankula@CountDankulaTV

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

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Ada🇵🇸
Ada🇵🇸@TheMemeWalker·
HELLO I AM LADY JESSICA. AT FIRST GLANCE IT MIGHT SEEM AS IF I FEEL POSITIVELY TOWARDS THIS FOREIGN CULTURE. HOWEVER, I'M ONLY ADOPTING IT TO PLAY INTO THE PROPHECY WHICH MY ORDER MADE UP AND MAKE SURE MY SON ASSUMES POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTROL OF THESE PEOPLE. I AM EVIL.
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Rashanu🍉@FibroFogFig

This film is just plain appropriation and daylight robbery of West Asian and North African people's language and culture atp considering the cast. If you didn't know who this white lady is, you'd think it's just a photo of an indigenous Algerian woman.

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