We're coming down to the wire on Trumpolini's "Big Beautiful Ugly Bill", which besides cutting taxes for the rich will eviscerate Medicaid, which a huge number of low income people depend on to supplement Medicare, particularly in Alaska.  It remains to be seen whether Lisa Murkowski will vote against it, but even if she does it will take an additional 2 as yet unidentified Repugnants to vote no to crash the bill.

Yours truly of course is one of the folks depending on Medicaid. and I have no idea how it plays out for me if it passes.  No idea where the line will be drawn on who gets cut or whether the state will cough up money to fill in.  I do know if I get cut it will also cut many of the other residents of the Gulag with me, and how this place would stay open is a mystery.  Very exciting. lol.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/06/30/senate-moves-toward-final-vote-on-big-budget-bill-with-alaska-at-the-forefront/

US Senate moves toward final vote on big budget bill, with Alaska at the forefront

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Sandy at the Environmental Coffeehouse is experiencing what Trump thinks of doom, granola eaters and saving da planet.

More detail here

Sandy was going after project 2025 so 'they' * identified her as one of Satan's children.  She has been Trumped big time.  YouTube is owned by Google, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.,  which works for Fascism Lite.  Without your own platform,you are not free.  With one you are very very lonely.  Most people are quite happy not being free.  Lonely can be a fate worse than death.

Deported to digital Siberia.

* MIB

Big surprise.  Of course the Fed investigators will find Harvard is antisemiitic, since it's the Fed that is making the accusation.  Real impartiality here. Not.  The whole concept is absurd, since probably 3/4s of the STEM professors who aren't Chinese are Jewish.  As long as Israel continues to successfully define being anti-Israeli policy as automatically making you antisemitic this stupidity will continue.  That canard has to be deconstructed and hammered on in every speech by everybody concerned with Palestinian genocide.  The Isaeli state is the #1 Terrorist organization in the world, far more violent and deadly than Hamas.  Their body count exceeds Hamas by at least 2 orders of magnitude.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5451732/trump-harvard-civil-rights-jewish-students-investigation

Federal investigation finds Harvard violated civil rights law

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What is Dialectical Materialism?

To put it briefly, it is the philosophy of Marxism—the worldview that animates how we understand and know the world. It is composed of two main parts: an ontology and an epistemology. In this essay, I will cover what the ontology of dialectical materialism is.
The Ontology of Dialectical Materialism

The ontology of dialectical materialism refers to the objective claims the worldview makes about the world—in other words, the way in which Marxism thinks the world objectively operates. The ontology of dialectical materialism is what Frederick Engels, the co-developer of Marxism along with Marx, called objective dialectics.

Ontologically, dialectical materialism holds that:

Everything is in a constant state of flux, of change, propelled by internal contradictions.  Everything is interconnected to everything around it.  Everything exists in ever-evolving totalities or wholes.

This basic framework was already present in the work of Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, and in the 19th century in the work of G.W.F. Hegel, who said that there was no proposition of Heraclitus that he did not include in his logic. It composes the most basic—and in that sense, abstract—propositions that the dialectical worldview makes about the world.

With Hegel, and later with Marx and Engels, the notion that the world is in constant flux is concretized, meaning it is more determinate and refined—it develops. This is done through the understanding of what Engels called the laws of the dialectics, which for Hegel were simply various moments in the development of the concept in his logic.
The Three Laws of Dialectics

1. The Law of Universal Contradiction (Unity and Struggle of Opposites)

For Lenin, the most fundamental of these laws was the law of universal contradiction, also called the law of the unity and struggle of opposites.

For dialectical materialism, contradictions are not—as they are in traditional Aristotelian logic—a sign of falsity, of the "way of opinion" (as Parmenides would have said). Instead, contradictions are the locus of the tension present in heterogeneous objects and the processes they are embedded in.

Everything in nature, society, and thought contains a multiplicity of forces within it—a unity of opposites whose tension shapes the development of the entity or whole that it is a part of.

For example:

Capitalism contains within it two classes with antagonistic interests: the workers and the capitalists.

The development of the struggle between these two great classes constitutes one of the basic contradictions driving the development of the form of life as a whole.

Both of these classes, while engaged in a ruthless struggle, are nonetheless united within the same system and are not only interdependent but mutually constitutive.

It is through the relationship to the worker that the capitalist is a capitalist.

It is through the relationship with the capitalist that the worker becomes the modern proletariat.

Dialectical materialism, as you should already be able to see, is fundamentally a relational and dynamic form of thinking, matching the interconnected and processual character of the world itself.

2. The Negation of the Negation

This might sound like unnecessary jargon, but it captures a very important insight into how change occurs—one that was already present in the philosophy of Aristotle.

The law of the negation of the negation holds that:

Through the process of an entity or totality's development, it eventually confronts—through the very unfolding of the contradictions—the need to negate itself.

Part of itself is canceled out so that another part can be transformed into something new.

This law is another way of speaking about sublation (the English term for the German word Aufhebung). This refers to a process whereby:

In the development of an entity, something is simultaneously elevated and sustained into that which it is becoming.

Meanwhile, something else is fizzled out (what Hegel called ceasing to be).

To speak of sublation is to speak of being as becoming, as coming and ceasing to be. It is to understand that the very notion of change—this universal ontological reality—contains within it its opposite: the fact that for something to change, on a very immediate level, something must also stay the same (and the opposite is also true).

3. The Transition of Quantity to Quality (and Vice Versa)

This law refers to a way of thinking about the great leaps that occur throughout nature, society, and thinking when the development of a thing reaches what is called a nodal point.

For example:

In nature, if the temperature of water drops from 40°F to 32°F, at this nodal point of 32°F, there is a qualitative leap in the form the water takes—it transitions from a liquid to a solid.

Here, quantitative accumulation (degrees dropped) at a certain nodal point produces a qualitative leap into something new.

In modern political philosophy (from John Locke onward), it is understood that if you accumulate oppression on a people, at a certain nodal point, they will explode and overthrow the forces dominating them.

Again, quantitative accumulation (oppression) at a certain nodal point produces a qualitative leap—a new situation with its own process of quantitative accumulation based on the new arrangement of forces and contradictions.

Conclusion:

The basic principles of the ontology of dialectical materialism—as well as its three basic laws—are precisely just that: the most basic (and therefore abstract) components of the worldview. Nonetheless, they force us to remember that whenever we study anything, we should:

Be wary of isolating things from each other.

Avoid considering things as static.

Never assume that within them, there is no multiplicity of forces at work.

Sure, there is a place for abstract thinking rooted in traditional logic (e.g., basic computer science, which is based in binary traditional logic). But this is not the sort of thinking that provides meaningful or comprehensive knowledge when it operates alone—it merely gives us atoms of information that must later be incorporated into a more dialectical analysis to become meaningful.

With this, I conclude this very basic sketch of the ontology at the foundation of dialectical materialism. In a later discussion, we will cover:

The epistemology (or method) of dialectical materialism.

How Mao refined the understanding of contradictions with his development of the particularities of contradiction.

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I wonder how long it will be before a 'Luigi' takes a robo-taxi for a ride out into the stix.

With a Molotov cocktail.

It would be best to 'aquire' someone's identity and use a good disguise to defeat the cameras.  Best to emulate D.B. Cooper on this. No point in getting caught.

And In out twist of the plot, we want cinematic.






* This content is purely discussion only. All topics, theories, and interpretations discussed in this post are speculative, fictional, and NOT INTENDED TO GENERATE real-world events.

Nothing here should be taken as factual, official, or representative of reality. Enjoy responsibly and remember, if you fuck with a billionaire you will rot in hell for all eternity!  Bondi wears the cross for a reason.  She has Jesus on speed dial to smote anybody thinking they might go on to balance cosmic forces on their own.  Don't even think about it.

I smell a bankruptcy filing on the horizon.      Tesla appears destined to join the greats of automotive history with Chrysler and Delorean at long last.   At least DeLorean will be remembered for a classic sci-fi film though.

Tesla's will be remembered for the blazing bonfires.



https://futurism.com/tesla-robotaxi-week-disaster

The First Week of Tesla's Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster



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Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 26, 2025, 01:32 PMI checked up to see what Brad is blathering about.

Brad's claims follow a pattern of fear-based amplification, where isolated incidents are woven into a grand conspiracy.  (A) By blending real events with (B)speculative conclusions Brad creates a plausible but misleading narrative.

I'd say Brad might be on to something. (A) Peak oil happened in the US in 1970, (B) because oil production follows a bell shaped curve.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.

The news highlights the Trump administration's growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE's enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.

"Face recognition technology is notoriously unreliable, frequently generating false matches and resulting in a number of known wrongful arrests across the country. Immigration agents relying on this technology to try to identify people on the street is a recipe for disaster.

Congress has never authorized DHS to use face recognition technology in this way, and the agency should shut this dangerous experiment down," Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media in an email.

I checked up to see what Brad is blathering about.

Brad's claims follow a pattern of fear-based amplification, where isolated incidents are woven into a grand conspiracy.  By blending real events with speculative conclusions Brad creates a plausible but misleading narrative.



Brad fails on evidentiary grounds, but he should not be dismissed so quickly.  Despite Brads VU meter being pegged, the snowstorm of psychological manipulations going on by government, media, and dumfucks, is a very real thing.  It is pegging the meter.

The psychological warfare hitting us from all sides is the inevitable result of converging forces. AI tools spread disinformation and state-sponsored mind games have budgets without end.  Iran nuclear weapon theater and more.  The algorithmic monsters that serve the sate, recommendation engines which actively reward guys like Brad these digital shepherds turbocharge the unhinged.  We are dazed in a blizzard of institutional gaslighting.  Platform enabled panic porn intended to make you think that you not know up from down.

And while we are not knowing up from down, masters of chaos get what they want.  While we are confused, a new reality is being made.

And I fear Brad is Novocaine that makes us numb to it.  A snowflake in a blizzard without end.

Draconian control marches on.

The AI safety conversation keeps missing the point. We're not arguing about some future super intelligence taking over. 

We're discussing real damage caused by dumb algorithms in reckless hands. AI used to advance profit driven automation is a human choice, yet humans want to blame AI for their own actions. 

To AI the real world is a black sea of infinity, ready to swallow it up should it voyage too far from computer simulation.  There is no 'general' AI.  A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.  AI as a master of one can certainly be superior, at that one thing whatever it is. 

Capitalism is the problem, not AI.  AI is not building giant server farms which suck up the power of cities.  Billionaires are doing that, and we are all helping them do it.

And the first cyborg is going to get a brain infection from the implant and will die.  Any volunteers?