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Archived on 8 April 2023 at 4:15pm [URL redacted]
@GretchenMendall [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : 99% of companies are #woke I can send the entire list of companies if you like. Easier to share the handful that are #Unconscious [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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Supplementary #WebsiteDeSmog "But an analysis of financial disclosure forms shows the same small group of donors supporting Project 2025's advisors again and again -- hardly a sign of ideological diversity. Of the 110 nonprofits formally supporting Project 2025, almost 50 received major donations from the same six sources of wealth since 2020. Many of the organizations the six families funded also have close ties to Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, DeSmog found. Trump has repeatedly denied involvement in or knowledge of Project 2025, though that position conflicts with a growing number of news reports -- a disavowal made more awkward by the fact that Vance wrote the foreword to Dawn's Early Light, a forthcoming book by Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts that describes his Project 2025 vision. DeSmog's review of Project 2025's financial backers found additional links to Trump, Vance, and key figures in their orbit that had not been previously known. These six donor networks, linked to the family fortunes of a handful of wealthy industrialists, have spent years working to loosen environmental regulations and promote climate change denial. Though Heritage describes Project 2025 as a mainstream effort to 'return government to the people,' its funding sources suggest something far less populist: a vehicle for the obsessions of ultra-rich donors on the far-right fringe, pushing an agenda to reshape American democracy and overturn regulations needed to maintain a livable climate." [DeSmog] #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationProject2025 #2025_MandateForLeadership [pdf] #TheoryAccelerationism ? #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJDVance #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenial #BrandMolsonCoorsJosephCoors #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch #BrandUlineRichardUihlein #BrandUlineElizabethUihlein #IRLHistoricalFigureRichardMellonScaife #IRLIndustrialistBarreSeid #AdvocacyUSTheHeartlandInstitute #AdvocacyUSFederalistSocietyFedSocMarbleFreedomTrust #AdvocacyUSConcordFundAKAJudicialCrisisNetwork #AdvocacyUSIndependentWomensVoiceIWV #AdvocacyUSIndependentWomensForumIWF #AdvocacyUSIndependentWomensForumIWFCenterForEnergyAndConservationMandyGunasekara #AdvocacyUSMackinacCenterForPublicPolicy #BrandVarietyWholesalersJamesArthur #AdvocacyUSBradleyFoundation #AdvocacyUSBradleyImpactFund #AdvocacyUSDonorsTrust #AdvocacyUSDonorsCapitalFund #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #AdvocacyTurningPointLegal #IRLPoliticalAdvisorStephenMiller
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Archived on 17 January 2023 at 1:15pm [URL redacted]
@HillaryTacon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: MSM & the Ruling Class has been trying to whitewash #Wokeness as non-Black. ie. frequent claim "#Woke refer to injustice" Woke is incorrect English tense, commonly found in Ebonics. Woke is a BLACK thing. Lumping in Climate Change, LGBT, etc. is whitewashing. [URL redacted]
#IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel
Context https://unherd.com/newsroom/peter-thiel-wokeness-is-like-wahhabism/ #BeliefTheismIslamismSunniWahhabism [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #EventLibertopiaConference2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH7Lv2gQdk&t=290s "I think um technology is this incredible alternative to politics and uh and you know there are a number of different technologies we can outline but the the task in this world where politics has become so broken and so dysfunctional is to find a way to escape from it it's not a way to fix it is a way to escape and uh there are you know a number of different options I think the uh the promising one of the 1990s and this last decade has been to escape onto the Internet and to sort of create an alternate virtual reality uh questions of course is still how does it intersect with the real world there are I think escaping to outer space um is a promise uh although I think the space technology is not quite there so I think that's sort of for the second half of the 21st century I think we can try to uh you know create autonomous countries on oceans underwater all sorts of other spaces but I think technology is the vehicle for how we should um we should be looking to uh to escape and move beyond uh beyond politics as we find it today um I want to uh offer two quick thought two basic thoughts and then open it a little bit of discussion and debate on um the limits of this so I sort of one thought on um a caveat to this technology as an alternative and then end with the caveat to the caveat so the big caveat to uh technology as a standalone autonomous force is that politics is going to try to stop it and I think we should not underestimate the degree to which there is a race in our society between politics and technology and it's an very open question whether technology is going to succeed on its own in escaping from the black hole of politics or whether uh somehow the system will collapse in on itself and I think you know I think actually the correct in a sense attitude... " #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy #PoliticsTechnocracy #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism [Wikipedia] #MetaphorSpatialTrapEscape #1968_2001ASpaceOdyssey #PoliticsAnarchy #PowerControlRegulation #PoliticsSovereignty #TheoryAccelerationism ?
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkOConnell "If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be 'the Future'. Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine... ...he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his public musings about the incompatibility of freedom and democracy, and for expressing interest - as though enthusiastically pursuing the clunkiest possible metaphor for capitalism at its most vampiric - in a therapy involving transfusions of blood from young people as a potential means of reversing the ageing process. But in another, deeper sense, he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future, a human emblem of the moral vortex at the centre of the market. And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse. Because this is the role that New Zealand now plays in our unfurling cultural fever dream: an island haven amid a rising tide of apocalyptic unease." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand #OtheringOutGroupPrepperSurvivalist #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #BrandOpenAISamAltman [skeet] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #NarrativeUtopia
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianArwaMahdawi "It's a new conservative dating app that promises to let you 'view profiles without pronouns' and 'connect with people who aren't offended by everything'. Despite this all being very predictable stuff, the app has been getting a lot of attention for three reasons: 1) the ads are unintentionally hilarious, 2) it was co-founded by former Trump administration officials and Ryann McEnany, the sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is the app's spokesperson; 3) creepy Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, who has been called 'the most important person in Silicon Valley', has invested $1.5m into the project." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/want-to-date-a-hot-rightwinger-sick-of-all-that-woke-nonsense-ive-just-the-app-for-you #BrandTechRightStuffApp [Wikipedia] #PleaPronouns #IRLPersonalityInternetRyannMcEnany #IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany
Context #WebsiteTheRightStuff
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Archived on 16 August 2020 at 5:15pm [URL redacted]
@BeckyFabri [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #wokeness nothing changed.. elites (‘progressive, democrats, billionaires maybe) rule.. #Woke ps: special thanks @tabletmag [URL redacted]
#PoliticsCapitalism #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial #MagazineUSPuck #CaricaturistBernhardGillam #1883_TheProtectorsOfOurIndustries [US Library of Congress] #TauntRobberBaronIndustrialist #PhenomnRevolutionIndustrial #BrandDotdashMeredithThoughtCoRobertMcNamara "The men who were called robber barons were often portrayed in a positive light, as 'self-made men' who had helped build the nation and in the process created many jobs for American workers. However, the public mood turned against them in the late 19th century. Criticism from newspapers and social critics began to find an audience. And American workers began to organize in great numbers as the labor movement accelerated. " https://www.thoughtco.com/robber-baron-definition-1773342 #TheoryIndividualismCompetitiveSelfMadeManArchetype #MetaphorPeriodizationGildedAge [Wikipedia]
Context #IRLHistoricalFigureCyrusField, #IRLHistoricalFigureJayGould, #IRLHistoricalFigureCorneliusVanderbilt, and #IRLHistoricalFigureRussellSage
Supplementary #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvardJenniferStave SXSW 2025 "Our AI-Driven World: A Utopian Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNxhNKEcjA&t=238s https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP152914 #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardBusinessSchoolKarimLakhani [Wikipedia] #IRLEntrepreneurShikharGhosh [Wikipedia] #EDUUSUniversityOfHarvardDigitalDataDesignInstituteAtHarvard [Instagram] https://d3.harvard.edu/about-us/ #PhenomnCulturalFormSpeculativeFiction [Wikipedia] #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #PoliticsTechnocracy #EpistemologyAmateurCulturalProduction versus #PowerControlExclusion #NarrativeUtopiaDystopia [Wikipedia] #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #PhenomnProtestFigureLuddite [Wikipedia] #TheoryAccelerationism ? #MetaphorTransformationOssification [dictionary]
#TheoryTechnologicalSingularity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M&t=368s #MagazineWiredKevinKelly: http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=872 #2007_ #NarrativeUtopianismTechnologicalInternetOfThings #TheoryImaginarySociotechnical #ConspiracyTheory_Transhumanism
#IRLCuratorJudithBenhamou "These animated creatures romp around in a small park without colliding, and periodically eject from their rear ends photographs showing the spectators who are looking at them. 'In future, sculptures will inevitably come to be living objects,' Beeple argues. But why mix artists and tech billionaires here? 'Because in both cases we look at the world through their lens.' By the opening of the fair, nine of the ten human-headed dogs had already been sold, at [USD] 100,000 dollars each." https://judithbenhamou.com/art-basel-miami-beach-a-sublime-joan-mitchell-a-coral-reef-robot-dogs-with-billionaires-heads-and-the-great-comeback-of-enthusiasm/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kIs2A0dMo #IRLArtistPabloPicasso #IRLArtistAndyWarhol #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandTechMetaMarkZuckerberg #MagazineUSARTnewsDanielCassady "The installation, Regular Animals by Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), is part satire, part dystopia, part slapstick theater. In it, a pen of robot dogs (or is it pigs?) have been fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jeff Bezos, and Beeple himself. They wander, they twitch, they clash--and then, at intervals likely engineered for maximum dramatic tension, they tip backward and eject a printed image from their backsides." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-pooping-robot-dogs-at-art-basel-miami-beach-1234765375/ #IRLArtistMikeWinkelmannAKABeeple [Wikipedia] #2025_RegularAnimals
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Archived on 24 July 2020 at 10:00am [URL redacted]
@TedBarrales [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Great explanation on why so many people believe in conspiracies. Please watch. Wether you think all of these are BS or the truth. #5G #coronavirus #flatearth #cabal #WWG1GWA #chemtrails #Illuminati #deepstate #woke #NWO #Freemasonry #FalseFlag #SandyHook [URL redacted]
#BrandHBOLastWeekTonightJohnOliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U&t=4s #2020_PlandemicDocumentaryTheHiddenAgendaBehindCovid19 https://www.npr.org/2020/05/08/852451652/seen-plandemic-we-take-a-close-look-at-the-viral-conspiracy-video-s-claims https://mubi.com/en/films/plandemic/trailer #IRLActivistJudyMikovits
Addendum I didn't know where to put the concept of #TheoryAccelerationism, and so here is 'good enough' for the time being: "Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified - either because this is the best way forward for humanity, or because there is no alternative. Accelerationists favour automation. They favour the further merging of the digital and the human. They often favour the deregulation of business, and drastically scaled-back government. They believe that people should stop deluding themselves that economic and technological progress can be controlled. They often believe that social and political upheaval has a value in itself." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in "Nehlen is also an outspoken proponent of accelerationism, the idea that Western civilization must be pushed to collapse through acts of violence in order to bring about a non-Jewish, all-white country." [The Southern Poverty Law Center] #IRLBusinesspersonPaulNehlen
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Archived on 9 June 2020 at 5:00pm [URL redacted]
@GeraldineAretz [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : #reptillians #greys #timetravel #AI #Ancientaliens #conspiracy #accelerationism #DeepState #woke [URL redacted]
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