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The German Commissioner for Data Protection, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, has warned about the significant challenges posed by the use of Artificial Intellige... https://news.osna.fm/?p=44683 | #news #ai #authority #data #german
The Paradox of the State. Claude and I continue our dialogue about the parable of the Two Valleys, effectively invoking Hobbes and Rousseau.
#philosophy #politics #democracy #property #freedom #liberty #authority #violence #power #protection #police #authroity #blog #podcast #claudeai #ai #justice #choices
I analyse the semantic and rhetorical content of politics as the administration attempts to control the language of the Venezuelan incursion.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/04/when-words-do-the-work-a-case-study-in-nomenclature-drift/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
This encounter has yielded fertile ground for language games, with each side trying to define who owns the key to Truth.
#philosophy #language #epistemology #ontology #truth #facts #blog #podcast #politics #power #LewisGoodall #rhetoric #authority
Anyone who tells you to trust authority is your enemy and the servant of your slaver.
A critique of The Future of Flourishing: Toward a Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/14/solidarity-as-a-local-moral-grammar/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #ontology #essay #debate #language #morality #ethics #spiritual #chritian #perspective #ideology #authority #catholic #metaphysics #podcast #rhetoric #blog #psychology #cognition
The #WestVirginia Citizen Action Group then filed a lawsuit claiming Morrisey exceeded his #authority.
Under #state #law, the group argued, the governor could deploy the #NationalGuard out of state only for certain purposes, such as responding to a #NaturalDisaster or another state’s #emergency request.
Morrisey’s office has argued the deployment was authorized under federal law.
#Trump #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #WashingtonDC #PosseComitatusAct #fascism #Gestapo
“#Treasury has clearly been enacting unlegislated tax cuts,” said Kyle Pomerleau, a #tax economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “#Congress determines #TaxLaw. Treasury undermines this constitutional principle when it asserts more #authority over the structure of the tax code than Congress provides it.”
#law #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
With its various #tax relief provisions, the admin is now effectively adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses & investors. The #Treasury is empowered to write rules to help the #IRS carry out tax laws passed by #Congress. But the aggressive actions of the #Trump admin raise questions about whether it is exceeding its legal #authority.
[This motherfucker] #Trump overstepped his #authority when he sought to deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Portland, #Oregon, to protect [his #Gestapo] the #ICE office there, a federal judge ruled on Friday, issuing a permanent block on troop deployments to the city in response to anti-ICE #demonstrations.
Judge Karin J. Immergut of US District Court, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking his order federalizing Guard soldiers in OR….
“I choose to obey, therefore I am free.”
The latest in the Anti-Enlightenment Project explores how obedience becomes virtue and submission masquerades as freedom.
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-will-to-be-ruled/
#Philosophy #AntiEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Autonomy #Authority #Psychology #Power #Obey #freedom #blog #meme
The #Senate is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the #US from engaging in hostilities inside #Venezuela without explicit authorization by #Congress.
The #Constitution gives Congress the #authority to declare #war, but formal declarations are rare & have not been issued since WWII. Lawmakers have more often passed authorizations for the use of #military force to grant the president permission to use force against specific targets.
Sorry that's much like partially shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming rich people / bad leaders.
So you if you don't see Banks as bad / funding wars - there is something seriously wrong. If you're keeping money there and going to protest - no matter how hard you #protest your money is with them and doing bad things overnight.
(Appreciate the reply by the way / let's try work on this)
I know alternatives are seemingly few or hard to do but don't let that stop you trying for those things and not just protesting -
*This* more-human part or real #boycott is part of the REAL "protest" (I.E. other protests are real but THEY ARE *JUST PROTEST* as in 'asking' / begging constantly for them to change.
Protest in many senses we know is low change / 💯 % not going to happen (a lot of protest in history!) so by not moving what power / money (or things similar) out of their control / abuse) this is basically not clever protest
(measurably not just my opinion - there is a direct power construct to paying for #war and #bad things).
I don't think you got it as much as this above (with respect) so I'm adding this...
I'm saying yes to your list as partially good but not physically changing enough in core areas. (d it all but don't avoid the more core things and not just 'support' stuff which will be infinite unless your change the core).
The picture (newer version + others added) was trying to show we are born into all this / part of the system and showing you (the public) are part of it's thinking too if you are thinking you are not part of fascist structures (the whole #State and #Bank #hierachy / #authority / #monopoly).
I know you don't want to label yourself / agree you're part of #fascism BUT if people are using banks / bad maths / cheating systems and think it's ok and just neutral numbers paying each other less calue THEN YOU ARE PART OF FASCISM AND NEED TO COME OUT OF THAT THINKING!...
VICTIMS
*I do blame* victims AFTER they know this and continue. While all victims should have a chance and need time - some are WAY TOO COMFORTABLE and went into settling for it.
No longer victim here as bourgeois (LOTS of people here very comfortable)... *and they* play their part in I'm a victim by going to the same theater or opera / shops / institutes / city.
And they think all people online are doubtful - might as well did you're own grave that way.
When the crowd pays to go in and boo the actors and want to pay bad people for their goods (and then complain). Just playing into it too much.
So there's a measurable limit even to "victim" I'm sympathetic for (to a limit), but not settling comfortably into and not even in blaming-mode constantly helps (which is a lot of #Fediverse too).
They spend 100's of hours (go check all the hashtags - again it's measurable) - but nearly nothing on forging friends... all the Tech people work on machines, code and then blame #Musk for using it. Short examples like that (more of a long chain but you get the picture).
"It's not our fault we don't like giving time to other humans online or offline and play with PlayStation Linux all day, all our life..."
#Trump #Musk bla bla bla hashtags and near-0 on building #trust / #friendship / giving #time to random people here between themselves. And poor you now getting a long detailed reasoning you might avoid replying.
Just blame and #caturday cat pics?
Na. Not working.
HOPE THAT'S CLEARER FOR YOU!
🧑🤝🧑 + 🏦 🤑 = FASCISM HIERARCHY / AUTHORITY / POWER / MUSK or whoever
Even using #Amazon back ends to fuel instances without non-interactive human instances to change... is passing time like watching one-way TV news and never using ourselves / adding others almost whoever they are.
SO WHAT NOW -
Let me know where we can go for participating in circles...
Let me know what you think of each part of this.
We're all recovering but #Mastodon etc as a #social engine is largely empty software without a kind of department dedicated to actually doing social on any deeper level than complaining - an organized social - not one way stuff ... our stuff - 2-way into deeper things, not just text but audio chat that people can dedicate to every days as part of the whole #therapy of life. And create our way out of it into the new (not spread their crap).
My whole #FreeSchool account shows I've genuinely tried to find and #failed to find much and many are not interested.
I appreciate your reply and this isn't damning you or to win in the end an argument...
....unless you choose to end it here.
About resources:
I think it is more #emotionally yes and not having will-power needs working on to encourage each other (hence having chats with people and not necessarily having to say everything but enough to really push past alone-ism)- time seems plenty for many (you can tell but their profile posts)
It's the #will or constancy in others encouraging / asking for / seeing and accepting others as imperfect (naturally) and not being so doubtful - as that scuppers any chances too.
Wwithout even testing people out people have resigned / accept fascism and even play their part.
Part of the answer we need to do is in testing and solving real communication - no more bashing #trump #ETC.
Agree? / Disagree?
Want to work on it?
⬆️ These are clear questions -
please don't avoid.
It was not clear who wrote the draft congressional authorization or whether it could pass the #Republican-led #Congress, but the White House has been passing it around the executive branch.
The broadly worded proposal, which would grant sprawling #authority to #Trump for FIVE YEARS to use #US #military force in a drug trafficking *war*, has set off alarm bells in some quarters of the executive branch & on Capitol Hill….