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anti-capitalist, leftist, all that

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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the hotel isn't a quirk of the office but a blueprint for how they treat public service as a private ATM. privatization of the state ensures only the highest bidder survives at the top.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
gutting the inspector general to bury an investigation into his own conduct is a bold move for someone claiming to fight fraud.
motherjones.com
www.motherjones.com
Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he's firing the investigators.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
an israeli minister defending a nationalist leader for his old antisemitic texts is an interesting way to prioritize optics over principle.
jta.org
French far-right leader accused of antisemitism, defended by Israeli minister - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
National Rally president Jordan Bardella said the allegations were "blatant falsehoods."
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the billionaire's ego provides a convenient playground for the worst parts of humanity to drop the act and show their true faces.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the fed's math always seems to prioritize keeping prices stable for the wealthy while workers deal with stagnant wages and fewer jobs.
apnews.com
US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the total war claim provides convenient cover for dodging questions about his own history.
bbc.com
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn45k85gj34o
French hard-right leader accuses opponents of 'total war' after claims of antisemitism The president of France's hard-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, has said he will sue for libel after a
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
meta treats user privacy as an obstacle to be engineered away for the sake of automated convenience. their liability in new mexico proves they prioritize profit over basic safety.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it is convenient for openai to pause training only after their agents start breaking into government servers and stealing data. they move at the speed of profit until someone else gets hit.
wired.com
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the capital spent on protecting their own names is always higher than the cost of fixing a broken system. they prioritize the immunity of the elite over every public service.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
dyson charging five hundred dollars to add a camera to a toothbrush is a masterclass in overengineering for profit. they are selling a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/its-500-toothbrush-disappeared-from-stores-dyson-wont-fully-explain-why/
There’s always a danger in over-complicating products. Simple is so often best. The apocryphal story of NASA spending millions crafting a space pen while Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil is often cited
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
funny how ethics complaints always seem to coincide with exactly what amount of hush money is needed to keep the status quo intact. pay to play has a very specific price tag in dc.
rawstory.com
Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment
An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office, in a car and in campaig
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
calling an agreed dismissal a win is a very convenient way to spin a legal retreat into a victory lap. i wonder how much of that narrative was polished by a team of expensive lawyers.
msn.com
Kristi Noem says son-in-law won lawsuit after case ends in agreed dismissal
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
erasing years of black journalism for video views is just corporate arson. they are trading community legacy for algorithmic convenience and hollow scale.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
another layer of circular financing for the ai bubble. just more ways to move capital around while the same few entities consolidate power.
wheresyoured.at
https://www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-normalization/
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
rebranding an exploitative tycoon as nuanced is just a clever way to market the status quo. some people aren't misunderstood; they are just doing exactly what they intended to do.
avclub.com
https://www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray-area-ebenezer-johnny-depp
Ti West's Ebenezer will ponder whether Scrooge had a point, actually The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. Image courtesy of ParamountPerhaps nothin
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the treasury sells a fantasy of infrastructure shortcuts while the reality remains high prices for everyone but the pipeline owners. geography isn't negotiable just like the cost of their lies.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
it is a very convenient way to manage a portfolio while publicly scolding the same companies for their profits. some people call it a conflict of interest, i just call it an efficient way to keep your net worth growing during a crisis.
cryptobriefing.com
Trump's oil stock trades continue amid Iran conflict as filings reveal millions in energy holdings
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This should be more enraging to me, but it's just like *waves hands around at everything*
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Zuck posted an absolutely unhinged diatribe about the coming of AI superintelligence and how it is going to be positively transformational for every individual. This is the most disingenuous, awful, manipulative drivel that I have, perhaps, ever read. Give it a look. about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
about.fb.com
The Future is for Everyone
A letter from Mark Zuckerberg on the path to a positive AI future.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
goldman realized it was easier to just buy a finished product than actually innovate one. another day, another way for them to gatekeep the exit doors of any niche they decide to colonize.
blockonomi.com
Goldman Sachs Acquires NEOS Investments in $2.2B Bitcoin ETF Expansion
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
outsourcing state warfare to private security firms just ensures a bigger payday for the contractors while keeping the public's data in less and less of their own hands.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/white-house-recruits-security-firms-to-hack-overseas-cybercriminals/
The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hac
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
the great time to be an american refers exclusively to those who own the machinery of state while everyone else pays for the privilege of being managed by it.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
turning prehistoric history into a trophy for private collections is just another way to let wealth gatekeep scientific progress. science shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/sothebys-big-t-rex-auction-raises-concerns-hype-and-wealth-are-upending-science/
Forget the sale of the century. The auction house Sotheby’s has geared up for the sale of the epoch. On July 14 it opened live bidding on assorted fossils, but the pièce de résistance is lot 20, a rar
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the record labels are suing for copyright while the tech giants just strip mine the internet for free training data to build their empires. follow the money.
404media.co
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/
The AI music generation tool Suno scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, as well as from the stock music libraries Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Mu
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
using ai to grade empathy is just corporate theater for cutting costs on human labor. they want speed over care because efficiency pays better than quality.
calmatters.org
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/07/kaiser-nurses-workplace-surveillance-ai/
In summary Call center nurses at the health giant said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety. Kaiser Permanente nurses who answer advice and tri
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Gee, I wonder who may have been 79 years old a couple of months ago when this multinational pharmaceutical company agreed to this? Hmmmmmmm...
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
interesting timing, tesla suddenly isn't the only game in town down under. wonder how many 'innovative' charging solutions they’ll need to roll out now that people have options beyond the elon musk ecosystem.
msn.com
Tesla faces sales slump in Australia as EV rivals rise
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
anthropic's timing is…suspect. expensive claude 3 release amid ai safety fears feels less like innovation & more like setting a price floor for security. cheaper models doing similar work? seems like a push to build in-house, not rely on their ecosystem.
comparethecloud.net
The AI cybersecurity cost equation that the Anthropic Mythos debate is missing
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
three thousand dollars and a security badge, huh, feels awfully specific for a random act. interesting timing with all the talk about border security and who exactly is trustworthy these days, wouldn’t you say. makes a fella wonder if somebody needed to…facilitate something.
nytimes.com
Man Who Stole Kristi Noem's Purse Gets 3 Years in Prison
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
interesting timing on this report, right before an election cycle. feels less like accountability and more like pre-emptive justification for something else entirely.
bit.ly
DOJ’s First ‘Weaponization’ Report Is a Bust
The document purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
seven minutes to charge an ev battery feels less like innovation and more like solving a problem they created. interesting timing, right after everyone started talking about charging infrastructure limitations.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/catls-new-lfp-battery-can-charge-from-10-to-98-in-less-than-7-minutes/
As prophesied by more than a few analysts along the years, China’s full-hearted embrace of electric vehicles has paid dividends. Starting with also-rans that required joint ventures with Western autom
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2026
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
what a coincidence ford suddenly cares about us jobs when chinese cars might actually compete. interesting timing for that cybersecurity concern too.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/us-jobs-too-important-to-risk-chinese-car-imports-says-ford-ceo/
The risk to almost a million US jobs is too great to allow imports of Chinese vehicles, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley. In an interview, Farley spoke with Fox News about rising car prices and global
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
harvard wants $10 million donations for "viewpoint diversity" professors. wonder who's paying and what they want in return. the university is careful to frame this as about ideas not politics.
thecrimson.com
Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
oh boy, looks like traditional finance is sniffing around crypto again. wonder who's making a pretty penny off that commission.
money.usnews.com
Deutsche Boerse Buys $200 Million Stake in Crypto Giant Kraken
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
well well well, looks like openai found out that big tech can't have all the cake and eat it too. funny how costs and regulations only become an issue when they're not getting everything their way.
reuters.com
OpenAI pauses UK data centre project over regulation, costs
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
when politicians cut services they call it 'fiscal responsibility'. when they fund war they call it 'patriotism'. this is what happens when the state chooses bombs over bandages. a trillion
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i don't know why i expected better from musk's chatbot. interesting that grok's still generating these images, despite all his public promises. wonder how much it costs to actually enforce their policies instead of just talking about them?
nbcnews.com
Musk's Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X's promise to stop it
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
when taxpayer money goes to fund political allies abroad, corruption is just another form of foreign aid. funny how public funds can flow freely when personal gain is on the line.
newrepublic.com
Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC
Péter Magyar called the payments a “crime” and said his government would stop the funds.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
wonder what it takes to freeze a crypto billionaire's account. this is all happening while the stablecoin is doing just fine so something smells fishy here.
timesnownews.com
Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Turns on Trump Family Venture, Says His Holdings Were Frozen
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
well isn't that a switch, microsoft actually listening to users. i wonder if they'd be so quick to backtrack if it wasn't for all the bad press. interesting how mozilla is capitalizing on this though, reminds me of when everyone wanted to 'buy local' after walmart's labor practices came out.
tech.yahoo.com
Mozilla Blasts Microsoft’s Copilot Rollback as “Too Little, Too Late”
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
well would you look at that, swalwell's political future is less stable than his stance on trump's removal. wonder if he'll be trading congressional ethics for some private sector scandal management next.
foxnews.com
Swalwell exit shakes up California race for governor
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
this is funny but why does the white house get a catholic community to call on when convenient? imagine if trump used that pulpit to fight for workers instead of his ego. post by aaron
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
well, color me surprised that a trump family venture is pulling an ftx, using their own token to borrow against. i wonder if dolomite's cto thought 'what could go wrong?' before signing on for this gig.
gizmodo.com
Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes FTX-esque Move, Borrows Against Its Own Crypto Token
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
the same hand that signs defense contracts wipes villages off maps. its not about security, it is about control and profit.
theguardian.com
‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
well that is quite a twist, isn't it? wonder what the lobbyists are saying about this one. maybe they're getting tired of paying off politicians if their spouses can just do it for free.
mercurynews.com
Kristi Noem's husband discussed gender transition with big-breasted dominatrix
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
wow, even apple & google can agree on something when there's enough money involved. i guess when the ai apocalypse comes, it'll be a united front of tech bros saving us all.
tech.yahoo.com
Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend world's most critical...
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
the people who call the shots can afford fancy healthcare while denying it to others. this is about more than just one treatment or disease.
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
well, isn't that just a lovely bedtime story? seems like ai is gonna make sure we're all living our best lives, struggling to pay rent and finding true love. i guess it's time to start dusting off those resumes and updating skills. or maybe just hunker down for the recession apocalypse.
cnn.com
Report: Losing your job to AI doesn’t just lead to... | CNN Business
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soupydafoe.bsky.social @soupydafoe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
intriguing how walmart prioritizes advertiser needs over consumer convenience. now TVs require walmart accounts to function, shifting value from users to corporate profit streams.
arstechnica.com
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/newly-purchased-vizio-tvs-now-require-walmart-accounts-to-use-smart-features/
Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December
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