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New book: "What Republicans Know"
https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/what-republicans-know
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🧵 Everything right-wing seems to end up in religion and cryptoscams. So it's no surprise to see that Amelia, the goth racist character inadvertently made up by the UK Home Office, is now being used to shill a meme coin and going to church.
I expect the Jessica Foster character will be here soon.~
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New York magazine published a 5,000 word article about MAGA women that barely mentioned radical Christian theology.
There's plenty of good reporting and interviewing, but the author barely touches on what's motivating his subjects: their deranged religious beliefs.
We can't delude ourselves about the far right. Overwhelmingly, it's religion that motivates these people. They are the American Taliban equivalent. And we should say this.
ETA: Corrected word count
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AI critics are right that large language models are not alive or conscious. But what LLMs are doing is more complex than just "spicy autocomplete."
We need a more coherent definition of consciousness and a materialist way to derive where "what it's like" comes from.
Here's my initial idea for it: https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception
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Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to cancel Anthropic is directly related to the fact that their CEO, Dario Amodei, has blasted Trump as a "clown" who acts like a "feudal warlord."
Among American AI companies, many of them are fascist Republicans, OpenAI tries to play both sides, and Anthropic is largely Democratic.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/30/anthropics-democrats-ai-artificial-intelligence-alarmism-trump-contracts/
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One of the biggest challenges that well-informed progressive people have is that even now, most people do not take Christian extremism seriously.
Such people should watch this clip. This is a totalitarian ideology that wants to control everyone's basic bodily acts and even their thoughts. https://youtu.be/SYUCPrVfbzk?t=1655
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We need better discourse about AI. Most capacity believers lack knowledge of biology, philosophy, and psychology--and this makes them prone to callow exaggerations.
But many critics lack computing backgrounds and often have obsolete knowledge of LLMs.
Anthropic is really harming things by making false claims that disembodied Claude execution states could be conscious. https://www.theverge.com/report/883769/anthropic-claude-conscious-alive-moral-patient-constitution
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Trump literally doing the Lord Farquaad meme. He's handing truckloads of rhetorical gifts to the Democratic campaign ads every single day now.
"Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."
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Early #typewriters had such magnificent industrial design. This 1926 Remington Portable is a thing of beauty.
These machines were the original laptops.
Take a stroll through this exhibit: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-100-year-old-consul-typewriter/
(Czech keyboard in case you're wondering.)
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Here's a look at the incredible importance of Peter Thiel in the creation of Open AI. This guy really is the new Charles Koch https://archive.is/22O9z
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Science magazine has an informative article about 3 male scientists who resisted Jeffrey Epstein's attempts to network with them.
The one thing all have in common is that they listened to women's advice.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-three-scientists-said-no-epstein
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The Financial Times has produced the most unintentionally hilarious graph I've ever seen.
If you're going to promote a belief in a technological singularity, making a graph of it is nothing more than "and then a miracle occurs"
(Today's LLMs are not anywhere close to sentience because of their fundamental design structure. Details on why: https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/)
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At a Senate nomination hearing today, health grifter Casey Means was asked by Sen. Patty Murray about one of her lesser-known positions, lying to women about birth control.
Regardless of what happens with the nomination of Means, the Christian right is going to be flooding the internet with deceitful propaganda against birth control. They are aiming to ban it wholesale.
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Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for hours tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which Jeet Heer and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are literally basing their politics on sci-fi novels.
This is the most comprehensive deep-dive I have seen on the subject. I had a lot of fun with it, and I think you will as well: https://plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech-billionaires-are-trying
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LGB without the T people are truly in the Leopards Eating Faces Party.
Trump just removed a Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument. He's coming for you next, don't kid yourselves.
Source:
https://gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbow-flag-stonewall-national-monument/
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🧵 The people of Minnesota, especially Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have shown that American democracy still has a lot of strength left within it.
But the battle is far from over. The US is in a liminal moment, a time of transition. We can do this, but there's much to know and to do. https://plus.flux.community/p/the-liminal-states-of-america
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🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.
There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...
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