Think of it like Smurf accounts on apps in the Fediverse: Nobody wants that—it’s extremely counterproductive and unfair—but people do it anyway.

That’s a commendable attitude, but it doesn’t help in the face of reality.

What I’m getting at is this: People have been using it for a long time now, whether you like it or not. I don’t like it, but it’s still the reality. Pretending it isn’t helps no one—in this case, it’s even counterproductive for the reasons I mentioned.

That’s why I called it “Panora’s box”: This technology is out there—there’s no changing that, even if we’d like to.

This is a side effect that the billionaires who run the AI models are counting on: that people no longer pay attention to the message itself, but instead waste their time speculating about whether someone used a proper app or image generation.

You’ll never be able to close Pandora’s box. So…

I don’t think Russia plays much of a role here, but yes, absolutely: Trump and his henchmen are, in my opinion, merely accelerating the decline of the U.S.

This former superpower is clearly on its last legs, as too many resources have been embezzled—as is typical in oligarchies. Therefore, aggression is all that remains for it, since its bloated military apparatus is the only thing left, alongside the IT sector, which is currently dismantling itself for the very same reasons that led to this situation.

China is also a misanthropic autocracy, but the policies of its leaders are nonetheless far-sighted, forward-looking, and skillful, which is why China is already the superpower that the U.S. once was (albeit it’s glory was bought on credit after WWII).

Europe’s future, in my view, depends on whether it will be possible to shake off the influence of the U.S. and its disastrous turbo-capitalism. Unfortunately, it does not look that way, because in the strongest European countries, neo-capitalist forces are still at work, whose maxim is now turning into fascism precisely because their approach is no longer competitive in today’s world.

Either way, dark times are ahead for science—and, consequently, for humanity as well.

Yes, that’s right. I recently spoke with five friends of mine who are chief physicians and senior physicians in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany: They all agreed—the U.S. is no longer conducting scientific research; the CDC, which used to be a globally important institution because many countries followed its guidelines, no longer exists, since all competent staff who refused to go along with this absurdity were fired.

They are appalled at how quickly this decline was orchestrated by the Trump regime, especially since it took decades to reach an international consensus. All of them have lost all trust in U.S. institutions and believe that these inhumane policies will cost hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide.

That’s because he doesn’t want to go to prison.

Tell him he’s not welcome here. We have zero tolerance for intolerance and mindless hatred!

Toto - Africa (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Rabea & Hannah)

This cover should meet just about all of your criteria, but it’s already a few years old.

…yes, appropriate for protecting Epstein’s billionaires clients and accomplices, some of whom quite obviously make up this criminal regime.

This case really shows all too clearly what a lawless oligarchy the U.S. is. A true rogue state ruled by the scum of humanity.

I’m pretty sure this technology will never have its moment in the spotlight because it can never, ever live up to the expectations that marketing has hyped up.

After multibillion investments and a database that encompasses nearly everything humans have ever produced, the lofty promises have, as expected, failed to materialize. It’s simply nothing more than a tool that can certainly be used profitably. But its areas of application have absolutely nothing to do with what was promised to investors. It is simply not artificial intelligence, but a search engine that reproduces existing data or, upon request, assembles it into something that looks like it’s new, but is actually just a collage of what the model was fed.

The fact that humans, in their way of being creative, naturally never operate outside the bounds of their own experience was exploited by marketing here to portray the probability calculations performed by LLMs as comparable to what we understand as intelligence. For LLMs, however, this is never achievable. It is merely an illusion built on the lack of understanding among so-called decision-makers.

If U.S. citizens truly have a problem with how utterly undignified, unprincipled, and corrupt their government is, perhaps they should fight back, because it’s not just the disgraceful image being projected here—it’s the downfall of the world’s most powerful economic nation.

But hey, it’s probably better to live under the thumb of other autocratic countries, whose leadership at least acts rationally.

This ridiculous spectacle only shows the world what to expect from the U.S. If the U.S. were a person, it would be an incel: that’s the kind of values and intellect this country represents.

That might appeal to billionaires, but they’re not the majority…

Religion certainly plays a regulatory role within society - historically, for a very, very long time. It also promotes values such as charity, empathy, and humility as virtues. The problem, unfortunately, is that this system of order is frequently abused in practice - just like the legal system, whose guidelines are often derived from religious values. So it is not religion itself that is the problem, but the way it is abused.

A good example of this is the ultra-conservative Christians in the U.S.: Since this ideology is being exploited politically to promote a ruthless form of hyper-capitalism that serves only a tiny elite, there is no room for values such as humanity and empathy, which the Bible clearly prescribes as positive values. Thus, inhuman policies are legitimized in the name of God and Jesus, though only those aspects of religion that enable the propagation of “in-groups” and “out-groups” are utilized. On the one hand, this serves to convey a sense of community, and on the other, to deny all rights -including the right to exist - to anyone who does not belong. Of course, this could no longer be reconciled with Christian ethics, but since this is not about ethics but about power, these schizophrenic movements are nevertheless very successful.

This logic is present in nearly all forms of religious extremism - from ultra-Christians to fanatical Muslims and Jews to Hindus and so on. These fundamentalist movements always have one thing in common: they are not interested in good, peaceful coexistence, but solely in the dominance of one group over another, which is because they are political movements whose leaders use religion merely as a means of power to legitimize their inhumane ideology.

But please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying here: It is not religion itself that is the problem, but the way it is abused to pit people against one another and distract them from who actually benefits from the corresponding policies.

This effect is by no means limited to religion: the same can be achieved, for example, by emphasizing nationality - in this case, concepts such as “foreign infiltration” serve as a backdrop of fear, so that the corresponding out-group can be denied basic rights, even their humanity.

This doesn’t baffle anyone at all. On the contrary. It was entirely to be expected, given all the AIPAC money Israel uses to bribe politicians.

Religion is, and always has been, a tool used by those in power to legitimize the status quo.

Its primary purpose is to shift responsibility for actions onto fate and thus divert attention from the fact that it is people who are responsible for these actions. In this way, even the most unfair and exploitative conditions can still be portrayed as just: the king by the grace of God, the kingdom of heaven that awaits the patient after death, hell that punishes the greedy, making it unnecessary to hold them accountable in this life, and so on.

This also works in reverse to strip people of the self-confidence that they can achieve things through their own efforts: Thank God for the food he has put on the table, for your success, and for everything else, because he has given it to you in his infinite generosity - don’t even think of making demands.

In this sense, religion provides a justification for hierarchies in society. It cements the status quo in the interests of the powerful.

Hence: People who do not question this narrative - which serves their own exploitation - but have made it the purpose of their lives are quite strange, because they are thereby harming themselves.

I think it would certainly be appropriate to socially isolate all these people so that they might finally realize what atrocities they are committing, since they themselves don’t seem to realize what crimes they are complicit in.

Even the murder of 120 children still doesn’t seem terrible enough for these monsters to see the light.

They are terrible people, and that is why they deserve nothing but contempt, for they have more than earned it.

Unfortunately, it cannot be said often enough: none of the guilty parties will ever be held accountable unless U.S. citizens finally stand up for the victims and for themselves.

The U.S. legal system is a farce, rotten to the core, as this particularly repugnant case - and many others - demonstrates.

This system will never reform itself - not even under a Democratic administration, assuming elections are even held anymore.

There is no alternative but to accept the hardships of resistance if justice and a halfway decent life are ever to be possible in the richest country in the world.

My point is that US citizens could remove their criminal president, but they don’t do so despite all his criminal machinations and despite the most serious war crimes.

Unfortunately, I don’t see it that way. I’ve found time and again that even US citizens in the Fediverse tend to display a massive amount of completely misplaced, naive national pride.

It seems to me that even those here, due to the oligarchy in the US that controls the media, are massively misinformed or uninformed despite their flirtation with free media.

Added to this is decades of propaganda that Americans apparently cannot overcome even here.

The best example is this post: Instead of the all-too-necessary self-criticism, there are only excuses - even though the U.S. president is a pedophile and a serious criminal. Nevertheless, U.S. citizens act as if that were not the reality.

As I said, that’s true, of course, but the question is how long it will remain that way. I can hardly see any difference already, and I don’t see how things in the US are going to get better.

The only possibility, in my opinion, is for the people to rise up and overthrow this blatantly corrupt system. They still have the chance to do so at the moment, as the authoritarian regime with its secret police loyal to no one but the organge godfather (in the form of ICE with a budget that compares to the military spendings of a medium sized country) is still in the process of being fully established.

To be honest, however, I have little hope that the American people will do this - yes, there are massive protests, but there are no signs of a nationwide, organized general strike that could bring the regime to its knees. I don’t think these ruthless criminals will be impressed by anything else, because they hold all the cards.