#deatheconomy #capitalism at it's best? #ai "we kill things" (#people) 1.3Billion #defense #contract #palantir #thiel #karp aka 1984 #orwell #georgeorwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipDBa4bTl8 #wtf #argh #ahoh #why seriously #why long version with nerve wrecking ads interruptions https://infosec.exchange/@Linknation/114258480779255960
"In the West even the millionaire suffers from a vague sense of guilt, like a dog eating a leg of mutton."
--George Orwell, 'Coming up for air,' published in 1939.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
-- George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell
Useless quote for 27 Mar:
"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud."
~ George Orwell, in his 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature"
Link to source:
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-prevention-of-literature/
Une bannière avec des portraits de disparus pendant la dictature militaire est transportée vers la Place de Mai pour commémorer le 49e anniversaire du coup d'État, à Buenos Aires, lundi 24 mars 2025. © Juan Mabromata, AFP
Lying awake my wandering mind associated the #Communist newspaper of the #USSR named #Pravda, which commonly translates as #Truth, with the #neoFascist in the Whitehouse naming his media platform Truth.
It's interesting how the principles and values play out in reality.
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening" - #Trump (2018)
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - #GeorgeOrwell, #1984 (1949)
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@brewsterkahle interview (noted by @remixtures https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/114196771823446685)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark
"The bigger picture [...] and the real contest is not about money, it’s actually about control. Can #libraries own anything in the digital world? Is there digital ownership?" [...] " The average life of a web page is 100 days before it’s changed or deleted. If we do not actively collect them and preserve them and keep them accessible, we’re living in the memory [hole] universe of #GeorgeOrwell"
The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople
(2/2)
... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as #Reagan and #GeorgeOrwell
discovered decades ago.
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1)
Dumbing of America:
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/
2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the Alignment of German society in the 1930's, I recommend this:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113908931207716944
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#GeorgeOrwell winkt mit dem Zaunpfahl. Zumindest solange seine Werke in den #USA noch offiziell und legal erhältlich sein werden. https://t1p.de/iwnpd #Neusprech #NewSpeak #Trump #Trumpismus
@jeffowski
It seems that capitalists and right-wing fascists are using dystopic novels as blueprint, to turn the world into a hell full of human extermination.
#fascism #VideoGames #GeorgeOrwell #1984
'After appearing as a demo at E3 1998 and receiving some scattered press coverage, the Big Brother project fell apart before the game could see a full release. Now, though, you can experience a small taste of this ill-fated literary sequel thanks to a newly unearthed demo that was recovered and posted to the Internet Archive over the weekend.'
George Owellin Eläinten vallankumous täyttää 80 vuotta. Radioteatteri toteutti kuunnelman kirjailijan oman radiosovituksen pohjalta vuonna 1966, jo ennen ensimmäistä suomennosta, https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-73827059
Wikipedia kertoo teoksesta näin, https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%A4inten_vallankumous, ja Pink Floyd tulkitsee yhtä ajankohtaisesti näin, https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(albumi)
#myscifi Bücher aus meinem SF-Regal:
Sollte ich wohl nach über 40 Jahren auch mal wieder lesen.
• Aldous Huxley - „Schöne neue Welt“
Hier meine alte Fischer TB Ausgabe von 1980 noch mit der „speziellen“ #Übersetzung von Herberth Herlitschka
• George Orwell - „1984“
Da mein altes TB von 1981 weg ist, hier die 2006er Ulstein Ausgabe mit der Neu-Übersetzung von Michael Walther
#scifi #sciencefiction #scifibooks #books #aldoushuxley #georgeorwell #bravenewworld #classicscifi #dystopie
"Se a liberdade significa alguma coisa, será sobretudo o direito de dizer às pessoas o que elas não querem ouvir."
– #GeorgeOrwell
"Se me fosse dado decidir se deveríamos ter um governo sem jornais ou jornais sem um governo, eu não hesitaria um momento em preferir o último."
– #ThomasJefferson
https://expresso.pt/newsletters/conversas-ao-ouvido/2025-02-27-o-bezos-da-questao-461c5e22
#liberdadedeimprensa
#davidShipley
#jeffbezos
#washintonpost
Ich habe angefangen, "1984" von #GeorgeOrwell wieder einmal zu lesen.
#scifi ?
Junge, es fühlt sich kein bisschen übertrieben an.
George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols? ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/george-orwells-doublethink-how-much-can-or-should-we-know-about-our-literary-idols/
#AnnaFunder
#GeorgeOrwell
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