Basic Glitch @ AcidiclyBasicGlitch @sh.itjust.works

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Somebody drove through my neighborhood earlier today ~12pm with this song cranked to the absolute maximum volume. It caught my attention and I knew I had heard it before but couldn't remember the name.

Then (I'm assuming it was the same person) drove by playing it again at maximum volume like 20 mins ago. It sent me on a mission to remember it so I could listen to the full song. 10/10 earworm.

It's only as intelligent as the people that control and regulate it.

Given all the documented instances of Facebook and other social media using subliminal emotional manipulation, I honestly wonder if the recent cases of AI chat induced psychosis are related to something similar.

Like we know they're meant to get you to continue using them, which is itself a bit of psychological manipulation. How far does it go? Could there also be things like using subliminal messaging/lighting? This stuff is all so new and poorly understood, but that usually doesn't stop these sacks of shit from moving full speed with implementing this kind of thing.

It could be that certain individuals have unknown vulnerabilities that make them more susceptible to psychosis due to whatever manipulations are used to make people keep using the product. Maybe they're doing some things to users that are harmful, but didn't seem problematic during testing?

Or equally as likely, they never even bothered to test it out, just started subliminally fucking with people's brains, and now people are going haywire because a bunch of unethical shit heads believe they are the chosen elite who know what must be done to ensure society is able to achieve greatness. It just so happens that "what must be done," also makes them a ton of money and harms people using their products.

It's so fucking absurd to watch the same people jamming unregulated AI and automation down our throats while simultaneously forcing traditionalism, and a legal system inspired by Catholic integralist belief on society.

If you criticize the lack of regulations in the wild west of technology policy, or even suggest just using a little bit of fucking caution, then you're trying to hold back progress.

However, all non-tech related policy should be based on ancient traditions and biblical text with arbitrary rules and restrictions that only make sense and benefit the people enforcing the law.

What a stupid and convoluted way to express you just don't like evidence based policy or using critical thinking skills, and instead prefer to just navigate life by relying on the basic signals from your lizard brain. Feels good so keep moving towards, feels bad so run away, or feels scary so attack!

Such is the reality of the chosen elite, steering us towards greatness.

What's really "funny" (in a we're all doomed sort of way) is that while writing this all out, I realized the "chosen elite" controlling tech and policy actually perfectly embody the current problem with AI and bias.

Rather than relying on intelligence to analyze a situation in the present, and create the best and most appropriate response based on the information and evidence before them, they default to a set of pre-concieved rules written thousands of years ago with zero context to the current reality/environment and the problem at hand.

I was just asking because I literally didn't know what this was referring to.

Just a reminder that Louisiana is the 2nd most dependent state on Medicaid.

Every major hospital system is warning the House Speaker this will cause catastrophic harm to people in his own state.

Meanwhile, even the Cato Institute has pointed out Republicans are literally just burning absurd amounts of money on Deportations.

Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”

Really curious to hear how Americans are being helped by anything the Republican party is doing right now?

Did the DNC say something about Mamdani?

Thank you!! 🙏

That is the whole argument the right used to create the "moral majority," though.

I really don't think you should just flat out refuse funding for religious organizations, but I do think there should be more required of religious organizations and nonprofits in order to receive tax exemption status, especially if they receive federal or state funding on top of tax exemption.

Like there's a giant hospital monopoly in my state that receives grants from the state, and nonprofit tax exemption status despite the fact that the 2 CEOs both make over $1.5M each.

Meanwhile, the state is playing the whole "no doctors will take medicaid at the current rate, so we have to make cuts to state Medicaid."

Here's a fucking idea, how about you don't give state grants to hospitals with staff that (allegedly) won't accept state Medicaid or better yet, say that if the hospital is going to be receiving state funds in addition to that sweet ass nonprofit status, not only will they be expected to accept Medicaid, they also have to cap administrative salaries.

Same for churches or any other religious organization. Tax exemption status should be based on showing that you've earned that status by actually contributing to improving society. Otherwise it's just corporate welfare.

But then you have a state authority discriminating against an organization based on the religion of the organization.

I think there need to be some major changes regarding how tax exemption status is handled, but some churches do a lot of good and offer a lot of help to people in communities that would literally have no where else to turn to.

Unfortunately, it seems that any organization or even any non federal jurisdiction, that doesn't want to promote the agenda of the current federal government, and you accept funding, you're falling into a trap.

So what is the solution to that?

We stop depending on the federal government for funding? I'm sure they would agree is the solution, yet they still expect us to pay tax dollars.

Maybe we should stop allowing the federal government to enforce restrictions that don't pertain to protecting the rights and liberty of citizens, and we increase the power of people within communities to place restrictions on federal and executive authority over domestic issues.

TFW your government literally just hooked a brain dead pregnant woman up to life support against the wishes of her family, to force her to give birth, but somehow tries to paint political promises of baby baskets for newborns as dystopian nightmare fuel.

Disagree, that's basically saying if you vote in your best interest you can't complain.

What the actual fuck

What the actual fuck is wrong with these idiots?

The headline is that Stephen Miller of the Trump administration, owns stock in Palantir. Miller is not Peter Thiel. Miller is the angry bald guy that is always dramatically screaming we should be more aggressive with deportation policy.

Because he, and 10 others in the administration, own stock in the company that also receives millions in federal contracts regarding immigration and deportation, one might suggest Miller has a vested interest in the policies he is always aggressively screaming about being necessary for America's safety.

Considering that even the conservative Cato institute has said the deportation policies outlined in the big beautiful bill, will ultimately cost tax payers trillions of dollars to fund, one might suggest that the policies Miller and others in the administration have put forth, are actually driven by greed rather than any ideology or belief that what they are doing is in America's best interest.

The blurb mentioning Thiel's company is to provide context to the reader about how much money his company has already made under this administration.

Given that Thiel and the entire administration do all seem to be in agreement that democracy should be dismantled in order for a ruling class of chosen elite to take it's place, one might begin to wonder, if that is really a good idea. It would seem then, that it is as newsworthy as anything else documenting more blatant corruption and scamming of America by the chosen elite who are leading this administration, and hoping to convince everyone what they're doing is in America's best interest.

The investment, held in one of Miller’s children’s brokerage accounts, raises conflict of interest red flags as the tech company continues to play a substantial role in the work of U.S. immigration officials.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin called the group’s report “very silly”

... This is the same official spokesperson that downplayed concerns about Trump trying to shut down the office of Civil Rights and Liberties, and then like a month later defended DHS and the Pentagon hooking federal employees up to a lie detector test to find leaks

The watchdog group that obtained Miller’s filing identified 11 other administration officials who either currently hold or have owned stock in Palantir, though none with holdings as large as Miller.

Guess he has a vested interest in acting like a hateful psychopath, and gleefully breaking apart families. It's good for business.

Fear is not necessary.

Really have to disagree with you here, fear is how groups of people are kept under control. It's the basis of authoritarian regimes

How did Bush gain support for the patriot act despite the fact that it clearly violated civil liberties?

Why did Trump stand in front of a camera a few days ago and yell about how much danger we're all in? You know he's full of shit, but the person who is in an echo chamber, and never exposed to any questions of regarding his greatness, will believe he's saying that because it's true and he's looking out for her best interest

But the pro life movement and the whole idea of a moral majority, was created by Weyrich to gain enough support for conservatives who created segregation academies in the south after the civil rights movement.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

When the supreme court threatened their tax exemption status, they knew the majority of Americans would not be sympathetic to them, and they needed a more palatable issue than segregation to gain support for the idea of a right to "religious freedom," that would allow them to maintain tax exemption.

When I say it was like an advertisement campaign. I mean they literally created films back when that was the best way to spread messaging, and toured the country screening those films and giving speeches in order to create the pro-life movement.

I don’t think anyone has to be trained into this. That’s the problem. This is humanity’s default.

I think to some extent, that is the default when the amygdala is kicked into hyperdrive by fear and the prefrontal cortex goes offline.

But dividing the U.S. into such black and white extremes of left vs right is directly the result of the heritage foundation creating the whole moral majority narrative, and essentially creating an advertising campaign out of abortion and Roe v Wade.

Originally Americans weren't even very divided on the issue, but Paul Weyrich seized the opportunity and targeted evangelical Christians several years after the Roe v Wade decision was even made.

Even leaders of the southern baptist church weren't opposed to Roe v Wade at the time the decision was made.

I grew up in the southern Baptist church in the 90s, so well after the pro-life narrative had been established as unquestionable in the church. In no way was it some kind of rosey utopia back then, it was pretty awful, but even since then it's gotten more extreme and politicized. Straight up denial and disgust with the literal word of Jesus and saying things like "empathy is a disease," is something new that is being gradually inserted into everyday "Christianity," so that eventually (just like abortion) it will just be accepted without question.