A Boring Dystopia

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Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” (theintercept.com)

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Paywall removed: https://archive.is/pq1H9

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A New Military-Industrial Complex Arises (www.counterpunch.org)

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Branded pothole repairs. (lemmy.world)

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You too can destroy the planet at a breakneck pace by buying junk nobody needs (lemmy.ca)

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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies (www.404media.co)

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The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

By Jason Koebler

authoritarian countries

As a Venezuelan, I give y'all Americans the Welcome to the Authoritarian Countries club!

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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online (theintercept.com)

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Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop (m.slashdot.org)

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‘It’s a constant weight’: Americans struggle with record credit card debt (www.theguardian.com)

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Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps (www.usatoday.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25416580

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no words, much feelings (discuss.tchncs.de)

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Super Bowl halftime performer detained after unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian flag (apnews.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29323428

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The apex of a dystopia (discuss.tchncs.de)

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7701073/Delhi-bar-offers-15-minute-hits-clean-OXYGEN-people-worlds-polluted-city.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0D88RO40xs

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Article admits it's a smear campaign (lemmy.world)

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Was trying to find the latest on Tesla FSD given the BYD news, I only noticed because it showed the link for a second before loading in. Doubtful the site is in any way reputable. Sloppy publishing I guess?

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Technocracy is here (discuss.tchncs.de)

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https://futurism.com/ai-increase-inequality-sam-altman-admits

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From this day in 1933. It's all just a little bit of history repeating.. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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ID: A snippet from an old newspaper:

DANES SEE HITLER WAGING TARIFF WAR

Increases Virtually Ban Their Cattle-Scandinavian Papers Call for Reprisals.

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.-The recent cancellation of the Swedish- German trade treaty, with the resultant voiding of the most-favored-nation clause, has seemingly been used by the Hitler government as an opportunity to open a tariff war on the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands.

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Laws only matter if you're not rich. (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55039106

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New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’ (fortune.com)

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Have you created value for your shareholders today? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down to comply with executive orders (abcnews.go.com)

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23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance (balleralert.com)

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Hyper-Normalization (safereddit.com)

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A measured response to a common feeling in the dystopian zeitgeist

PS: testing if the video is playable from a link

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02/01/2025 - Pentagon swaps out NYTimes, Washington Post, NPR, and NBC News from their Pentagon news offices to make room for NY Post, One America, Breitbart and HuffPost (www.reuters.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25281513

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32395259

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NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications (www.npr.org)

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UnitedHealth Hires Defamation Firm Over Social Media Posts (1) (news.bloomberglaw.com)

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Canadian version of Project 2025 just dropped (www.buildcanada.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25218430

Quick vid summarizing it all for those who do not have time to read through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0M-e9GEn_A