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Plus les jeunes utilisent l'IA, plus ils la détestent

30 avril 2026 - Janus Rose

ï»żPrisonniers entre la crainte de perdre leur emploi et la stigmatisation sociale, les opinions de la GĂ©nĂ©ration Z sur l'IA atteignent des niveaux historiquement bas.

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai

The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood.

You are a teen girl, living in Canada after the Christo-fascist takeover of the US, when you learn that your true identity is that of a famously “abducted” US baby; and so you are thrust into a role you never asked for, and have to understand anew what ‘family’ means.

3 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈.
Note: sequel to The Handmaids Tale

@bookstodon

Book cover featuring a green and white illustration of a woman in a cowl

Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."

It also called for "the expansion of AI weaponry."

Palantir shares fell immediately.

Palantir "has accelerated Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza", & yet the British govt has granted it access to the NHS.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palantir-shares-slide-after-manifesto-post-denouncing-regressive-cultures

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"Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States –which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare – far outpace those in most of country’s peers in the industrialized world. Most notably, Americans die of treatable conditions at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians.

They would most likely live longer if they enjoyed better access to healthcare. Americans are the most likely to skip a doctor’s appointment due to its cost, the most likely to skip a medical test and to skimp on prescription drugs. This is unsurprising, given the extraordinary lack of public health insurance in the United States. Americans face the highest out-of-pocket expenses for medical services in their peer group.

Donald Trump evidently does not believe this is an issue for the world’s richest nation.

If the budget for 2027 the White House 


RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916

The most insane part is that The Rightâ„ąïž that people turn to when the social contract crumbles not only have no solutions to it; what they want/propose will only make matters 1000 times worse.

This is well-documented fact, but nobody learns it in school, no news outlets or politicians tell it & when people experience it for themselves they're gaslit with extreme prejudice.

Fascism thrives on this engineered blind spot as much as anger.

Discuss.

@pluralistic

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116395778447572916

Once again, Cory puts words to something I’ve been trying to express for a while.

„When public services go wrong, people don't always know who to blame, but they definitely notice that something is going wrong, so when public services fail, people stop trusting the state, and that social contract starts to fray. They start to suspect that elites are lining their pockets rather than managing the system, and they "withdraw their support" for the system.“

"Good public services are the basis for 'the social contract between rulers and the ruled'"
"[...] so when public services fail, people stop trusting the state, and that social contract starts to fray."

"Fascists thrive in these conditions. Fascists come to power by mobilizing grievances."
by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/

LA Times: ‘Amateur hour at the U.S. attorney’s office’: L.A. prosecutors face more losses in protest cases

"...Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

A federal judge criticized the U.S. attorney’s office as “amateur hour” after prosecutors failed to disclose evidence during an assault trial...."

(maybe paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/u-s-attorneys-office-losses-protest-cases

I am leaving the university system, possibly forever, at the end of this month. I will be living in the woods, studying mathematics and (hopefully) farming enough to survive. I have posted an essay explaining why I'm doing this on my website:

https://aten.cool/leaving_university_2026.html

“There has to be some kind of a movement, because they are insulting our intelligence by thinking, ‘Oh, we can get over on them by blaming it on the other party,’” [TMZ founder Levin] said. “It’s not the other party, it’s both parties, and we are kind of sick of the way they are patronizing us.”

No, Mr. Levin, it's the other party--MY former party, the one THAT CONTROLS ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT right now--the party that ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to fund essential DHS functions unless we also fund their .

Democrats are using the only tool they currently have, to FIGHT fascism the way REAL Americans ARE SUPPOSED TO. And 'We, the People' are sick of how media oligarchs LIKE YOU are patronizing us by continuing to pretend this is all just politics as usual.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/tmz-congress.html