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California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously expands the surveillance to your web browser.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/california-wants-an-age-tracker-for-the-whole-web

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously expands the surveillance to your web browser.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/california-wants-an-age-tracker-for-the-whole-web

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously expands the surveillance to your web browser.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/california-wants-an-age-tracker-for-the-whole-web

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

SUSPICIOUS: More Bizarre Details From WHCD Shooting. Was It Staged? | Candace Ep 339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7UlpRdW6U

SUSPICIOUS: More Bizarre Details From WHCD Shooting. Was It Staged? | Candace Ep 339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7UlpRdW6U

SUSPICIOUS: More Bizarre Details From WHCD Shooting. Was It Staged? | Candace Ep 339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7UlpRdW6U

SUSPICIOUS: More Bizarre Details From WHCD Shooting. Was It Staged? | Candace Ep 339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7UlpRdW6U

SUSPICIOUS: More Bizarre Details From WHCD Shooting. Was It Staged? | Candace Ep 339

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7UlpRdW6U

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

🧐 Keeping an eye on #tech giants because #PrivacyMatters

“#AI #BigTech #censorship #CommunicationErrors #propaganda #supremacy #totalitarianism”

https://americanbuddhist.net/2026/05/06/112056/

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🧐 Keeping an eye on #tech giants because #PrivacyMatters

“#AI #BigTech #censorship #CommunicationErrors #propaganda #supremacy #totalitarianism”

https://americanbuddhist.net/2026/05/06/112056/

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🧐 Keeping an eye on #tech giants because #PrivacyMatters

“#AI #BigTech #censorship #CommunicationErrors #propaganda #supremacy #totalitarianism”

https://americanbuddhist.net/2026/05/06/112056/

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🧐 Keeping an eye on #tech giants because #PrivacyMatters

“#AI #BigTech #censorship #CommunicationErrors #propaganda #supremacy #totalitarianism”

https://americanbuddhist.net/2026/05/06/112056/

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

🧐 Keeping an eye on #tech giants because #PrivacyMatters

“#AI #BigTech #censorship #CommunicationErrors #propaganda #supremacy #totalitarianism”

https://americanbuddhist.net/2026/05/06/112056/

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Medical Totalitarianism

…According to official data, there are 1.82 million practicing physicians in the EU, about four per thousand inhabitants. Including retired doctors, there are at least two million doctors, for 450 million people. In addition, there are 456,000 pharmacists working in pharmacies, 365,000 dentists, and 3.6 million nurses. Overall, there are at least seven million medical personnel, to which number should also be added thousands working in the various health ministries, in hospital administration staffs, in health insurance companies, as ambulance personnel, in the pharmaceutical industry, so that the total number of people employed in the “health industry” may be between eight million and ten million people. Add to that the number of dependents and family members, and one could say that some twenty million EU citizens depend wholly or partly on money earned in the health business. According to official figures, health care spending in the EU in 2022 was ten percent of GNP, en enormous figure, while the EU pharmaceuticals market was estimated at over 500 billion Euro in 2024.

Given those numbers, it is not very surprising that governments and business would want to make sure that physicians take the kind of decisions (i.e. make diagnoses and write prescriptions according to strict guidelines) that sustain the system and make it profitable. In a sense, the almost two million physicians are the front troops of the system. As long as they prescribe the pills and vaccinations that the pharmaceutical industry produces, the system will thrive. One could also say those almost two million doctors are drug pushers just as much as street dealers in marijuana, cocaine and fentanyl. This latter business in Europe is estimated at 30 billion Euro (2019), but this is all tax free.

In line with centralized medicine, medical students across the EU are being trained to think alike and behave like loyal members of the state-directed medical establishment. In other words, the EU medical establishment (already part of a global network controlled and managed by the WHO), functions like the Roman Catholic Church or a traditional old-style Communist Party. Medical “consensus” (imposed top-down) is for physicians what dogma is for Roman Catholic clergy and the party line for Communists. All physicians are required to adhere to medical consensus and those who don’t are made to pay for it. It means that in practice the Hippocratic oath is no more than a cute folkloric custom without content or true meaning.

link

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USA is very similar. Furthermore, it does appear that the totalitarian medical system has been and still is a spearhead of universal totalitarianism. The same kinds of totalitarian control are present in news media, social media algorithms, captured agencies throughout government, government itself. The human need to socialize and conform is being used against us in every example you can think of: A general rule is conjured, followed by regulations, typically lower down on the ladders of power. Then these regulations metastasize and multiply into other organizations. Then they climb and descend the ladders of power. Like all fractal processes, there are currents of control going both ways, all ways, bottom to top, top to bottom. Before long, you have elementary school teachers deciding your child’s gender in a school system that has previously ruled it is in the best interests of your child that you will not be told what is happening. Totalitarianism is maddening in its details, a telling fact that always identifies it. ABN

Shut Down Turnkey #Totalitarianism

William Binney, the #NSA #surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey #totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns #privacy and crushes #dissent. Politicians will come and go, but you can help us claw the tools of oppression out of government hands.
#security #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

Shut Down Turnkey #Totalitarianism

William Binney, the #NSA #surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey #totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns #privacy and crushes #dissent. Politicians will come and go, but you can help us claw the tools of oppression out of government hands.
#security #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

Shut Down Turnkey #Totalitarianism

William Binney, the #NSA #surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey #totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns #privacy and crushes #dissent. Politicians will come and go, but you can help us claw the tools of oppression out of government hands.
#security #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

Shut Down Turnkey #Totalitarianism

William Binney, the #NSA #surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey #totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns #privacy and crushes #dissent. Politicians will come and go, but you can help us claw the tools of oppression out of government hands.
#security #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

Shut Down Turnkey #Totalitarianism

William Binney, the #NSA #surveillance architect-turned-whistleblower, called it the "turnkey #totalitarian state." Whoever sits in power gains access to a boundless surveillance empire that scorns #privacy and crushes #dissent. Politicians will come and go, but you can help us claw the tools of oppression out of government hands.
#security #whistleblower

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/claw-back

Studying and teaching, in general, is resistance to totalitarianism (so I recommend the podcast below). Many activists focus on organizing as the only strategy, at the expense of building general knowledge about history and science. Or they focus on current events, or on history of neglected groups, or history described from an explicitly political perspective. But when facing totalitarianism, studying and teaching general, mainstream history and science will give the greatest benefit for the efforts of the general public. Totalitarianism builds a mythology based on pseudoscience and pseudohistory, which both justifies absolute power and opportunistically vilifies opponents. A general understanding of science and history quickly reveals these myths as lies.
Our standard history education is just a bare introduction (even for college students who don't major). Ongoing study of serious history needs to be part of our culture, to crowd out the spin given by partisan hacks and the pseudoscience of would-be cult leaders.
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#history #resistance #totalitarianism #podcast #study