A cool guide showing U.S. homicides from 1980–2024, based on FBI data, showing how the numbers changed over time and which president was in office during each period.
https://redd.it/1r3x2t5
@coolguides

Auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz klagen Deutschlands Eliten über den Zerfall der regelbasierten Ordnung. Dahinter steht die Angst, Exportmärkte zu verlieren. Doch statt neue Bündnisse zu schmieden, setzt Berlin auf Aufrüstung und Blockbildung.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/sicherheitskonferenz-geopolitik-russland-merz-europa-aussenpolitik-aufruestung

https://towardsai.net/p/machine-learning/ai-bots-recreated-social-medias-toxicity

This article explores how content online naturally turns toxic due to the inherent incentives of a post-repost-follow architecture of social media today, even without a recommendation algorithm.

This inherent influence, along with infinite scroll, makes the delivery of toxic inflammatory content continuous and frictionless.

TIL the Emperor Aurelian reunited the Roman Empire during the Crisis of the 3rd Century, drove off several German invasions, reformed Roman religion under a supreme diety (Sol Invictus), built walls around Rome that lasted until gunpowder, and instituted coinage reforms. He reigned for only 5 years. [source, comments]

Song of the Day 🧳🏗: https://youtu.be/SYf6I1d0KXI

GOP promised corporations could govern better than the government through greed, but the corporations ate us instead
https://redd.it/1r4ublb
@failures_of_capitalism

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
-Frank Herbert, Dune
https://t.iss.one/NonsenseFundingTwerps/2407

Nirgends zeigt sich die Verkommenheit der herrschenden Klasse so deutlich wie in den Epstein-Files. Doch während die Eliten weitgehend straflos davonkommen, werden die Armen zu Verbrechern erklärt und bekommen die Härte des Repressionsapparats zu spüren.
https://jacobin.de/artikel/epstein-eliten-trump-musk-maga-ice

https://jacobin.de/artikel/epstein-eliten-trump-musk-maga-ice

Poster seen in Sydney, denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on people protesting the official State visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog last week.

I love how international law gets replaces by the personal friendship doctrine.

"Maybe I did something you don't like and someday you will do something I don't like, but that doesn't mean we can't be friends"

Absolutely deranged