https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/27/fact-check-is-zohran-mamdani-a-communist
Mamdani’s platform calls for making transportation, housing and groceries more affordable, but experts say he hasn’t espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property.
“Mamdani is NOT a communist,” wrote Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University professor of international studies, in an email to PolitiFact. “Communism involves a centrally planned economy, with no market forces. Prices and quantities are set by a central government authority. There is no democratic political competition, and instead a single party rules the country. He is not calling for any of this.”
Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathisers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans.
The Echo Chamber Trap: How ChatGPT Could Be Boosting Your Ego https://uxplanet.org/the-echo-chamber-trap-how-chatgpt-could-be-boosting-your-ego-a2a1521000a8 Escape the Echo Chamber 1. Request Critical Feedback 2. Get External Opinions 3. Explore Contradictory Views 4. Blend AI and Human Feedback
Keep Your Ego in Check
https://medium.com/@JamiesonSilver
https://jinankb.medium.com/reason-the-hidden-root-of-modern-violence-part-1-6a182c6ad250
there has been significant work — though scattered — exploring how reason, particularly in its modern, abstracted, and institutionalized form, leads to violence, domination, and disconnection. However, much of this work still operates within the academic frame, often not going as deeply or as embodied as your inquiry aims to go.
Here are some key thinkers and themes that may resonate with or parallel your direction
- Ivan Illich Deschooling Society, Medical Nemesis, Tools for Conviviality
- Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer — Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Foucault — particularly on biopower, disciplinary reason, and rationality in institutions
- John Zerzan — critiques symbolic thought, including language and reason
- Vine Deloria Jr. — Indigenous critique of Western reason
- James Hillman — Archetypal Psychology
- Martin Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
What to Learn in the Age of AI https://jinankb.medium.com/what-to-learn-in-the-age-of-ai-5bce4c12b2f7 What we must reclaim now is not just a new skill — but an old capacity: the biological, embodied, contextual ability to create knowledge, not just consume it.
That is the real human gift — and it has been forgotten in the modern world. ..Modernity treats knowledge as a thing — an object, a product to be consumed, certified, and stored. But in reality, knowledge is a living process. It emerges through our interaction with the world, our direct sensory engagement, our embodied participation in the rhythms and needs of life.
https://jinankb.medium.com/conversation-with-meta-ai-on-intellectual-bull-shitting-317d6f5ff6ee
https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-ai-3-5d03a7bf262d
https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-chatgpt-1-3bd4d886731c
https://jinankb.medium.com/conversations-with-ai-on-embodiment-c7090d453107
https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343313480381
Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel https://www.mintpressnews.com/ari-ben-menashe-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-israel-intelligence/262162/ In an interview last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.
What is PROMIS? https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-surveillance-program-promis/
PROMIS is believed by some to be the forefunner to the now infamous “Prism” program by the National Security Agency (NSA). The “Prism” program was brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, yet it is now coming to light, that a program has existed long before this new revelation. It was known as PROMIS.
PROMIS is also the name for a Department of Justice computer software program. In the mid-1970s, Inslaw, Inc., a small Washington D.C. software development company, created for the a highly efficient, people-tracking, computer program known as Prosecutor’s Management Information System (Promis). Inslaw’s principal owners, William Anthony Hamilton and his wife, Nancy Burke Hamilton, later sued the United States Government (acting as principal to the Department of Justice) for not complying with the terms of the Promis contract and for refusing to pay for an enhanced version of Promis once delivered. This allegation of software piracy led to three trials in separate federal courts and two congressional hearings.
..A..source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects, told MintPress that “some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail.”
Harsh Mander: How Nazi cinema finds a reflection in Hindutva films https://scroll.in/article/1084162/harsh-mander-how-nazi-cinema-finds-a-reflection-in-hindutva-films?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-intl Hindutva cinema of the Modi era is a new incarnation. Not because these films are political. As I emphasise, films have contained political and ideological messages in the past as well. But because, like the cinema of the Nazi era, Hindutva films not just completely unmask their bigotry, they flaunt it. They shed any residual scruples of at least making a pretence of adhering to truth. Instead, they brazenly falsify both history and contemporary events to advance their divisive ideological project. The tone of the films is shrill and unapologetically hateful.
'More money, less discipline?' Startup co-founder warns hidden trap of India’s new tax regime https://www.businesstoday.in/personal-finance/tax/story/more-money-less-discipline-coinswitch-co-founder-warns-hidden-trap-of-indias-new-tax-regime-484422-2025-07-13
He argues that India’s low digital tax participation is a blind spot, despite advancements making the system smarter. Yet, convenience hasn’t kept pace. Filing taxes is still viewed as a one-off chore, not part of a healthy financial routine.
FIR filed against Ajit Anjum https://www.bhadas4media.com/ajit-anjum-sir-reporting-bihar/
https://www.youtube.com/@AjitAnjumOfficial/videos
NAPM Letter to CM, Karnataka for Fair Dialogue with Devanahalli Farmers and Withdrawal of Entire Land Acquisition Proceedings for 1,777 acres https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/letter-to-cm-karnataka-for-fair-dialogue-with-devanahalli-farmers-and-withdrawal-of-entire-land-acquisition-proceedings-for-1777-acres/
farmers from the 13 villages in Channarayapatna Hobli of Devanahalli protest has been against the arbitrary acquisition of 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for a proposed Hitech Defence and Aerospace Park. At least one-fourth of the 800 cultivators belong to socially marginalized castes, tribes and many others are small farmers.
After more than 1150 days of peaceful resistance and betrayal by the Govt, when the farmers gave a state-wide Chalo Devanahalli call on 25th June, many of them were lathi charged and detained in an absolutely condemnable way. Unfazed, they began their day-and-night Bhoomi Satyagraha at Freedom Park in the state capital, which has entered its 7th day.
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