No Longer Human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvd9AeIi6x8&ab_channel=Adbusters

Adbusters 168 is OUT NOW
https://subscribe.adbusters.org/products/ab-168-no-longer-human-still-fully-human

As generative AI remakes every aspect of our lives, can we remain fully human?

To survive the algorithmic onslaught, we’ll have to become mental gymnasts: Learn to nip anxieties in the bud, modulate mood swings, shift vibes, ambiences, tones and funks, see dark clouds gathering on the horizontal before they engulf us, and above all, to be fearless at just the right moment.

Will you die by the algorithm or will you live without deadtime?

#adbusters #issue168 #human #AI #capitalistassault #AIClassWar #WeaponizedAI #dehumanization

Since there is a new #PoliticalPsychology group, I share my latest article, which may be of interest, as a group post. #Polisci and #psychology researchers should check the new group if they are interested in political psychology: @politicalpsychology

Here is the link to the article entitled 'The Role of #Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in #Colombia', published in Culture & Psychology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354067X231164795

Full-on #dehumanization and #discrimination against America's most vulnerable are now central pillars of the right. #FoxNews knew they'd need to get someone uniquely awful to peddle the message, and they struck gold with #JesseWatters who is arguably the single biggest piece of shit in contemporary #media. You knocked this one out of the park, #Rupert!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-homeless-people-are-bags-of-flesh-mutating-on-the-sidewalk

"Inside the Closet" :)

#shota #slavery #objectification #dehumanization

Let's stop and think about what we really mean by grooming.

https://tube.xy-space.de/w/bm28eNrCBWwQgKLtDtG6V7

#RespectYoungAdults #teens #teenagers #teensex #sex #grooming #groomers #YoungAdults #dehumanization #xp #infantilization #StopTheHysteria

This video is long (I think 12 minutes) but it explains how things got so messed up.

https://youtu.be/HIZ7xdMrGlI

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

Grooming is our new hysteria.

None of it stands up to scrutiny.

We must stop the dehumanization of teens.

https://youtu.be/mP3P-svIX0s

#RespectYoungAdults #teens #teenagers #teensex #sex #grooming #groomers #YoungAdults #dehumanization #infantilization #StopTheHysteria

Grooming is our new hysteria.

None of it stands up to scrutiny.

We must stop the dehumanization of teens.

https://youtu.be/mP3P-svIX0s

#RespectYoungAdults #teens #teenagers #teensex #sex #grooming #groomers #YoungAdults #dehumanization #infantilization #StopTheHysteria

Matthew’s post highlights the so-called ‘autism industry’, which is big business in the US in particular

It is firmly centred on commodifying our needs (or rather what the industry can tout to non-autistics as being good for us, including the likes of ABA)

#AutismIndustry #SayNoToABA #BanABA #dehumanisation #dehumanization #ActuallyAutistic

https://mastodon.art/@manzanares/110214717940962712

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 4: Rats in a movie on #WorldRatDay

NOTE no screenshots because I cannot post any content illegal in Germany. However, I do believe it is a must to study any film of far-reaching significance, no matter how repulsive.

I took a long time considering what to nominate for today's topic. This is not an easy one. And frankly, barely qualifies as as film.

In the 1930s, three films (2 British, 1 American) portrayed Jews in a positive light, as victims of persecution through history. When in 1938 the Novemberpogrome took place in (Nazi-occupied) Germany (the term “Kristallnacht” is a horrible euphemism and I won't use it), media was not unanimously jubilant about it. Understanding that violence is not the way to popular consensus, plans were made to change people's thinking about the Jews, using widely available visual media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_cinema). In 1939, the faux #documentary Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew], directed by the leader of Goebbels' #propaganda film department Fritz Hippler, started production. Scenes shot in Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland were intercut with real, but out-of-context documentary footage, giving it a false sense of authenticity.

A returning theme in Der ewige Jude is disease. Not merely to suggest “the Jew”'s unclean life and religion, but as a synonym of people as a vermin, a parasite to decent (read: Aryan) society. In a horrible demonstration of the Kuleshov Effect, footage of a large group of #rats coming out of a sewer is followed by a crowd of Jews in the Łódź Ghetto, filmed without their consent or knowledge of where this footage would end up. The voice-over states:

"Where rats appear, they bring ruin by destroying mankind's goods and foodstuffs. In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. They are cunning, cowardly and cruel and are found mostly in large packs. Among the animals, they represent the rudiment of an insidious, underground destruction – just like the Jews among human beings."

Do remember that, whenever you hear or see comparisons made between people and disease, or people and rats. Let's not just never forget, but always remember and never repeat.

#film #cinema #Germany #antisemitism #dehumanization #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

I'd like to remind that #J6 was not a real #coup. There was never any intention or the ability to retain #power. It was; however, a #political stunt. It was an example for the #future. An example for all those #kids hugging their #war #weapons in their rooms between deranged screen time, church and medications. It was a mock to prove it's possible here, a beta testing for #psyops producers. Showing Q and all the other wingnut spin factions can be activated. The same types of means were used that got humans to mass machete hack each other to #death in Rwanda. That's the threat to our union. The instigation of deep social division using the #dehumanization of the other. A proven fascists weapon that, if you are not mindful, can end up in your own hand. A hard divided nation is best for the #duopoly. Sadly our #hacked #system #addicted #leaders would rather hold office in declining #dysfunction than risk the loss of #power and position working for desperately needed #fundamental #change for a #viable #future.

Why be a good person?

when you can hate teenagers

and treat them like shit

with no repercussions

https://tube.xy-space.de/w/71HV7CvavaRoVQTvtMyM26

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #AntiTeenBigotry #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

RT @Heather_z860
#AntiTeenBigotry

https://youtu.be/TfkSxFxsPRY

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

Why not?

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #AntiTeenBigotry #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights #respect #StopTheHysteria #Ageist #AgeistBigotry
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RT @MatPahomes51
@joehannoush @ScottWalker 14 year olds should not be voting.
https://twitter.com/MatPahomes51/status/1614472743818248193

#AntiTeenBigotry

https://youtu.be/TfkSxFxsPRY

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

We deny the fact that we're reaching adulthood earlier, and act like we are children much longer.

https://youtu.be/12J1f0Zqaqw

#RespectYoungAdults #teens #teenagers #AntiTeenBigotry #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights #respect #StopTheHysteria #Ageist #AgeistBigotry

When push comes to shove no society has ever hesitated to draft 15 and 16 year olds.

That should be the age of majority in the US right now.

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

Why be a good person?

when you can hate teenagers

and treat them like shit

with no repercussions

https://tube.xy-space.de/w/71HV7CvavaRoVQTvtMyM26

#RespectYoungAdults #hate #bigots #bigotry #respect #YoungAdults #teens #teenagers #AntiTeenBigotry #dehumanize #dehumanization #Agency #rights

On Auschwitz

"A capitalist factory is a place where #value is produced, which "unfortunately" must take the form of the production of goods. The concrete is produced as the necessary carrier of the #abstract. The extermination camps, in contrast, were not a horrific version of such a factory, but must rather be seen as its grotesque Aryan anti-capitalist negation. #Auschwitz was a factory for the #annihilation of value, that is, for the annihilation of the personification of the abstract. It had the organization of a diabolical industrial process with the aim of liberating the concrete from the abstract. The first step to this was #dehumanization, that is, to tear away the mask of humanity and show the Jews for what they really are, shadows, digits, abstractions. The second step was then to eradicate this abstractness, to turn it into smoke, but also to try to siphon off the last remnants of concrete representational use value: clothes, gold, hair, soap. Auschwitz, not the seizure of power in 1933, was the real German Revolution - the real sham upheaval of the existing social formation. This act was to save the world from the tyranny of the abstract. With it, however, the #Nazis "liberated themselves from humanity" --- #MoishePostone 1988

@Benjaminblackoak

It is starting to make sense.

It's why the Republicans are dehumanizing so many groups to wear down people's empathy.

It's what the Germans did in the dark days of the 1930s-1940s.

We must warn the people who aren't paying attention because they will suffer just as much as groups who are targeted now.

#gop #fascism #slavery #dehumanization #childlabor