on the "Freedom to Carry NC".

first written 03.26.25 1804est

     I wrote this a bit ago and now its irrelevant. I  didn't publish then, posting now for posterity.

    The "Freedom to Carry NC" which has just passed through the senate and is soon to be heard by the house seeks to allow legal gun owners the ability to practice concealed carry without a permit.

    As per the current status quo, to obtain a concealed carry permit in NC you have to pay an $80 fee, attend a firearm safety and shooting class, and sign some forms. If this bill was passed NC's gun owners would not need to have any sort of training for firearms. Which is my main contention with this bill. 

    In the CDC's 2022 Gun Violence Report, North Carolina had the "12th highest gun homicide rate in the country" [2]. Gun Deaths in NC have been slowly increasing each year (though research has been harder find as time goes on after some attacks from GOP on the study of gun violence.). I do not feel particularly alarmist about gun violence in NC, especially because NC residents know its mostly my home of Nash County that is to blame. I won't force upon the Republican readers the tedious question of "how many gun deaths are too many"  because that framing is frivolous and bad faith. But I would like to raise that in a largely amicable and bipartisan friendly congress we should be pro active on these issues.

    I am personally pretty moderate on the matters of the 2nd amendment. Which is to say that I respect it as a right, but I am outcomes focused and if that requires choking the breadth of the 2nd amendment, I can live with that. So to do something like this that seems only to serve putting guns in the hands of the inept and ill-willed. I feel as though I am left with no other recourse but to label them all a bozo.

    The Senate Democrats as on their twitter account and as senator Mujtaba A. Mohammed articulated in the senate: the bill does pose a detriment to NC's police force. The argument goes that police officers will have one less data point when going into traffic stops and will have one less tool when prosecuting the bad guys.

footnotes

[1] https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S50v0.pdf

[2] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/v2-01.050-CGVS-State-Factsheets-NC.pdf

colonizing language.

 first written 20:57 4.14.25

    Today I will be pouring my heart out to you on an issue I hold very dearly. Colonialism manufacturing consent imperial late stage capitalism Joe Biden. Hegemonic neo-liberal neo-con military industrial complex privatization decolonization deep state. Wage slavery, the donor class democratic socialism liberal western hegemony. Corporate oligarchy soft power imperialism; proxy war imperialism. Landlord economy Global North extraction post national liberation globalism rainbow capitialism climate apartheid corporate capture state repression shock doctrine big stick diplomacy.

    Regime change puppet government technocratic elite. Austerity politics:

• Lobbyist-industrial complex
• fossil capital
• Monopoly on violence 
• Debt peonage

    Neo-liberal fascism realist green capitalism. Liberal interventionism global financial elite. Crisis narrative astroturfing echo chamber effect algorithmic bias censorship industrial complex. Quote "framing bias identity shame white-washing". Scripted dissent genocide.

    To play devil's advocate I have to at least say weaponized DOJ shadow government crony capitialism bidenomics censorship cartel thought police idenity politics.

"Virtue signaling social credit system pharmaceutical-industrial complex invasion at the border foreign entanglements critical race theory"

                - Martin Luther King Jr.

    Trans agenda drag queen story hour affirmative action safe spaces grievance studies. Micro aggression judeo-christian values traditional family moral decay godless left. Anti-faith agenda attack on masculinity war on christmas cultural marxism patriotic values christian nationalism  law and order pro-life groomer narrative.

    CRT in schools, war on free speech, godless institutions, socialist policies, America last, attack on traditional values, climate alarmism, surveillance state, weaponized bureaucracy, inflation crisis, foreign entanglements, global governance, illegal invasion, lawfare tactics, parental rights under assault, ESG tyranny, bureaucratic bloat, virtue signaling elites, crime wave cover-up, gun grabbers, defund the police disaster, national decline, woke military, compromised institutions, moral relativism, drag queen story hour, border chaos, digital IDs, central bank control, anti-Christian sentiment, taxpayer-funded indoctrination, fiat currency manipulation, shadow cabal, great reset agenda, DEI extremism, moral decay, corrupted academia, Marxist professors, America First silenced

and lastly to address fans of the PKA, JRE and Biggest Problem podcast: the jewish elite.

honey, what's this all about?

first written 01.30.25 2144est

    The first version of Dall-E came out in January of 2021. It predated Midjourney by a year and some change. In its' infancy it captured the imagination of many dim wit gawkers on Twitter creating crude images of people with melty faces and impossible ligaments, it really was funny. Which maybe we lost sight of in the on going cynicism towards AI that dominates those same spaces now (not that I'm unsympathetic to the despair either). It was a novelty; a fun toy that frankly at the time had no real repercussions. But from its' humble beginnings spun out a massive empire that makes a massive part of the U.S. economy. Where each major tech conglomerate is racing to build a model that they can sell to people as being the most sophisticated.

    This toy that was spitting out eldritch horrors when ever you simply asked for a "Sinful Obama" is now behind a blinding amount of internet content. People who have been exposed to AI for a long time have developed a set of discriminatory tools to spot images molested by the computers paint brush. I believe I have a pretty keen eye I think. But something kind of scary, is that the images have blended in with the rest of the content on the internet. People don't disclose their use of AI so a lot of the times you don't actually have feedback on if your evaluation is correct. This loss of feedback I think is a significant turning point in the existence of this technology for us.

    Sometime when I first came home from Japan last November my mom like she does, showed me a video of what some Republican said that ticked her off. This time it was a video of infamous do nothing Elon Musk saying some unprovoked racist remarks. Not that he was ever of an even and fair mind, but now I think those kind of remarks are much less jarring than when I heard them in November. She held her phone to my face and let the Facebook Tik-Tok style vertical video play thrice. Something I immediately noticed that the lips did not remotely match the bile that he was spewing. I pretty quickly clocked it as a fabrication, but my mom was hesitant to believe me (pretty reasonably). Parents falling for internet farces is probably one of the America's pass times we're best at, so I wasn't particularly shocked. I was also conditioned by both anonymous online anecdotes and accounts by my peers of their elderly family sharing obviously fake videos with them.

##  so your mom fell for ai.

    It had finally penetrated into the contentious mainstream. Appearing on that uncle's IPad and finding itself in your text messages with some frankly inappropriate caption. They have had no prior conditioning; they don't know how to spot, why someone would make it, or what ways they should adjust their scrutiny. They should be pointing it at Joe Blow on Facebook but instead their reticle of doubt will probably remain on how you dress and eat. But all the same these videos will continue to pile up either in your messages or worse: when you get home they're gonna wanna show you whats' his face said about Whoopi Goldberg (its' that she can get it).

    There is a lot of discussion about finally emerging on the other side of post truth. Just the writing the word is enough for me to vomit. I seriously hate begging the question like that, like the practice is already bad but when you use stupid buzzwords as your vehicle I just want those fools' to drive their metaphorical rhetorical device car off a symbolic bridge (Doom shotgun noise). To be post truth implies that objects are oriented around it, like its' the center piece of our living room. But that requires that their be times when truth is and isn't and simply I would raise you that there has never been a point in time where humans have dwelled on this rock where truth has been more or less existent. Truth is a tricky thing you see, some people say it hides; cruel people say that humans run from the truth. But the truth about the truth is that its' fickle. Less that it falls between your fingers and more so that its' air. 

    I am not mocking the pursuit of truth, I just want to us to have a more fair frame. AI's biggest power is that it just spews garbage at a rate that cannot be accounted for. Since man crawled out of their caves they have been spewing garbage from womb to grave. Like the adoption of the Loom before it AI has given man the tools to simply amplify beyond any good reason the ability to just make trash. In this ocean of trash we lose cohesion. Data is not destroyed, it is lost.

    Growing up we were told that the internet was written in ink. It was recited to us by nit wits who didn't quite understand what they were saying, but they tormented us all the same. Despite our scrutiny to those who didn't understand the internet, we grew discontent with the state of it all. Our videos of dancing to "Crank that" by Soulja Boy have finally been lost, but not to time to scope. 

    There is one more insidious quality to the exponential growth of shit that occupies the internet. In some cruel joke we have selected for only the most malicious actors and the most sophisticated tools to find those lost pieces of time. So when someone does find your stupid Soundcloud account there's a ~13% chance that it is literally Satan and you're already fucking dead you moron.