Keir Starmer’s moral corruption

Keir Starmer’s nauseating Trump love:

“I think I do understand what anchors the president, what he really cares about. For both of us, we really care about family and there’s a point of connection there.”

… but not Palestinian families …

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/04/keir-starmer-says-good-relationship-with-donald-trump-based-on-shared-family-values

Keir Starmer’s family values in action:

And now, Keir Starmer’s family values in action …

Thieves and Deceivers all …

Yep!

Brian Eno Speaks Out

It has long been thus.

Audrey Watters argues persuasively that ITTech is born from military goals. And of course corporate complicity is older than that, and pre-digital e.g. see Edwin Black’s work on IBM’s secretive connivance with Holocaust management.

Let’s not forget that Palantir is the possibly the most evil company on Earth (Alex Karp, that’s you), possibly by far responsible for more genocidal murder than Microsoft.

But they are all at it – keyboard killers even as they preach at us about enlightenment …

(Worthwhile noting here that Hedy Lamarr’s invention of frequency hopping fed into very early work on mobile battlefield communications that in turn fed into the early work on packet switching, the foundation of today’s digital data systems.)

Edwin Black:

Nazi Nexus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nazi-Nexus-Corporate-Connections-Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust: https://www.amazon.co.uk/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook

Audrey Watters:

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/swords-into-plowshares

The Sixties! An illusion of hope …

It is interesting that the ‘Sixties’, that word that is a shorthand for all the things that seemed good but were, it now turns out, associated with some very bad things too (not least the reinforcement of libertarianism). Yes, there was ‘free love’, great music, liberating dress codes, and rise in laisser-faire attitude, but…

So, typical of the ‘revision’ of the Sixties myth is this quote from Karl Schroeder’s essay “Nobody is More Woke thatn Trump”:

“If Trump is attacking the core institutions of the United States and the international order, it’s because he knows that institutions embody values. He is “woke” according to the definition that the term has had for the past century. I like Gordana Lazić’s definition of it, as referring to “a heightened awareness of social inequalities and injustices.” The thing is, both the American Left (if there is such a thing anymore) and MAGA share this exact kind of heightened awareness—they just differ on what the injustices are.”

See also Part 3 of: Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Raymond Craib

Genocide in plain sight

“It’s not hidden, it’s just spun. Disguised by the propaganda of the mass media who frame this holocaust as a war of defense in response to a terrorist attack while constantly diverting our attention to other far less significant issues.” Caitlin Johstone, 26/4/25

A spittingly angry newsletter about a process that Chomsky called the manufacture of consent (and although Caitlin does note refer to that work directly, it fits …)

LLMs regurgitate mindlessly

An interesting example of the problem of ‘intelligent’ systems built on the coorpus on online content (mostly drivle):
This WP article reports on the stupid health statistics that stupid RF Kennedy likes to put about: e.g. “When my uncle was president, 2 percent of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66 percent have chronic disease.”

Quote from Article: “This is a favorite line of Kennedy’s — which he repeated while pitching his plan to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply. In the interview with Watters, he spoke broadly, about all Americans. During his confirmation hearings in January, he used a similar talking point about children: “When my uncle was president, 2 percent of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66 percent have chronic disease.

“He’s said it enough that the figures have started to creep into search results of AI models on chronic diseases in the 1960s. Presumably that’s because Kennedy is now a Cabinet secretary and apparently is considered a voice of authority.”

The article goes on to locate relevant stats from the 1960s – the period that RFK is referring to – and shows that his proposition is rubbish (in more ways than one).