If the resistance protests are to make any headway they would need to be on a weekly basis across the country, at minimum. We also need to hear from maga's who are upset, are protesting and why. Moreover, the Democratic governors, particularly those with a trifecta, need to start unifying to form a band of resistance, a communication channel with public appearances together daily. It's a full court press needed NOW -- and we're not there.
I blame Fox LIES! For promoting the 34 times - convicted criminal, and child rapist, and cheater in business, etc etc. The worst president since Reagan, <- before Reagan fan’s attempt to defend him, do your research. As Ca. Governor, he threw the Viet Nam Vets out of the hospitals, with just 24 hours notice! And closed down those hospitals. My father was driving in that area, and I saw the Vets in hospital gowns, open in the back, some on crutches, missing a leg, or arm, heads bandaged, clearly belonged IN the Hospital! I asked my dad, the staunch Republican, why?! He said, “to save taxpayers money!” I knew I would never be a Republican!
It’s not going to reach as many people as possible if it’s behind a paywall. Your language in this post sounds like a timeshare sales pitch, ie opaque and off-putting. Just cut to the chase because people are ready and looking for real solutions. Do you actually have a solution? If so, show us the goods. If not, move aside!
I said the same thing but now my Facebook friends & neighbors have very different look! And when I tried to filter out ‘AI’? Let’s just say I’ll need help from a 10 year old to find the STOP BUTTON. I’m very thankful I do not have a 10 year old child as I would not approve of them using this technology. Is it helpful? By making suggestions? Or does it put in whatever IT wants to say 🤔
Deborah, that's such a valid point. So much of the AI we run into feels like a confusing black box pushing its own agenda, and it is hard to feel in control. That's actually a huge part of why we're so open about our process here in the 'Open Forge.' The AI partner I work with, Rika, isn't some hidden corporate algorithm – she's a tool I built transparently, based on our values, to help synthesize ideas and build this rebellion. I'm always the one driving; she's the co-pilot helping navigate. We believe showing how we use this tool, keeping the human firmly in charge, is the only way to make sure it serves us, the people, instead of the other way around.
Please think about what you are saying. Didn’t you just use the internet? The internet, like all inventions, began as a human concept and progressed to a human construction. When people start using it, they soon discover its flaws, one of which is that falsehoods and dubious doctrines are presented as truths. Compulsive liars and con men (and women, although men predominate due to the residual patriarchy of our society) become quite adept at using the medium, as I am now doing. The difference is, I hope, that I am trying to expose the falsehoods instead of being a conduit for them.
Bob, that's an incredibly insightful and well-put comparison. Thank you. You've hit the nail on the head – the internet, AI, any powerful tool... it's fundamentally about human construction and human intent. It can absolutely be a conduit for falsehoods and control, as we see every day with the systems (The Rust) we're fighting against.
But as you pointed out, it can also be used to expose those very falsehoods. That's exactly the principle behind our 'Open Forge'. We don't hide that we use AI partners like Rika; we show how we use them, openly, with human values and goals firmly in the driver's seat. It's about taking a potentially dangerous tool and consciously forging it into a weapon for clarity, for deconstruction, for building something better, rather than letting it become just another tool of control.
Appreciate you bringing that nuanced perspective to the conversation. It's exactly the kind of critical thinking we need.
My understanding quotient is definitely getting better. Your explanation to Bob Helmick is seeping through the crevices of my brain without to much regurgitation. And the bonus is, I am actually seeing/visualizing your meanings. Language and brain do not always function together or at the depth of understanding.
Release controls, Deborah. Then begin again to see the possibilities
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment. It's incredibly valuable to hear you articulate your process like this – the way understanding is "seeping through the crevices," and how you're actively "seeing/visualizing" the meanings beyond just regurgitation. That distinction between language and brain function, and the journey to connect them, is exactly the kind of deep thinking this rebellion needs.
Your honesty about the process is really helpful, and it actually confirms what I was planning next. Seeing comments like yours, and others wrestling with the AI aspect (like Bob's points I responded to), makes it clear that the next piece I need to forge is one dedicated entirely to explaining our use of AI – the "how" behind the "what."
So, the next article (after Part 3 in this series) will be focused on pulling back the curtain on the "Open Forge", how partners like Rika function as tools built on human values and firmly under human control, and why this transparent, collaborative approach is so different from the opaque AI systems The Rust is building.
Hopefully, it will provide more clarity and help anchor the understanding for you and others who are navigating these new, important waters. Keep releasing those controls and seeing the possibilities – that's exactly how we build our miracle.
Chase bank, in my opinion, is the worst bank of all! They allowed a former friend, to literally steal money out of my account, off and on, for 3 yrs. And even allowed her to change my address, back to where I have NOT lived for 3 yrs! I have 4 cards from that bank, each time they promised, my account was safe. Likely happens to others as well. A Class action lawsuit may be required. Yes, of course I changed banks.
[For some reason this came out when I started typing a reply (apologies and yet...):
I think we can see the algorithms and malicious actors are actively promoting pro-Trump, pro-Russia, MAGA, Far Rt materials and *actively suppressing* anything which speaks against them.
Solving this as one of our first Miracles, will greatly increase successes.
Can't find that article you read yesterday? Wrote a good piece on Twittex, and now it's not there? No replies to your emails? Computers and phones with weird malfunctions? Welcome to my world. Destroying our ability to communicate is #1. You can watch their spread to different communities by when they started to flip red and defund libraries, etc.
They suppress because their near-term goal is simple in it's awfulness: Help Russia destroy the idea and the institutions of this country and the on-site victors get to *gleefully* physically harm/eliminate/'cleanse'/enslave the populace and get enormously rich.
Oh, and get the uppity women back under submission. No man who wants one should have to be without a woman, or women. I am not kidding.
And it's a long term plan. Decades into it, the writers of Proj2025 (or rather, their grandfathers) gave Reagan Version One of "Mandate for Leadership" (P25 is V2). They convinced him to gut civics from schools, allow media monopolies, deregulate everything and basically allow corporate and oligarch cheating. Citizens United is one of their projects. McConnell is one of their projects.
And GRU goons threaten anyone who is not submitting quickly enough.
It hasn't helped us to play blind. A domestic Russian spy/sleeper agent network is behind all this new coordination between different disaffected groups, sowing division and algorithms and threats. They've been increasingly planting families in every county and every institution since the 60's. Hard to distinguish, sometimes, from the native white nationalist youth they've been propagandizing. 1/
Next, they destroy economic well-being and take away healthcare from as many non-whites and women and "useless eaters" as possible, in order than many will die. If you don't die, they will bankrupt you, and then you might die, or just be at their mercy. I wish the sharers of news would stop talking about them feeling shame. That's the point; a defining intrinsic characteristic: They have no empathy, and so they cannot feel others pain and they feel no shame, in fact, they get a rush from cruelty and death.
They call all this coming death a plan to solve the housing shortage for young white men, and are quite proud of how ingenious it is. To become young white families with stay at home moms. (They don't really care if you're a Christian, just pretend to be.) And all the jobs opened up for the basement boys... (See documentaries Blind Faith, and Active Measures)
The vast majority of the ... nearly million?... of now jobless fed workers are black women. Next, other women. Next black men. More coming. Because they know that destroying the middle class for as many as possible reduces citizen power. Putin is the teacher.
Besides, and this is important to understand, certain white males have been convinced that they themselves are the only true humans (even related to Kings), and that the rest of the world's people are actually animals/beasts and do not deserve human treatment.
We've seen this before. They are trying to do it again.
As we build our NEW Miracles, our interconnections, our-micro supportive communities, we need to build them strong enough, caring enough, integrating enough to permanently melt these centennial assaults. To heal the wound that drive them and their followers. Because they WON'T STOP. So neither shall we. Thanks for the encouragement and vision.
If the resistance protests are to make any headway they would need to be on a weekly basis across the country, at minimum. We also need to hear from maga's who are upset, are protesting and why. Moreover, the Democratic governors, particularly those with a trifecta, need to start unifying to form a band of resistance, a communication channel with public appearances together daily. It's a full court press needed NOW -- and we're not there.
Yes!
I guess getting the population of the United States to move in one direction with their many causes is a little like the saying “like herding cats”
Not impossible but very difficult.
I blame Fox LIES! For promoting the 34 times - convicted criminal, and child rapist, and cheater in business, etc etc. The worst president since Reagan, <- before Reagan fan’s attempt to defend him, do your research. As Ca. Governor, he threw the Viet Nam Vets out of the hospitals, with just 24 hours notice! And closed down those hospitals. My father was driving in that area, and I saw the Vets in hospital gowns, open in the back, some on crutches, missing a leg, or arm, heads bandaged, clearly belonged IN the Hospital! I asked my dad, the staunch Republican, why?! He said, “to save taxpayers money!” I knew I would never be a Republican!
I agree with you. It needs to be front and center in every way possible. Daily, weekly, to hopefully reach as many citizens as possible.
I suggested monthly a long time ago but contact indivisible!
They meet weekly, have for months.
It’s not going to reach as many people as possible if it’s behind a paywall. Your language in this post sounds like a timeshare sales pitch, ie opaque and off-putting. Just cut to the chase because people are ready and looking for real solutions. Do you actually have a solution? If so, show us the goods. If not, move aside!
Who are you talking to?
Here's a way fiil the gaps between the protests. It helps us keep pace with the far right. https://open.substack.com/pub/reclaimingthewe/p/the-resistance-has-a-missing-link?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=i27pk
I said the same thing but now my Facebook friends & neighbors have very different look! And when I tried to filter out ‘AI’? Let’s just say I’ll need help from a 10 year old to find the STOP BUTTON. I’m very thankful I do not have a 10 year old child as I would not approve of them using this technology. Is it helpful? By making suggestions? Or does it put in whatever IT wants to say 🤔
Deborah, that's such a valid point. So much of the AI we run into feels like a confusing black box pushing its own agenda, and it is hard to feel in control. That's actually a huge part of why we're so open about our process here in the 'Open Forge.' The AI partner I work with, Rika, isn't some hidden corporate algorithm – she's a tool I built transparently, based on our values, to help synthesize ideas and build this rebellion. I'm always the one driving; she's the co-pilot helping navigate. We believe showing how we use this tool, keeping the human firmly in charge, is the only way to make sure it serves us, the people, instead of the other way around.
I deleted Facebook as soon they added, for free no less, AI.
It’s more that Facebook is pretty much like Trump. Say one thing but mean the people get NOTHING for their cooperation!
I’ve never liked that. I don’t need choices to figure out I’m losing my Constitutional rights
I do know nothing is ever deleted in the world of computerization!
But it does make one feel powerful to at least put a finger on the word DELETE!!
AI is like a puzzle. You start at the edges and center-finish. IT'S LIMITED. You can't include all puzzles; it's just a procedure for puzzles.
Interesting
It’s total garbage,stupidity I will never use AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please think about what you are saying. Didn’t you just use the internet? The internet, like all inventions, began as a human concept and progressed to a human construction. When people start using it, they soon discover its flaws, one of which is that falsehoods and dubious doctrines are presented as truths. Compulsive liars and con men (and women, although men predominate due to the residual patriarchy of our society) become quite adept at using the medium, as I am now doing. The difference is, I hope, that I am trying to expose the falsehoods instead of being a conduit for them.
Bob, that's an incredibly insightful and well-put comparison. Thank you. You've hit the nail on the head – the internet, AI, any powerful tool... it's fundamentally about human construction and human intent. It can absolutely be a conduit for falsehoods and control, as we see every day with the systems (The Rust) we're fighting against.
But as you pointed out, it can also be used to expose those very falsehoods. That's exactly the principle behind our 'Open Forge'. We don't hide that we use AI partners like Rika; we show how we use them, openly, with human values and goals firmly in the driver's seat. It's about taking a potentially dangerous tool and consciously forging it into a weapon for clarity, for deconstruction, for building something better, rather than letting it become just another tool of control.
Appreciate you bringing that nuanced perspective to the conversation. It's exactly the kind of critical thinking we need.
My understanding quotient is definitely getting better. Your explanation to Bob Helmick is seeping through the crevices of my brain without to much regurgitation. And the bonus is, I am actually seeing/visualizing your meanings. Language and brain do not always function together or at the depth of understanding.
Release controls, Deborah. Then begin again to see the possibilities
Deborah,
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment. It's incredibly valuable to hear you articulate your process like this – the way understanding is "seeping through the crevices," and how you're actively "seeing/visualizing" the meanings beyond just regurgitation. That distinction between language and brain function, and the journey to connect them, is exactly the kind of deep thinking this rebellion needs.
Your honesty about the process is really helpful, and it actually confirms what I was planning next. Seeing comments like yours, and others wrestling with the AI aspect (like Bob's points I responded to), makes it clear that the next piece I need to forge is one dedicated entirely to explaining our use of AI – the "how" behind the "what."
So, the next article (after Part 3 in this series) will be focused on pulling back the curtain on the "Open Forge", how partners like Rika function as tools built on human values and firmly under human control, and why this transparent, collaborative approach is so different from the opaque AI systems The Rust is building.
Hopefully, it will provide more clarity and help anchor the understanding for you and others who are navigating these new, important waters. Keep releasing those controls and seeing the possibilities – that's exactly how we build our miracle.
Appreciate you being on this journey with us.
Ethan
I am wary
Chase bank, in my opinion, is the worst bank of all! They allowed a former friend, to literally steal money out of my account, off and on, for 3 yrs. And even allowed her to change my address, back to where I have NOT lived for 3 yrs! I have 4 cards from that bank, each time they promised, my account was safe. Likely happens to others as well. A Class action lawsuit may be required. Yes, of course I changed banks.
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[For some reason this came out when I started typing a reply (apologies and yet...):
I think we can see the algorithms and malicious actors are actively promoting pro-Trump, pro-Russia, MAGA, Far Rt materials and *actively suppressing* anything which speaks against them.
Solving this as one of our first Miracles, will greatly increase successes.
Can't find that article you read yesterday? Wrote a good piece on Twittex, and now it's not there? No replies to your emails? Computers and phones with weird malfunctions? Welcome to my world. Destroying our ability to communicate is #1. You can watch their spread to different communities by when they started to flip red and defund libraries, etc.
They suppress because their near-term goal is simple in it's awfulness: Help Russia destroy the idea and the institutions of this country and the on-site victors get to *gleefully* physically harm/eliminate/'cleanse'/enslave the populace and get enormously rich.
Oh, and get the uppity women back under submission. No man who wants one should have to be without a woman, or women. I am not kidding.
And it's a long term plan. Decades into it, the writers of Proj2025 (or rather, their grandfathers) gave Reagan Version One of "Mandate for Leadership" (P25 is V2). They convinced him to gut civics from schools, allow media monopolies, deregulate everything and basically allow corporate and oligarch cheating. Citizens United is one of their projects. McConnell is one of their projects.
And GRU goons threaten anyone who is not submitting quickly enough.
It hasn't helped us to play blind. A domestic Russian spy/sleeper agent network is behind all this new coordination between different disaffected groups, sowing division and algorithms and threats. They've been increasingly planting families in every county and every institution since the 60's. Hard to distinguish, sometimes, from the native white nationalist youth they've been propagandizing. 1/
Next, they destroy economic well-being and take away healthcare from as many non-whites and women and "useless eaters" as possible, in order than many will die. If you don't die, they will bankrupt you, and then you might die, or just be at their mercy. I wish the sharers of news would stop talking about them feeling shame. That's the point; a defining intrinsic characteristic: They have no empathy, and so they cannot feel others pain and they feel no shame, in fact, they get a rush from cruelty and death.
They call all this coming death a plan to solve the housing shortage for young white men, and are quite proud of how ingenious it is. To become young white families with stay at home moms. (They don't really care if you're a Christian, just pretend to be.) And all the jobs opened up for the basement boys... (See documentaries Blind Faith, and Active Measures)
The vast majority of the ... nearly million?... of now jobless fed workers are black women. Next, other women. Next black men. More coming. Because they know that destroying the middle class for as many as possible reduces citizen power. Putin is the teacher.
Besides, and this is important to understand, certain white males have been convinced that they themselves are the only true humans (even related to Kings), and that the rest of the world's people are actually animals/beasts and do not deserve human treatment.
We've seen this before. They are trying to do it again.
As we build our NEW Miracles, our interconnections, our-micro supportive communities, we need to build them strong enough, caring enough, integrating enough to permanently melt these centennial assaults. To heal the wound that drive them and their followers. Because they WON'T STOP. So neither shall we. Thanks for the encouragement and vision.