We are going to win

A demoralizing assemblage of words by the Broligarchy's language-predicting Propaganda Machines was shared in a chat group I'm in last night. It caused quite a panic among some group members, which was the point of it. No doubt, it's not the only one like it circulating in popularized places online.

I will not repeat the content of or link to the one shared in our group chat from the Nazi Bar called Substack. But I will caution that the propagandists weaponizing these LLMS are targeting those who don't completely distrust the output of their non-thinking machines, who can, therefore, be more easily led into conspiratorial thinking and down a path to apathy, or worse, authoritarian complicity.

Skepticism is called for when an anonymous source claims some "hidden" master plan just happened to be revealed to them by asking ChatGPT, Claude, et al questions. These chat bots, by their design, employ algorithmic "reasoning" to reach backwards and cherry-pick through their data set to satisfy a motivated prompt.

I have a brain to think, eyes to see, ears to hear, and a body with needs, wants, and feelings to know my reality, and so do you. More than ever, we need to rely on the senses and sense we embody that these unintelligent, programmed mimics of humanity can never truly have.

My senses and thinking human brain tell me this:

Things got this way because they could.

Motivated, powerful people took action wherever they saw opportunities to push ahead. But let's not give them more credit than due that what got us here was totally orchestrated to some great level of detail from the beginning (which the chat bot-informed, authorless Substack propaganda claimed in plausible-sounding sentences). Committed groups of people kept testing every boundary on every front, looking for weaknesses to exploit (materially backed by ideological orgs, think tanks, private finance, etc.) and that's how things got this way.

Which is important to understand because:

Things can be made to get other ways.

These groups of folks doing things most of us don't like only keep "progressing" their ideologies if too many people let them. If too many of all of us let them. We each have opportunities to push our own lines forward, testing every boundary on every front, looking for their weaknesses to exploit (of which there are many). Even small acts of resistance, done by many, advances our causes. Acts of love and care in solidarity are resistance.

We should laugh at any fate the unthinking prediction machine outlines for us, and ignore the charlatans claiming wisdom has been revealed to them by conversations with chat bots. "Oh, the techno-fascists' word weapon told you the odds are not in our favor? Hah! Well, my real human actually thinking brain calculates our odds are good, actually."

We are going to win.