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#Digital vs. #Democracy
Not tech! People building first!
#Tech people are blind basically building the future trouble.
(We have enough already STOP)
Just use existing great basic things towards and focus on #friendships / increment #trust increase #people togetherness)
Not just solo work to make the next greatest weapon / crap / disposable code / or whatever.
People, not so much tech!
#Cadwalladr #DigitalCoup
#Privacy #Data #DataHarvesting
#Broligarchy = #TechBros + #Oligarchy
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I love the ampersand, not as a systematic tool but as a subtle inflection of my written voice.
I use it regularly but sparingly.
The ampersand is a sign of familiarity between friends. A tease, an indication of trust.
The ampersand is a flirt with the reader.
Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. We live and learn.
Only answer this poll if you're also #ActuallyAutistic - please refrain from answering if you're not autistic - thank-you.
Do you always know when someone isn't being completely truthful with you & have you experienced gaslighting from the ones that you knew weren't being fully honest?
It's a small detail but it shows the current way DOGE operates, it makes any trust in US cybersecurity, data and privacy protection dissappear. Not only for governments but also in company contexts. If DOGE is allowed to break all majors laws, US Government and the current oligarchs will also break any other contract or agreement if needed. Just like with immigrants there is no "rule of law".
#DOGE #trust #USA #government #cybersecurity #privacy #IT #oligarchy #geopolitics @geopolitics
Elon Musk’s net worth fluctuates around $220 billion — more than the GDP of over 130 countries. But what if that wealth did more than fund rockets and cars? Here are 10 ways a person of his wealth could change the world and cement a lasting legacy. 
#ElonMusk #billionare #Society #Health #UBI #cyber #Enviroment #Climate #Education #Water #Hunger #Vaccine #Trust #Legacy
New study: "[We] tested five theoretically grounded intervention strategies to improve #conservatives’ #trust in scientists. None of the interventions were successful, suggesting that trust in scientists reflects relatively stable attitudes that require more elaborate and time-intensive interventions."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02147-z
Also see this summary. US conservatives "distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to liberal Americans, their trust is also lower in fields that contribute to economic growth and productivity."
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-americans-distrust-science-survey.html
Trust is the infrastructure that allows us to have a society. It’s the roads, the signs, the painted lines that let us move through life without constant renegotiation. Institutions—courts, elections, schools, the press—depend on this infrastructure to carry meaning, decisions, and responsibilities from one place to another.
Now imagine waking up to find the asphalt torn up in chunks. Lane markers repainted to nowhere. Street signs vandalized or missing. Tires burning under overpasses. Nothing catastrophic. Just relentless small-scale sabotage—enough to make every trip harder, slower, riskier. At first, people are angry. They demand answers. They call for repairs.
But soon, the complaints start to shift.
“It’s too expensive to fix all of it.”
“We’ve patched that stretch three times already.”
“Maybe people shouldn’t rely on these roads so much.”
“Everyone’s got GPS now—just find another way.”
Some even say the damage proves the roads were poorly built to begin with. Not worth saving. Not worth trusting again.
And so the city adapts—not by fixing the roads, but by redefining what counts as a road. People buy heavier vehicles. They treat breakdowns as personal failures.
That’s what weaponized unreality is doing to public trust. Not erasing it, but warping it. Making the broken routes seem normal, and blaming anyone who still expects the roads to work.
@clintruin @emptywheel.bsky.social Since you asked, it is not yet curtains. Really really close, but not yet. It is true that the rule of #law is hanging on by a slender thread. It is true that #Congress is fully subverted. It is true that the institutions of federal government that provide essential services to us are being systematically erased. Very hard times are ahead.
But… I keep returning to the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence. #Patriots sacrificed, fought, died, and ultimately prevailed to achieve what it says. Please read the brief document (link below) because this is why I believe our situation not yet checkmate: the power of the people to consent or not.
“[…] when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute #Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
I have no idea how this will be done, or when, or how long it will take. Nevertheless, I place my ultimate #trust, my #hope, in the power, right and duty of people to choose.
“When our leaders abandon #character, it does more than set a poor example.
“It accelerates decay. It tells people that principles are optional, that decency is weakness, that rules are for fools.
“It fosters a #culture of fear, where hesitation replaces #confidence, cynicism replaces #trust and self-preservation replaces the #courage to stand for what is right.
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Since #WWII, the #USA had established itself as the anchor of the world #economy
This was based on #trust
#MAGA morons will never admit it, but in less than 100 days, #Trump destroyed it. He doesn't know what trust means
It's not coming back, for a long time, if it's coming back at all
The #USA will suffer greatly for it
But not MAGA morons
They are immune to shame
"Investors are growing concerned about a U.S. asset exodus as Treasuries and the #dollar decline"
Researchers concerned to find #AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes
Remember when teachers demanded that you "show your work" in school? Some new types of AI models promise to do exactly that, but new researchsuggests that the "work" they show can sometimes be misleading or disconnected from the actual process used to reach the answer.
#security #trust
If trust is important for developing & maintaining complex economic relations, what happens when a key market player (the USA) is led by someone that its increasingly clear is not trustworthy?
Trump's malign influence on global economics may in the end be much more about the erosion of trust at the level of international diplomatic relations underpinning global markets, than about any specific actions or reversals!
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/trust-factor-hidden-engine-economic-specialisation
America, how dafuq is anybody gonna trust you now?
How can you possibly expect foreign investors to invest in America?
How can you believe nations will forge any kind of partnership with America when they know the rug can be pulled out from beneath them without a moment's notice?
Excellent point:
Rep Suzan DelBene (D-WA) asked Jamieson Greer, the top US #trade negotiator, how any country can #trust the trade deals that #Trump is negotiating, given that he has “thrown out” previous agreements by imposing #tariffs, including the trade deal he signed with #Canada & #Mexico in his first term. Greer said that the #US was still “the consumer market of choice for everybody” [not for long] & the admin was having “several meetings” every day about new deals.
Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai
Hi ChatGPT, how many days, denials, and misdirections were there between the Oracle Cloud hack and the eventual admission?
Explain it to me as if sensitive data, security, and my trust in big tech companies are always, by default, in safe hands.
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