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America is dying

Brad Ovitt, 1 d.
- Politics - Society -
Over centuries of supreme court cases, the first amendment right to free speech has been made extremely clear: you can have any political opinion you want. This is no longer strictly true, and auxiliary rights like privacy have been undermined as well. **DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY** In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. We now know from various political elites and a large body of evidence that the CIA was directly involved in this, though the documents on it are still classified. Many presidents, including Trump and Biden, have promised to declassify the documents, but mysteriously, none have. In fact, a large body of classified information on topics like COVID and the war in Iraq remain gated for no apparently legitimate reason. It's part of a concerning trend of information control. Since then, the FBI and CIA have developed sweeping powers to surveil citizens, and foreigners especially, as exposed by Edward Snowden. The CIA has also engaged in illegal experiments on citizens, such as the MK Ultra project. Many Americans are also afraid to voice their political opinions due to a social movement of "canceling" people for their beliefs. People have lost their jobs and had their careers destroyed for their political opinions, an issue that began in the McCarthy era when many professionals lost their jobs for being socialists. I've linked a document at the bottom from a Republican House Judiciary Committee outlining many constitutional violations and censorship of true information from the existing presidential administration. The document is almost 900 pages long, but to summarize: it's a horrible situation. **LOOMING THREAT OF CIVIL WAR** Donald Trump is the first president in American history trying to defend his innocence in court. He's also running for re-election. He lost the last election, criticized it's integrity, and mobilized his supporters to break into the US capitol, killing four people. In a recent interview he said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of political violence if he loses again. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/politics/trump-political-violence-2024-time-interview/index.html America is also facing what I consider to be the worst migrant crisis in her history. The borders are completely open, which the FBI director called a major national security threat. For 4 years the president has been complicit with an open-border policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/26/texas-border-dispute-breeds-loose-talk-civil-war-resistance-right/ Also, the worst substance abuse and homelessness crisis in American history. Streets of major cities are overrun with tent encampments and drugged out "zombies," as people call them, because they roam incoherently with necrosis of their flesh from a drug called xylazine, also known as Tranq. There are widespread reports of mentally-ill homeless people attacking pedestrians in major cities. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66826895 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJt3xuTPRVU The American school system is also in crisis. "Our K-12 public education system is not designed to be effective in student learning, educator performance, or the effective utilization of money. Devoid of accountability, it will never effectively educate our children. It would be more accurate to describe our public education system as our country’s largest adult employment program." - Donald Nielsen, Senior Fellow and Chairman, American Center for Transforming Education Higher education too. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/financial-health/2023/07/11/american-confidence-higher-ed-hits-historic-low Americans don't trust the elections. https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-02-13/majority-of-americans-dont-trust-elections-poll This movie was made depicting an American civil war in 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17279496/ According to Gallup News, the approval rating for Congress is 18%. I haven't talked to a single person who's told me they think a civil war in 2024 is implausible. **CONCLUSION** There is A LOT that I haven't gone over, but America is in freefall. The system has been hijacked by a kleptocracy and cultural subversion. For many Americans, the 2024 election is their last hope to see the system work. Most people plan to vote not for their preference, but against who they're afraid of being in power. If Biden wins reelection there is a serious possibility of civil war. The future of America hasn't looked so uncertain since the last civil war. The existing administration has turned to unconstitutional censorship to ease tensions.
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Accelerating Team Human

Brad Ovitt, 1 mon.
- Technology - Society - Business -
As the solar eclipse moved across America today, there was a timer. Maybe nobody was watching it, but it was there. I created it. At the moment of eclipse totality a job search site called Blackflag was quietly released with the hope of improving the way teams are built. One small step in a larger mission to change the role technology plays in the evolution of our society. One small step in a larger mission to accelerate team human. It's a vague and ambiguous mission for a reason. Much talk has been made recently over accelerationism philosophy. For example, Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a philosophy of maximizing energy consumption and compute by exponentially improving technology to improve society. In response there has been debate over the increasingly negative impact technology has on society and some have asserted humanism. I think it's an interesting commentary because, while there have always been those who imprint virtues to actions, if ethics is how to act, the introduction of technology and deemphasis of the human condition on ethics is an almost formulaic way to calculate the demise of team human. Modernism symbolizes either Leviathan or "god is dead." What do you call the intersection of science, technology, and society? There is science, which we consider rigorous thought. Then there is technology, which is the application of science. Technology is in direct contrast with our relativistic field of social studies. The relationship between society and technology is unclear, but clearly present. Of course, if I were not a technologist, I would not be building technology. Perhaps to more aptly summarize: the mission of Blackflag is to expand the the role society plays in technology, while minimizing the interference of technology on society. It is a non-political mission, though it may be seen as ideologically driven to a form of environmentalism and accelerationism. To begin, Blackflag is providing a free publicly-available job search engine that is the start of a larger effort to improve the quality of our organizations and teams. While Blackflag will be a commercial organization, it's symbol and likeness are public domain. * note blackflag.dev will be moved to blackflag.jobs, for which I am awaiting delayed ICANN verification.
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