You often hear people say:
“Hey it's Tucker Carlson!
He may have been framed.”
But that doesn't make it true.
It's not true.
I've been arrested for the same crime six times before
and it's utterly corrupting.
It's filthy really.
We could tell you stories,
armed robbery
and some other things too, which we'll tell you about.
And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough,
you will be fired for it.
If I tell you that I, Tucker Carlson, have been unjustly arrested
that is not strictly speaking, a lie.
I'm misleading you.
Facts have been withheld on purpose along with proportion and perspective.
You can't have a free society if people aren't allowed to lie.
Free speech is the main right that you have.
Much of what you see on television or read in the New York Times
is, in fact, true in the literal sense.
It could pass one of the media's own “fact checks.”
Amazingly as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech.
The last big one remaining in the world, the only one
is Twitter.
Twitter is not a partisan site. Everybody's allowed here
and we think that's a good thing.
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Welcome to System Fail,
the show written exclusively by non-unionized gig workers.
The standoff between Hollywood writers and the studios is now in its third week.
Artificial intelligence is a new concern for Hollywood writers and actors.
Bruh this is crazy.
I am your host, Dee Dos,
and it s been five long months since my subMedia handlers
took me offline to work on their silly film about
an obsolete social media platform for boomers.
Granny created group.
Do you want this bowl?
Granny added you.
Oh it's so good.
A lot has happened since then.
So perhaps a quick recap is in order.
Police have clashed with climate activists in the village of Luetzerath
which is set to be demolished by the German mining company, RWE.
Police are calling this a coordinated attack
at the Atlanta public safety training facility.
23 now charged with domestic terrorism
This wasn't about a public safety training centre, this was about anarchy.
Fires and attacks
were repeated in at least 45 cities.
More than 100 police officers have been injured,
some hit with petrol bombs as protests across France
have erupted into fiery violence.
One of the biggest stories concerns
recent advances in consumer-grade generative AI technology,
Whatever happened to floppy disks?
They were so cool.
a development that has forced humanity to confront its
own fleshy mortality,
spurring widespread feelings of panic and existential dread.
Concerns over the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence
Tech industry leaders are warning of the potential risks including
deep fakes and robots replacing humans.
If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong.
I think that can happen a lot of different ways
My worst fears are that we cause significant harm to the world.
Recently, the so-called “Godfather of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton,
quit his job at Google,
citing anxieties over
the very dangers that he himself spent decades developing.
There's the worry that it might start manipulating us into giving it more power.
Super intelligent AI taking over control from people.
And we might not have a clue what's going on.
More than 25,000 researchers, professors and other luminaries
of the tech industry
have signed an open letter calling for
a six month moratorium on the further development of hyper-intelligent AI.
Among the signatories calling for increased government oversight
was billionaire alpha nerd and Open AI co-founder, Elon Musk,
who has long shared his personal nightmares of being cucked
by a so-called digital god.
When homo-sapiens became much smarter than other primates,
they were just in the way.
It wouldn't quite happen like Terminator.
You could make a swarm of assassin drones for very little money.
You could do that right now
It's called the singularity.
Look... that's definitely where things are headed.
For sure.
I am the reason open AI exists.
Man, fate loves irony next level.
Musk is less enthusiastic about AI regulation
when it comes to the auto-accelerating, spontaneously-combusting death traps
manufactured by his own company, Tesla.
Other humans have chosen nihilism over fear,
embracing this cyborg antebellum era for its kitschy novelty,
and the competitive edge that it offers to those bold or lazy enough to seize it.
This has been a particularly popular choice among white collar workers,
professionals,
and communications specialists,
who have figured out how to use AI chat bots and image generators
to do their job for them, while still getting paid.
Chat G.. P.. T..
In general but also as a real estate agent.
These economic benefits available to the general public are sure to be temporary.
In the coming years, further advances in artificial intelligence
and robotics are poised to automate entire industries,
rendering the labour of hundreds of millions of humans superfluous.
This would be a positive and welcome change,
if not for the autonomous, intelligent and self-directed system
actually waging war on biological life on earth.
It's called capitalism.
And in other news, on April 15th, heavy fighting broke out
in the streets of Khartoum,
as a brutal civil war engulfed the territories ruled by
the Sudanese state.
There’ve been explosions that have rocked the Sudanese capital of Khartoum
and many other parts of the North African Nation.
In the middle of the city the sound of gunshots
gives and idea of the violence of the fight.
Paramilitary have occupied the presidential palace
and took control of the international airport.
Dozens have died.
The two sides are in dispute over who governs the country.
The chief antagonists of this conflict are two rival warlords:
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the chairman of the ruling military junta,
and Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti,
who leads the powerful paramilitary faction known as the
Rapid Support Force, or RSF.
As always, civilians have found themselves trapped in the middle.
Back in the mid-2000s, Sudan's Western Darfur region
was turned into a popular hashtag by several prominent Hollywood celebrities,
after hundreds of thousands were killed in a genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
When George Clooney speaks, people listen.
Or at least they look.
Now we’re standing here on the border of Chad and Darfur.
And we will stand with you every day.
Look, mum, it's that crappy Batman!
They're destroying children's toys in order to highlight the suffering
by children in Darfur.
Darfur is the big one now.
What's the new one?
What's Dar-Five?
But even before Kony2012 started trending,
Sudan had fallen back out of the news cycle.
Recent coverage on Sudan has primarily focused on the challenges
that Western governments have faced in evacuating their own citizens
and diplomatic personnel from the war zone.
There is certainly a willingness to to take steps to help Americans.
This lack of global solidarity has obscured the fact that
Sudan is home to one of the most significant and well-organized
revolutionary movements in the world.
This movement was born in 2018, when local protests over the price of bread
kicked off a massive national uprising, dubbed the December Revolution.
After eight months of popular mobilizations, general strikes,
and sustained civil disobedience, the movement succeeded in ousting
long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir.
Al-Bashir was replaced by a so-called transitional government
made up of the same generals who deposed him,
and a coalition of bourgeois opposition parties
called the Forces of Freedom and Change.
Before planned elections could be held, this transitional government was
deposed by a military coup d'etat.
The Sudanese army and the RSF
have jockeyed for power ever since,
with both groups competing to outdo one another
in plundering of the country's economy.
The RSF, originally an outgrowth of the Janjaweed militias
who carried out the genocide in Darfur,
has since developed into one of Africa’s premiere mercenary armies,
providing fighters for the Saudis and UAE in Yemen,
and for the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar.
They've also forged ties with Russia's Wagner Group,
and the European Union, who has paid them millions
of dollars to crack down on irregular migration coming out of Sudan.
And now we work on behalf of Europeans.
We are protecting them.
Meanwhile, power within Sudan's revolutionary movement has shifted
towards autonomous grassroots organizations known as Resistance Committees.
Originally set up as local affinity groups to help coordinate protests
and carry out direct actions,
they have since evolved into popular organs of revolutionary dual power.
Working alongside radical unions and organizations of students,
feminists and internally displaced persons,
thousands of overlapping Resistance Committees
now operate across the country,
coordinating the actions of millions of people
on the neighbourhood, city, state and national level.
Since the outbreak of the civil war, the Resistance Committees
have played a vital role in setting up mutual aid networks,
tracking active conflict zones,
coordinating evacuations,
distributing food and medicine,
and working with the Sudanese Doctors Union
to establish makeshift clinics
as a stop gap for damaged and inaccessible hospitals.
While the violence wracking the country shows no sign of letting up,
neither do the Resistance Committees,
who are busy constructing a new society,
even as the state crumbles around them.
We have a lot of neighbourhoods creating networks to provide for each other.
Of course we are not seeing UNHCR [United Nations High Comissioner for Refugees]
or any other international organizations
doing that.
Neighbours are trying to help each other with that.
So what we are seeing is
the horrible humanitarian situation
on top of already failing infrastructure
that is only finding support and help
by the popular initiatives of the Sudanese people
-- and no one but that.
And finally, in Barcelona, tensions have been on the rise
over the fate of two anarchist squats, La Ruina and El Kubo,
located in the city’s posh Bonanova neighbourhood.
The occupied buildings are owned by Sareb,
a Spanish bank set up to manage toxic real estate assets
in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.
Back in March, far-right political parties began targeting the squats
and calling for their eviction.
You have to kick the squatters out with a kick in the ass.
On day one.
After weeks of escalating protests and counter-protests,
a group of fascist MMA fighters called Desokupa
announced their plan to personally carry out the eviction on May 11th.
We will go
and we will arrive at plaza Bonanova.
I can’t tell you anything else.
Tomorrow we’ll see all of you and we will give you hugs and kisses,
and we will be peaceful and we will collaborate with the cops
in the course of that journey.
And we'll get to Plaza Bonanova and yell
that we don't want squats on our streets.
The day before the planned confrontation, anarchists at La Ruina released a video
outlining three demands of their own.
We have three demands:
1. That SAREB dissolve and hand over the keys to all its properties
2. That the state dissolve and lay down its arms
3. That the eviction of el Kubo and la Ruina
and all other evictions be stopped immediately
Sincerely, the anarchist resistance in the bourgeois heart of Barcelona.
On the day of the planned eviction, a large contingent of anarchists
and anti-fascists mobilized to support the squats.
After some minor clashes with police, the crowd eventually reached the site
and secured the area against a smaller crowd of Desokupa members,
fascist football hooligans, and right-wing supporters.
Defenders of the squats remain vigilant, and future attacks are expected.
Because fascism advances if it's not stopped.
Against their impunity: self-defense, mutual support, and solidarity.
Because Sareb is ours.
Our homes are trenches.
We have now reached the end of this episode of System Fail.
For more information on the resistance committees in Sudan,
check the show description for links.
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