'Backrooms' and 'Obsession' echo our technofascist hellscape

Human art, creativity, and language are continuously bastardized and perverted by AI—largely without our permission—while these technologies are increasingly used to spy on AI objectors, replace human workers, plan military strikes, fuel ICE detention, manipulate public opinion, and facilitate genocide. And there is no regard for agency or consent, or our safety and well-being, as…

Over the past few months, we've lost critical funding because we stand in solidarity with the most oppressed. We told the truth. And that makes some people uncomfortable. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation. 

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How the People's Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage

Soccer and Solidarity Coalesce in the South

As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more ​​displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism.

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