Not only know it, they get their pants in a twist everytime they hear it.

Reposting this here to spice up marxsky: Real abstraction’ as a concept obfuscates the relations it purports to describe. It inhibits the posing of deeper questions;

Zuckerberg is right that some poeple will be at a cognitive disadvatage but it'll be the people wearing them, gradually losing their knowledge of how to live as Stiegler would argue.

RIP Joshua Clover.

Dutch late night TV has its take

I thought this was a joke about the golden calf, guess I was wrong.

Recommend everyone who has an account with academia.edu to delete it due to their new ToS. See thread below for how to do so, including a workaround.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

One reason Musk, Vance and Trumpworld are working overtime to manufacture a mass conspiracy that socialists and leftists are the root of all evil when those groups hold little actual institutional power is that this is the reality on the ground www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oh no.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Thread.

Machine sounds awesome.

A bit of that in Norwegian news too.

I just think the conversation about grades is stale. Let’s not talk about whether a paper is an A or a B. Believing that the process is the point means not caring so much about that, anyway. Let’s talk about whether the credentialed applicant knows, or knows how to do, anything that an app doesn’t.

I understand that it may be layers of irony and some in-joke/meme I don't get but it's still weird to learn that the anti-fascist song "Bella Ciao" was part of the groypers/Fuentes fanboy fascist subculture.

Culture jamming is back.

What's surprised me is that they are now larger than Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left Party) that traditionally would secure more leftwing voters.

Need a 6 hour sequel to The Young Karl Marx movie where it’s just him researching in the British Museum Reading Room, pawning his coat, smoking cigars and drinking, and dealing with his carbuncles and boils…culminating with the release of Capital volume 1. Get Béla Tarr to direct 🤔

When we create artificial intelligence robots, they will be given three Laws to safeguard humanity: 1. never do anything to decrease shareholder value. 2. always obey the company unless it conflicts with Law 1. 3. fuck the poor.

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

I hope more unions will take after CUPE/Air Canada workers and give the finger to Carney when his ilk inevitably orders strikers back to work. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Idiotisk. I Norge kan man kalle en politimann 'hestkuk', ihvertfall i Nord Norge som fastslått av en domstol.

Local man embraces fascism.

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

2025 SLF Working Class Writers Grant Applications Open

What's the point of XP if you don't get more HP, better sacing throws, more spells etc.?

This is closer to 170 days of an all-out strike - probably the longest in NHS history - and none of the left wing media outlets with dedicated labour correspondents seem to be interested? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bang on the money.

Nail on the fucking head.

When I saw this image, it reminded me of what I saw in Tripoli, Libya under Qadaffi. Trump already have the kitsch merch (Qadaffi's was better for its kitsch value), so this is just the logical next step.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Great polemic!

A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.

It's that time of the year I rage against the LMS, in our case Brightspace.

A few songs from the latest Stereolab album sounds a lot like Jaga Jazzist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant...

(9/??) In one of my writer groups, I’ve been told this is the result of a new AI program they are using to assess packages Customs information is entered, the AI determines whether or not the item being shipped is obscene The AI passes judgment without any visual inspection of the contents

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

"It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said, with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the State." —Clastres

Why? Just why?

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

"[B]rittle, overengineered, misaligned with actual workflows." And who's been calling LLMs a "brittle garbage technology" for years now? Me! People are apparently having trouble finding the report, here it is on my Acrobat: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

The Norwegian post office made the same decision recently too.

Finally got these two in the mail, been looking forward to reading both.

And Labour will give them what they want.

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...