bsky.app/profile/budg... Marx slop is all that rote interwar diamat stuff, like Cornforth and people like that, and the theory output of the USSR in the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods (and of Chinese "socialism" now)

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

Blue MAGA engagement farmers get blocked on sight. Worst people on Bluesky

Massive iceberg flirting with one of our red sail boats in Disko Bay, Greenland… #photography #nature #adventure #landscape #art #greenland

Yeah I'm very skilled at GPT (Gender Problem Twink)

diegetic autocannibalism. we love to see it, don't we, folks?

In a better timeline, Sadie Plant and Kodwo Eshun would be intellectual stars, Mark Fisher would still be alive, and Nick Land would be a mostly forgotten fringe author from the 1990s. Also, «artificial intelligence» would be a funny cold war idea that nobody takes seriously

the american work ethic makes it possible for us to get 20, 30 years of humiliation in only a single calendar year

I'm not a historian. But I can think of no precedent in modern Britain for what is being done to trans people. The media, public institutions, Government and (too often) the judiciary are combining to attack or exclude a marginalized group and its allies - with really no significant demurral.

Imagine rooting for the US in any sport ever. Couldn't be me

My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on The Gradient

the principled republican stance here is something like: good this happened, also fuck this institution for keeping him out of jail this long

The US needs this tbh bsky.app/profile/chen...

These type of "friends of socialist China" arguments (I mean Piker's) are so crap. The US federal government has over 2 million employees, so I guess they're twice as right and smart as the CPC! bsky.app/profile/redd...

This is really a labor aspect of "AI" that is way too understated in most analysis bsky.app/profile/404m...

so much online infrastructure is so psychologically unpleasant these days that it feels like a conspiracy to get ordinary people to stop using the internet so that the channers get to keep it all because they only love psychological pain

every Labour member pays dues to a party which supports what was done to Dr Upton, every campaigner fights for a society in which what happened to Dr Upton will happen to every trans person at every level of public life

Someone should write something about the beautiful circular reasoning, especially popular in Germany, of saying "the Jewish community is pro Israel so we should be too" and then defining "the Jewish community" as a bunch of pro-Israel organizations

AOC is 100% right here

I tried to get ChatGPT to give me lean meal ideas and it keeps telling me I don't consume enough calories. So I keep telling it it's a stupid machine and should listen to me. This is the future our ancestors wanted

POV: you're using POV correctly

SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The receptionist at the laser place was flattering me so much I think I was blushing 😳 it really seems women love femboys

In general it's kinda silly how many people - including serious journalists and even major politicians - let way too much of their political reactions be dictated by whom they find annoying online and why bsky.app/profile/mero...

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

There's something particularly nasty and corrupt about not just that all these academics were begging this rich sociopath for research money, but that they all kept (and some keep) insisting that he was some great genius. And then his actual "intellectual" output reads like this total garbage

It's basically impossible imo for a transphobe to be a good Marxist, at least in our time. Not just for ethics or politics, but because it fails such a clear test. The heart of Marx's theory is a critique of systems humans create that then rule over them as if they are objective. Gender is just that

Friends fear she is spending too much money on cute femboy outfits again

I got added by a Portuguese NM on chess dot com?? Bizarre

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

Whoever invented fleece-lined tights deserves some kind of prize :3

RIP to Starmerism. Good riddance to bad rubbish, it was terrible from the start and ends in deserved ignominy bsky.app/profile/pete...

It is getting very boring being told that "the youth love reform on tiktok" with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

2:12 am... going back for more chess defeat

This whole thread strikes me as quite accurate (and I'm usually an optimist!) bsky.app/profile/sexa...

If this last year or so has demonstrated anything, it's that things do, in fact, happen

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

And then there's me, bsky.app/profile/mcka...

I get hit on by men virtually every day and while I'm 100% not complaining, it's absolutely true that roughly 60-70% of them fail to be able to hold a basic conversation expressing interest with any charm. The rest are great though 😌 bsky.app/profile/bobb...

News I’m somewhat late to but apparently the Indian Navy built a ship based on a fifth century painting and sailed it to Oman to recreate the trading route of the Indian Ocean in late antiquity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Added Yakety Sax to that video from Minneapolis

permabanned from the karaoke bar for doing Koyanisqaatsi 3 nights in a row

More than 'just mid', I actively dislike ice cream and always have bsky.app/profile/viol...

From a Marxist POV I guess it's convenient you don't really have to explain what a ruling class is when they're all in a poorly-spelled email group chat with each other

"...the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood."

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

Everything always starts with Lowtax

never fails to cheer me up when i see this video in the wild, a genuine all-timer