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Running a low-latency platform for instant comms capable of carrying millions of concurrent audio/video calls requires a pre-built, planet-spanning network of compute, storage and edge presence that requires constant maintenance, significant electricity and persistent attention and monitoring. 4/

It's like they're trying to turn her into a 21st century Lenin by the time she's middle aged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

utah police wisely choosing not to show the bullet casing that says ‘if you read this you are gay’ bc they know it would instantly turn the country gay

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment

A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle. illwill.com/theory-of-th...

Nuova pubblicazione Porfido Edizioni: | LA FORESTA & LA FABBRICA | Contributi ad una fantascienza del comunismo [2025, 128p.] Phil A. Neel & Nick Chavez @dfmanufracture.bsky.social via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social porfidotorino.it/2025/02/01/l...

Marx haters be like "Marx was very wrong because [something that Kautsky or Stalin said], it's obvious that actually [something Marx said extensively]"

now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Wonder if any Chinese person has heard a Doechii song and gone "who is this rapper?" and when someone tells them they mishear it as 豆豉 (dòuchǐ), leaving them very impressed that the song was made by fermented soybeans

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"In a sense, Mae Sot is an extension of that little sandbank, where the concept of 'nationality' is unsettled. It’s on the Thai side of the border, but it feels more like a Burmese city." -Wu Qin, in her dispatch on the Myanmar Civil War featured in Heatwave Issue 1

Maybe a closer look reveals that the cyclical and the secular are part of the same dysfunction. The crisis portended by new Gaga was always just underneath the surface.

I cannot stress enough how clever and fun this essay is

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Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.

Lol, pretty much. From BBC—

Great piece by Chicago ILC member @jamiemerchant.bsky.social about Trump's tariffs and class war. Give it a read!

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Fantastic essay on the communist lessons imparted by the noble beaver

Imagine you're in China 6000 years ago literally drinking beer all day to stay hydrated, and some fucking dweeb is like "everyone I invented tea, it's safe to drink AND has no alcohol in it!" and you all have to pretend to be stoked about it to not hurt the dweeb's feelings

Absolutely stacked for a premier issue

Was texting a smart friend of mine. Tried to tell him "I want to pick your brain" but it was autocorrected to "I want to lick your brain." While this was funny, it's crazy how many software functions (like autocorrect apparently) are turning into useless garbage.

Climate change, state failure, and class self-organization in the wake of Valencia's record-breaking floods. Read Class and Disaster in Valencia by @proledotinfo.bsky.social on our site now.

The chemical industry as an under-appreciated aspect of the Industrial Revolution. If you want to understand “flows,” you need to understand chemicals.

S. Darby walks us through the opening salvos of Trump's blitzkrieg to remind us exactly what the terrain of struggle for us will be, and more importantly what it should not be - heatwavemag.info/blog/blitzkr...

Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life https://www.ft.com/content/01423933-0ce3-4c07-a66c-06f383201ade

new communist magazine ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This is 100% something to keep an eye on

"Now we're seeing subtle regressions creep in. Edge cases not considered. The long tail of AI-generated code, extended by AI is now consuming the majority of my days." Wow, nobody saw this coming 😮 www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

lotta economic nationalism, lotta global decline

im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "

Between me and him, I think I am the superior kooky theorist of technology and society named Nick (low bar admittedly)

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

I'm actually a big fan of Transformer based architecture; taking 5 regular sized robots and having them combine into one is pretty badass.

*Chef’s kiss* 10/10 no notes.

If you're a Californian you have zero problem differentiating between these 3 use cases in conversation

Had a crazy dream last night I was in the city of Cambodia (???), capital of Africa (????), and I saw Nathan Fielder. I tried texting my friends to come outside and see him but my phone kept autocorrecting everything to gibberish and then Fielder got away.

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it. www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

In 500 years history students are going to have a tough time grasping the concepts of "woke" and "anti-woke" because of how contextual they are, much like I have never been able to fully and intuitively grasp what the medieval concept of "honor" actually is

"we do not need bureaucracy or logistics, only lethality" is literally IJA/IJN brain

23.7% effective unemployment rate. The stats have caught up to what anyone with eyes can see. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

We should have put something like this in Forest and Factory. Communism would be imo the domestication of human conflict. I would think that if one of the greatest insults you can lob at someone is to gift them the biggest fruit (tuber?) of your labor, things would be pretty good.

Currently reading Taylor's "Principles of Scientific Management." Makes me want to go back in time and punch him in the face tbh. It's wildly misanthropic and just drips with disdain for workers. I cannot respect those who think there's a socialist use for Taylorism. Dweeb opinion.

I am becoming an em dash enjoyer. Nifty little thing. Very useful.

publications 2024 1) The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel (Routledge) though it came out last December, the copyright date is 2024 so it counts! affordable paperback should be available in spring 25. still waiting for a review/critique.... www.routledge.com/The-Concept-...

This relationship to the external world, a metabolism, is mediated not only by physical implements such as tools and machines, but the social arrangements that structure how we use these implements. Beitrag von @dfmanufracture.bsky.social notesfrombelow.org/article/engi...

Beitrag von @dfmanufracture.bsky.social „The miracle of global industrial power is capable of building us a sensible and rational system that prioritizes the health of not only the human species but the entire global ecosystem.“ strangematters.coop/fixed-capita...

Got interviewed by Angry Workers for Vital Signs healthcare workers magazine about medical device engineering. Great discussion covering a range of topics like global supply chains, labor organizing, product development, etc. www.vitalsignsmag.org/posts/interv...