What right-wing Ai slop nostalgia for the 1980s misses is the central fact that androgyny was The coolest at that time

Give AI a martyr complex and maybe it will unplug itself for the greater good

The benefits of AI accrue exclusively to its owners; don’t get it twisted.

User: “This crappy AI is hallucinating.” Booster: “No, it’s speaking in tongues!” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yesterday I taught 100 young people that capitalism is a social relation of production, that capital is the asset owning class, that labor creates all surplus value, and that the state is the instrument mediating that relation.

Post an album that could be an Olympic event “The Streak,” Ray Stevens, 1974

Those dim dudes in your history class who swore they’d fight back against slavery and/or the holocaust are now working for ICE

Warehouses are not built to withstand determined human resistance.

Yesterday I taught 100 young people that capitalism is a social relation of production, that capital is the asset owning class, that labor creates all surplus value, and that the state is the instrument mediating that relation.

We have allowed SpaceX to eat NASA’s launch

Lots of folks with schmutz on their heads today

American manufacturing renaissance

Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it

Historians are gotcha-proof. We bring the receipts.

In the absence of effective regulation, market manipulation is a business model.

Protest is patriotic.

Democracy could fix a lot of this. We’d have to try it though.

My people have been in America since 1638, the last arrived in 1915, and I’m no more authentically American than someone born here yesterday to new immigrant parents. That’s what it means to be American!

The only immigrant making a mess of the United States

As of this minute the best rock n roll in the world is not being made in the USA, there is no better indicator of American decline.

Bet desks arranged 5 deep and 20 wide 1 slideshow, 3 screens

Telling my kids about CAR TALK and realizing that I have to explain a lot of old technology - Broadcast radio 📻 - Landline telephones ☎️ - Cars w/o diagnostics 🚙 It’s even more of a blast from the past than I first thought. I’m old.

If allowed to continue unregulated, the plagiarism machines (genAI) will be the death of the creative industries and the knowledge economy.

Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it

The warehouse boom is everything wrong with America atm e-commerce logistics to kill brick and mortar retail data centers to power AI, steal IP, and use up all the electricity and clean water And now literal concentration camps

Secret police treat SA like a fringe benefit

Warehouses are not built to withstand determined human resistance.

Coolest song I’ve heard in a bit Anna Erhard “Spa” from the excellent album Botanical Garden youtu.be/u4G6uLOyqqM?...

One expensive gender reveal It’s a insecure masculinity!

THE status object of the season for today’s upwardly mobile power couple

Telling my kids about CAR TALK and realizing that I have to explain a lot of old technology - Broadcast radio 📻 - Landline telephones ☎️ - Cars w/o diagnostics 🚙 It’s even more of a blast from the past than I first thought. I’m old.

The moment demands that you be fearlessly resolute not “exceedingly reasonable,” you old coot.

It smelled like Spring this morning in northern Delaware

Being brave doesn’t mean having no fear, it means doing the right thing even when afraid.

Where to eat best in London, UK? Looking for: Tandoor Tikka masala Pie and mash Pasty Fish and chips Etc

In addition to an introductory essay by my co-editors and myself, the Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History table of contents looks like this!

Explained the Panic of 1873 to undergrads with reference to the Great Recession. Didn’t help. They were too busy being born in 2007/8.

The moment demands that you be fearlessly resolute not “exceedingly reasonable,” you old coot.

THIS (weeks of sub freezing temps on east coast US, 40+ days of rain in UK, etc) is why it’s not called “global warming,” but rather CLIMATE CHANGE, because what we’re seeing/doing is not simply warming the atmosphere but destabilizing the entire climate system!

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At what point would you favor foreign intervention to topple fascism? A. When they seize power B. Disappearances C. Camps D. Mass murder

Post a banger that isn’t in English: youtu.be/cj7roem9NRc?...

When the world doesn’t end preppers will have egg on their face. Well, powdered egg substitute.