I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

"karl schmitt has had a great deal of influence on the right" extraordinary

Honestly what I want is a Camina Drummer Life Simulator. Half insanely detailed resource management tactical space game half pansexual polyamorous dating sim.

tech workers should unionize and organize is that they have a position of unparalleled leverage in the global economy and they can use that to make the world a better place but they should also do it bc the crashout by CEOs and VCs in response will make for amazing Content

deeply funny that liz truss has done a podcast ep with curtis yarvin and also deeply 😱

"We are meant to reach for the stars to feed the fires of industry, but crossing the boundaries of gender is off-limits." Having women in the workforce without society-threatening backlash from men and gender liberalism seem like the *first steps* to our sci-fi dreams.

had a delightful time hanging out with @alexisx-au.bsky.social in naarm today, i recommend following them if you haven't ready!

had a delightful time hanging out with @alexisx-au.bsky.social in naarm today, i recommend following them if you haven't ready!

First off, a modern critical/hostile stance against "the left" was common among anarchists: "We anarchists are as staunchly against the Right wing as the Left." --Vicente Pérez, prominent speaker at an FAI rally in 1933 in Barcelona, to an audience of over 45,000.(Durruti, Abel Paz, pg 314.)

marxism had an intellectual/moral underpinning (in particular because of opposition to fascism) that attracted people like the Cambridge Five to pass intelligence but nobody took it seriously until it became undeniable because of their upper class background

shoutout to my therapist who jokingly told me that the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) changed its name in 2013 from the Defense Signals Directorate for reasons that were basically to do with SEO

yes it is absolutely necessary that i write an entire page breaking down the politics of nietzsche and what he thought about utilitarianism in response to a jacobin article that has a single off-handed mention of him

wayyyy back in the day (2015) @kevincarson1.bsky.social called for greece to ignore intellectual property laws should it choose to leave the european union c4ss.org/content/38806

treat yourself this holiday seasons 🙏

👀👀👀👀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

stranger things was kinda dragged out but also the theme in Teens and Kids, when used right, is amazing

kinda surprised but also kinda not that there hasn't been any pictures of Peter Singer and Epstein released

"Sodium is nearly 50 times cheaper than lithium and can even be harvested from seawater, making it a much more sustainable option for large-scale energy storage”

"the bad news is that these people have the launch codes, the good news is that they live empty lives akin to the villains in a didactic childrens story written by a socially progressive christian"

sephiroth posting (complimentary)

graeber on the split between activists and academics on french theory previous to and prior to May 68 (Direct Action)

it's unironically this bit except the teacher got fired for giving Calvin a zero

french theorists... you can redeem yourselves...

Courtesy of my sister-in-law

10,000 books by critical theorists talking about capitalist hegemony couldn't budge the thing, meanwhile a couple anarchist punks invent twitter and let the thing run its course

A facade or a easily managed zone of order and conformity may come to be an end in itself; the representation may usurp the reality.... when the two are confused-when the general mistakes the parade ground for the battlefield itself-the consequences are potentially disastrous - seeing like a state

its not 4d chess she's actually just stupid

Just insane.

learning mark cuban has spent his christmas eve arguing with randos on bluesky

trump is genuinely an aberration. one could not have predicted him winning from the perspective of 2014. it took an incredible chain of contingencies to happen. it almost did not.

Never forget that the present face-first collapse would not be nearly as severe without consistent effort by ordinary people to grind the gears.

i treat the never-ending STEM vs humanities conflict on this website, particularly the "humanities education will save us!" claims, with bemusement but one relevant thing to the conflict i found was Francis Fukuyama getting so angry at the moral relativism of postmodernists he went into polsci

Agreed

Heh. So, uh, if those PDFs weren’t competently redacted, it seems reasonable to consider that those releasing assumed no one would check or that it wouldn’t matter if someone did. Both are bad, but the latter is worse.

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

something to be said about how the notion of scientists and scientific objectivity as amoral and emotionally disengaged was in part a consequence of political constraints imposed on them during the Cold War! (Redefining Science)

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

90s zine culture,,,, welcome back

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university

legitimately upsetting that this definition of "the multitude" never took off (graeber, Direct Action)

The fastest mile I’ve ever run came in at 5:49. I almost threw up after I was done. When Eliud Kipchoge runs a marathon, every one of his 26.2 miles clocks in under 4:40. He sustains this pace for 2 hours.

It's literally this

can someone just make a spreadsheet game where you play as an economic manager of a stand-in for a social democratic state in the western bloc

yes some of it the social dynamics of social media, but also there is a long history of leftists, going all the way back to Adorno at least, making the argument that qualitative reasoning is actually capitalist or even fascist here's robin mackay complaining about this tendency in the 2010s

While it's gotten very business class popsci ("thinking fast vs thinking slow") I do repeatedly find a sharp distinction among many people between heuristic/rule based thinking (eg where they follow a code & respond to things) and overall-evaluative tradeoff thinking. Deontology vs consequentialism.

"look man we just need to chuck all this identity politics stuff and focus on class because that's whats will motivate enough people and get everyone on board" (racial integration in corporate america, delton)

[second playthrough] hey guys how do i stop hal incandenza from becoming mute, also i have some thoughts on what year the game takes place in

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

After brief consideration I have decided to hand it to “Communist Party of Nepal (Communist)”

going to call this aesthetic post-solarpunk