Anybody who unironically says "FOX News brainwashed my dad" or "4chan brainwashed my cousin" shares a vital part of 0HPLovecraft's worldview.

This guy

I'm PRETTY sure I once ran into Helen Clark at the Dominion Road post office

Even more interesting is the fact that we have several areas where open borders just *work*, given good will and the proper institutions (Ireland, the Schengen Area, Australia/NZ)

Pro translators can provide insight to the AI debate. For me, machine learning (translation engines, aka spicy autocomplete) are a useful time-saving and thus productivity tool. But they CANNOT replace what I actually do for a living, which is to find the correct *way of expressing* the source-text.

There is a difference betwen socialism, conservatism, and left-wing populism here, and that's what we call "anti-social behavior". The Left-wing populist sees anti-social behavior (shit that drags the neighborhood down, like petty vandalism) as sticking it to The Man and pushing the rent down...

So co-o-o-old

... I know Yud is a laughing stock for many reasons, but taking the sexualised language out of it, he's absolutely right. If AI really lives up to the hype, and if it doesn't turn into Skynet, it will mean my kids will have to train as service workers, janitors, or crypto gamblers.

Ecosocialists have always known that the housing issue and the transit issue cannot be separated fightbackarchive.blog/2015/02/13/u...

Ezra Pound's _Pisan Cantos_ are art, a quite impressive poetic feat, whose main theme is about how Mussolini was a pretty cool guy and fascism is going to make its big comeback any day now

Incidentally, this has reminded me of when I got blocked on here for arguing with the David Graeber Institute that "Logistics Manager" wasn't a "bullshit job". I hope every one of them is waiting on a vital package from Southern Texas.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but "AI might take your job at any moment" is exactly what the bosses want you to think.

The problem is that some on the left know one fact about antisemitism, which is that “anti-zionism is not antisemitism.” This is like if the only thing you knew about racism was “it’s not racist to criticize Liberia.” It is true in most cases but you’re not actually anti-racist if you stop there

I wish very much that the liberals and leftists on this website would give up their narcissism of small differences, it’s very annoying

IMO one of the dumber ticks online that people have is insisting that you can't have open disdain for those who warrant it just because they're on your arbitrarily defined side in some unrelated struggle. If you think Ukraine or Palestine or Syria are destined for destitution you should be spat on.

So I'm sat here on the other side of the world going "where have I heard about Bard College before, it's not exactly a household name is it" Then I remembered it's the place that provided Neil Gaiman a resident professorship for a decade What are the chances, right

Someone tell the Great Khan of the Plains that this ain't it bsky.app/profile/theg...

One thing that serious Left-wing organising teaches you is that you have to physically support something good - with time, labour, or their equivalent under capitalism, money - or it ceases to exist

The panicking about how Trump is the dog who will win the baseball game because there are no rules against it assumes that no-one will just pick off the dog and take it off the field, or better yet, take it to the vet to be put to sleep

Because official art of THE REGIME is always awful. It's always bowdlerized versions of what was popular 10 years ago. There is good conservative art but it has to be countercultural.

Half the memes on Ireland Simpsons Fans are about the WWE or the NFL

Of course, there is zero daylight Elmo, Stone, Erikson et al and Stevie Three Shirts on policy. So this boils down to just stabbing each other for influence with The Big Guy. But also worth it for those who think Bannon is the guy who will organize the midterms steal www.mediaite.com/media/news/e...

News like this is what you miss if you're blocking Stancil, but is anyone else reporting it on here?

Interesting parallels with the Paul Goldsmith/Stephen Rainbow scandal here. Transphobes practice this kind of entryism worldwide.

Campism leads to dangerous red-brown politics, pass it on.

When they write the political history of the world 2010-25, it will be entitled _The Revolt Against Virtue_

I remember having a conversation about this with a well-meaning conservative who thought that he would have to actually explain the mechanics of queer sex, and I was all like "what? NO! Gross! You just say they love each other!"

The radical Left agree: get Jeremy Corbyn's red-brown brother the hell away from us www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

No Syrians or Kurds? Not beating the allegations that Rojava is to foreign anarchists what Cuba is to foreign communists

Incidentally this makes a lot of ultra leftists quite angry— they think DSA's primary function is funneling people and resources into the Democratic Party where they are moderated gradually into nothing. The thing is that there is no such thing as the party and that's not what drives moderation.

I think the root of this is a misconception that the Constitution is the final arbiter of democracy/right and wrong. Like, if Trump could find a way *under the Constitution* to become King, then that would be it and liberalism would have to surrender. Many libs agree with John Eastman on this.

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

Both reaction/fascism and Left-wing primitivism look at the contradiction Marx pointed out between the massive potential opened up by a global industrial economy, and the horrors of capitalist social relations, and decide that the whole thing was a wash, back to the Middle Ages

As far as I know, always has been?

I have seen this expressed, apparently unironically, as "we need to care more about teenage boys than teenage girls because teenage girls aren't going to shoot up the school" Sheer defeatism

On the model of "if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now": If dooming helped us win, we would have won already

Even for those of us sympathetic to Québec Libre, the PQ fucking suck and have done for a long time

Every time Noveselic speaks, I turn into the dad in Walk Hard going, "The wrong kid died"

Post a banger not in English This Italian prog masterpiece is from the POV of a caveman checking out a cavewoman, only to realise he's pretty much the bottom rung on the evolutionary ladder www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO69...

Absolute kudos to KiwiRail for pulling their nuts out of the fire at the last second, but how the balls did they manage to hire contractors who wrecked the Parnell tunnel in the first place?

You may not like it, but this is what peak poasting looks like

I hate to say it, but this tracks

No-one in the thread seems to be making the obvious deduction, that - like Trump - J. Paul's Twitter account is not run by him a lot of the time, and last night's posts were by a reactionary staffer

Remind me of what the population ratio between Lithuania and Moscow was in the 1980s USSR, then tell me why amused condescension to Lithuania was correct

In every era, conservative or totalitarian art or pop culture is clumsy versions of what was mainstream popular 10 years ago. Evil cannot make, only mock

It’s not absolutely dispositive, but I think the fact that Trumpworld thinks this sort of approach is a good way to address housing affirsbaility is at least informative about its merits.

You're saying the libertarians have the same analysis of Trump as the edgy Left? Huh.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Every nerd falls into one of two genders: 1) "I write a blog on how to speedrun fitting into Gender better, git gud scrubs" 2) "Come join my discord server where we collect 0day exploits on Gender"

I am going to bet dollars to donuts that they never asked Wendy Carlos whether she wanted to be involved with their booze I thought this was the kind of opportunistic "pink capitalism" they left behind in Woke 1 www.thequeerbrewingproject.com/shop/p/synth...