yeah man I think we might need to discipline the rental market in a way that supply alone cannot solve. it's crazy talk, I know.

It's probly not actually that important but it drives me up the fucking wall how many people basically work in the military industrial complex or as boosters for it but/and are provided with ready to hand just-so stories and thought stopping cliches to avoid realizing it.

Something to consider. That most of what we consider "success" has come with hidden costs that far outweigh the relatively short-term benefits. In a sense, we are placing a bet on solar to help us survive without actually making the foundational changes in *thought* and *approach* needed.

Like I'm not against being mad at Palantir but it'd be more useful to trace all the roots of their discourse into the rest of the tech industry.

That said if one DOES want to engage with the agnotology machine, nothing Palantir is doing is a philosophical or subcultural innovation for tech. Start with critical STS (science and technology studies) work from women who've been forced out of that boy's club.

Palantir is its own agnotology machine. Do not engage with their discourse, which throws spaghetti at the wall of media: every strand introduces a new kind of doubt. You try to consume & debate it but in the end all you are is tangled in spaghetti and covered with marinara.

Yeah - like, try to live by pacifist values and take issue with the military-industrial complex on an engineering-first campus.

bro u gotta get into this dead franchise from 25 years ago its fire🔥🔥

There's a lot we don't know about the state of negotiations between the US and Iran, and the state of play in the Strait of Hormuz. One thing we do know is that Trump is not a reliable narrator on any of it. If he ever does tell the truth it will be an unintentional coincidence.

Every time mainstream news outlets quote the sitting president of the United States, they are introducing misinformation into Americans' news ecosystem. It's really as simple as that.

I'm remembering certain scenes from The Battleship Potemkin ...

The narcissism of small differences among rich or upper middle class 'elites' chagrined at their own status and trying to signal solidarity with the imagined American working class, in the process scrapping for kindling the career ladder used by actual working-class aspiring scientists like myself

I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media

I'm not well enough educated here to have a 'side' (altho I'm bitterly unhappy about the career prospects of people in my exact same boat, minority scholars), but I wonder how much this might have to do with available imaginaries for future frontiers of economic growth that wage-workers can access.

yep ~

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Because they're parochial aspiring patriarchs whose value systems revolve around the Rights of Daddy over a cohesive in-group, and basically any formal line of thought after the French Revolution is anathema to their basic moral assumptions, including All Leftism.

As someone who was at least temporarily upwardly mobile, I do think better elder care (and universal healthcare!!) could alleviate quite a bit of this. Even for 'climbers' without kids, it's pretty inevitable most folks will, eventually, have vulnerable dependents who need secure housing.

See: Farscape

Owlcat games board room meeting where they discuss what happened regarding their 40k video game adaptation where instead of capturing the anticipated dork male 40k fanbase they instead attracted a Ton of insane women who don't care about dumb lore and instead want to fuck the Evil Space Twink Elf

I do recommend it! It's interesting; super not about This Discourse or even macroeconomics, but about 'democratic subjectivity' and how different theories of democracy may currently not be set up to recognize moral claims we kinda need to encourage people to make.

I've been (very slowly) reading The Eclipse of the Demos and it makes a good, if incidental, critique of maybe why lecturing people technocratically for complaining about the economy is pre-emptively stamping on tiny green shoots of collective concern for the rest of the body politic.

(just to say that the “real smart guys” on this, as compared to regular people, use indicators that are basically like a broken compass except if you specifically have your money set up to grow every time the needle spins on the dial…which only people capitalizing on the crisis can do.)

what are people supposed to use as indicators right now? the stock market? Polymarket predictions? AI companies’ estimates of future earnings??? a “how many wars are we in at the moment” graph?

Like let's see the versions of those stats broken down by gender and race.

'why does everyone, specifically on bsky, feel like they're broke when that's not what the stats say' Bsky is largely minoritized scholars or knowledge workers, a group that the American administration has been deliberately - and fairly successfully - trying to attack and immiserate.

Hi! costsofwar.org seems to be down for me for the moment. Should I be worried this is some kind of technological chicanery on my end, or?

Agreed. We have to reckon with this. Soon.

Good day to bust this one out.

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

you know when we're having Discourse about what it means for a pundit to "speak with people we disagree with" it's always about Left or center-left men talking to casually sexist guys with podcasts on the principle that dude-ish gamer and sports and Hanging Out culture is important to self-making

Trump: open the Straits Iran: no Trump: you are totally destroyed we won Iran: we’re good Trump: we don’t need the damn Straits Iran: ok cool Trump: someone help World: new phone who dis Trump: the Straits will open themselves Iran: lol no Trump: we will blockade the Straits Iran: um ok thanks

The press treating JD Vance like he’s a whiz kid negotiator is insane. He’s the most unqualified VP in modern American history. Him negotiating with Iran at all is a complete joke. He’s basically a podcaster who got to play pretend as an astroturfed senator for 2 years, a job he barely showed up to.

@ Pearkes, please explain to the class what the difference is between 'median' and 'mode', and how they handle outliers differently ...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - No -- well, not quite. The Moralintern never *intends* to violate another nation's sovereignty. That would be a serious violation of international law...

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

The Blob: “We have to kneecap China because it challenges the rules-based international order.” Trump: every week a new attack on the RBIO 100x worse than any debatable China example Blob liberals: “Trump shouldn’t commit genocide because that will make it harder for us to kneecap China.”

"But no Republicans will support impeachment" then they should be dead to you, no more discussion with them on any topic, ever, move on as if they are the American Nazi Party. I don't know what to tell you, Democrats, try being an opposition party?

At the present moment I am not interested in anything politically beyond the destruction of the Republican Party as a viable political force. If we don't break the back of the conservative movement nothing else really matters. Whatever good shit you want to do won't happen.

a Classic™ from Tumblr

*has and uses a DreamWidth account* never left ~ * ~

i'm not going to take any discussion of bluesky shrinking seriously unless you lay out clearly why it's better for bluesky to be bigger, and specifically what the target size for bluesky is. if your answer to that is basically "every human on earth and many of the domesticated animals" then idk man

I just hope I (*gender minority trying to make a career in renewable energy) get my fucking career back from the supercilious deliberately ignorant little white boys lining up to steal it sometime in my fuckin' lifetime.

I don't even know what the current discourse /is/ but I've been on Tumblr for over a decade. The site's not dead until I can't login anymore / the Russians buy it for some reason (sorry LiveJournal), and when that happens, I'll already have bookmarked the linked creations I care to save.

this guy's writing is dogshit but i think it's great that in a world where 3 body problem--reactionary nationalist propaganda!!--is a huge hit there's really popular sci-fi about how aliens and us would probably get along and work together to save the galaxy :) that's political and it's good!

Why hasn’t the Parliamentarian put a stop to this?

sam altman is going to need to build such a big winchester house for all the ai psychosis family annihilation ghosts

We need more focus on social reproduction when talking about organising both in the past and the present.