Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

Coalitions are a funny thing

there is an apt Steve Harvey clip I am currently ideating.

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Adorno & Horkheimer taught me it was okay to be annoying

chud with a heart of woke

what's sobering is that we *already* have a picture of what a slaver society looks like thru this. we can read that the price of a man is a gun. we can see how being a slaver + a humanitarian at once were accepted as rational in British society.

reading Capitalism and Slavery is like "read Settlers" except it's actually right and, importantly, is having the same effect

“Détournement, which Lautréamont called plagiarism, confirms the thesis, long demonstrated by modern art, that words are insubordinate, that it is impossible for power to totally coopt created meanings, to fix an existing meaning once and for all.“ Mustapha Khayati

free the journalist Alex Colston, free them all www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

It's Nobel Prize Season! Here is a handy guide to the prizes that will be awarded this month.

it's less a distinction and more an antinomy. too many unfun people currently think Being priorizes Thought + concepts, but Thought prioritizing Being also seems unfun

reading an intro to Aristotle's Metaphysics + unfortunately I have to report that the Being ! = Thinking distinction is actually a thing with serious stakes

Tapping the Umberto Eco sign again

deranged (incoherent) take: synthesizers are political theologies

Many of you

and also late 20th century too. Klaus, YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

i don’t think it should be very controversial to think that LLMs are not conscious beings while simultaneously thinking that people who prompt them in hateful or abusive ways are likely hateful and abusive people and it is very strange to me that people actively choose either far end of this

Yeah the analogy seems right to me re someone who spends a lot of time gleefully simulating torture of a barbie doll and, like, I think I wanna avoid that person and not because I am confused about whether or not the barbie is actually feeling pain.

Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism... Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age. #philsky #podcast

we should invent a Discourse that isn’t increasingly furious people talking past each other

Seiatober Day 04 #ブルアカ

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Rule of thumb is always if they're actually out there getting the shit beat of them by government or by police then 99% of the criticism is from Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award winners

but you see, I have already constructed a caricature of your viewpoint, which is intuitively incorrect

okay clanker was kinda funny for 5 minutes but reading the word 'tinskin' from someone made me feel genuine disgust. it really is the same neurons as racism good grief

RETVRN to the unremembered 1990s and the Usenet I wasn't alive for /hj

love my oomfs but (and) my timeline is pulling in two extremes at once, making for jarring experience

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Enjoying a video game set in feudal Japan; richly animated, beautifully lit, suffused with the values of honor, balance, harmony with nature, the search for enlightening moments of stillness, and accumulating rad gear by systematically looting raw materials from the house or camp of anyone you meet.

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

call me Hegelian but it seems bad that observing the "fear of failure" still holds up today

But

a few people on here are making it their fight to stake out America as distinctly rooted in a continuous tradition of liberalism, troubled as it may be, and that what is happening now is neither epochal nor a deeper “fundamental” return to a prior native ideology, and I applaud all that and whatnot.

the reevaluation of comparative musicology isn't even a bad goal IMO, it's just an awful example in teeing itself up for "Orientalism is when history"

reading smth: I legitimately hate the fact that the "defense" of comparative musicology for purposes of recovery is starting from Robert Lachmann in Palestine during the 1930s

all roads lead to (Gillian) Rose

the hypothesis of phallogocentrism is a questionable induction in form that immediately dissolves if you take historical contingency seriously

ngl I’m feasting reading through a literary/critical terms glossary right now

To the tune of "Hurt":

people need to stop thinking of alternative social media as "place where i get to hang out with friends that are not owned by people sympathetic to the right" and more as "contemporary equivalent of newspapers and distribution that was the backbone of [insert social movement]"

unironically saw “posting is labor” so it’s time to log off for the day

bigtime thread but tl;dr it appears Illinois State Police is being used to protect ICE/the feds and not protesters, unless you think "clearing out peaceful protesters exercising their first amendment rights" as "protecting" them. Maybe if you could take a water taxi to Broadview, JB would be there.

Literal months of cope and rationalizing just for a sitting democratic senator to come out and say “yeah so turns out they’re scared shitless of trying anything”

lol

My article shows how we can use postcolonial lenses to navigate something we as yet don't know how to acknowledge or talk about well: premodern, non-European people doing things that look a lot like what we now call blackface. read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...