'As the necessary presupposition of cognition, what life contributes is a determinacy or determinateness (Bestimmtheit) without which logic would be entirely empty (leer).' ~ #Ng

'If determinism is the negation of real human agency, then human freedom is the negation of that negation, one that can emerge only in the course of history.' ~ Vanessa Wills

I couldn't care less about 'being right all along'.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

If you think antifascism is violent, wait until you read about anticommunism.

Change in Abstract

In Bacurau (2019), when a couple of American 'tourists' murder a man and wife escaping in their car, I just knew by the couple's excitement that it made them horny way before the woman says 'wanna fuck' to the man. That's what sadism is. Murderous violence and torture sexually arouses the sadist.

Just as well extremely courageous people exist.

Just a reminder that ICE and the IDF do collaborate directly. deadlyexchange.org/frequently-a...

For my upcoming book's final entry, I want to examine the claim that "the gender binary is colonial", which depends a lot on the scholarship of Maria Lugones and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. So let's take a closer look at their work, shall we?

ARTE

Even better, if someone has the means, they should get a Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it. It's ridiculously simple to do, and it offers the best protection against LE tools like Cellebrite, with features like a duress PIN to wipe the phone. grapheneos.org

-20ºF / -28.9ºC sounds extremely bad. Take care people.

Good morning

I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/

cliche (n.)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

Marx and Engels Collected Insults: a thread. Feel free to contribute: 1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon

Trump’s Greenland speech at the WEF except it’s the voice of Pingu

This is an odor map, but I think it also works very well as a post classifier.

Must admit to being as egalitarian in my animosity towards tourists wherever they're from as I am in my tenderness towards working migrants wherever they're from.

No qualms about throwing the first stone on bsky dot app.

If you think punning is too prevalent in English, wait until you hear about Mandarin. A laugh every other syllable, practically.

Just received an emergency alert on my phone for flooding, we're on the eastern front of storm Harry and it hasn't stopped raining now for over 24 hours. Extreme wetness.

Terrible stories coming out from the horrendous high-speed rail crash in Andalusia.

Waiters are usually very busy here on the Iberian peninsula, in my experience, and don't have the time to wade through the 'I wonder if you would please be so kind as to consider bringing me ...' malarkey. Just say the name of the dish you want then thank them when they bring it, for heaven's sake.

Still horrified at the idea that Bezos wants us to ditch our own hardware and use virtual machines in his cloud instead. Fuck the cloud.

F*ck Ice

In fact, I think this image is more explicative of what's going on than the FT article. Just look at the Congo. greenfdc.org/china-belt-a...

Obviously bad that China is investing more heavily than ever in fossil fuels, although a 'global resources grab' does sound something more than monetary investment. Which it isn't. www.ft.com/content/ab8e...

Extremely ugly praxis from @bsky.app and @safety.bsky.app here.

Every now and then I find I've followed a wrong'un, like, who on Earth is RTing posts with the word 'Stancil' in them, goodbye and go in peace.

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Saint Barbara reading, in richly detailed interior, with window view of her tower; oil on oak panel 1438, by Robert Campin, Flemish artist, died in 1444; an innovator in oil painting, he created subtleties of light & shade, textures & surface reflections, with intense realism. Museo del Prado

Note that this means we'll give them Greenland (not on our plate, mate).

Eurasian (tectonic plate) political, economic, and military alignment now. Then we'll bring in the Indian Plate, and if possible the Arabian Plate. From there we'll see how things go.

To be read as a warning of the dangers of prodigious, high-quality, artistic output. Don't say nobody told you.

Heard on my morning classical music radio station that Telemann was so prolific that 19thC. musicologists dismissed him believing it impossible to produce so much of high artistic quality. Telemann had more renown than Bach when alive, the latter merely considered a competent professional.

'Perhaps this is what Lynskey is getting at when he writes: ‘We have to live in the space between “Everything is going to be okay” and “Everything is fucked,” between denial and despair.’' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We've still got our small, artificial, Christmas tree up in our living room - it's rather nice to keep the festive vibe going through the dark evenings. We even have an historical precedent for doing so, as traditionally decorations here weren't taken down until Candlemas.

Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.

I don't know what to say.

Compost is proof that there is life after death.

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

Good video, flipped the coppers car over into a stream, with one of them in it lol

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Back from the work that finances the framings of events which determine the real work of empirically and conceptually deconstructing them.

Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa? Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-d...