Derrida employing what he described as Searle's technique of 'dried-out-objections' in his own critique of Hegel? Ce n'est pas possible!

I wrote an essay exploring how structuralism and deconstruction have informed recent theory around 'AI' and 'LLMs' including @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines: olrsupplement.com/2026/06/01/w...

Business concepts (both operational and financial) are the most specious, tedious, and soporific concepts I've ever had contact with.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

The imperial core has gained $15 trillion through exorbitant privilege since 1970, getting higher returns on foreign assets than what they pay on foreign debt. This privilege is financed by transfers from the global South, outstripping aid flows many times over.

Hated 'Los Domigos' ('Sundays', 2025), just a terrible apology of Catholic Church power, make a film about getting the adolescent out of there for crying out loud.

bitch, your generation's movies are almost exclusively about how working in an office is a fate worse than death

I'd buy that for a dollar <laughs>

This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

An alter we discovered in the middle of the woods.

Local city stomp. A tourist even stopped to compliment me on my tee-shirt (redskins skinhead).

Bé, continuaré planyant-me en català perquè queda un xic menys patètic que en qualsevol llengua alternativa. No em preguntis perquè.

Fuck tourism.

And one element of specifically female tech literacy is being very well aware that when new software fails to deliver what's been promised to senior management happy to swallow the hype, women will be immediately blamed for 'operator error' far more than men.

Juro que cada mes que passo en la meva feina perdo coefficient crític, polític, i artístic. T'encadenen la capacitat cognitiva a les seves fins mercantils, i aquest desgast no et deixa fer més.

Històries de superació personal, de solidaritat individual, tot allò que et pot passar a kilòmetre zero.

Amb els meus 30+ anys de viure aquí a Catalunya, he après que les meves memòries d'abans no serveixen pas per res per fer comparatives. Són d'un altre temps, d'un altre mon.

'Centibillionaire' is a term used frequently on here, suggesting that the real meaning of 'billion' will have to reassert itself soon.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Not being a polity/law guy means I miss out on understanding entire universes of malfeasance, this case being but one example.

🌡️ Episodio de temperaturas extraordinariamente altas para mayo. ➡️ Ya se han dado valores habituales en julio en el conjunto del país; pero con el ascenso térmico que se espera a partir del miércoles el calor será propio de la canícula, el período más cálido del año. 1/2

Kids have at least fifty years of strict discipline to conform to within the wonders of modern capitalism, so let them play as much as they want first.

The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

Does the Pope hedge?

Nothing for this line either. Interesting.

You might have thought somebody would have written this line already.

Well over 10°C above 'normal' predicted for the middle of next week.

Absolutely fucking miles away. (Electricity as a share of primary energy, 1985 to 2024)

I'm as critical of 'AI' as the next person, and I also think that dismissing 'machines' in the work of 'discovering the truth' is a gross historical inaccuracy. It's so difficult not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, especially if you haven't a strong grip on the way this tech works.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Soviet style if you're white, possibly.

Finally an FT take I agree with.

Further entries in the list of AGW unforeseen consequences - thousands flock to Catalan beaches this weekend as temperatures rise above 30°C, but lifeguards are yet to start their summer season vigilance.

Pinta molt bé aquesta entrevista en Català amb un historiador que s'ha dedicat la vida a explicar els esdeveniments des del punt de vista 'de baix', de les classes dominades.

<postcard from the present> Playing hide-and-seek with the geckos, ants, and mosquitoes.

The existence of a 'real economy' implies ...

'‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in supply-chains’, Rice riffs at the start of 22:22, ‘with an option to go hungry, or find another factory / to feel the same in’.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A social contract missing what Serres called 'the third' (i.e. the two points of the interpersonal plus the third, the natural environment in which the interpersonal takes place).

Summer solstice at the end of week 25, we're now nearing the end of week 21, so four weeks to the solstice - in which case we're entering the eight weeks of the year with the most daylight. LIGHT!

Marxism/Maoism is global slavery. You'll live like 100 yrs ago, "leaders" will be billionaire oligarchs.

#Vieweg on Hegel's 'indifference': 'In the Science of Logic, Hegel escapes the Catch-22 of immediacy and mediation in a logical way. The Scylla and Charybdis to avoid are mere immediacy and one-sided mediation, pure indifference and pure difference.'

The smell of elephant IS the elephant in the room <said to a teenager>

Anyway, how are you? How many balls do you have in the air?

First heatwave of the season <sigh>

¿Israel inicia su solución final?

What a book! It grabs you from the very first pages.

Crazy when they push their point by claiming 'the alternative is violence' - man, violence isn't the alternative, it's the whole plan.