I think this is basically right. I think a lot of people who support a 1SS or, to your point, support mass enfranchisement within the current state, just don't have a great way to navigate between the ways in which-
Actually believing in prison abolition, almost regardless of how much or how little theory you've digested, requires deconstructing the binaries that give exclusion and marginalization legitimacy. It demands engagement with who people actually are and what they actually do and resists easy answers
No movement is perfect but a big part of why I'm draw to prison abolition is because based on my experience the people working on it navigate those contradictions a lot better than many others. And I don't think that's coincidental.
Your movement should be robust enough to survive minor internal differences, which also renders it robust enough to survive trolls, from imageboards or the CIA or Russia or wherever. Make em have to put actual long term spies in your midst. Make em really *work for it* like the old days, you know?
Yeah and also in 2024 even if the internet is an important part of where you communicate or recruit people your leftist movement should be hardened against this sort of petty posting drama because it is actually a vulnerability from within and without and serious people should know better by now
Oh wait lmao apparently this is all in the sphere surrounding Nina Turner and Briahna Joy Gray okay so you literally could not pick a better example of a bunch of people succumbing to their own dysfunction and then yelling "Op!"
Okay looking at it a bit more and even looking up some of the accounts hey sure, maybe some right wing trolls were in the middle running an op to make chaos "for the lulz". Whatever. It's blast radius is a bunch of accounts who only know each other and don't appear to actually accomplish anything
I don't...understand this hashtag campaign....they both seem to believe was deliberately constructed to...divide...the left....on Twitter?????
I don't...understand this hashtag campaign....they both seem to believe as deliberately constructed to...divide...the left....on Twitter?????
What an incredibly tone deaf ad. Its kind of stunning this got produced.
Seeing this horrific Apple ad, I can't help thinking how we're destroying the humanities and arts at universities in order to force everyone into vocational majors like "marketing" where they'll learn to produce soulless crap like this.
The replies are 100% negative.
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twitter.comAnd so, setting aside what even Palestinians on the ground actually want, its really hard to assemble one or two good ideas for what Western observers think "long term justice" in the region actually looks like, so you get a bit of flailing and a lack of specificity or clarity
They don't control their own airspace. They can't freely move between different parts of what is nominally their territory. They face regular violence, either in incursions or inflicted "over the border" from a foreign military. But there's no one framework that really reckons with that
I think among the people on the Western left who don't actually want the forced expulsion of all Israeli Jews from the region, which is most of them, there's this (correct) sense that residents in Palestine are kind of de facto stateless.
I was getting into this discussion with someone else the other day but I really think part of why its so hard to get a lot of this stuff to cohere is because we don't really have a framework for talking about how for Palestinians, especially in Gaza, they're kind of living in a "zero state solution"
Yeaaaaaaaaaah baby
here we go @niedermeyer.io
*US PROSECUTORS EXAMINING WHETHER TESLA COMMITTED FRAUD: REUTERS
Its that and it's real anger at the "entitlement" of protestors believing that they should be listened to, or that anyone in power should have to resolve their annoyance at the protestors with anything besides a club and a boot. "How dare these kids think we should listen to them"
This is why I basically never turn right on red. I would also like to see the parking bans in the fifteen feet flanking a stop sign into an uncontrolled cross road enforced by concrete bump outs *everywhere* so I can see the cross traffic w/o being blocked by some monster SUV right on the corner
They do fundamentally believe the University is a site of indoctrination and they're damn sure it's going to be theirs
I should read Computer Power and Human Reason. It's hard to overstate how influential stumbling across a simplified version of ELIZA was to me as a kid. It gave me both a deep interest in the power of computers and a very deep skepticism of the big promises of the technologists
“And then of course there’s the question, Do we need this?” --- Such an overlooked question in debates around ethics & tech
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Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
newrepublic.comI definitely understand why what gender stuff is in there did feel radical within the context into which it was released and also how even for the time that fact is itself revealing of the limitations of that context
It is so hard to get me interested in meta-fiction about the act of authorship and the limitations of storytelling these days and yet I think it might be the best one I've ever read?
It is so hard to get me interested in meta-fiction about the act of authorship and the limitstions of storytelling these days and yet I think it might be the best one I've ever read?
Yeah that's totally fair. I really like it as a story of two people misapprehending each other. Part of her being such a confidently political writer though is that sometimes finding her work insufficient or even wrong is kind of unavoidable
I really enjoyed Devil House, by John Darnielle. It's wildly ambitious in ways that are hard to describe and it's been rattling around in my head for months after reading
Today is hectic and shitty, but I'm determined to accomplish some of my bullshit tasks.
So please quote repost this with a rec of a book you enjoyed recently. Anything you read within the past few months, please. I'd love to come back later to check them out.
Me: Little Eve by Catriona Ward.
Which I think speaks to the larger point: if you can activate a specific demographic or subculture and they get really excited their enthusiasm can spill out into wider awareness and interest in a movie
My fiancee was seeing lots of clips, gifs, reactions and edits from queer people and musical theater people (excited for Mike Faist) on Twitter
My fiancee was seeing lots of clips, gifs, reactions and edits from queer people on Twitter
We saw Challengers this weekend and it was the most packed theater I'd been in in probably a year. And that includes Dune 2. Something about the marketing of that movie, or the social media buzz, turned it into one of those moments
It is absolutely insane, and I don't use that term lightly, the absolute ideological grip the police and the idea of policing have on basically every level of authority in this country. Rewarded with zero oversight and endless funding the way no other public "service" is
I read a biography of Timuel Black a couple years ago, and it included this quote that apparently hangs in the auditorium of DuSable High School.
Its rattled around in my brain ever since. I prefer it to the more well known version about truth, quite frankly
I prefer this to the more well-known version about truth, quite frankly
I read a biography of Timuel Black a couple years ago, and it included a quote that hung above the entrance to his high-school that has rattled around in my brain ever since:
"Peace if possible.
Justice, at any rate."
-Wendell Phillips
I think skincare is what's in vogue for hustle culture aimed at women currently? Like "run your own small business", "all you need is one big influencer to make YOUR stuff go big", etc
Always been a bit messed up how fast they got together IMO. Sam's body was barely cold
I think at the highest level the idea of building a machine that can experience something analogous to what we call consciousness is still exciting, and has been a passion of mine since college. But we're still decades away, if not centuries, and none of the current technologies lead there linearly
For them, doing something visible and ineffectual but wholly within the rules of polite society has a higher claim to moral rightness, since you aren't doing anything "bad" in pursuit of what you want. I really believe this is how a lot of people think about the world.
I was arguing with someone on Reddit who made a similar proposal the other day and I think it's just extremely revealing that these people fundamentally view protest as performance, and if they want to see it at all they want to see it performed the "right" way, which is coincidentally ineffective
I get why the entire field pivoted so hard, between the real walls cog sci hit and the impressive results that purely neural net approaches offered to discrete problems, but now it looks like they've hit their own hard wall and they've hit it with as much money as you could ask for
I think if we're going to make more progress on AI as a general research topic (not just this one narrow technology) the people arguing we need to bring some cognitive science back in have a point.
People keep filing in. Put more movies like this in theaters please
Alright, sitting down for Challengers. This is one of the most full theaters I've sat in in a good while. People want to see Challengers!
Alright, sitting down for Challengers. This is one of the most full theaters I've sat in in a good while. People want to see Challengers!
I made this exact point and they replied "Well how do you know if nobody tried it?" at which point I exited the conversation lol
(I really wish I liked Stellaris more. There are ways in which it's truly wildly ambitious, especially in some of the expansions, but it always feels hobbled to me by the fact that the economy is only really meaningful as a war economy)
Oof, if you're even pissing off Paradox loyalists with your monetization you've definitely gone too far