Benjamin Ibañez
@bibanez.bsky.social
Dad (3) from Chile. Currently PhD Student, University of Durham. Philosophy of Markets.
Everything is potentially interesting.
Everything is potentially interesting.
It's hilarious to be older and see your generation trying to judge and make sense of irrelevant things like this.
People, please. There're more important things. You're old, get over it.
People, please. There're more important things. You're old, get over it.
“Six seven” wouldn’t exist without marketing, virality, and brain rot—but it’s not reducible to those things, Joshua Rothman writes. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/is-six-seven-really-brain-rot
Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's hilarious to be older and see your generation trying to judge and make sense of irrelevant things like this.
People, please. There're more important things. You're old, get over it.
People, please. There're more important things. You're old, get over it.
Starmer needs to grovel harder.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Starmer needs to grovel harder.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice? | Brigid Delaney
Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice? | Brigid Delaney
How will AI destroy the world as we know it? Not through evil. My guess is it will do it through love
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
This is what is going to happen:
-Maduro will claim any opposition as alies of the US. In Machado's case it's easy, as she has explicitly called for invasions.
- He will movilize the army to further the coup already in existance, ending most whatever's left of democratic inatitutions.
-Maduro will claim any opposition as alies of the US. In Machado's case it's easy, as she has explicitly called for invasions.
- He will movilize the army to further the coup already in existance, ending most whatever's left of democratic inatitutions.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is what is going to happen:
-Maduro will claim any opposition as alies of the US. In Machado's case it's easy, as she has explicitly called for invasions.
- He will movilize the army to further the coup already in existance, ending most whatever's left of democratic inatitutions.
-Maduro will claim any opposition as alies of the US. In Machado's case it's easy, as she has explicitly called for invasions.
- He will movilize the army to further the coup already in existance, ending most whatever's left of democratic inatitutions.
New, horrifying ways in how 'boys will be boys'.
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New, horrifying ways in how 'boys will be boys'.
Philosophers of Science be like:
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Philosophers of Science be like:
The problem is that we forget science is also an ideology, and we must fight for it, organise. Also, science is not a monolith, and it has made many mistakes.
Canada has lost its measles-free status.
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
As Canada loses measles-free status, outbreak in northeast B.C. continues | CBC News
Measles cases in B.C. make up almost seven per cent of the total in Canada, with the vast majority of them clustered in the province's northeast, where health officials said the virus spread through a...
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The problem is that we forget science is also an ideology, and we must fight for it, organise. Also, science is not a monolith, and it has made many mistakes.
"In China you have capitalists, but you don't have a capitalist class. They are not allowed to create their media, they are not allowed to control political parties"
Great answer to a question I'm asked a lot when I try to explain the difference between markets and capitalism.
Great answer to a question I'm asked a lot when I try to explain the difference between markets and capitalism.
Is China still a socialist country? Is China interested in taking over the world? These are the questions the journalist Li Jingjing asked me to clarify. And so I did (over our 30 minute conversation): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoe...
Leftist Vijay Prashad's view on China: Is China still socialist?
YouTube video by Li Jingjing 李菁菁
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"In China you have capitalists, but you don't have a capitalist class. They are not allowed to create their media, they are not allowed to control political parties"
Great answer to a question I'm asked a lot when I try to explain the difference between markets and capitalism.
Great answer to a question I'm asked a lot when I try to explain the difference between markets and capitalism.
Ancestry DNA has always been a scam tailored to racists. It has never been reliable because the product it offers is complete racist nonsense.
Ancestry DNA is now manipulating and changing DNA results to push Zionism and Zionist tropes.
It is now owned by Blackrock. Sooooo….yeah.
No longer reliable data.
Be very wary of that service.
It is now owned by Blackrock. Sooooo….yeah.
No longer reliable data.
Be very wary of that service.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ancestry DNA has always been a scam tailored to racists. It has never been reliable because the product it offers is complete racist nonsense.
The only way you would ever get me to support AI is if we agree to abolish all IP laws. Prescription drugs, technology, software, characters, seeds. Lets go all the fucking way.
And even then, AI would still suck, but at least it wouldn't be theft.
And even then, AI would still suck, but at least it wouldn't be theft.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The only way you would ever get me to support AI is if we agree to abolish all IP laws. Prescription drugs, technology, software, characters, seeds. Lets go all the fucking way.
And even then, AI would still suck, but at least it wouldn't be theft.
And even then, AI would still suck, but at least it wouldn't be theft.
"It is not only violence and intimidation that keep El Presidente in power. It is the stupefying inversion of reality, the daily denial of what we perceive and its replacement by disorienting fictions that keep us off balance."
Hedges takes the right approach, consulting latinoamerican literature.
Hedges takes the right approach, consulting latinoamerican literature.
"Dictators wallow in kitsch. Kitsch requires zero intellectual investment... It celebrates a fantasy world of virtuous rulers, a happy, adoring population and idealized portraits of the citizens. In the case of Trump, this means white citizens." chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is...
America is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"It is not only violence and intimidation that keep El Presidente in power. It is the stupefying inversion of reality, the daily denial of what we perceive and its replacement by disorienting fictions that keep us off balance."
Hedges takes the right approach, consulting latinoamerican literature.
Hedges takes the right approach, consulting latinoamerican literature.
It literally is impossible to do parody nowadays. How do you top this comment?
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It literally is impossible to do parody nowadays. How do you top this comment?
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Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
US and UK men (because of course you only hear about this shit in these countries) are the biggest babies ever.
Can't believe they need this constant level of coddling.
Can't believe they need this constant level of coddling.
In a new book, Scott Galloway declares that discontented young men need an “aspirational vision of masculinity” to oppose the misogynist messaging of influencers like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wFm9hX
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
US and UK men (because of course you only hear about this shit in these countries) are the biggest babies ever.
Can't believe they need this constant level of coddling.
Can't believe they need this constant level of coddling.
Finally got around to watching @jessiegender.bsky.social 2:20 hr video on liberal centrism.
A good 2 hour warmup to the last 20 min.
Good watch.
A good 2 hour warmup to the last 20 min.
Good watch.
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Finally got around to watching @jessiegender.bsky.social 2:20 hr video on liberal centrism.
A good 2 hour warmup to the last 20 min.
Good watch.
A good 2 hour warmup to the last 20 min.
Good watch.
What a woman!
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
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November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What a woman!
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
One of the weirdest things about a vasectomy is the homework they give you.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
One of the weirdest things about a vasectomy is the homework they give you.
"It used to be that the work place was a place for men to get away from their nagging wives and hang out with their cool bosses. Now, it's all harassment this or sexism that, all the while they lower wages by doing a better job for less."
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"It used to be that the work place was a place for men to get away from their nagging wives and hang out with their cool bosses. Now, it's all harassment this or sexism that, all the while they lower wages by doing a better job for less."
Reposted by Benjamin Ibañez
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
Mamdani tomorrow:
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Mamdani tomorrow:
New epistemology just dropped!
LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's elections
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New epistemology just dropped!
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Good morning. I took Elon’s Wikipedia competitor for a test drive and you won’t believe what I found (you will believe what I found) www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
I tried Elon Musk's Wikipedia clone and boy is it racist
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary tested out Grokipedia and has some notes.
www.sfgate.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Good morning. I took Elon’s Wikipedia competitor for a test drive and you won’t believe what I found (you will believe what I found) www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...