destituent
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The coming crackdown is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They would try to do this regardless.
The crackdown will happen because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.
The crackdown will happen because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.
![“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” Matt Forney, a right-wing journalist and influencer, posted, referring to an arson attack on the German parliament in 1933 that the Nazis blamed on communists and used as a pretext to suspend a swath of civil liberties. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]. Every libtard commentator must be shut down. Stochastic terrorism. They caused this.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usktoienjig6rm5cxm46j3zl/bafkreifirwtvr5znjqzknhzx6cxkmrp6xqqimeanmwupyie5s7balhkph4@jpeg)
September 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The coming crackdown is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They would try to do this regardless.
The crackdown will happen because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.
The crackdown will happen because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.
There is no such thing as a "democratic" State: even "liberal" states allow a suspension of constitutional rights through the State of Emergency when the constitutional order is seen as threatened by "insurrection" or " invasion" – whatever the definition. Every State is at least potentially Fascist
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
There is no such thing as a "democratic" State: even "liberal" states allow a suspension of constitutional rights through the State of Emergency when the constitutional order is seen as threatened by "insurrection" or " invasion" – whatever the definition. Every State is at least potentially Fascist
www.dw.com/en/serbian-g... literally sonic warfare
Serbian government denies using 'sonic weapon' at protest – DW – 03/17/2025
Protesters had accused the police of using the outlawed device against crowds as hundreds of thousands gathered in Belgrade. The protests were described as the largest in Serbia's history.
www.dw.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
www.dw.com/en/serbian-g... literally sonic warfare
Specters of extinction against digital clones
February 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Specters of extinction against digital clones
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February 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I now feel like I want to change my PhD dissertation title to "AI and Scatology", or something to that effect
“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I now feel like I want to change my PhD dissertation title to "AI and Scatology", or something to that effect
So I thought that if there was a sound that really articulated the zeitgeist of this accursed moment in world history, it was this "electro-punk". It has a sense of deadly vitality in it that refuses to either paint anything rosy or give up on "resistance". lipcritic.bandcamp.com/album/hex-de...
Hex Dealer, by Lip Critic
12 track album
lipcritic.bandcamp.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So I thought that if there was a sound that really articulated the zeitgeist of this accursed moment in world history, it was this "electro-punk". It has a sense of deadly vitality in it that refuses to either paint anything rosy or give up on "resistance". lipcritic.bandcamp.com/album/hex-de...
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An exploration of how AI image generation differs from the process artists can use to draw inspiration from the personal inferiority of their minds, attempting to articulate that mysterious difference between us and the automated systems in more detail.
"The sea of visual culture used to train AI models is often conflated with the "somewhere else" that motivates human creativity. But somewhere else is more than Web ads and stock photography and scraped Reddit posts used to train AI. There is more than one somewhere else."
A Culture Inside
On David Lynch, AI, and the Myth of Automated Interiority
My closest real-life encounter with David Lynch was getting into a Lyft that had just dropped him off at the premiere of Twin Peaks: The Retu...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
An exploration of how AI image generation differs from the process artists can use to draw inspiration from the personal inferiority of their minds, attempting to articulate that mysterious difference between us and the automated systems in more detail.