strigix
@sovereignbeast.bsky.social
May my tongue drip with parasites
that writhe through your mind,
and take root in your heart.
Let the flesh of mankind decompose
and the monsters carve themselves free.
that writhe through your mind,
and take root in your heart.
Let the flesh of mankind decompose
and the monsters carve themselves free.
'you're not arguing with what I said (that I have a bigger audience on this other site), just trying to make it morally impossible to use that other site'
Untrue! What is being made is a pair of factual observations:
a) The other site is full of CP
b) You don't view that as a reason not to use it
Untrue! What is being made is a pair of factual observations:
a) The other site is full of CP
b) You don't view that as a reason not to use it
February 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
'you're not arguing with what I said (that I have a bigger audience on this other site), just trying to make it morally impossible to use that other site'
Untrue! What is being made is a pair of factual observations:
a) The other site is full of CP
b) You don't view that as a reason not to use it
Untrue! What is being made is a pair of factual observations:
a) The other site is full of CP
b) You don't view that as a reason not to use it
the problem with the idea that large statistical models will lead to artificial general intelligence is that we know these models do not think, and there's no reason to assume that will change at any scale of implementation, no matter how complex it might be.
February 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
the problem with the idea that large statistical models will lead to artificial general intelligence is that we know these models do not think, and there's no reason to assume that will change at any scale of implementation, no matter how complex it might be.
the funniest thing about 'does the left even like technology' is that I genuinely see technology as a set of tools we can appropriate and use for the cause of liberation, but because I don't fetishize the idea of some day having robot slaves, for some reason my view is presumed to be tech-negative.
February 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
the funniest thing about 'does the left even like technology' is that I genuinely see technology as a set of tools we can appropriate and use for the cause of liberation, but because I don't fetishize the idea of some day having robot slaves, for some reason my view is presumed to be tech-negative.
Listen, it's true that we have too many lonely young men. Fortunately, I've heard of a solution.
It involves weetabix-
It involves weetabix-
February 18, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Listen, it's true that we have too many lonely young men. Fortunately, I've heard of a solution.
It involves weetabix-
It involves weetabix-
oh yeah that sort of thing can get you if you aren't expecting it, basically my rule of thumb is to assume that most things the average person says are a sort of polite socially normative lie until proven otherwise.
February 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
oh yeah that sort of thing can get you if you aren't expecting it, basically my rule of thumb is to assume that most things the average person says are a sort of polite socially normative lie until proven otherwise.
I think that fundamentally this is just intellectual cowardice, because like, you just said you disagreed with it. Adding on 'but it would be arrogant of me to say I disagree' isn't actually being humble, it's avoiding having to voice and argue the position you just said you hold.
Marxist activists went to jail for labor organizing but it’s fine. Healthcare has famously been not affordable for most people but that’s not relevant to Americans
February 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I think that fundamentally this is just intellectual cowardice, because like, you just said you disagreed with it. Adding on 'but it would be arrogant of me to say I disagree' isn't actually being humble, it's avoiding having to voice and argue the position you just said you hold.
I feel like I keep on talking about widespread cultural anti-intellectualism, but like, I just keep on running into it, y'know?
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I feel like I keep on talking about widespread cultural anti-intellectualism, but like, I just keep on running into it, y'know?
The irony of the 'anti-AI rhetoric is elitism' line of argument is that you fundamentally cannot separate the widespread adoption of generative statistical modeling from widespread cultural anti-intellectual and anti-creative resent, elitism, and profiteering.
February 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
The irony of the 'anti-AI rhetoric is elitism' line of argument is that you fundamentally cannot separate the widespread adoption of generative statistical modeling from widespread cultural anti-intellectual and anti-creative resent, elitism, and profiteering.
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genAI is dying repost to make it die faster
February 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
genAI is dying repost to make it die faster
"is there technology 'the left' is excited about?"
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. The tech pest nonsense masquerading as 'innovation', which is nothing more than the systematic repackaging of stolen creative work represents nothing but stagnation and waste driven by bull investment markets.
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. The tech pest nonsense masquerading as 'innovation', which is nothing more than the systematic repackaging of stolen creative work represents nothing but stagnation and waste driven by bull investment markets.
February 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
"is there technology 'the left' is excited about?"
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. The tech pest nonsense masquerading as 'innovation', which is nothing more than the systematic repackaging of stolen creative work represents nothing but stagnation and waste driven by bull investment markets.
Technology does not exist in a vacuum. The tech pest nonsense masquerading as 'innovation', which is nothing more than the systematic repackaging of stolen creative work represents nothing but stagnation and waste driven by bull investment markets.
something I've told people a lot is that it would genuinely not take much to flip Texas, but no Democrat has ever actually run a campaign that *tried to win Texas*
This may end up being a massive own goal for the Trump administration.
February 18, 2026 at 5:54 AM
something I've told people a lot is that it would genuinely not take much to flip Texas, but no Democrat has ever actually run a campaign that *tried to win Texas*
bro had the opportunity to do something funny and he whiffed it
February 18, 2026 at 3:29 AM
bro had the opportunity to do something funny and he whiffed it
we're really gonna throw like five years gdp into the worst people on earth's k-hole huh
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 18, 2026 at 3:02 AM
we're really gonna throw like five years gdp into the worst people on earth's k-hole huh
alright bluesky people talk about how you could never make an ad which makes midwestern wine moms support trans rights or whatever, but I'm convinced it's because the average democrat ad writer is too cowardly, and put as evidence this shitty ad script I wrote in ten minutes:
February 18, 2026 at 2:18 AM
alright bluesky people talk about how you could never make an ad which makes midwestern wine moms support trans rights or whatever, but I'm convinced it's because the average democrat ad writer is too cowardly, and put as evidence this shitty ad script I wrote in ten minutes:
So let me be clear:
I will not support any candidate who has bulldozed homeless camps.
I will not support any candidate who is chummy with fascist influencers.
I will not support any candidate who is opposed to trans rights.
I will not support any candidate who thinks genocide is an acceptable evil.
I will not support any candidate who has bulldozed homeless camps.
I will not support any candidate who is chummy with fascist influencers.
I will not support any candidate who is opposed to trans rights.
I will not support any candidate who thinks genocide is an acceptable evil.
February 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
So let me be clear:
I will not support any candidate who has bulldozed homeless camps.
I will not support any candidate who is chummy with fascist influencers.
I will not support any candidate who is opposed to trans rights.
I will not support any candidate who thinks genocide is an acceptable evil.
I will not support any candidate who has bulldozed homeless camps.
I will not support any candidate who is chummy with fascist influencers.
I will not support any candidate who is opposed to trans rights.
I will not support any candidate who thinks genocide is an acceptable evil.
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literally everyone you're mad at got here years before you. you're the invader, queen
WTF is going on with Bluesky? I've easily seen half a dozen posts trashing Kamala Harris from alleged progressives. Are the bots from Twitter never to be known as X invading us?
February 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
literally everyone you're mad at got here years before you. you're the invader, queen
"I'm your DJ, Yew Felovf, and this is... (loud horse noises and foghorns) L+ Radio."
February 18, 2026 at 12:17 AM
"I'm your DJ, Yew Felovf, and this is... (loud horse noises and foghorns) L+ Radio."
I've never heard anyone talk about South American philosophers, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, just that the structural racism of western society means that entire schools of thought are treated as less relevant and interesting than a random white guy who eats his own cat's poop
February 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I've never heard anyone talk about South American philosophers, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, just that the structural racism of western society means that entire schools of thought are treated as less relevant and interesting than a random white guy who eats his own cat's poop
alright, chapter 1 of capital done, will make notes on it in a bit.
February 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
alright, chapter 1 of capital done, will make notes on it in a bit.
"Making a coat requires 10 yards of linen and the labor to produce the coat, and the coat costs as much as 20 yards of linen; therefore we can say that the total labor required to make 1 coat is equivalent to the total labor required to make 20 yards of linen, on grounds of the expense being equal."
February 17, 2026 at 7:25 PM
"Making a coat requires 10 yards of linen and the labor to produce the coat, and the coat costs as much as 20 yards of linen; therefore we can say that the total labor required to make 1 coat is equivalent to the total labor required to make 20 yards of linen, on grounds of the expense being equal."
yeah so to contextualize this joke I am finally getting around to reading capital and finding, much to my amusement that the first chapter is literally a treatise on pretty unremarkable accounting theory which happens to be using heterodox terminology
causing both marxist and mainstream economic theorists to burst into flames of pure rage by putting forward a theory of marxist accounting built upon the labor theory of expenses (that is, that all expenses are ultimately reducible to the cost of labor and value extracted from labor)
February 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
yeah so to contextualize this joke I am finally getting around to reading capital and finding, much to my amusement that the first chapter is literally a treatise on pretty unremarkable accounting theory which happens to be using heterodox terminology
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A lot of American leftist are skeptical that Anarchism poses a real threat to the system of Fascizing Capital here. The system disagrees with good reason, the majority of mass movements that have credibly challenged its power in the past two decades have been decentralized spontaneous uprisings
Q: “What are you in here for? Murder? Robbery?"
A: “Worse, possession of zines"
“Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"
A: “Worse, possession of zines"
“Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.
theintercept.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM
A lot of American leftist are skeptical that Anarchism poses a real threat to the system of Fascizing Capital here. The system disagrees with good reason, the majority of mass movements that have credibly challenged its power in the past two decades have been decentralized spontaneous uprisings
causing both marxist and mainstream economic theorists to burst into flames of pure rage by putting forward a theory of marxist accounting built upon the labor theory of expenses (that is, that all expenses are ultimately reducible to the cost of labor and value extracted from labor)
February 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
causing both marxist and mainstream economic theorists to burst into flames of pure rage by putting forward a theory of marxist accounting built upon the labor theory of expenses (that is, that all expenses are ultimately reducible to the cost of labor and value extracted from labor)
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Such a key point. They don’t see themselves as having an ideology.
An ideology is something that belongs to the ‘groups.’ Dems see themselves as milquetoast, as run of the mill, as the center of the road, as the bearer of common sense and as blank slates. And how can you suppress ‘empty’?
An ideology is something that belongs to the ‘groups.’ Dems see themselves as milquetoast, as run of the mill, as the center of the road, as the bearer of common sense and as blank slates. And how can you suppress ‘empty’?
The idea that they could be treated the same way as some random anarchist zine-maker isn't something that's really comprehensible to them, because they don't see themselves as having ideology which can be suppressed, really- and so they will not object to the suppression of dissenting thought.
February 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Such a key point. They don’t see themselves as having an ideology.
An ideology is something that belongs to the ‘groups.’ Dems see themselves as milquetoast, as run of the mill, as the center of the road, as the bearer of common sense and as blank slates. And how can you suppress ‘empty’?
An ideology is something that belongs to the ‘groups.’ Dems see themselves as milquetoast, as run of the mill, as the center of the road, as the bearer of common sense and as blank slates. And how can you suppress ‘empty’?
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so nobody actually understood the point of my post, which makes sense since will stancil has the dumbest followers possible
if one party is fascist and the other party refuses to do anything about fascism then inevitably you're going to get fascists back in power because one party won't always win.
if one party is fascist and the other party refuses to do anything about fascism then inevitably you're going to get fascists back in power because one party won't always win.
February 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM
so nobody actually understood the point of my post, which makes sense since will stancil has the dumbest followers possible
if one party is fascist and the other party refuses to do anything about fascism then inevitably you're going to get fascists back in power because one party won't always win.
if one party is fascist and the other party refuses to do anything about fascism then inevitably you're going to get fascists back in power because one party won't always win.