alexander max
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i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once
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Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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So many misread Debord/D+G as saying that representation is all that matters, where as the whole point is that representation becomes a way to manage material relations without having to directly address them AS LONG AS everyone continues to reap rewards from representation and self-recognition
September 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So many misread Debord/D+G as saying that representation is all that matters, where as the whole point is that representation becomes a way to manage material relations without having to directly address them AS LONG AS everyone continues to reap rewards from representation and self-recognition
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Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this:
Also: this great inter-library loan (one of the world's treasures!) poster from my September visit to Macalester College
August 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this:
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In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'
Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.
www.columnblog.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
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“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out
Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.
www.ajc.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
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“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
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Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.
Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran.
This is unspeakable evil.
archive.ph/PA2n5
This is unspeakable evil.
archive.ph/PA2n5
July 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.
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This piece on the humanities and AI is interesting. But I struggled with the text below, in which research is seen as the efficient extraction of what I already know I want. For me, the point of books is that they’re not ‘customized’ — their quirkiness is a feature, not a bug. tinyurl.run/cwxDSr
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This piece on the humanities and AI is interesting. But I struggled with the text below, in which research is seen as the efficient extraction of what I already know I want. For me, the point of books is that they’re not ‘customized’ — their quirkiness is a feature, not a bug. tinyurl.run/cwxDSr
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I am supposed to be writing questions for a discussion of the ethics of AI for a university panel. I keep coming back to the same question, given the ecological, social, and psychic cost of relying on AI, how can anyone who is serious about anything resembling an ethics actually support this stuff?
June 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am supposed to be writing questions for a discussion of the ethics of AI for a university panel. I keep coming back to the same question, given the ecological, social, and psychic cost of relying on AI, how can anyone who is serious about anything resembling an ethics actually support this stuff?
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these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
June 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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The typical profile for this kind of political violence:
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
June 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The typical profile for this kind of political violence:
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
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tense scene at the salvation army
June 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tense scene at the salvation army
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straight to the gulag
June 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
straight to the gulag
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The police are a service. If you didn’t call for service, their presence is suspicious.
June 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The police are a service. If you didn’t call for service, their presence is suspicious.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
no gods or kings, onlyfans.
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
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Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
June 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
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So much is being normalised by Israel's impunity. I don't know of any other context where one side of negotiations is publicly asking for the destruction of the other side as a precondition for the negotiation. It's Orwellian in its twistedness. 🧵
June 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So much is being normalised by Israel's impunity. I don't know of any other context where one side of negotiations is publicly asking for the destruction of the other side as a precondition for the negotiation. It's Orwellian in its twistedness. 🧵
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Someone has created a community run website that shows if and where ICE is. Users can input data and check on what others in their community are reporting: juntosseguros.com
Juntos Seguros | Community Safety Map
Juntos Seguros helps keep our community safe and informed. Anonymous reporting, no login required. Together we are stronger.
juntosseguros.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Someone has created a community run website that shows if and where ICE is. Users can input data and check on what others in their community are reporting: juntosseguros.com