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James Tindall
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Welfare Not Warfare. Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea. 🇵🇸

Long time software engineer.
One time net artist.
Overtime philosopher.
Out of time musician […]

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Might we call this “dialectric materialism”?[sic]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251108083908.htm
Researchers have discovered quantum oscillations inside an insulating material, overturning long-held assumptions. Their work at the National Magnetic Field Laboratory suggests that the effect originates in the material’s bulk rather than its surface. The finding points toward a “new duality” in materials science—where compounds may behave as both metals and insulators—offering a fascinating puzzle for future research.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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When Trump's press secretary echoes the language of genocide employed by Israel to dehumanise Palestinians, as the framing for the political opponents of the Trump regime she represents, it is not difficult to see where this is all heading. We should recall […]

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Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt adopts the language of genocide as framing for the regime's political opponents.
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Coming soon to an ICU near you: job advisors on hand to help you achieve maximum wage slavery in those precious last moments. Don’t just lie there on your deathbed. This is a Labour government and we’ll sell your final breaths in the ultimate privatisation of the public’s health.
Stephen Kinnock, Labour’s Minister of State for Care, promotes —with obvious and considerable pride— his new scheme to convert GP surgeries into job centres. A quite genius move that ensures the workforce stays sick and in work, making absolutely certain that the infirm are not idle but productive. What a guy.
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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How is it that developers of these machines are continually surprised each time the mirrors they have constructed to reflect our collective image under Capital, are again seen to reflect our collective image under Capital? From where do the authors of this […]

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We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. 💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up 🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain
October 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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👆 =👇
https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/
As Ava Kofman details in her profile of Yarvin, his true contribution has been to shift the Overton Window and revive “ideas that once seemed outside the bounds of polite society”. “On a podcast with his friend Michael Anton, now the director of policy planning at the State Department, Yarvin argued that the institutions of civil society, such as Harvard, would need to be shut down. “The idea that you're going to be a Caesar . . . with someone else's Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd”, he said.” “On his blog, he once joked about converting San Francisco's underclasses into biodiesel to power the city's buses. Then he suggested another idea: putting them in solitary confinement, hooked up to a virtual-reality interface. Whatever the exact solution, he has written, it is crucial to find "a humane alternative to genocide”, an outcome that “achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society) but without any of the moral stigma” Ava Kofman, Curtis Yarvin‘s Plot Against America, The New Yorker, (2025)™44 in 2010 Peter Thiel provided an early warning of much that was to unfold across the following years: “The basic idea was that we could never win an election on getting certain things because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world ... through a technological means. And this is where | think technology is this incredible alternative to politics.”
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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behold the creation of fascistopedia is nigh
Elon Musk & x Follow A oes @elonmusk We are building Grokipedia @xAl. Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAl goal of understanding the Universe. # David Sacks # @DavidSacks - 23h Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left- wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted ... 12:49 PM - Sep 30, 2025 - 9.2M Views
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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With the release of Sora 2 and its cameo feature operating as further confirmation that these machines are configured primarily for virality rather than utility, forgive me for posting this relevant excerpt from the Stolen Ladders chapter of my book […]

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In the wake of this systemic arson, Capital now gestures towards ‘new’ synthetic terrain and declares: here lie your possibilities, your route to success, your mythical utopian futures, even your means of resistance. What was once materially foreclosed is now offered back, yet only in spectral form. This synthetic terrain is no commons of endless possibility, but a further enclosure —one architected by Capital and patrolled by prediction. The dispossessed are herded through corridors of recombinant permutations, masquerading as futurity, towards machinic hallucinations of opportunity. They enter this terrain not as creators, but as prompt-issuers: miners of the past, conscripted into a recombinant economy built upon their own alienation. To Vibe under these conditions is not freedom —it is coerced participation according to rules and parameters defined by Capital. Those shut out of cultural industries by precarity, geography, or education are offered these tools not as means of liberation, but as pacifiers. What remains is not access, but interface —a symbolic structure stripped of power, a ladder that vanishes the moment the dispossessed begin to climb. This ladder was not stolen to lift them —there will be no return of their access. It was taken to fuel Capital’s ascendency from the very ground it scorches in its rise. Its rungs were hewn from the structures stripped from those now offered the mirage of their return —a mirage that allows only hollow simulations of ascent
October 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The Butcher of Baghdad https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xBOHYmkBU9s
Tony Blair
September 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Yep
A convicted felon, sex predator, con man, and compulsive liar sits wearing a suit and a red tie in the seat of ultimate power that his billionaire pals paid to have him elected into. He has just signed an order to dismantle all political opposition.
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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"Capital first entered the field of material production, then moved into cultural production; now, it is increasingly in the business of ideological production." https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/
The Verge Silicon Valley's latest argument against regulating Al: that would literally be the antichrist / This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently. by Tina Nguyen Sep 25, 2025, 8:49 PM UTC
September 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Important context :
Hysteria regarding the "surge in violence from a supposed radical left are overblown. The data shows a very different picture. Right wing extremists have been responsible for over 6 times as much politically motivated terrorism since 1975.
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The problem with Stochastic Gradient Descent and perhaps all current forms of ML in general, is that as function approximators, they will only ever be as good as the gap between the input data and the desired world model. In, for example, a chess engine like […]

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Output from an LLM asked to produce an image of an aircraft carrier next to a banana to show their relative scale. In the resulting image, the banana is larger than the aircraft carrier.
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Curtis Yarvin (AKA Mencius Moldbug), the Right's wonk du jour, says as much here:
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Here, as in the US and across the globe, the centrists lay the ground for the fascists. Under Capital, the middle always cedes to the Right.
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Here it comes. The order to "dismantle all stages" of "organised political violence". In other words, this is the permission structure to incarcerate or deport any dissenting voice with no further due process required.
A convicted felon, sex predator, con man, and compulsive liar sits wearing a suit and a red tie in the seat of ultimate power that his billionaire pals paid to have him elected into. He has just signed an order to dismantle all political opposition.
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Perfect juxtaposition of advert for AI Girlfriend with Trump’s UN address, “Choose how she looks and what she says.” 🤢
Trump’s address at the UN General Assembly
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Hardwired by Tracy Chapman:

Your wants desires
Needs and wishes
Will be duly noted
Processed filed and cataloged
Labeled and encoded
Turned into sitcom dialog
And advertising slogans

We've got a box to put in your brain
Hard wired for downloading
All the […]

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Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted Processed filed and cataloged Labeled and encoded Turned into sitcom dialog And advertising slogans We've got a box to put in your brain Hard wired for downloading Allthe secrets and the mysteries You've been selfishly withholding The dreams and hopes That once were yours, Will now be collected and dispersed So the first to come with cash to spend Will be the first one served We've got a box to put in your brain Hard wired for downloading Allthe secrets and the mysteries You've been selfishly withholding Make you think you like to be watched Displayed on the auction block Invaded in your own home Stripped naked on the television Humiliated in front of millions We've got a box to put in your brain Hard wired for downloading Allthe secrets and the mysteries You've been selfishly withholding We've got a box to put in your brain We've got a box to put in your brain We've got a box to put in your brain We've got a box to put in your brain Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Austerity, AI, and 21st-century genocide are manoeuvres in the manifold but homogeneous operations of Predictive Capital -as articulated in this excerpt from the Dispossession & Disappearance chapter at the end of section 1 of my book Predictive Capital […]

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“Al is an austerity-machine”,” McQuillan writes —a formulation that names precisely the operation of next-token prediction under Predictive Capital. McQuillan ig right, to understand so-called ‘Al' we must understand 21st-century capitalist austerity. Furthermore, to fully understand the ever deepening economic austerity, we must also understand 21st-century genocide. Not only do thay follow the same necropelitical logics, they are manoeuvres in a single project. As with all austerity regimes, the logic is not merely economic but disciplinary, punishing, and selective. Here, as ever, Capital functions as pharmakon —administering the poison, then selling the cure. What could be more ‘efficient’ than being paid twice for a single act? Simple: blaming the very subjects it has already marked for abandonment or elimination for the crises it has itse'f engineered.
September 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Chinny Reckon.
Post - Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal - May 18, 2024 AI PIONEER PREDICTS UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME WILL BE NEEDED AMID AIRRISKS Geoffrey Hinton, the "godfather of Al," has quit Google to wam about Al dangers and predicts that universal basic income (UBI) will be needed to address job losses and inequality caused by Al. Hinton Mario Nawal @iarioNawfal - May 17,2024 WHOIS PROTECTING HUMANITY AT OPENAI? e THEY ALL RESIGNED... llya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist, and Jan Leike, co-leader of the superalignment team, ... ElonMusk @elonmusk There will be universal high income (not basic) 7:34 AM - May 19, 2024 - 568.2K Views
September 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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When Banksy’s Girl With Balloon was auctioned in 2018 its self-shredding began immediately the auctioneer’s gavel crashed down to accept the highest bid. Where the auctioneer’s gavel silences the transactional speech of bidders the judge’s gavel silences the […]

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What remains of Banksy’s latest mural on the walls of the crown courts in London —showing a judge about to smash his gavel down upon a peaceful protester laid upon the ground holding a placard— after authorities have tried to scrub it off.
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Signs of the coming criminalisation of critical speech calling out the fascistic policies of American Imperialism and its backing of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The war on woke always was a pre-emptive strike in defence of brutal right-wing ideologies […]

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Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” for the shooting and promised a crackdown, saying its “rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today and it must stop right now”. In his address from the Oval Office Trump also provided a list of incidents of what he termed “radical left political violence” while not including violence against Democrats.
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Turns out the stain of complicity in genocide leaves a mark no matter how hard you scrub.
What remains of Banksy’s latest mural on the walls of the crown courts in London —showing a judge about to smash his gavel down upon a peaceful protester laid upon the ground holding a placard— after authorities have tried to scrub it off.
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Until the right learn how to do reasoned thought, they will continue to get everything wrong. Look up non sequitur, ask how behaviour emerges from environmental/societal conditions. Learn that there is no genetic basis for race, and that there is more genetic […]

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Alex Berenson Until the left admits the truth about race and crime, its efforts to shout the right down over cases like this will only provoke more anger. And this is the truth about race and crime: x.com/alexberenson/s... “Black men commit a huge amount of violent crime in the United States. Every statistic confirms this fact. Black people made up almost 47,000 of the 81,000 murder suspects whose race was known to police in the last five years, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1 Most of those killers are men. Put another way, black men, who make up about one-fourteenth of the American population, commit over half of the homicides.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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When the FOMO hype around post-human tech is raised to the pitch of a survival level threat to those who reject it, it becomes a basilisk.
everyone will want @Neuralink ASAP because of the edge it gives you with Al the tsunami of consumer demand will be insane. yes some will never want “a chip in the brain” blah blah blah but millions or maybe billions WILL want a better smartphone (aka personal computer that already makes us a part cyber species) brain chips will have 1000x or more improved speed to trade ideas with Al you will be left behind if you don’t have this super power and resort to tapping your phone to communicate with the new demigods. I'm sorry | don’t make the rules the future is going to be crazy
September 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The recommendation algorithm, whether on the sans serif swastika, or any of the other attention monopoly platforms, always was a means of algorithmic differential abandonment. Now it is restricting the posts of starving Gazans pleading for money to buy food […]

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August 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM