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Also the structure of every pop science / op psych airport book.
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Also the structure of every pop science / op psych airport book.
Very easy way to disprove the “Gaza policy is why Trump won” argument; if this was true, why has *worse* Gaza policy not sunk Trump?
December 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Very easy way to disprove the “Gaza policy is why Trump won” argument; if this was true, why has *worse* Gaza policy not sunk Trump?
Exactly. Things were better when you were a child? Of course! Because you were a child!! And this image remains the best response to the Last Jedi reaction
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Exactly. Things were better when you were a child? Of course! Because you were a child!! And this image remains the best response to the Last Jedi reaction
“The biggest threat” jfc what a pathetic waste of space. He couldn’t be more reactionary centrist and utterly uninteresting and vapid. One day if we want to understand the failure of US academia in the current moment we’ll have to make central Samuel Moyn Cinematic Universe and its contrarianism
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“The biggest threat” jfc what a pathetic waste of space. He couldn’t be more reactionary centrist and utterly uninteresting and vapid. One day if we want to understand the failure of US academia in the current moment we’ll have to make central Samuel Moyn Cinematic Universe and its contrarianism
This is why reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ should be compulsory, because entertainment being the dominant source of knowledge ends up with the kind of bs society has legitimised as ‘valuable’ ‘thought’.
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This is why reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ should be compulsory, because entertainment being the dominant source of knowledge ends up with the kind of bs society has legitimised as ‘valuable’ ‘thought’.
A big weaknesses of political commentary post the rise of blogs and social media, is that these people just want a decent wage as a paid op Ed writer in a local newspaper, but that has died, so now we must suffer their ‘brand’ online. Add that dangle of privatised govt bureaucracy in the USA = BS
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A big weaknesses of political commentary post the rise of blogs and social media, is that these people just want a decent wage as a paid op Ed writer in a local newspaper, but that has died, so now we must suffer their ‘brand’ online. Add that dangle of privatised govt bureaucracy in the USA = BS
John Ganz has written much more about this
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
John Ganz has written much more about this
‘Anti-tech ideas’ is a rather huge topic, I’d go for Brian Merchant’s ‘Blood in the Machine’ www.bloodinthemachine.com Neil Postmans’s classic Technopoly and Cory Doctorow has a book on the works, so his ongoing writing is always good: pluralistic.net
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October 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
‘Anti-tech ideas’ is a rather huge topic, I’d go for Brian Merchant’s ‘Blood in the Machine’ www.bloodinthemachine.com Neil Postmans’s classic Technopoly and Cory Doctorow has a book on the works, so his ongoing writing is always good: pluralistic.net
As you say, why is there a need to access online communities during the school day? Moreover if someone is feeling unsupported in school - so seeks the help of an online space - that’s a failure of the school, not something for an unregulated bit of tech to fix.
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
As you say, why is there a need to access online communities during the school day? Moreover if someone is feeling unsupported in school - so seeks the help of an online space - that’s a failure of the school, not something for an unregulated bit of tech to fix.
Classic bullshit embellishment. It's simple, there is no understanding to be gleamed from lazily saying "all imperialism is the same". Stephanson was streets ahead of these fools, because actually understood theory, unlike these 'restrainer' children newleftreview.org/issues/ii118...
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Classic bullshit embellishment. It's simple, there is no understanding to be gleamed from lazily saying "all imperialism is the same". Stephanson was streets ahead of these fools, because actually understood theory, unlike these 'restrainer' children newleftreview.org/issues/ii118...
It’s Nixon Peace with Honour all over again. The amount of credulity being given to the Trump-Netanyahu interpretation is brain melting.
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It’s Nixon Peace with Honour all over again. The amount of credulity being given to the Trump-Netanyahu interpretation is brain melting.
Yes. ‘Reactionary centrism’ is so transparently right wing, anyone who gives it credence is simply a dumb mark. A sign that someone doesn’t read enough or think enough is that they think the likes of Weiss and the Free Press have anything but a childish right wing ideology.
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Yes. ‘Reactionary centrism’ is so transparently right wing, anyone who gives it credence is simply a dumb mark. A sign that someone doesn’t read enough or think enough is that they think the likes of Weiss and the Free Press have anything but a childish right wing ideology.
The amplification fits their crazy ideas. For these weirdos it can’t be that the Bush admin was wrong because it had an ignorant and misguided worldview, it has to be some complicated 4D chess conspiracy, mixed with dog whistles.
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The amplification fits their crazy ideas. For these weirdos it can’t be that the Bush admin was wrong because it had an ignorant and misguided worldview, it has to be some complicated 4D chess conspiracy, mixed with dog whistles.
V bad. There is a decent paper on what a weird and terrible thing Quincy is, understanding its genealogy. For me, it’s an odd result of a crazy misunderstanding of the causes of W admin War on Terror policy, and a theoretical vacuity which leads to their own mad version of US exceptionalism
September 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
V bad. There is a decent paper on what a weird and terrible thing Quincy is, understanding its genealogy. For me, it’s an odd result of a crazy misunderstanding of the causes of W admin War on Terror policy, and a theoretical vacuity which leads to their own mad version of US exceptionalism
Yes, a serious gap is there is lots of stuff on the which groups vote the way they do (and how to appeal to those groups) but what needs to be addressed is to account for the 'ingorant' vote (or misinformed, as well as uninformed).
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yes, a serious gap is there is lots of stuff on the which groups vote the way they do (and how to appeal to those groups) but what needs to be addressed is to account for the 'ingorant' vote (or misinformed, as well as uninformed).
Yes! South Park was/is Critstigau's quote “Irony–an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing.” Satire is supposed to have an ideology, it is supposed to be FOR something not just against something. And if your one joke is "everyone is stupid" you stand for nothing but anarchy and cruelty.
September 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Yes! South Park was/is Critstigau's quote “Irony–an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing.” Satire is supposed to have an ideology, it is supposed to be FOR something not just against something. And if your one joke is "everyone is stupid" you stand for nothing but anarchy and cruelty.
Yep. Robert Christgau said that Irony was “…an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing.”
September 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Yep. Robert Christgau said that Irony was “…an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing.”
There is also the thing in the case of smith about not just being converted ideologically, but needing to be converted to keep your ‘market’ of being ‘liked’.
August 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There is also the thing in the case of smith about not just being converted ideologically, but needing to be converted to keep your ‘market’ of being ‘liked’.
There is also a tension between a public desire to reduce immigration and the inalienable rights which underpin immigration. Hopefully we should all agree politicians should ignore the public if they wanted euthanasia of children with disabilities?
August 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
There is also a tension between a public desire to reduce immigration and the inalienable rights which underpin immigration. Hopefully we should all agree politicians should ignore the public if they wanted euthanasia of children with disabilities?
Someone who *really* cares about rights - what Apple professes to also care about - would understand the value of anonymity in today's society, given what is happening. And anyway, my desire to remain private does not alter the validity of my point or you being a patsy for an unethical corporation.
August 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Someone who *really* cares about rights - what Apple professes to also care about - would understand the value of anonymity in today's society, given what is happening. And anyway, my desire to remain private does not alter the validity of my point or you being a patsy for an unethical corporation.
The post is sophistry to say a simple thing; Apple’s heath as a business and outweighs any moral judgment. Oh and what you miss about the protection racket analogy is in the end the businesses are never the same anyway, either when the racket becomes untenable or the regime collapses.
August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The post is sophistry to say a simple thing; Apple’s heath as a business and outweighs any moral judgment. Oh and what you miss about the protection racket analogy is in the end the businesses are never the same anyway, either when the racket becomes untenable or the regime collapses.
And McNamara was making 2 points, 1 the ‘if’ is huge (and without being glib, a reality) and 2, what your excellent blog points out, the question is not whether directly targeting civilians is against just war principles (it is!), but why those principles are not fully established and supported
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And McNamara was making 2 points, 1 the ‘if’ is huge (and without being glib, a reality) and 2, what your excellent blog points out, the question is not whether directly targeting civilians is against just war principles (it is!), but why those principles are not fully established and supported
Yes. And lots of people are commentating on this and missed the simple answer given by Robert McNamara in ‘Fog of War’ (in relation to the firebombing), “I don’t blame Truman for dropping the bomb…but [as LeMay said] if we’d have lost we’d have been tried as war criminals…and he was right”
August 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yes. And lots of people are commentating on this and missed the simple answer given by Robert McNamara in ‘Fog of War’ (in relation to the firebombing), “I don’t blame Truman for dropping the bomb…but [as LeMay said] if we’d have lost we’d have been tried as war criminals…and he was right”
interacting with LLM’s hasn’t broken students, it’s actually broken academics
August 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
interacting with LLM’s hasn’t broken students, it’s actually broken academics