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from Reds by maurice isserman
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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amazing https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52240/is-the-quote-your-mind-is-software-program-it-your-body-is-a-shell-change-it
stack exchange discussion on where the misquote of peter thiel citing the eclipse phase tagline ""Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it."" comes from
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
this statistics textbook i'm working through's claim that n>30 is some magical cutoff point wherein things start reflecting normal distributions has probably gotten people killed lol
September 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
i take bad UX design personally
September 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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didn't know i wanted a motorcycle youtuber to explain djkstra's algorithm this morning but here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eTNt5APSzs
August 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
this is a breathtaking act of epistemic violence https://cosmonautmag.com/2025/06/anarchism-in-theory-a-review-of-stop-thief-anarchism-and-philosophy/
Given her status as a former student of Derrida as well as her formative vocation as a Hegel scholar, it should come as no surprise that, in her latest English-language volume—Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy—Catherine Malabou answers this with an emphatic yes. More surprising, though, is the way that she effectively inverts it. Not only is it the case, she tells us, that anarchism needs philosophy. It is also the case that philosophy needs anarchism. At the political level, we’re today confronted by—on one side—a ‘de facto’ anarchism of the atomized individual, severed from the welfare state and increasingly susceptible to non-national transactions. And on the other, a ‘dawning’ anarchism of political action; of a renewed horizontalism that, after its debut in Seattle in ’99, went on to influence a fusillade of movements ranging from Occupy to the Gilets Jaunes to the ZAD (that is, zone à défendre). If the tragedy of our time has been the failure of these two impulses to converge, this failure has been mirrored in the domain of philosophy. Easily outstripping the inverse statism of classical anarchism, philosophers—and in particular, the scions of la pensee ’68—have both revealed the diffuse nature of power relations as well as challenged the primacy of the Greek arche. Where they have not succeeded is in overcoming the aporias of Aristotle’s Politics, which takes equality as its premise only to summarily justify state rule.
July 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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YOU USE <u></u> TAGS TO UNDERLINE STUFF IN MARKDOWN???

LMFAO
June 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
the thing about pomo abuse of insights like the incompleteness theroem is that i actually think that turing's halting problem has implications for ethics in that it allows you to refine the intuition that you can never make a system of rules that can guide you in every possible circumstance
June 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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this is funny https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/i-was-a-juror-on-a-murder-trial?
I Was A Juror On A Murder Trial
Last January, I was on a jury for a murder trial: it was my job to determine if Bomani Hairston-Bassette murdered Charles Wright. You’re not supposed to sell your story for money for 90 days after the trial is over, but it’s been more than 90 days, so now I can tell you all about it. I’m going to first talk about the case, then about what it was like, then about how the experience affected my views about the justice system.
thingofthings.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
a common thing that graeber hit on again and again throughout his career was the connection between enclaves of artists who overlapped with radicals, how both were attracted to spaces where people did things differently

anyway im sad he never publicly […]

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What I really want to emphasize though is that none of this means that any of these spaces are any less real. We have a tendency to assume that, since capital and its attendant forms of value are so clearly dominant, then everything that happens in the world somehow partakes of its essence. We assume capitalism forms a total system, and that the only real significance of any apparent alternative is the role it plays in reproducing it. Myself, I feel this logic is deeply flawed—even disastrous. For two hundred years at least, artists and those drawn to them have created enclaves where it has been possible to experiment with forms of work, exchange, and production radically different from those promoted by capital. While they are not always self-consciously revolutionary, artistic circles have had a persistent tendency to overlap with revolutionary circles; presumably, precisely because these have been spaces where people can experiment with radically different, less alienated forms of life. The fact that all this is made possible by money percolating downwards from finance capital does not make such spaces “ultimately” a product of capitalism any more than the fact a privately owned factory uses state-supplied and regulated utilities and postal services, relies on police to protect its property and courts to enforce its contracts, makes the cars they turn out “ultimately” products of socialism.
March 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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"the real ones who walk away from omelas"
February 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[bluesite rant]

"antifascist activists aren't serious because heather hayer died at unite the right"

its going to be a long four fucking years
February 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
actually the real right wing intellectual that you should raise fire alarms over if he gets popular is david hines because despite being pretty normie he's basically the only one i know of who actually tries to read and understand contemporary left activists
January 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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[palo alto by malcom harris discourse]

it's extremely cool how despite the fact that more leftist intellectuals are alive today than ever before in history, people will write 700 pages of how capitalism is fucked only to end with "well someone else should […]

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October 8, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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a woman in her 40s/50s came across our little FNB tonight and told us how she was alienated from leftist politics from her tweens to her 20s because growing up with Leninist parents who lied about atrocities committed by various states and belonged to a dysfunctional, patriarchal communist […]
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October 4, 2024 at 9:19 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I wrote a thing on why the left / right divide is roughly correlated people's willingness to understand the world and what a strategy that tries to leverage this asymmetry might look like

https://wedontagree.net/values-understanding-and-strategic-foundations
September 24, 2024 at 3:03 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
> going to make 1312 thousand hours, a site that analyzes the most effective "career paths" for anti-capitalists
September 20, 2024 at 11:27 PM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
funniest fuckin example of concept drift i've seen in a minute is reactionaries referring to broader social pressure as "fifth generation warfare"
September 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[rant about new kapital edition]

dialectics is silly but so is this assertion given that proudhon cited hegel as a primary influence and was also a major influence on marx
September 15, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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[idiotic reactionary leftist rant]

just listened to like 15 min of a catherine liu interview and yeah part of my motivation for writing shit like https://wedontagree.net/we-dont-agree-on-capitalism-(essay)) is to give people ammunition to utterly reject her as the dipshit reactionary that is
September 12, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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[renewable energy is getting cheap]

I *suspect* that various forms of sabotage and protest might become more effective if replacing the targeted infrastructure is cheaper than repairing it

this is of course me purely drawing up a hypothetical economic […]

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September 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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kinda impressed by the diversity of thinkers that /r/neoliberal has as potential flairs
August 26, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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the real crux of history was clinton losing in 2016, not because of any major policy changes but rather because anarchists would have had more breathing space in the subsequent years to reach out to people radicalized by bernie
August 24, 2024 at 8:51 AM
mutual-ayyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
if you think that all politics today is just about media criticism and consumption, ironically, you need to consume different media
August 22, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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i firmly believe that one of the driving forces that lets good triumphing over evil in our world is that evil tends to be really fucking stupid
https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-eccentric-billionaire-patron-175735774.html
August 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM