Plastic Paddy
@paddyunidos.bsky.social
Me: Washingtonian interested in politics, history, music, & movies.
My pictures: Super Autocrat Typewriter Ribbon in Galway Bay.
My pictures: Super Autocrat Typewriter Ribbon in Galway Bay.
In the 1968 Czech futuristic sci-fi film Ikarie XB-1, a derelict satellite holds the bodies of fat cats gathered round a gambling table to show the decadence of vanquished capitalism, and it hits harder than ever.
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In the 1968 Czech futuristic sci-fi film Ikarie XB-1, a derelict satellite holds the bodies of fat cats gathered round a gambling table to show the decadence of vanquished capitalism, and it hits harder than ever.
“We’re running out of good ideas. Here’s how an algorithm that merely synthesizes preexisting ideas can actually produce new ideas, you idiots.”
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“We’re running out of good ideas. Here’s how an algorithm that merely synthesizes preexisting ideas can actually produce new ideas, you idiots.”
Happy shall he be that [redacted].
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Happy shall he be that [redacted].
At the Drive-In - "One-Armed Scissor" LIVE on the Late Show
YouTube video by stephencore
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December 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Give ‘Em Hell, Mark
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Give ‘Em Hell, Mark
Alice In Chains - Man in the Box (Official Video)
YouTube video by AliceInChainsVEVO
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Just finished Holzer’s Lincoln at Cooper Union and I think @jamellebouie.net recently referenced this quote:
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just finished Holzer’s Lincoln at Cooper Union and I think @jamellebouie.net recently referenced this quote:
Given the scale of the disaster elites have led us into, we’re going to need greater workplace democracy across the board, in so many fields and industry.
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Given the scale of the disaster elites have led us into, we’re going to need greater workplace democracy across the board, in so many fields and industry.
They never say the second half of the proverb
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
They never say the second half of the proverb
The premise of Konings’ Capital and time is that speculation is a feature not a bug of neoliberalism, a strategy to hedge against and uncertain future by ending the market your position, making it too big to fail.
![Passage from Konings’ capital and Time: “The way I leverage off others’ uncertainty is by inducing them to invest in my promise to hedge against the uncertainties they face. Through a leveraging operation, I seek to insinuate myself into the way others comprehend their own conditions of reproduction. That way, when others respond to unanticipated circumstances and unimagined problems, they are likely to draw on the resources that my normative position makes available, thereby fortifying my centrality in the social fabric. To highlight the leveraging logic of specularity this shifts the emphasis away from the ability to accurately calculate risk toward how actors seek to institute their own promises as the relevant unit of calculation. Economic power depends not just on knowing but equally on *being known* in a context of pervasive uncertainty; it derives from the ability to serve as a central point of reference in the speculative logic of contingent claims. In other words, leverage is not just about increasing my exposure to the world, but about increasing the world’s exposure to and investment in the risk I am taking. It is a distinctly secular from of sovereignty, bound up not with the possibility of transcending the ordinary field of risk but with the possibility of “transforming [one’s] own risks into the danger of all others” (Vogel 2014: 153)”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zlniaw5rfdia3ti7bwlhmgei/bafkreie5juwg7ditd4kyapdlvxtkohpn5c7f4qumyptryguikurf4uv7qq@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The premise of Konings’ Capital and time is that speculation is a feature not a bug of neoliberalism, a strategy to hedge against and uncertain future by ending the market your position, making it too big to fail.
Government of, by, and for abusers.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Government of, by, and for abusers.
Similarly, Memphis is the most important city in Mississippi (judging from the birthplaces of Elvis, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf…)
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Similarly, Memphis is the most important city in Mississippi (judging from the birthplaces of Elvis, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf…)
Oh shit - the ass *is* the father of the legs
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Oh shit - the ass *is* the father of the legs