soundsagreeable
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"the truth which conceals that there is none"
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Chinese anime about Karl Marx - YouTube
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A CCP production on Karl Marx, a proper tearjerker love story.
A 7-episode emotional ride, i highly recommend, do watch.
☭ ✊ 🌹 ❤️
领风者 / The Leader
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A 7-episode emotional ride, i highly recommend, do watch.
☭ ✊ 🌹 ❤️
领风者 / The Leader
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA...
AI and the Digital: Resisting AI - Dan McQuillan in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
YouTube video by The Philosopher
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA...
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Usually I'd encourage you to find another place to buy the book, but Amazon is selling the BLOOD IN THE MACHINE ebook for $2.99 at what is certainly a loss, so by all means, get a copy for cheap
www.amazon.com/Blood-Machin...
www.amazon.com/Blood-Machin...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owne...
www.amazon.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Usually I'd encourage you to find another place to buy the book, but Amazon is selling the BLOOD IN THE MACHINE ebook for $2.99 at what is certainly a loss, so by all means, get a copy for cheap
www.amazon.com/Blood-Machin...
www.amazon.com/Blood-Machin...
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So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;
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You know a country is car-centric when everyone starts their company in a garage.
May 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
You know a country is car-centric when everyone starts their company in a garage.
You know you are executive material when you believe a machine can use the same personality studies profile that you can use too, but it can actually look inside a person's head, like an X-ray machine or something. All hail the Oracle.
May 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You know you are executive material when you believe a machine can use the same personality studies profile that you can use too, but it can actually look inside a person's head, like an X-ray machine or something. All hail the Oracle.
😂😂😂 me and Lacan
April 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
😂😂😂 me and Lacan
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No? If you are vulnerable, yes, watch what you post. But if we start self-censoring what we post on social media right now, what are we even doing. Isn't that the 'obeying in advance' everyone's always warning about? Post, protest, organize—don't let them cow you
If they’re going to do it to them, they’re going to do it to all of us soon. You need to be very careful about what you post.
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
No? If you are vulnerable, yes, watch what you post. But if we start self-censoring what we post on social media right now, what are we even doing. Isn't that the 'obeying in advance' everyone's always warning about? Post, protest, organize—don't let them cow you
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Data centre power consumption shouldn't be measured in megawatt hours but in future-power-cut-hours
April 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Data centre power consumption shouldn't be measured in megawatt hours but in future-power-cut-hours
What. April fool's is it?
Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous unherd.com/newsroom/yan...
Yanis Varoufakis: Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous
The conviction of Marine Le Pen is the latest stage of Europe’s “descent into the abyss of totalitarianism”, according to former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Earlier today, the Rassemblem...
unherd.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What. April fool's is it?
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i’ll never fully disconnect from US tech products, but i am planning to make a serious push to replace a lot of US software and services i use in the coming weeks (once i’m not travelling so much, basically)
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
i’ll never fully disconnect from US tech products, but i am planning to make a serious push to replace a lot of US software and services i use in the coming weeks (once i’m not travelling so much, basically)
❤️🔥
Pq democratizar a arte não é toda pessoa ter um desenho bonitinho feito em segundos, democratizar arte é toda pessoa ter tempo e saúde pra aprender e produzir arte se quiser mas principalmente ter condição pra pensar e se relacionar com arte com introspecção.
March 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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credit: @earthliberationstudio
March 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
credit: @earthliberationstudio
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I was a COBOL mainframe programmer for large public universities for many years. Did a lot of database wrangling. The idea that people without deep knowledge and experience would even TOUCH that kind of code or data makes my head explode. EXPLODE.
It could well be that they simply want to break it.
It could well be that they simply want to break it.
March 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I was a COBOL mainframe programmer for large public universities for many years. Did a lot of database wrangling. The idea that people without deep knowledge and experience would even TOUCH that kind of code or data makes my head explode. EXPLODE.
It could well be that they simply want to break it.
It could well be that they simply want to break it.
well yes "move fast break things" has been their way for very long
The gist: The tech industry has rejected the design process of starting with a purpose and deliberating over ways to satisfy it and, instead, latched on to a model of making the thing first and then deliberating over possible purposes it can satisfy.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
well yes "move fast break things" has been their way for very long
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I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
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Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video
Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles
It’s time for more OpenAI announcement-ware! Today it’s the GPT-4o image generator, which you can now use from ChatGPT! [OpenAI] OpenAI’s fans have been using the bot to redraw photos in the style …
pivot-to-ai.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video
evergreen video of a disgusted Miyazaki telling off some AI-wannabe programmers on their terrible animation work.
"i feel like we are nearing the end of times"
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
"i feel like we are nearing the end of times"
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
March 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
evergreen video of a disgusted Miyazaki telling off some AI-wannabe programmers on their terrible animation work.
"i feel like we are nearing the end of times"
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
"i feel like we are nearing the end of times"
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...
the FT is complicit. @financialtimes.com
It is enormous journalistic irresponsibility to write about ethnic cleansing like this. (Alt text contains headline only as it’s a long article).
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
the FT is complicit. @financialtimes.com
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American tech companies’ idea of tech dominance is forcing everyone else to accept the toxicity and hate that they do.
Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models
Content moderation systems are being abandoned and defunded, leaving many countries looking for alternatives.
www.technologyreview.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
American tech companies’ idea of tech dominance is forcing everyone else to accept the toxicity and hate that they do.
Going further: If you're a radium art exhibition curator, or a radium artist that gets workers to produce your radium art, would you still continue being a radium art exhibition curator or artist if you knew the effects of radium art on workers & communities?
Hey, AI art exhibitions: you all keep saying “We explore…” but are you really? Because it seems like you consistently put forward work that assumes specific kinds of endpoints with AI, both with future orientations, and rarely engage critical work that deals with it *in the moment that we live in.*
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Going further: If you're a radium art exhibition curator, or a radium artist that gets workers to produce your radium art, would you still continue being a radium art exhibition curator or artist if you knew the effects of radium art on workers & communities?
Tesla owners who put those stickers saying they bought their #deathmachine before this mofo went crazy just tell on themselves. this mofo was always a sick fk.
March 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Tesla owners who put those stickers saying they bought their #deathmachine before this mofo went crazy just tell on themselves. this mofo was always a sick fk.
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There are certain types of tech critics who avoid any mention of racism, sexism, colonialism, genocide & eugenics. If they do it is to attack those of us who expose these threads.
Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy"
Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄
Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy"
Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There are certain types of tech critics who avoid any mention of racism, sexism, colonialism, genocide & eugenics. If they do it is to attack those of us who expose these threads.
Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy"
Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄
Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy"
Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄
Hustle-productivity-sigma-grindset Execs and wannabes love it.
Bloomberg now has an AI feature called "takeaways" at the top of their articles, encouraging you to read some AI slop summary instead of the work of their journalists. What the fuck man
March 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Hustle-productivity-sigma-grindset Execs and wannabes love it.
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Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are.
Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.
Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.
March 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are.
Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.
Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.