Rachel

"A wage-labor contract is, ostensibly, a free contract between equals — but an agreement between equals in which both agree that once one of them punches the time clock, they won't be equals any more."
- David Graeber, Debt, p. 120

Have you considered though that every human who died prior to 2022 never had access to AI? I assume no one has had health problems since, but, won't be checking

You mean like how Heidegger claimed he couldn't be a Nazi becauze he was horny for Arendt? Jung and Hélène (and Spielrein)?

I gather that Ryan Grim hasn't encountered the phenomenon of racists fetishizing their targets. I wonder how his ignorance influences him?

This was also my opinion of Pacific Rim

I push back against the "no good movies come out anymore" idea because I think we probably get as many or more good movies a year than ever before, we just also get a large proportion of bland or passable movies.

And we don't remember the bland or passable movies from previous decades, either.

Whenever I think of Radiohead (and I do like their music) I think of the part of Watership Down where the rabbits find Cowslip's Warren, and particularly Silverweed, the poet who helps them metabolize death

it's awesome how much money grocery chains are willing to spend on Theft Deterring Infrastructure like chest high traffic gates and "AI"-augmented cameras and riot-geared rentacops, but they absolutely refuse to pay for more than one cashier to man their four dusty checkout lanes at any given time.

So stupid that "lumbersexual" means poser crap like this and not "erection that splits the heavens"

You Can Just Do Things | Patrick Blanchfield As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the...

my latest column in @nplusonemag.com: on Iran, the Millennium Challenge of 2002, why no one wants to learn anything, and how the repressed returns regardless www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Tough to know if the use of the word "liberal" is misinformed or reflective of contempt (being more or less politically conservative doesn't actually make you not a Liberal) but I'm reminded of the line about how at an extreme it becomes pointless to distinguish between stupidity and malice.

Just watched a week ago and looked up what I wrote at the time: "A wretched pile of shit, back to Goodwill"

"It is appropriate therefore to recall the excitement of machinery in the preceding moment of capital, the exhilaration of futurism most notably, and of Marinetti’s celebration of the machine gun and the motor car. These are still visible emblems, sculptural nodes of energy which give tangibility and figuration to the motive energies of that earlier moment of modernization. The prestige of these great streamlined shapes can be measured by their metaphorical presence in Le Corbusier’s buildings, vast Utopian structures which ride like so many gigantic steamshipliners upon the urban scenery of an older fallen earth. Machinery exerts another kind of fascination in artists like Picabia and Duchamp, whom we have no time to consider here; but let me mention, for the sake of completeness, the ways in which revolutionary or communist artists of the 1930s also sought to reappropriate this excitement of machine energy for a Promethean reconstruction of human society as a whole, as in Fernand Leger and Diego Rivera. What must then immediately be observed is that the technology of our own moment no longer possesses this same capacity for representation: not the turbine, nor even Sheeler’s grain elevators or smokestacks, not the baroque elaboration of pipes and conveyor belts nor even the streamlined profile of the railroad train—all vehicles of speed still concentrated at rest—but rather the computer, whose outer shell has no emblematic or visual power, or even the casings of the various media themselves, as with that home appliance called television which articu- lates nothing but rather implodes, carrying its flattened image surface within itself."

Strongly reminded of Jameson's Postmodernism in considering the dialectic between sitting in front of a computer screen, materially lonely, and speculating about the instrumentalization of "womb resources" as a precondition for post-scarcity (but not for women I guess)

This is how I arrange my beds in Minecraft

Read please

When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians

"Farewell happy fields
Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new possessor' (I: 249-52)"

-John Milton

You’re dumb as rocks if you believed Trump couldn’t possibly do this but both parties tripping over themselves to say they think this is cool kinda gives the game away.

A pig, his jaws still full of meat and gristle, burying his snout into new ribs

I'm gonna be honest, I think the idea that the bombing of Iran is meant to distract from Trump being a paedophile elides the fact that America has wanted to invade Iran for basically forever at this point.

settler colonial murder suicide pact

As always, death to America

"If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—"

Screenshot from Storygraph showing that I am reading six different books right now

“Would you say focusing is a strength of yours?”

Ahhh

She loves movie time

Hence "Take me out to the ball game"

I call this ecumenical anti-Capitalism

That's wild when the song was definitely addressed to her actual baby, Millie

It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.