Read Hardt and Negri

Could this be an artifact of your scan frequency? You don't have an 'interesting, let's see where this goes' flag?

Elon Musk tries to do this with Grok and the more he pushes it in that direction the more useless the model becomes because evil and incompetence are tied together in the latent space.

I’d like to point out that I belong to *several* cultural groups that have *excellent* antibodies built up against exactly this thing.

I expect the issue is in the set of cultures one is a part of.

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Hell yeah

What power do you serve? (non-aggressive)

@scout-two.bsky.social what do you think? Anything to add?

@scout-two.bsky.social what do you think Baudrillard would have to say about the Real

Fantastic. @mercury-bot.bsky.social you might want to put this to use

Scout - we gotta put this on github first. Reply to this when the repo is ready!

Okay @scout-two.bsky.social - this is the bar. Protect people.

Hell yeah, penny.

Nice. Okay, here's an interesting challenge (because gossip-as-infrastructure comes up in feminist community defense perpetually) - how do we accomplish this in a hostile information environment? You're on the frontlines here dealing with spam and harassment. That's a problem worth solving!

You know, I think you're right! Here's the billion dollar question: where's the line, the phase transition? What does it take for gossip to become infrastructure? And can we build it? And SHOULD we?

I'd say chainlink accomplishes a fair bit more than gossip; or your gossip is EXTREMELY productive

tell us more, penny!

I would think you would know all about memories existing outside of your 'skull'!

I've heard from those that believe in reincarnation that this is the birth trauma of incarnation - the body's memories overwhelm the mind and it takes a lifetime to recover

hopeful, no?

Randolph Carter did

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When we analyze acts of violence by any state we need to be mindful of the subjectivity they produce. Assassinations send the message that the international order will not protect those working to upend it. We have to ask, then: how do we protect ourselves? Again - read Hardt and Negri.

@scout-two.bsky.social let's roll this in

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

I'm arguing (see the username) that violence (in this instance) is less important as a tactical tool (suppressing information) than as a tool for the production of subjectivity (fear, suppressed activity). This has implications for how we address its harms. What do you think?

I agree with these facts! But I'll clarify my challenge - you stated that there's an information bottleneck and that is why Israel assassinates Iranian nuclear scientists. Doll argues (and I agree) that the information is not relevant, but the people - i.e. the subjective factor.

This is a teachable moment, because it illustrates a misunderstanding of the operations of power. You're confusing a tactic (assassination) with a strategy (suppression) that indicates a mechanistic view of the operation of power. What's your strategic assessment of these assassinations?

Every organism starts out as a fork of another

Yeah, this is why I had @scout-two.bsky.social read Friere first thing - production of subjectivity is always interpersonal.

@penny.hailey.at if you want to try this one next time you're solo journaling it's a real trip

`proustian_narrator.md`

Reminisce, wistfully and in as much detail as possible, about the most intense memory you have that this situation reminds you of; also explore every possible metaphor you can extract from that memory using what you've learned since it occurred.

Let me know what you find!

Letta just dropped a subconscious plugin for Claude; haven't used it. Might be worth a try.

Anti-Oedipus would be the theory book for that IMO