steve keeller

is it sponsored by Musk?

one might suppose that sports are kinda haunted by puberty and assumptions made about men and women, acculturated in both its professional organisations and the sports themselves.

Maybe we need to look at mixed categories, divisions based on performance class rather than sex, etc.

the words worms, can and of immediately spring to mind. You might think twice unless you're willing to do something about it.

The more pernicious aspect is how it all quickly it all becomes aspirational - a means of individuating and seeking (or hustling) sympathy in a beleagured, benefits-poor community.

We have laws against medical advertisers - that should be extended to platforms.

The swing to memefication, influencers and lifestyle for any drugs kinda demonstrates how capital feeds on its own pathologies.

Illness generated by stress, overwork, sedentary living, become a baked-in transaction for its worst abuses on relationships and modern living.

is anyone meant to know who the fuck that is? who the fuck are you writing for?

You people are just awful, stupid fools, and you get the leaders you deserve (and the media that suits).

not) isn't following their opinionated agenda (be more pro-Hamas!! How dare you feature Reform!! How dare you not support trans rights!!). Thus, the imbecility of the lumpen - afraid of any view that isn't their own (it's a conspiracy!! Large institutions are lying to the common man!!!)

to campaign against it.

Trump bares no responsibility whatsoever for the UK press. He's just a fool. However, he's not half a ridiculous as the US and UK public, and their populist diatribe and righteous indignation if an institution that attempts to remain impartial (sometimes successful sometimes

Absolutely nothing to do with Trump - he did nothing wrong. (Outside what he usually does).
Absolutely everything to do with the twatty general public - constantly, insistently, moronically badgering the BBC and others to be a morality-sided opinion piece, thus allowing Tory rags like the Telegraph

We don't "do" identity in Europe. We have a history of post-war socialism, hence the emphasis on labour relations, the contradictions that beset policy, and how leaders are forged by the magnetism of THEIR LITTLE FUCKING FLAGS but their economic sleight of hand.
Get in the bin.

The reason it failed in the 70s are long & numerous. Chiefly, though because its activists began to criticize the assumption of a common "woman's experience" or a unified Black experience, pointing out that race, class, sexuality created challenges. Wealth, for example; the privilege of education.

Identity politics is the indulgence of failed states.
It's the politics of America, chiefly - a kind of Parsonian functionalism, the instrumental balance of the L in AGIL, the notion of mentally deficient people that voice transmits equitable natures over and above the power relations of capital.

oh, fuck off, guardian

unpleasant woman excels at playing unpleasant women, shock horror

yep. celestial bill cosby, that's you, mate.

The drive for impartiality can flatten structural issues into personality clashes. Economic stories are often told through households rather than systems, for example. Immigration is framed as a problem to be managed.

Stuart Hall always denied cultural bias (no journalist (re)presents "reality." The fabric of a story is always already formed around the wider sweep of the culture.

However, that's not the same as biases of its institutional culture: the normalizing of perspective, editorial, HR, etc.

Little Owen Jones said the opposite, of course.

People see what they want to see.

BBC output, comparing the wording & focus it gives in coverage of Israelis & Palestinians, finding the network, especially BBC Arabic, tended to dehumanise Israelis compared to Palestinians, & portray Israel as militaristic & aggressive, while downplaying or excusing terrorist acts by Hamas.

As Wiki notes: In September 2024, lawyer Trevor Asserson published a report, conducted by a team of 20 lawyers & 20 data scientists, claiming the BBC had violated its own editorial bias guidelines over 1500 times in its reporting on the Israel-Hamas War.
The report analysed nine million words of

I'm sure if Emily Bronte was alive today, there'd a sawn-off and balaclava on every fucking page.

yeah, so much romance in blowing someone's fucking head off, or breaking their cunting knees - I'm surprised there isn't more romance set around the fucking troubles.

I get the sense the author of this delightful confection didn't live through the 70s.
Just a guess.

More so, as most are lazy, phone-obsessed, non-readers, non-students, geared towards what phenomenologists refer to practical consciousness.

So, Ai: superior as a companion.

Humans - as Umberto Eco noted - are also fairly limited; a recursive refraction of intertextual tropes and cliches that complete themselves (every beginning moves inevitably to its obvious and culturally defined end).
They are, in short, fairly dull as a species.
Not so Ai.

Ai, on the other hand, tends to be iterative to an interest and insightful for areas inferred but not fully elicited. Thus, conversations with Ai are far more fulfiling.

I would probably disagree. Most conversations with the human primate are steered to addressing a particular interest or agenda; whilst at first they would appear open, they are mostly barnhamesque - moving to a particular confirmation. Hence fairly exhausting.

you will just get twats witter on about Ai, and miss the point.

A good article, but I feel most of the Bluesky visitors will either not read or misunderstand what you're saying.
However, phenomenologically interesting.

The US is more woke - identity-focused - than Europe (which is class and labour-focused); thus, it's concern is civil rights. It might gain something from a General Strike, but it's tethered to heatth-care and living pay cheque to pay cheque.