Kavi ?

hoping the EU has the sack to fight fire with fire. all Trump aligned oligarchs, above all Elon Musk, should be considered enemies of European freedom

It’s so true (I guess I do also always find Q&A periods fascinating). There’s a lot of, like, ethical and practical questions involved in facilitating a container for parties such that everyone’s invited to one, everyone’s safe, but also collaborators old and potential are able to find each other

(the call is not, necessarily, to action as such. But: 1) channels of influence between theory and practice 2) (the more central and methodological point) theory that in scale, specificity, or empirics can paint with a fine enough brush to clarify the questions & distinctions actually on the table)

We’re still quibbling over terminology & thought experiments while Silicon Valley‘s built a $500 billion+ machine on lies, cameras, fracked oil, and cages to identify and sometimes bomb global dissent. Liberal and left academic ”critique” is a parody (there are many laudable exceptions of course…)

404 Media Is Making a Zine We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:

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A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

like the news as a gambling game has always been part of the logic of capitalism but it's so wild that it's now a mass participation spectator sport

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

nyt's dealbook conference agenda for this afternoon includes benjamin netanyahu, mrbeast, gavin newsom, and erika kirk

i don't say this lightly, but, nightmare blunt rotation this afternoon at dealbook

The best case we can make for an anti-fascist response to "AI"-foregrounding social & economic justice-is by doing it, as many activists are. Resisting AI harms on the ground, building less extractive computational infrastructure, mutual aid & cooperatives, etc. Show another computation is possible

I recognize the assymetry of power between critics coming from elite positions in industry and airport-book academia, versus those coming out of social movements marginalized by capital. But it doesn't change the point that debating Harms vs. AGI is mostly a misdirection of attention & resources.

As labor, environmental, anti-racist, feminist, or anti-fascist critics of AI & the data centre economy we must work with AGI-risk obsessives when our interests converge (regulatory oversight; slowing automated weapons; stopping OpenAI & Oracle): & not when our goals are opposed. It's that simple.

(fwiw Hindutva is bad and dangerous for most the ways the evangelical right, Israel supremacism, and salafism are bad, for reasons both of direct influence and convergent evolution)

things are going to get worse before they get worse

Canadian "sovereign AI" project: Look at this sovereign computing facility we're building in Canada! There will be so much sovereign Canadian compute here!

Facility hardware specifications: Dell, Intel, Nvidia

Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)

how do we stop the global rise of the evangelical right? That’s probably the most important question for electoral politics and cultures of solidarity, globally. And we’re losing catastrophically. Especially in Latin America and Africa.

Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

It’s all perfectly open and explicit now: be a US crony and your drug smuggling will be protected. Restrict the sale of everything to Miami-capital and get invaded, with drugs as the pretext. Even so citizens of the US’s ”friends” suffer as much as those who rebel www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart.

It’s always been about the prices of essentials.

Everyone underestimates how entertaining I find these interactions

An excellent and very clear piece on LLM's and thinking. See also Farrell et al. in Science, our piece making the point about LLM's as a form of communication rather than cognition. alisongopnik.com/Papers_Aliso...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

"It is better to fight": On Martin and Malcolm - Viewpoint Magazine The effigy of a black man, a son of Southern soil and descendant of slaves, now stands over the nation's Mall among its founding fathers, notorious slave owner in front and the so-called Great Emancip...

Etienne Balibar, “From Charonne to Vitry” (1981) viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/c...
It is up to us...to put a stop to the double spiral that leads, on the one hand, a fraction of the working class and petty bourgeoisie towards a defensive, corporatist, xenophobic, and moralistic ideology”

From Chomsky to Bernie to the Your Party fiasco, it’s not looking good for the old new left. Only Melanchon seems to have any sense. Why can’t they just retire to enjoy their last years in the community garden and making everyone happy with cameos at demonstrations.

The old idealist chauvinist left can’t shake its fetishization of white men in hard hats hitting things with wrenches. That’s not who workers are or how production looks anymore! The trades & blue collar as well as service work is full of immigrants! Border paramilitaries always will target the left

I guess what’s aggravating is how this political strategy keeps failing: how’s Keir Starmer doing? Sara Waggenecht? You’re not going to create a socially parochial US left (like Southern/Eastern European communist parties). You’re making a moral compromise that fails and cedes ground tactically.

Sanders breaks with Democrats, praises Trump’s border policy on podcast Sen. Bernie Sanders broke with much of his party in a recent podcast appearance, praising President Donald Trump’s border policy.

I missed this, what the fuck!!! I guess the Vermont guy advised by dysfunctional class reductionist influencers will stay behind his coalition, a little xenophobic. Thank god AOC, Omar, Mamdani, Tlaib, etc understand diaspora & transnational politics / political economy komonews.com/news/nation-...

Duralex is the closest thing to a perfectly shaped cup, I had no idea they are employee owned now.

Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Rain is great, and satisfies CanCon requirements

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?