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We’ve got another @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com banger on our hands folks

The Opposition Report #10 The occupation of Minneapolis, imperialism, MAHA, and more.

“The “physicians” and other folks now running the CDC and FDA, as well as the constellation of various advisory panels and committees, are now openly saying that they will accept a world where more children die of preventable diseases in the name of their anti-vaccine crusades.”

As more comes out in the Epstein files, it’s again remarkable how many very rich and very powerful and very connected people place no stock in having a worthy character or cultivating anything like virtue, and instead wallow in moral wretchedness and seek to socialize with others who do the same.

The original article said “AI.” Did Askell argue the point about LLMs specifically?

The fixed version.

Historians, feel free to use this for the cover of your books on the modern conservative movement.

Regardless of Askell’s specific views, the larger point, which you seemed to have skirted at this point, is that this is indeed a real discussion in philosophy and it poses serious questions not only about AI but about humans as well.

Nothing novel here, but it is absolutely infuriating—bordering on absurdity—that the movement that has been “anti-government” for a half a century is utterly silent in the face of government agents murdering citizens.

You can take your “don’t tread on me” flags down now. They’re useless.

I’m not sure what to tell you at this point other than you are mistaken. These conversations in philosophy have been happening since at least the mid-20th century. It’s an entire debate in philosophy of mind. And it’s fascinating; you should look into it.

“copy, cut, randomize, paste tied to a complex recognize and store algorithm”

Pretty sure you described most of what humans do just in purposely pejorative mechanic language.

Where’d you get that definition of philosophy?

In the UK at least since the run up to Brexit, in the US maybe longer, we've just been watching the Right become progressively more and more openly wacky authoritarians and yet receive the same "maybe the left need to listen to their reasonable concerns!?" treatment from a certain kinda centrist.

We Have Organized, and More Must Do So Minneapolis has shown us the path.

“Today, almost 58 years after MLK was murdered, more than 97 years after he was born, and as we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, ordinary Americans are coming together again to protect our way of life. Many of us have organized towards that end, and more of us are doing so every day.”

So, How’s the Occupation Going for You? What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.

“The physical machinations of the occupation are nearly impossible to avoid. ICE stops people randomly on the street. ICE rams cars, sometimes through intersections, and sometimes pulls someone out and leaves the car right in the street.” www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Return of the Silver Shirts In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.

Really good historical perspective. If you don’t read @liberalcurrents.com , you should.

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close readers of me will know that i am a dewey guy (and a william james guy)

Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy How should that next Democratic government act on the belief that Trump's second term was lawless and illegitimate?

"Trump is a usurper. He is not, right now, the lawful president, because the same law that creates the office of president also disqualifies Trump from holding any office, high or low." www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

every thousand years or so the ancient ones show up all pissed off cause of some crap they've been stewing about for an eon and it's like, hey yog sothoth, nobody knows what the fuck you're talking about

Call me a rube, but I didn’t really get One Battle After Another. I assume me not getting it is tied to me also not understanding the near-universal acclaim and praise it’s getting.

This was a pretty good one

We Are Going to Win Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.

The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.

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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

“Supremacy is an all-consuming logic on the MAGA right today. Christian supremacy, white supremacy, male supremacy, almost every corner of MAGA is marked by one or some combination of supremacist logic and a desire to subjugate some other group.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

I can sum up by redescribing what, in my view, the revolutionaries and poets of two centuries ago were getting at. What was glimpsed at the end of the eighteenth century was that anything could be made to look good or bad, important or unimportant, useful or useless, by being redescribed. What Hegel describes as the process of spirit gradually becoming self-conscious of its intrinsic nature is better described as the process of European linguistic practices changing at a faster and faster rate. The phenomenon Hegel describes is that of more people offering more radical redescriptions of more things than ever before, of young people going through half a dozen spiritual gestalt-switches before reaching adulthood. What the Romantics expressed as the claim that imagination, rather than reason, is the central human faculty was the realization that a talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.
'Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity' p.7
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Vocabulary

Passing out printed copies of Liberal Currents articles at the factory gates like it’s the Daily Worker.

I’m not entirely sure why but nothing makes me more irrationally annoyed than fantasy sports culture.

The videos, the get-togethers, the drafts, the traditions and ceremonies, the seriousness.

Abundance and Labor Unions Strong labor unions are not at odds with a society that builds.

“Labor unions have become a bit of a punching bag for abundance thinkers. While no one accuses them of being the only cause for why it’s so hard to “build” effectively and efficiently, many argue that the union as an institution is inherently opposed to a society that builds.”