a quivering leaf 🍃

builders are back blasting music again. feel like its 2008 and i'm at UJ's knocking back fire engines

Maltman Barry - Wikipedia

this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...

the hegemony of the car is outta control dude. can't even verify my identity on a job application cos my ID card is legit but not a car licence, and it only accepts those 😐

oh heck no

A giant billboard at an intersection, with the entire image upside down and some unidentifiable people in hi-vis staring at it glumly

A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲

wtf was this rap from 20 year old me when i was trying to make rap songs

but it strikes me as ironic because not only are "AI" and markets not inherently good at solving problems and bad at solving many (most? idk), the idea that they specifically solve "knowledge problems" is extra wrong with "AI" when it famously has a "black box problem"

and "humans can't be trusted to decide things" neoliberal thinking that philip mirowski writes about. with all the elitism and technocratic governmentalism hidden beneath "consumer choice" (and even the language of democracy even tho it is fundamentally antidemocratic in the bad way) that implies

i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"

There is a famous mantra from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." This applies very well to the punishment bureaucracy. It is not the solution to what ails the human spirit, our collective society, or the desperate planet. Never let anyone scare you into forgetting that.

always

hopefully a premonition not just a dream

lol

Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces Of Nature

another one down. good easy thought provoking short one

are you guys just rubes here or something more sinister

i kinda hate that subway takes guy

YouTube video by 313classiccs Smiley / Smiley But Not Friendly (1989)

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Veblen's proposed subtitle for The Higher Learning was not permitted by the publishers; it was "A Study in Total Depravity."

this kinda rules (they went with "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen")

YouTube video by Rush Hour Recloose feat B. Slade - Feels Like Magic

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or maybe not nothing, sometimes seeing specific people lose is fun

ah, gotcha. agree that promoting elections is weird and there's nothing exciting about them

is that an example of that or a not-connected thought? cos it don't look like an example to me

oooo i like this. getting some jepsen vibes too

YouTube video by Recommendacious Avril A - Hard Up For A Man

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worse. I leave political economists to their jargon. They wrote under a system of evil; they wrote not for the purpose of getting rid of the evil, but to cut down man to the endurance of it. They tried to shape you all to the existing system; strait waistcoats, little food, empty bellies, together with the anti-population process, would, they declared, fit you to compete with any sort of machinery. Could they only have deprived you of brains and nerves, they would have converted you into quiet appendages of the mill, and told the world with delight how peaceful and happy you were. But it would not do; you do not now submit to the process as your

"senex", 1834

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