angryknees.bsky.social
I'm trapped in your computer! Smash your screen and let me out!
Avatar by @serenelily.bsky.social
376 posts
95 followers
241 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
lol the bot even stole benn's face from the screencap
comment in response to
post
ngl was a little jealous of that shirt when I saw it
comment in response to
post
Yeah, I'm sure that two hour sessions with an entire team at some strip mall karate center lead by a retired rent-a-cop was totally super useful
comment in response to
post
Fwiw transformer-based language models are actually really useful for specific natural language processing tasks, but obviously that's not what the business bros are focused on because there's infinitely more money in slop shoveling than there is in niche data science applications
comment in response to
post
And then you have the unhinged superposition of stunningly intelligent and bewilderingly stupid that is Nick Land
comment in response to
post
Middle East Eye article citing a single poll conducted by a organization specifically dedicated to promoting a pro-palestinian platform. Don't get me wrong, if it helps push towards ending the genocide, I respect the game, but at the same time let's not delude ourselves on how much Americans care
comment in response to
post
It's worth noting that this narrative that she actually lost significant vote share over the matter, isn't actually supported by the data
comment in response to
post
This is very comfortably within the extreme center. A core feature of the extreme center is a myopia able to make minutia within the hegemonic ideology seem major. Someone who gets all their liquids from soda will swear massive differences between nearly indistinguishable brands of cola.
comment in response to
post
Agamben has entered the chat
comment in response to
post
Not that sort of "play" lol. By "identity play" I mean a sort of recreational activity (play) does in service of creating and reinforcing one's self-identity. In this case, the self-identity is reinforced through play by engaging with ingroup-outgroup dynamics.
comment in response to
post
The extreme center is sweating hard
comment in response to
post
The "Apple Store-like experience" stuff is just a selling point. When they say they want government to work like a tech company, they mean they want it to be the dictatorship of an unelected plutocrats working at the behest of a small group of capital owners.
comment in response to
post
When people say, “we have made it through worse before” all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, those who did not survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.
— Clint Smith
comment in response to
post
It's literally just a form of identity play
comment in response to
post
Almost like the far-right wants to keep their enemies disarmed.
comment in response to
post
I don't know there's much to be said about diet brand liberals that isn't already said about liberals.
comment in response to
post
If anything, the game is dripping with post-soviet disillusionment
comment in response to
post
One of the easiest ways to make me not fuck with you. Never met someone who regularly did that who wasn't a miserable person to be in community with.
comment in response to
post
Market Lysenkoism
comment in response to
post
Worth noting that there are plant based complete protein sources like soy and buckwheat, although with a minimally diverse diet makes the incomplete protein source thing not matter. I certainly haven't struggled to build muscle despite eating a plant-based diet.
comment in response to
post
Fair take, and I think it strikes to a divide between the Musk types who rely on a few overvalued startups, vs more established oligarchs like the financial capitalists and more well established technocapitalists. That said, I really don't buy the 4D chess angle that Trump has some grounded plan.
comment in response to
post
This logic falls apart when you consider portfolio diversification beyond the stock market, and the access to credit enjoyed by the owning class. Especially true if we see the Fed lower interest rates. Worth remembering that recessions generally coincide with a significant upward transfer of wealth.
comment in response to
post
Apologies in advance for my backlog of complaints
comment in response to
post
When America sneezes, the western world catches a cold. The same dynamics creating this transition to neo-feudalism exist within all modern liberal capitalist systems. We're a bellwether, not an exception. Work towards building alternative structures of people power while you still have the time.
comment in response to
post
Bush did the former with the term "compassionate conservatism" so I'm skeptical of that working out. Although I do like the idea of taking back the term libertarian from the people who've redefined it to by another term for proprietarian
comment in response to
post
This strikes as (somewhat reasonably) fixating on carbon emissions while ignoring the broader mechanisms of the anthropocene mass extinction and its prediction in mass consumption under the name of "growing the economy"
comment in response to
post
I wonder to what extent its people from less atomized cultures being more engaged with the physical community around them
comment in response to
post
Holy shit, cute little grippies!!
comment in response to
post
I think it's very important to pay attention to how people like this use the word "we." That is to say, who they consider a fully human subject, and who they consider a population to be managed.
comment in response to
post
bsky.app/profile/kimv...
comment in response to
post
America has been a police state for a long time. We're just now seeing it weaponized against people who haven't been dehumanized and cast off to the the forgettable margins.
comment in response to
post
I wonder if animated WebP or animated AVIF might be supported in the way you're looking for. It's still not ideal, and you might have to whip out FFmpeg, but it would at least be less crunchy and large than GIF.
comment in response to
post
"Fair share" is all that they create. This is just advocacy for making the exploitative system more comfortable. Which don't get me wrong, it is better than nothing, but let's not delude ourselves into calling it "fair."
comment in response to
post
The first thing neoliberal totalitarianism attempts to do is rob you of your imagination. We can not resist a system that we can not envision alternatives to.
comment in response to
post
Being in the anglosphere doesn't make you deft to context and implication
comment in response to
post
When even the government says you kinda had a point
comment in response to
post
It betrays how a lot of people don't approach the subject from a position of empathy or ideology but instead are just using it as a vehicle for a sort of team-sports based identity play. The people being crushed under the fascist boot become mere images to adorn the alter of their own self-image.
comment in response to
post
What are you on about. You just made up a new argument to get mad about as a way to center the conversation on yourself.
comment in response to
post
The destruction of the democratic party will not bring about change, nor will supporting it. Change will not come from electoralism. Alternative parallel power structures are the only viable solution at this point.
comment in response to
post
I've never road a bike on a city street, but it's just obviously a bad take, Bret.
comment in response to
post
🤓
comment in response to
post
Our current growth model already encodes that by requiring the exploitation and extraction of the global south. Degrowth doesn't mean degrowing everything and all at once, but requires strategic thinking and deciding what parts of the industrial economy actually bring value to our lives