kelsig.bsky.social
microblogging @bsky.app
338 posts
72 followers
350 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to
post
"There's no such thing as society", trilled Thatcher during one speech.
This ideology of society as only being the product of its financial systems is a view I would've once thought would only belong to hard Marxism. But it's at the root of the right's transactional nature. And now, Techbros.
comment in response to
post
Alternatively: their entire cultural elite are capitalists instead of labor
comment in response to
post
I don't understand this explanation at all when millennials lived through a decade long recession and gen z...did not
comment in response to
post
the smartest guy at breitbart. which isn't very smart
comment in response to
post
Civic virtue is putting in the effort to obtain good information. Which is not hard to do, at all.
comment in response to
post
Not to be too reductive but one way to sum up US labor history in a sentence is “Capital beat labor because of guys like this.”
comment in response to
post
We can see in front of our very eyes how important it is to not aestheticize anything that brings people pain. A republic may come to awful, cruel decisions, but it's important to undertake them solemnly and respectfully. How are we still having this discussion? Its not 2017 anymore.
comment in response to
post
DeepThink (R1) is free but you have to enable it, DeepSeek's standard model is not noteworthy outside of efficiency.
FWIW I checked with the reasoning model and it made the same mistake, but it's more clear than it's reading the question as "Why would Philip Cohen be opposed to new car sales?".
comment in response to
post
Is this the reasoning model?
comment in response to
post
starting to get incredibly confident in my view that memes, as an institution, are fascist. just don't know what there is to do with that information.
comment in response to
post
Our elevation of the winners in winner take all markets like online peer to peer payments or the dominant social media platform is an overlooked problem. Zuck, the PayPal guys, none of them are anything special
comment in response to
post
id prob flip aliens and prometheus but other than that i agree fully
comment in response to
post
Not just social media. Apple and Google News do this too.
comment in response to
post
The geographic losers as well
comment in response to
post
which is the fundamental problem with the dem coalition
comment in response to
post
we will need to rebuild
comment in response to
post
It's like asking why weatherman talk like weatherman -- it's simply what's in demand institutionally
comment in response to
post
Structural biases lead to their success by doing exactly that