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Academic. Musician. Barbecuist. Consumer of martinis. Just here increasing the entropy in the universe.
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Some centuries you just get lucky I guess.
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The Bill & Ted movies will always be one of my favorite series of movies, which is of course largely due to the chemistry between you and Reeves. I'd be fascinated to see what that chemistry looks like in a totally different context.
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I'm on an implementation task force where I work. I like all the people on the committee a lot, but the AGI-is-just-two-years-away hook has set deep, which means I get to be the heretic daily. The irony is that I use LLMs daily, which is initially what made me a skeptic of "the revolution."
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Yep. It's doubly awesome when paying attention to mass media is your job.
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You know, people historically have only asked for so long. And when they quit asking, all bets are off. Sometimes it shakes out better. Sometimes worse, but there always comes a reckoning. Sadly, seems like increasingly like the die is now cast, and it was so avoidable.
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This isn't a scam in the way a lot of people are framing it to themselves. It's much worse. The goal here, just like in every other project with a silicon valley tech bro behind it, is deregulation and decentralization. They want currency privatized just like everything else.
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Don't debate bro. Stop being reactive. Give Americans a map to a future. Neither party does that because it would involve threatening capital. The GOP sells the past as the future in that vacuum. Confess that our gov't is bought, what you plan to do, and explain how it will improve our lives.
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When you live in a desperately incoherent system, basic rationality is far more subversive than ideology because you don't require people to internalize a belief. You are only teaching them a process by which to make their own decisions. The rest takes care of itself. No indoctrination needed.
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<chuckles in grim resignation>
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This might be the best example of Mark Fisher’s concept of “Market Stalinism” that I’ve seen in awhile.
“What late capitalism repeats from Stalinism is just this valuing of symbols of achievement over actual achievement.”
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The party can change, but it will only change if we change it from the ground up. The current leadership cannot offer a compelling narrative because it can't envision a political movement that meaningfully challenges our modern day robber barons.
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Because the Dems have tried to have it both ways since Reagan, they have no direction. They recast change as vibes hoping that would distract from a lack of any real action. You can't lead whilst straddling a fence. They went lukewarm in the mouths of too many voters, and have hence been spit out.
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The GOP offered a direction and a narrative. It's anti-modern revanchism, but it's still a direction. The Dems have a firewall because they cannot challenge the system bleeding America. They are owned by it too. We cannot have monopolies and an egalitarian system too; even Adam Smith knew that.
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I understand that these media outlets have to keep the lights on. Hell, I'm a journalism professor. But I can't share this with anyone who needs to read it. Meanwhile, the far right propaganda machine makes their material easily shareable.
What we have is asymmetrical information warfare.
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He talks briefly about the DR in passing, but the two volumes really only cover the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. They are unusual in that they are not written from the perspective of a man who thinks he is great or above reproach - he calls himself a coward several times in fact.
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"Grant's Memoirs" should be required reading in every American High School, and not just for the bits about the Civil War. His condemnation of the Mexican War as an unjust war of naked imperialism is really eye opening as well.
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I clearly missed the pun. But I think it was because my first reaction was, "whoa, whoa, this is a friendly fire situation!"
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I was about to ask if anyone knows who this is. Pretty sure the dude from 2 Live Crew is trolling here and made a typo. He's not a fan of this administration.
www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...
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Leaving this because you reminded me it exists.
youtu.be/14erppzpy2o?...
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Tiny Music - BMG.
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There are very few people who would naturally disagree on everything, particularly if they all are both from the same society. It necessarily follows that for one to see the other always on the losing side of politics, eventually, they will have to be cheering for their own immiseration too.