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Starmer went directly to Palantir after the White House, how much of supposed new defence spending is just going to be a wealth transfer from public services to Silicon Valley, on top of the contracts Palantir and Anduril already have with the Imperialist British state?

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136 - The New Flesh feat. Adam Jones We’re joined by Adam from @acidhorizon.bsky.social to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections. www.librarypunk.gay/e/136-the-ne...

@germainequeer.bsky.social joins us for Pub Goth Goes Techno, I get angry about the bins, and Archie teaches you how to mix your own beats. youtu.be/zzn9I_TlxwQ?...

Continuing the commentary for the benefit of the @acidhorizon.bsky.social Hegel group, this time we have Perception from the consciousness chapter. happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/p...

Oh man, that festival sounds awesome

The one thing going against academic philosophers is their inability to understand that just because your colleague is a ‘nice chap’ to you doesn’t mean they’re not a raving crank. CFA is even explicitly affiliated with FSU!

Keep an eye out for @/afcomm.org.uk, which has just followed me and is an obvious front for legitimating anti-trans propaganda in academia, alongside potentially legitimating Toby Young’s personal front for covid conspiracy-mongering and hate

So the editor of Sublation/Zer0 2.0 who was also a fellow at Orban's MCC (run by her PhD Supervisor, Frank Furedi) is now the senior editor at Compact magazine. It's almost like the entire thing was a crypto-fascist front. But no, it's 'woke cancel culture' to say that apparently

The Revolutionary Communist Party are back baby! Full furedification by 2026!

In England, they treat the economy like a household budget. Only instead of food, water and heating the priority is the Bombs and Guns fund. If you speak out and say this is a bad system, a man called Paul Mason refers you to Prevent.

I was recently leaked a document that was written by and for think tank and DNC affiliated policy wonks and circulated in private chats. It describes in unsparing terms the threat Curtis Yarvin, Neoreactionary tech founders, and Elon Musk pose to democracy. shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...

Someone should definitely hire me to teach Hegel or Kant or something. Will critique for rent.

Weirdly, I don't think that any productive critiques of 'the left' are conveyed by delivering titbits to hostile rightist media about how mad leftists are based on anecdotes and social media posts. That's actually closer to LibsofTikTok, regardless of what you've actually written.

Going through the whole of Hegel's Phenomenology with @acidhorizon.bsky.social , the next commentary is now up on the section on Sense-Certainty happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/s...

Just saw an ad outside a barbers that said "therapy is expensive, have a haircut" and thinking about misery as a mode of production again.

Happy anniversary of publication to this slim volume... [February 21, 1848]

A merry Iommi-mas to all who celebrate youtu.be/VwEWf3RXseg?...

hey hey These are Nazis

Nono, they are committed to the defense of The Left against, oh I don't know what is it this time, Nietzschean-Deleuzo-Prometheans? Okay sure whatever that'll work.

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/02/19/d... [Description of photo below: Lori lies on a carpeted floor close to her beloved recently-deceased Taz. Taz’s front legs and paws are outstretched on the carpet and Lori is holding the right paw in her hands. Their heads are nestled against each other’s.]

Checking out the latest piece from Novara

New Pub Goth Transmission! Mac returns for a round of gig horror stories, plus we teach how to open a beer with a lighter and how to make the perfect Magnum and Sprite. youtu.be/I8UGRLw_Zao?...

Does anyone who does an independent tape/record label that puts out metal albums follow me? I've finally sent something that I've been working on for Too Long out to some friends for review and the response has been extremely positive and it would be neat if someone put it out.

I think there is a lot of truth to this. And those of us who make philosophy content need to be self aware and self critical, and fight the temptation to use philosophy to make content and instead use the form of content to do philosophy in a public manner.

Debating reactionaries is *never* a good idea You might win on 'facts', but you'll always lose politically: they are not arguing in good faith, they want their ideas to become seen as acceptable in public discourse And by debating them, you're giving them what they want It really is that simple

Textbook case of mainstreaming of reactionary politics Mason blames 'the people' for his own reactionary take, avoiding responsibility - no one is forcing him to say that, not all evidence points to that 'truth' and most importantly what 'the people' think is heavily mediated by people like him 1/

Aktion T4 did not end because of protest. There was massive protest against it, but the Nazis did it anyway. Aktion T4 was suspended (but continued unofficially) as personnel and equipment was reallocated to the Final Solution and Soviet front. It stopped when the war ended, because we killed them.

Max Stirner celebrates Valentine's Day. (Berlin, 1844) [Colourized]

By this stage, it's just impossible to pretend otherwise: if you still give reactionaries the benefit of the doubt, you are squarely on their side Claims of honest ignorance, imquiry and/or "centrism" were always political and enabled the reactionary resurgence. Now it is full, open complicity

As a part of the Hegel reading group series for Acid Horizon starting this Sunday, I'm following J.N. Finlay in writing a Hegel-English English-Hegel translation. happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

You should all come to this new bleeps and bloops queer night hosted by @germainequeer.bsky.social it's gonna be fuckin siiick www.outsavvy.com/event/25262/...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal

Almost like the right isn't a political project so much as a libidinal formation- a way of organising cruelty for maximum effect, a way for sociophobes to join together so they don't feel so abject.

First session of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit over on the @acidhorizon.bsky.social patreon this Sunday! In preparation I've written a paragraph commentary on the introduction. happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

New episode with @leninology.bsky.social is now live: www.patreon.com/posts/disast...

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...