tehan.bsky.social
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aesthetics and politics go hand in hand
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That's true, but the article says "She graduated from college as an English major" so they have their own special definition apparently
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What is a "former English major"? Like they went back and retracted all their essays about Othello or whatever?
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working behind a counter is probably as informational as it is physical. A lot of it is social. Maybe a 50/50 split between informational (social) and physical. As a barista EG: you have to be able to spin a lot of plates at once, mentally.
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I think it's generally due to the increasing informational demand on people (the shift from physical labour to knowledge work in the latter 20th) which made cognitive issues more salient (since diagnoses are generally based around functioning int he workplace) and thus psychiatry accomodated it.
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no - I'm just saying you can't really track the increase of adult ADHD diagnoses (assume we're talking about that because of smoking) before the decrease of smoking because the category just didn't exist to measure
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Well the uptick in ADHD diagnoses over the past 25 years is also down to the fact that adult ADHD was only recognised in the DSM in 1994
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Reading is an op. Become illiterate
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Or even as a potted darwinism, orthodoxy determines what general set of ideas (and thinkers) created are likely to be (variation) and then the ones that make it to the fore are going to be those supported by media systems, political systems, think tanks etc (selection)
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Yeah I get you. I tend to try to stay away from intentionality explanations but, you can see it as intentional in the sense of certain policies or views more likely to become salient if they align with a type of orthodoxy
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And the "long-term science fiction response" reminds me of the Abundance stuff making the rounds at the moment. Not that it's an intentional plan, but perhaps neoliberal thought dominates our patterns of thinking to the extent that these appears to be the only options
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God this passage feels especially pertinent now. Thanks for sharing
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youtu.be/QBB4POvcH18
Thanks for the recommendation. Love this lecture from him (plus his book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste)
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That plus the fact that ChatGPT takes on a anthropomorphic form (a text message exchange) people impose human characteristics on it. No-one has speculated that calculators are intelligent, even though they're better at maths than most of us. Some of that is probably due to how we interact with it.
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or alternatively: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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they need to read some god damn Kant
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Just like Jordan Peterson 🤯
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It was a ticket for a box owned by AEG, an ex-client of FTI consulting, who still uses the box sometimes. Their clients include fossil fuel firms and banks. It's hard to tell if they're stupid or deliberately misleading tbh
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Gives people a sense of superiority if they can feel smarter than all religious people I suppose
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This is exactly why I think AI is a threat to jobs under digital journalism! Especially because the switch from print to digital incentivised everyone to copy eachothers stories for clicks. Sure AI can't do original reporting but if you reduce a journalist's jobs to churn why wouldn't it suffice
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I think it's a mix tbh. Confirmation bias gets in there and they start believing their own hype. If they thought it was such a dead end I don't think they'd be so eager to compete as well
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I mean it is kind of superficially Kantian. "Treat people always as an end and never a means". But of course in reality they are treating them as a means
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This exact thing happened with the Imane Khelif "scandal". Every outlet citing her "chromosome test" without any actual evidence because it suited their narrative. Perhaps an odd parallel but it still strikes me how happily they all went along with that
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It's actually fine if you're taking gifts in order to allow corporate lobbyists to influence your policies
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Fair enough
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You think so? I see the Labour right as more purely instrumental, bending to the whims of external constraints/influences (the City, lobbyists, treasury brain, news media) whereas Vance has an actual neoconservative project
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Although for me it's not crushes so much as infatuation in general. Still cool though
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What the hell me too I didn't know this was a common thing
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Voluntary (mandatory)
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Now if they claimed DEI was Kant's fault because of the concept of cosmopolitanism in perpetual peace, that would almost be impressive. Almost
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Honestly I'm not so sure because some of the cuts to public funding is actually worse than what the Tories would have done. Sunak for example cut national insurance which does alleviate poverty to some extent. The benefits curs are at best on par with the Tories
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Which legislation has been good? Some of the employment rights bill and changing fiscal rules to allow for investment is good. Also abolishing no fault evictions and the Rwanda plan. But it's outweighed by the bad imo.
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I'm not sure I've that much else to say really. It's also incredibly short-termist to change policy on a whim like that. We can see in the US what happens if you let the super-rich accumulate enough to purchase media platforms and lobby politicians. It's a nightmare for everyone
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Billionaires deciding Labour's economic policy is undemocratic. Who voted for that? If the millionaires left despite barely being touched by the budget, they were probably going to leave anyway, especially with the UK'S stagnant economy which is ensured by austerity policies.
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The other author is the founder of an AI consultancy firm for news outlets. Bit of a conflict of interest potentially undermining objectivity there imo
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Are there any good examples of countries actually being able to "find the money" and then realising the constraints are actual resources, IE: labour? You'd imagine it might be something Ireland is encountering atm given their budget surplus
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It looks pretty amazeballs to me
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They clap at the end and you can't clap in parliament. Not even good briefcase nerds
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It doesn't make any sense strategically. It's pure unthinking habit. I think the only exception is when you're discussing what the Left ought to be (a universally emancipatory movement) but using it in terms of what the Left actually is right now is pointless
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It's something that infuriates me because we're happy to break the right down into cohorts of conservatives, libertarians, neoliberals etc but for some reason people see it fit to use "the Left" as though it's anything other than a floating signifier
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www.desmog.com/2025/02/04/k...
At least real journalists are covering that.
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Omg I knew the first bit but didn't realise he was Toby Young's dad lmao
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Thinking of the Stephen Jay Gould quote "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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Just a bizarre understanding of collective organising as though you all get together in a room and write a list of your beliefs before you campaign together. No connection to reality
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Oh and where can I see the data on the this for the other demographic groups? Seems odd to make this claim without publicising the data which actually proves it
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Do you know how a protest works? It's not like you have to submit your entire voting record to join one. You just turn up
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Lacks the methodology so pretty useless. The image attached is presumably where the Guardian headline comes from. Of course the report doesn't tell you to what extent other groups would collaborate with those who hold opposing views so no idea what statistic the headline is referring to.
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www.moreincommon.org.uk/media/refmpx...
Here's the report.
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Lmao true
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Have there ever been any other coinings of political denominations which refer to ten people max? Maybe "left Hegelian" to be fair