AI is ecocide
Posts by alexander max
“All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.” Prisonculturr
Iranian people are gathering at all critical infrastructure in a show of strength and unity in response to trump’s threat to wipe them out but those of us on bluesky should give each other grace? Weird thing to say.
GHOULS
the wrong people are still dying
turn America into the Holy Roman Empire of little principalities that are always bickering amongst themselves
so excited to read!
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
Thousands of meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, are in the third week of the first major strike in the industry in 40 years. “We’re really fighting to make change throughout the industry," says Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7.
"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked
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Damn
Los Angeles citizens chasing ICE thugs
I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of this. People are fed up.
transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.
password was kash2themax
Fortune should be mortified—"A story by Lichtenberg sometimes starts with a prompt entered into Perplexity or Google’s NotebookLM, asking it to write something based on a headline he comes up with. He moves the initial drafts into a content-management system and edits the stories before publishing."
transversal.at/blog/the-rev...
"The current crisis does not mark the end of revolutionary time, but rather the limit of a previous form of temporality... the possibility of a future can only be opened if the people lead a radical expansion of participation, a real decentralization of power..."
" This realignment is fundamentally a struggle over the definition of sovereignty...Washington’s silence is conditional, and the price of non-payment is economic and humanitarian liquidation."
globalextremism.org/reports/proj...
My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Marx said that automation would do this back in 1867.
the League of Revolutionary Black Workers came to a racialized critique of automation in the auto industry, as the "n*ggerimation" of labor, where automation only hastens the pace of work for Black auto workers in the late 60s/ early 70s.
NEW: "Death Itself Is On Sale" - Ali Kadri on The Accumulation of Waste
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/death-itself...
Martes, 10 de Febrero, 10 AM en la Universidad del Cauca, Popayan
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These fucking monsters.
"...his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance."
As a child, I read LORD OF THE FLIES: never doubting that it reflected actual human nature. Turns out it actually didn't. www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
we just had a mayoral election 3 months ago, and minneapolis rejected omar fateh. low information “voters” should stop making signs like this and start looking in the mirror
This image comes to mind every time I learn about some new AI tech. Globalization, and the global inequality, is just the real world version of a green screen.
Thanks so much @demonicgrounds.bsky.social !! Hadn’t thought abt publishing … My main intention was to share it with an assortment of ppl and groups in and against the sugarcane interface of SW Colombia… maybe just a zine to pass around ?
This is a great listen. Gratitude to all those in this conversation.
among other things, Trump freed this guy, and gave his toxic celebrity a new lease on life.
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social curious if you know!