the real post woke is making products with inscrutable mixes of signifiers that each side can create their own self-affirming parallel reality around

ok so the context of this take, over on the other site, is
>rw'ers were hyping up how it would reawaken women's maternal instincts and drive up birthrates
>separately, the developers posted a custom version of the 😭 emoji
>lw'ers were connecting the two and criticized the rw response as fetishistic

are this post + the black voice actor reversing the culture war polarity on Pragmata like COVID in March 2020 or am I overindexing

and there's a throughline of vulgar parapolitics from that to guys like "Rap Game Edward Bernays" on Twitter, the post-left wing of left parapol who would talk about stuff like how the Travis Scott concert was a Satanic ritual

listening to this and the Edward Bernays bit jumped out to me bc there's a genealogy to that fixation – ask a random sample of people who've heard of Bernays where they've heard of him and 90% will say Adam Curtis, who treats him as basically the inventor of the Adbusters version of Spectacle

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You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...

Youtube video recommendation for "A Brief Guide to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act" featuring a bald egg-headed man standing in front of a blackboard that says "Today's Lesson: FUTA TAX"

read my lips

AI JDPON

how not to sound like a Gamergater when talking about the pernicious influence of “narrative design”

sorry I genuinely have no idea. plebfiltered

I think I’m becoming a neighbourhood cryptid

there also seem to be exponentially more posts about parents using it than kids

From the antiai community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the antiai community

I went on the sub looking for it and it seems to have been taken down but there are other parenting threads like this that the board seems critical of as "ragebait". Reddit parenting norms are pretty strong and if anything less easily swayed by negpol than Twitterlikes
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is this Emily Wilson?

A toxic yuri edit has hit the booktok edition of On War

Batrachomyomachia - Wikipedia

gonna get really into Ancient Greek Redwall
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every Discord beef has the "casually says obviously antagonistic things without understanding why they're antagonistic" autist, the "walls of text" autist, and the "oh my god everyone stop talking I can't hear myself think" autist

North Peary, the "Anthill Kingdom", filters polar ice melt through the ceilings of its enormous, terraformed lava tube chambers, falling as gentle rain. Two steam locomotives lashed to a long train of goods fly past; they are fueled by charcoal from Peary's vast, grown forests.

The Conquest of Fantasy: "Rationalizing Fiction" and the Historical Logic of the Web Serial Novel in the 21st Century
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some of us still think it stands for Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode

the interesting thing relative to the whole "vibecession" argument is this *isn't* a conventional scalar economic metric, indeed they might only be getting away with this bc those metrics are "good" enough; it's an intensification of (private) *management* of how people use (and obtain) their assets

one of the dangerous things the internet has done to politics is made it much psychologically easier for individuals to have completely personal spite-driven feuds with collective, political subjects

In 2016 I started this big paper collage (6x6 ft, all torn/cut by hand) that quickly devolved into a chaotic/grotesque portrait of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States

I stopped working on it in 2021, nearly a year after J6

This🧵is about the ideas, sources, & references that inform it

there’s the slip

“as policymakers we”

it’s possible Gavin Newsom could win the general *just* by peeling off the phrenologist demographic but they enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin

山道

Japanese samurai who came to Mexico as part of an Embassy in 1615, would eventually be baptized, and subsequently receive a title of nobility from the city and people of Rome

Weeping, for I realize that I will never even be 1% as dripped out as Don Felipe Francisco Hasekura

from what I've seen he was an X-risk doomer which is "AI guy" by the standards of anti-AI leftism in the sense of being within rationalist discourse, but I mean from the other side of *that* discourse