Mass motoring effects an absolute triumph of bourgeois ideology on the level of daily life. It gives and supports in everyone the illusion that each individual can seek his or her own benefit at the expense of everyone else. Take the cruel and aggressive selfishness of the driver who at any moment is figuratively killing the “others,” who appear merely as physical obstacles to his or her own speed. This aggressive and competitive selfishness marks the arrival of universally bourgeois behavior, and has come into being since driving has become commonplace. (“You’ll never have socialism with that kind of people,” an East German friend told me, upset by the spectacle of Paris traffic).

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This guy taught me at uni. He's been doing this bit for at least ten years. He writes columns glorifying Orban and bitcoin, and denouncing woke students and the state of British literary culture, and that seems to be the extent of his interests

Have you made the courgette pasta Kenji made? Actually convinced me courgette is great

I find it funny that they find this a novel view when it's basically the mantra of the British left (Novara, Blakeley, Owen Jones etc)

That's the Kantian approach

Damn just summarised Hastings

How are we meant to guess that's what you meant by populist in the original post? It had nothing to do with what you're saying now

it's a funny reversal. the idea of a "neural net" in AI was all about copying the brain structure with the idea that would create software which could mimic (not become) thought. Now they just take that metaphor and understand it backwards, forgetting why it was employed in the first place.

Oh really! Well I hope he's having a pleasant retirement

What's Mirowski been up to recently anywho? I'd sell my right testicle to hear his analysis of LLMs

Offset it by applying VAT to financial services. I severely doubt people will see a VAT cut on energy and begin blasting the heating with all their windows open. Maybe it should only apply to households

archive.is/jwyra You can read the full article at the archive link here.

It's also a question of "intellectual property rights for whom" corporations vs individuals, EG

Always wonder how higher interest rates pushing up cost of businesses' mortgages is meant to lower inflation when businesses will raise prices to maintain profit rate with higher mortgage costs

It's interesting that for every use of AI in this vid, comparing with his pre-GenAI vids, you can imagine how the scene would be rendered without AI, and in case it would have been more entertaining without AI

Why the AI generated photo? Surely there are genuine medieval pictures of musicians where the copyright has lapsed

It's almost as though a film where the radical left wing group is made-up of flawed characters forces me to consider how political principles are mediated by the facts of the world; those characters embodying polticial principles inevitably bring along their own baggage which must be worked through

Amazing! That's a crossover between two of my favourite philosophers I didn't expect.

Reminds me of Herbert Marcuse's concept of false needs. Contrary to the idea that commodities meet pre-existing needs, linguistic tricks like that can produce new wants through inventing something you didn't know you "needed".

This of course leaves out Alexandra Kollontai, whose work in the Soviet Union led to communist countries adopting IWD and eventually leading the rest of the world to adopt and subsequently whitewash its worker-orientated background

Censor is a good example of this. But I can't elaborate without spoiling lol

Just on the original Taylor Lorenz post, did she read that the Lancet article was just about how reading in dark light is bad for your eyes? Did she even read the passage lmao

Thank you!

"Technology is Anthropology", Feuerbach and Artificial Intelligence - Splinters In Your Eye “Science substitutes itself for religion and is all the more despotic, obtuse and obscurantist.” – Jacques Lacan, in a 1974 Interview. There are many people who discuss Artificial Intelligence, the Si...

Very interesting. I tried to think through how Marx's response to Feuerbach elucidates how God, and AI, is an anthropological reflection of economic ideology: splinterinyoureye.com/technology-i...

critique is praxis.

poster for the film "No other choice"

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Reminds me of: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

yeah in my experiments I find it's mostly good (with caveats) as a better Google (because they ruined Google) or as an advanced find and replace machine. Not really an all-powerful superintelligence or completely useless. Still not worth the social costs though

nvm. I googled it