he'll reap from the scrapes

exactly

tbh i've been extremely depressed and not doing well at all the past few days and i'm starting to really lose hope that i'll be able to find something that works out at the end of this month.

what's this?

We all have days like this

OPD is asking to enter into a new no-bid contract w/Israeli cell cracking firm Cellebrite, even tho the contract is increasing by 55%. Cellebrite has been used against Palestinians in Israel's genocidal war, as well as dissidents in Jordan, Myanmar. etc
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Housing Not Handcuffs - Louisiana advances bill to funnel homeless people into forced treatment and unpaid labor This bill requires homeless people to pay for the very treatment they are forced into. And if the person cannot pay the cost of treatment, this bill requires them to perform unpaid labor for the…

BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. buff.ly/d6rXj5h

also just war theory is primarily a vibes checklist in practice

Just War Theory is the quintessential example of confirmation bias masquerading as serious intellectual endeavor

everytime I hear someone opine about so-called "Just War Theory" i think about Michael Waltzer's piece (in fuckin Dissent mag lmfao) arguing that the invasion of Afghanistan was the quintessential example of a Just War lmao

yah i kinda hope that they incorporate the old rakata lore stuff. it was a fun (albeit horrifying) lil story

I'm obsessed with the masterclass in facial emoting that made this reactionary kid run out of the interview and overdose.

pro tip 4 a sure way to my heart

gotta have an option for all us pre ICHH Mia oomfs

didn't the Rakata have yellow and orange? idk a lot bout canonization post-Disney, but as far as I know Andor officially brought them into the fold!

annoying, but thats not a legit reason to deny well-established social dynamics

there's an abundance of evidence re the relative outcomes in health/economic opportunity/etc, correlating to net capital flows between the global south/north. of course, that relationship is evolving, and there r net gains/losses in the opposite direction too + the marxist ideologue language is

obviously the article is trash, but the scare quotes re extremely well-established supranational social dynamics leaves me like ?

wake up babe, etc etc

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

wondrous storm. watched as it rolled over the summit of Mt. Tam, like a tsunami of "divine" electric rage. nvr seen nature so animated like that before. rly wish it didn't start those fires..

i remember that. it was part of the storm system that ignited those massive complex fires

(obviously capitalist institutions shouldn't run them either but the way churches running them allows trans healthcare bans that couldn't be passed even in the most right wing districts in the country is extremely alarming)

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

id argue that this isn't a definitive indicator of a swing in either direction, so much as the tendency of evolving, downward sentiments vis a vis incumbents/the gradual progression of their terms. hope that isn't the case tho

we need to ask ourselves whether we'd rather capitalist use AI to define us out of the accepted social order or whether we rather it be used to ensure, and augment humanity's role in so called human civilization, by turning it against its investor class creators & putting them in the dirt once/4good

this tech offers - as a tool that will determine the quality of humanity futures (whether it be defined by domination, or resistance, and liberation) - then our future is already decided.

evidence to suggest a whole range of plausible outcomes - some good, some bad - but it's impossible to predict with any confidence. one things for sure tho: whether we like it or not, this is the future, and unless we pull our heads out of the sand and recognize the intrinsic and essential utility

groups with greater epistemic accesses to achieve new modes of coordination, so as to more effectively dominate the masses, but how completely, and for how long (until, like writing, it's effectively decentralized and rendered illegible)? there's reasonably compelling

with AI we may have something quite similar. a social tech, grounded on epistemics, centralized into the hands of small cohort of elites, that outcompetes existing modes of human epistemics. there's little doubt about the short term implications... the question isn't whether it will empower powrful

millenia onward. it wasn't until the advent of the printing press that writing scripts were decentralized and became functionally illegible, relative to its original functional role as a social technology, and soon after served as the basis of revolt and liberatory social movements