Is there a German compound word for the feeling of being glad that someone has abandoned a bonkers & dangerous view and concerned they’re simultaneously embracing a view that’s likely even more bonkers & dangerous?
Carlson says he regrets supporting Trump. He now thinks Trump is the Antichrist.
I’m sure that’s a big factor here - and a symptom of the way an element of the party came to think of seeming knowledge of the ‘dark arts’ of political manoeuvring as the essence of ‘grown up’ political skill (and of ‘ideas’ as a hindrance).
'The fundamental problem is that the relationship between the English state and higher education – what this paper terms the “HE/state nexus” – is broken....This mechanism has failed, by every metric its architects set for it, and its failure is structural, not incidental.'
Stark and to the point.
“By shifting the vast majority of university funding into the hands of the aggregate decisions of 17-year-olds, the English system of choice has become an enormous machine for finding out who has the best (or best resourced) marketing department.”
The Scottish Parliament election is being fought in the shadow of devastating job losses at Grangemouth refinery, the Mossmorran petrochemicals complex and offshore. Broken energy promises and policy failure is recruiting voters to Reform. I've written for Renewal on Scotland's unjust transition.
I suppose a "Labour insider" is just the kind of person who might say "asshole" in the misguided belief that dropping into ostentatiously American English is somehow cool, edgy, or otherwise impressive.
An interesting, informative take on what’s going wrong in Ireland. Lessons for the UK too.
At one point it says “85% of government spending goes to current transfers. 15% goes to building things”.
Does anyone know what a comparable figure is for the U.K.?
www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap
Informative. Some good fish too.
Fun thread. And, as he says, pour yourself a drink. #clever #wellinformed
Perhaps we should see the Bond stories as prophetic?!
…Our government has no clue about this of course. It thinks they’re just great entrepreneurs. Anti-ideas, it doesn’t attend to the ideas of those it courts.
But rescuing the thinking Karp wants to wipe out & creating other concepts of the future is a vital task now: politically & culturally.
…they think they are thinking a thousand years ahead. Which is easy to dismiss as all ludicrous but it’s a worldview, it’s a philosophy & it’s one of the most significant economic and cultural forces of today...
…they’re the kind of people who think thought-experiments are deep, mind-blowing & a good guide for conduct: ‘would you kill a million people to establish peace on earth for ever?’ They tend to think the answer is ‘yes’ but only if you’re smart, brave & militant enough to go through with it…
…I’ve seen good discussion of the ‘manifesto’ but also lots of ‘What is this rubbish?’ And ‘who are these nutcases?’ Not bad questions until you realise how long they’ve been building their movement, how organised they are & what they control…
…which are not at all hidden (& well known to many) but mostly not recognised as significant (until very recently) by other political traditions, scholars, commentators.
This was the formation of a generation of reactionary tech activists the way, say, hippie culture formed a generation…
I’m glad Palantir has summarised Karp’s book in a ‘manifesto’. In this country it didn’t get the sustained attention required.
It’s also necessary to know that much of it is an expression of subcultures formed online - some ‘New Atheist’ and so-called Rationalist sites - over decades…
They don’t mean the same thing by ‘ruling class’ though.
I think this might be the foundational logic of many politicians all over the world.
My working assumption is that what she says here about some jobs going because of AI is her application for a nice job of her own with an AI firm (once the government she’s in finally dies from the strain of trying to not think of anything for so long).
The dream that AI monitoring all preferences on social media, and as expressed in consumption, can do this instead is deluded for the same reasons. Citizens aren’t just consumers of policy solutions but the producers: they implement change (in markets, public services, civic culture etc.).
The function of aggregating interests/opinions and converting them into demands that could be satisfied cannot be taken over by markets alone nor achieved by experts at the centre monitoring polling. It requires a dynamic & transformative process which educates the state as well as the citizen (2/3)
I think the experiment can be concluded: It’s clear not. Complex, societies/economies require political parties with large active, memberships & mediating institutions for the formation & organisation of political identity, expression of demands & for policy implementation (1/3)
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
fellow film profs, rejoice!
“among a totally random population, levels of creativity for the people watching the experimental films were immediately higher compared to those watching YouTube videos”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Doesn’t applying Occam’s razor lead us to conclude that between them, ‘old hands’ in the TBI & Labour Together saw no need for the rules to stand in their way & treated the PM as the mere pawn they chose him to be. The question then is, does he now wise-up or just accept some more dresses & glasses?
The T-1000 looks like it has a much better sense of humour.
I feel that this was inevitable: determined by the crossing of the flows of ideology, fantasy and commercial cinema in the US.
The cunning of unreason.
