i’m unna re-up this one in celebration of Bari Weiss. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/i...

absolutely.

i guess i’d point out the culture wars as tactic to deflect the public from any class-structured emerged long before the Ellisons, Andreeson, Musk were core protagonists. though i do think these people absolutely explicitly coordinate, i do think this kind of deflection emerges from class interests.

they are. but they are really not alone. this was not just their quirky choice. they’ll run tiktok with andreeson. etc. tabloidization of the public mind has been an ongoing group project.

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

The public detests both parties. Blow them both up, along with the electoral system that forced them down our throats.

i’d like to hear more about generative AI tools developed and deployed outside of the United States or China.

odd how most of the people who claim to have been cancelled make very nice livings as public figures.

when this movie came out in 1982, my very conservative private school had us all march almost two miles to the Senator Theater to see it. during the school day. what they now call woke we all agreed then was just civilization.

at some level, i just don’t understand why we aren’t better than we are.

chicken tax expansion? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

there is very little about Stephen Miller’s worldview for which i am grateful, but i have to confess i thank the goddess he is not the kind of progressive who would would have taken his wife’s last name.

(i first encountered a post saying he got banned for image and its alt text, which seemed pretty indefensible to me. it became less indefensible (thanks @segyges.bsky.social) when i learned the image and alt text were a QT. still have mixed views about the ban, but less egregious than i thought.)

(though i stand by a preference to err on the side of permissiveness when one must err, the particular case we are obliquely not discussing i keep finding out about in fragments. i was not aware of the full context when posting earlier, probably am not aware of the full context yet.)

yes, barely. not a very good one.

he is literally Bad.

yes!

uniforms for domestic policing should intentionally be a bit dorky.