i really dislike the degree to which the things i do contribute to organizations i disapprove of. i’m doing my best to migrate away from big tech platforms, but migrating from github would be the most disruptive to me. elimination of the public sphere has meant, one way or another, reliance on private entities, and for networky applications, they’ll be of a scale that renders them untrustworthy.
and now what’s left of the public sphere is under the thumb of fascists. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115011100793680866
whining ineffectually about norm violations does not constitute enforcement of norms.
@KarlHeinzHasliP i guess i disagree with you on this one. i think Westphalian nation states are all we’ve got, but they should be understood as territorial states before nations. The state is prior to the nation, its duty is to continually construct and reconstruct a sense of nation that encompasses the full public of the territory it governs, despite the diversity and dynamism of that public. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/10/15/a-westphalian-order-is-project-enough/index.html
one lesson we might learn is that when a romantic ethonational project inevitably turns rancid, persecutes and murders members of other groups, the right response is not to exalt and reward whatever romantic ethnonational project might take hold among the victims.
romantic ethnonationalism is the problem, not the identity or virtue or lack of virtue of the groups that ethnonational movements construct in both positive and negative space.
i can’t think like this. i don’t think it’s right, objectively. the world is in tumult. 70 to 100 years from now it’s quite likely to be a nuclear wasteland if we don’t remedy things on a much shorter timeframe. fascists are breaking everything, including any basis for their own popularity or even prosperity. this is collapse, not a regrettable but stable new normal. no one knows what’s next. it will be much better or much, much worse i suspect. https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115008296315035578
it was the dawning of the age of the sociopath.
were TED talks a net positive or net negative for our collective cognition and deliberation?
a meeting of minds implies the existence of minds.
man yells at TV, most powerful military in the history of the world springs into action.
“the US offers nothing more than AI and various types of gambling and volatile tariffs, whereas China has offered massive advancements in science and technology and a future that people can actually believe in.” @kylascan https://kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became
Democrats, not beloved as a political party even as the Republicans are unpopularly overtly fascists, should make blowing up the two-party system the central reason why people should vote for them.
@czeins no, it was much more broadly optimistic, despite the obvious “froth”. there wasn’t a widespread-if-also-contested view that the technology being built was dystopian.
to talk about RFK Jr, we need a word for murder, but where the deed performed is like ten years in advance of the predictable deaths that result and there is a thin patina of plausible deniability.
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i think @pefrase pretty much called it when he coined the term “exterminism”. https://jacobin.com/2011/12/four-futures
so, is it China or Germany or India or who else that’s going to the next century’s biotech / biomedical powerhouse? who’s gonna pick up the mRNA mantle, along with all the others we’re casting off?
