just based on simple, direct empirical observation of who is successful in our society I should obviously be lying so much more often
gil, a finite mode
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saw The Odyssey. it was good. 7.5/10. like and subscribe for more content
a big part of my mental distress and sadness flows from recognizing that almost all of our social ills and pathologies are easily solvable but we just keep ruining innumerable lives instead of fixing anything and there's no indication that we are going to correct course
fine I'll watch The Odyssey but only because I need to feed the dying flame of my evil hater's heart
QUICKLY EVERYONE, FIRE OFF YOUR HALF TIME TAKES. IT'S ENGAGEMENT O'CLOCK
sorry comrades but apparently Zohran Mamdani doesn't recognize the necessity of violence in the dialectic of historical progress and wants us to take refuge in the bourgeois notions of "opportunity, fun, and community"
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoEvery young New Yorker deserves a summer filled with opportunity, fun, and community — not violence.
I think there are fundamentally two kinds of people. those who are willing and able to live with others, to learn and grow, to be capacious in the name of an expanded humanity; and the close-minded fascists and racists who reject the possibility of love. let's put the latter into concentration camps
Hobbes has some of the best arguments in the history of philosophy, like 'You implicitly agree with my evil anthropology because you lock your doors at night'
[waiting to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just because I don't know yet know if it can be reconciled with Hegel's reading]
I am becoming a 90s Joel Schumacher Batman movie truther. they're dogshit, but they know that comic book movies are supposed to be stupid trash, and 30 years of equally vapid but much more self-serious comic book movies later I can't help but appreciate that. give me vibrantly colorful camp please
new episode out now! on Marx's Fragment on Machines and AI as potentially emancipatory technology 💖 abolish drudgery! refuse doomerism! your time can be yours! www.patreon.com/posts/163735...
138 | Machinic Intelligence and Marxism | What's Left of Philosophy
In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about t
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I have nothing but love and hope in my heart and I know the world we want is within reach but also I seriously believe that everything is just going to get worse until society as we know it collapses and untold millions die in perfectly avoidable misery
CLR James says that Toqueville had basically the same insights as Marx but recoiled instead of getting excited and this is the only thing that's ever made me want to read Democracy in America
reading CLR James for the normal reasons (mental health)
oh look another nail in a long sealed coffin
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3w agoI got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.
dance all you like on Lindsey Graham's grave today and Mitch McConnell's tomorrow but the truth is they won absolutely and unequivocally
excuse me what do you mean Zootopia 2 is the 9th highest grossing film of all time
did you know you can make basil infused olive oil and then finish your cocktails with it
this is fun: I am reading a new book about Spinoza and they cite our earlier translation of Matheron, and both mine and David's names are misspelled in the bibliography lol
gil, a finite mode@gilmorejon.bsky.social · 4w agoI am very happy to announce that my friend and colleague David and I are now translating Alexandre Matheron's Individu et communauté chez Spinoza! it's only like 700 pages so it shouldn't take too long
I am very happy to announce that my friend and colleague David and I are now translating Alexandre Matheron's Individu et communauté chez Spinoza! it's only like 700 pages so it shouldn't take too long
does anyone have suggestions for what software is best for making outlandishly detailed diagrams for a book project I'm working on
no layoffs are an expression of the tendency toward increasing the proportion of constant to variable capital even while total capital expands
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · last mo.Layoffs are a failure of leadership.
hey next time a progressive sounding candidate with a huge pile of glaring red flags comes along can we not do this shit again? in the name of, what, winning? realpolitik? it's dead fucking boring to lose like this over and over again when the lessons are obvious and point in the other direction
here's a tip: when someone in your building steals your packages, if all they find is big awful books about political philosophy they'll just quietly leave them by your apartment door a few days later anyway
for the 4th of July I am eating pâté for breakfast and then I am going to go swim in the lake and then I am going to drink to excess by myself with a book I don't have a good reason to read. fuck you, fuck me, fuck them, happy America.
David Harvey's Companion to the Grundrisse is quickly establishing itself as one of my favorite books about a Marx text
Jerry Seinfeld is to Larry David as Descartes is to Malebranche
