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Bear trap economist.

Lol the mass of employed living labor is continually in decline as compared to the mass of materialized labor set in motion by it, so it follows that the portion of living labor must also be continually on the decrease compared to the amount of value represented by the invested total capital lmao

Happy polio vaccine announcement anniversary. "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" remains one of the hardest remarks of all time. Kind of quote every child should be taught

11 years ago I painted myself entirely blue for a femswapped Kavinsky cosplay and he liked it so much he posted it everywhere, so now when you google “Girl Kavinsky” I show up lol

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Don't give unsolicited advice to neurodivergent folks, it's oftentimes a big trigger of negative feelings due to a lifetime of them enduring people trying to "fix" them with misguided suggestions

While Wes Craven's New Nightmare revisits the ghosts of the past in order to perform a metatextual autopsy of its franchise, Jason X glares defiantly into the future, dragging the (sometimes literal) simulacrum of its franchise into the postmodern era where truth is both subjective and irrelevant

2016: In 10 years we'll have a man on Mars 2026: In 10 years, we'll have a city on the moon 2036: Today we honor the memory of SpaceX founder who took his own life

Such a shame about Aronovsky and the AI nonsense. No matter what he does, the underlying dynamic is subordination of art and labor to capital accumulation. His "ethical pipeline" is just a branding layer while the competitive pressure pushes everyone toward deskilling and layoffs.

This is Iraq War style propaganda: They make the face of a well-researched, (near) academic consensus, that isn't egregiously controversial among experts on the subject... and make the face of it a famous but uncredentialed young woman so they can pretend it's vacuous and naive.

Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It’s time to put Billie Eilish’s theory of property out to pasture, Richard Epstein and Max Raskin write. "Americans are not thieves who built on stolen land." https://wapo.st/4rDYzrn