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Socks4Hands posted:But wait, there's so much more! at least the man is self-aware enough to realise that people actually legitimately want to murder him
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May 5, 2019 00:25
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Kobayashi posted:This makes me wonder, who should I read for Marxist analysis of capitalism in the advertising age? I’m slowly slogging my way through the classics but I’m wondering if there are more contemporary works that map contemporary developments to more fundamental concepts. gramsci is good, his concept of hegemony is a good intro to cultural capitalism which helps make a lot of sense of the ads zizek specifically talks a lot about contemporary advertising, but i don't think he has any books specifically about that. he touches on it in Living In The End Times, i think
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Jun 29, 2019 10:10
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i actually can't find it on a quick browse of my copy of End Times, but zizek does write a little about this in almost all of his books as i can recall (that i've read anyway) if you have a good tolerance for high theory, baudrillard also writes about this from a more postmodernist left-wing perspective
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Jun 29, 2019 17:57
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this is an amazing set if takes holy moly
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Aug 2, 2019 09:40
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:American culture has an outsized impact on global popular culture, idk why it’s so controversial to say that late 19th/early 20th century African-American music is the most influential source of modern music that is not what is being posited, though, the comment that initiated this whole bizarre exchange was 'is there a single musical style that hasn't either originated in the us or heavily heavily influenced by one that did' later qualified in such a way as to only include 'stuff people actually listen to', whatever that means the statement is true insofar as 'heavily influenced by' can mean just about anything, but it's still an absolutely incredible take
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Aug 2, 2019 12:13
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are there a lot of workers' militias in the USA?
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Aug 23, 2019 22:45
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tbh i suspect that the pathology lies deeper in american culture and that more radical measures need to be taken, but gun control sounds like a reasonable proposition to me
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Aug 23, 2019 23:11
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A Russian troll farm posted:There's almost no daylight between mandating biometric safties on all guns and banning guns outright, so why not go all the way? Mandated biometric safties would necessarily mean confiscating every single gun in the country and either holding them somewhere or destroying them, since from both an engineering and logistical standpoint it would be completely unfeasible to retrofit every gun. So it would be seen correctly as an attempt to confiscate all guns, and it would be just as politically unfeasible. So why not just go all the way at that point? if there's a steady supply of legal, basically working guns are use restricted somehow, there's an argument to be made that it'd likely make it harder to get an illegal gun by choking.out the market still, yeah it doesn't seem like a very good solution
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Aug 25, 2019 09:49
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Inceltown posted:For example this is a good reason why humanity is a failed experiment what a servile piece of loving poo poo
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Sep 3, 2019 08:10
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Centrist Committee posted:Naw intellectual property is stupid, steal whatever isn’t tied down, hail satan libraries are good, though, support ur local library
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Sep 3, 2019 13:51
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tbh i would really love a comprehensive birth-register full genomic sweep of an entire national population over time, to do cool research on. inevitably, it'd end up getting used for incredibly evil poo poo, but that is all knowledge under capitalism so ymmv
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Nov 8, 2019 17:48
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would probably be just as good using mice or something though, but then you couldn't use existing medical infrastructure so i guess we have to expropriate everyone's most intimate information, no two ways around it
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Nov 8, 2019 17:49
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Iron Crowned posted:That's already been happening with the home DNA testing kits. Last year there was a piece on the BBC with a bunch of boomers crying about how they never knew their real dad because their mom was loving the milk man 50 years ago. lol it owns that we're paying these companies to give them our genetic information it.s. great
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Nov 9, 2019 14:34
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System Metternich posted:Twitter‘s algorithms read the German article "die" (which signifies either a grammatically female word or a plural) as, well, the English "die" which has led to people being banned for tweeting "the boomers" serves them right for lazily appropriating anglo words into their language
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Nov 13, 2019 12:53
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Perry Mason Jar posted:giving your genetic data to a faceless corporation is the most hilarious self own lol paying for the privilege of giving your data to giant unaccountable corps is disconcertingly popular and very cyberpunk
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Dec 5, 2019 16:23
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it is by all accounts a terrible, horrible place to work
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Apr 28, 2020 22:59
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cumshitter posted:jesus, theres more what does swatting mean
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Apr 30, 2020 11:45
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wtf
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Apr 30, 2020 13:01
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bringing physiognomy back i see
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May 6, 2020 17:43
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didn't someone attach a nuclear warhead to a submarine-launchable torpedo or did i dream that deeply cyberpunk weapon, that
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Aug 18, 2020 01:04
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any version of UBI worth implementing would require a revolutionary situation, and if we can get a revolution going i'll be *pissed* if we stop at demanding a biweekly handout from the bosses which they'll immediately start undermining
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Sep 6, 2020 10:04
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it's a sign of how grim things are that people can only imagine being moderately empowered as consumers and project utopian impulses onto that rather than actually changing society in a real way
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Sep 6, 2020 10:05
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imo T's calls to make cisgenderism illegal are boring but also incredibly inoffensive, it's incredibly humourless to feel it's hateful or w/e
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Sep 9, 2020 11:43
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if there are serious consumer goods tariffs imposed on china i will be both pleasantly surprised and deeply concerned, because it means that one of the big promises of globalisation - you won't make more money, but stuff will be cheaper - is broken, but by the dodgiest people in the land
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Dec 24, 2020 12:14
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i mean, is it any more ridiculous than everything else to do with bitcoin
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Jan 14, 2021 16:23
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smarxist posted:we still live in the shittiest possible Cyberpunk dystopia but it kinda owns that i can find this cool dude building this jenga abomination live at 3am when i can't sleep wha the gently caress
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Feb 22, 2021 09:20
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the austrians are, through hayek, foundational to the neoliberal revolution lol it does bear noting that their skepticism of positivism in the social sciences is reasonable, though - there's really a whole host of issues with the perspective
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Mar 15, 2021 00:51
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Even Hayek was literally an Austrian economist that has a libertarian bent, isn’t really an “Austrian economist”, he was okay with things like a 40 hour work week, welfare, and taxes. Actual Austrians by definition got into really weird poo poo like explicit anti-empiricism which he didn’t. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austrian-school-of-economics quote:The two leading Austrian economists of the 20th century were Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek. Mises (in the 1920s) and Hayek (in the 1940s) (...) britannica's somewhat suspect summary of the socialist calculation debate notwithstanding they seem an authoritative source on this sort of thing
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Mar 15, 2021 19:13
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Gods_Butthole posted:Fine, paintings are a bad example because you can quibble about brush strokes. It's the difference between an original photograph of the "artistic" variety and a reproduction. Zero material difference between the two, but the original has social significance that people value. I personally don't care about owning an original Ansel Adams, but other people do. If I own an "original" and more importantly I have someway to reasonably prove to people that it's "original" then I can sell it for much more money than a simple reproduction. i sort of get what youre saying here but i dont think there is much of an aura to an nft
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Apr 27, 2021 22:52
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Grey Hunter posted:https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1450067787867725828?t=yLrlFGVCFCjh2I8srFCCnQ&s=19 goddamn i love machine learning algorithms
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Oct 19, 2021 17:14
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jesus christ
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Oct 30, 2021 20:54
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:
this actually made me lol, thank you for posting it
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Nov 11, 2021 00:54
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