Kevin Carson

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2026-05-19 23:10:46 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Shin bones are not meant to bend like that

2026-05-05 23:45:41 UTC

Is the Strait Crisis Driving an Energy Transition?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-the-strait-crisis-driving-an-energy-transition

2026-04-11 01:06:58 UTC

Center for a Stateless Society » Municipalism, Anarchism, and Polyarchy
https://c4ss.org/content/61101

2026-04-10 14:57:57 UTC

The ideology of conservatism, and MAGA in particular. It's the desire to punish, regardless of guilt -- if the accuser is powerful and the accused is in an out-group, they're guilty. The point is for insecure people to identify with a strong father-figure, and participate vicariously in their "wins." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oeI5LlwWY

2026-04-08 21:15:56 UTC

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Never mind AI bros. For a century MBAs have been obsessively gutting human capital -- the people with all the process knowledge that keeps things going -- in order to shave an extra hour off labor costs. Because corporate accounting rules treat labor as the only direct cost.

2026-04-08 21:13:12 UTC

"The people who value process knowledge the least are the AI bros who think you can replace skilled workers with a chatbot trained on the things they say and write down, as though that somehow captured everything they know."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/process-knowledge-vs-bosses/

2026-04-06 18:51:14 UTC

So Your Boss Wants You to Join a Positivity Cult: Who Moved My Cheese, Fish! and the Studer Group
https://drive.google.com/file/d/180SvRMf9SAh8bVybMLv4D3U2OU1WAV9E/view?usp=drive_link

2026-04-04 15:55:23 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m I guess you're probably already aware of this surgeon in Chicago, who has experience with the procedure? https://doctors.rush.edu/details/19529

2026-04-04 15:45:54 UTC

https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/347/210/489/766/788/original/97985f9546dd8205.jpg

2026-04-03 01:17:43 UTC

Latest Goodreads recommendation: Because you're reading Order and History by Eric Voegelin, you might enjoy Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

2026-03-31 18:45:41 UTC

Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/abolitionist-feminism/

2026-03-30 15:47:21 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Laptop is best of both worlds. Mobility, but with browser-based navigation instead of "apps," and a real keyboard, like the gods intended.

2026-03-29 01:29:21 UTC

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@nprofile…gfcd How recently were you there? I can't even imagine how awful it's become after the Tea Party, Gamergate and MAGA.

2026-03-28 23:58:17 UTC

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@nprofile…gfcd I went to grad school there. When everyone in normal places had "Question Authority" bumper stickers, all the cars in College Station were sporting "Honor Authority" stickers. And the fucking seniors with their spurs and riding breeches FFS. Every time I saw the university logo I defaced it by adding two Es to the end to spell EATME.

2026-03-28 16:16:46 UTC

The Surprising Thing You Should Always Do Before Cutting an Avocado, According to an Expert - AOL
https://www.aol.com/surprising-thing-always-cutting-avocado-180300173.html

2026-03-28 00:21:31 UTC

Center for a Stateless Society » Mutual Exchange Radio: Aaron Ross Powell on Libertarianism and Buddhism
https://c4ss.org/content/61077

2026-03-27 16:14:03 UTC

Ice Ice Brimley - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i6HkV_jO0o

2026-03-25 22:09:02 UTC

Tortoise bites dog balls - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aRiQKVhO_2c

2026-03-25 16:51:18 UTC

The Trump boys are hilarious because they all think they're Michael Corleone, but they're actually a family of Fredos
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/290/831/493/639/669/original/4c3db0a101e4688c.jpeg

2026-03-25 16:47:22 UTC

Center for a Stateless Society » Mutual Exchange Radio: Kevin Carson on the Methodenstreit
https://c4ss.org/content/61016

2026-03-25 00:58:47 UTC

April, 2026- Online Workshop: Collectively Situated Knowledge: A decolonial research method for constructing collective auto-narratives and positionalities | El Cambalache: inter-cambiamos
https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/24/april-2026-online-workshop-collectively-situated-knowledge-a-decolonial-research-method-for-constructing-collective-auto-narratives-and-positionalities/

2026-03-23 15:50:57 UTC

"When it came to measuring actual influence on the job, those who fell for corporate bullshit displayed lower scores on analytical thinking, reflection and fluid intelligence."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-speak-study

2026-03-21 19:41:08 UTC

Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due | Grist
https://grist.org/science/long-overlooked-as-crucial-to-life-fungi-start-to-get-their-due/

2026-03-21 15:13:31 UTC

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@nprofile…0pnv I used to have all of those Roots and Blues compilations that came out in the 90s.

2026-03-21 14:37:40 UTC

#Municipalism Urban political economy
https://www.academia.edu/86194330/Urban_political_economy?email_work_card=title

2026-03-21 14:34:45 UTC

Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona #Municipalism
https://www.academia.edu/165242032/Social_infrastructure_in_diverse_and_unequal_cities_Examining_Civic_Management_facilities_in_Barcelona

2026-03-21 14:33:08 UTC

Behavioural nudges in circular economy transitions: evidence and gaps from urban consumption systems - Academia.edu #Municipalism
https://www.academia.edu/2997-6006/2/4/10.20935/AcadEnvSci7946

2026-03-20 21:57:17 UTC

Alan Lomax's Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings | Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online-20000-recordings.html

2026-03-19 16:35:37 UTC

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@nprofile…cqk6 From what I've seen his overall stance on generative AI is much more critical than positive.

2026-03-19 00:46:21 UTC

"The street finds its own uses" is a statement about technopolitics. It acknowledges that yes, there are politics embedded in our technology, the blood in the machine, but these politics are neither simple, nor are they immutable. The fact that a technology was born in sin does not preclude it from being put to virtuous ends. A technology's politics are up for grabs.
In other words, it's the opposite of Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/

2026-03-10 16:38:46 UTC

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@nprofile…f4r9 In one of your posts, you call for universal basic income. Just what do you think UBI would be issued in, if not quantitative units?

2026-03-10 16:33:31 UTC

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@nprofile…f4r9 Seriously? My whole long post was a critique of the logic behind "the mafia's blood money," which treats money and credit as things with independent value as commodities, and restricts their issue to those in possession of wealth. The idea of a common unit of account that workers could use to track the flow of advances of goods between themselves, without having to ask someone with wealth to "lend" or "advance" it to them, is a remedy to capitalist money.
The very fact that today money is "the factory owner's" and workers depend on capitalist investors is owing to the idea of money as something that's stockpiled, and not a system for measuring flows like inches and pounds.
And for century medieval villages that possessed no specie currency in circulation maintained a system of running open tabs for tracking their balances with each other, using a unit of account based on the denominations of Charlemagne's currency centuries earlier -- despite that fact that none of them had seen a pound or shilling coin in their lives. And they did it with no soldiers at their backs -- if anything, it was the rise of modern capitalist banking that suppressed these self-organized systems. But Charlemagne's denominations were just seized on as something handy -- the particular unit was beside the point. They could have simply chosen the word "unit" or anything else, in order to have a ready quantitative unit by which makers of shoes, barrels, or whatever, could set the value of their goods in terms of other goods.
Do you think people are unable to weigh meat, or measure lumber in feet, without a soldier at their backs forcing them to agree on a standard unit?

2026-03-09 23:45:46 UTC

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@nprofile…f4r9 You can't carry on complex industrial production with in-kind calculations. There needs to be some common quantitative unit. And the whole point is that in a system that doesn't require possession of reserves, and doesn't treat credit as "lending" against such past reserves, there's nothing to accumulate. Just ongoing balances. And if you think I'm talking about a system backed up by debt collectors and soldiers, you really need to question how you managed to infer that.

2026-03-09 14:42:10 UTC

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@nprofile…2a5y @nprofile…asjv I don't disagree with any of that. Capital is able to function as a power locus because of its legal claims to property, but we've got an economic system and legitimizing ideology that disguises power behind "neutral" rules like property and contract.

2026-03-09 14:38:58 UTC

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@nprofile…wr6v @nprofile…dy88 I don't think there's any one "the" capitalist argument, but the "contribution" of capital to production, and its entitlement to a reward for that contribution, is definitely one of the most common ones.
And I think the argument that capital discovers new efficiencies is reaching the end of its validity -- whatever validity it may have had. Even a century ago, capital was arguably organizing production along lines that were most "efficient" in terms of extracting a surplus, rather than making the most efficient use of the potentialities of Second Industrial Revolution technologies in the sense of material output per unit of material input. In many ways, large scale and hierarchy were chosen despite creating all the inefficiencies Mumford and Borsodi described back then in their critiques of mass production, and Piore and Sabel's more recent The Second Industrial Divide.
And more recently, we've reached the point at which, thanks to the enormous surplus of capital that's uninvestable in anything productive, "profit accounting" just leads to asset-stripping and enshittification. In fact GAAP accounting principles actually incentivize inefficiencies like stripping human capital while counting increased overhead from irrational physical capital expenditures as a source of value.
OTOH, workers arguably possess more of the distributed knowledge of where efficiencies can actually be achieved, and they have some incentive to increase the efficiency of their own labor if they fully internalize the income from their own enterprise. So there's at least some incentive there to increase productivity.

2026-03-08 16:22:49 UTC

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@nprofile…54xq My inclination is to say that, going back to the time of the agricultural revolution, most land in most places was viewed (in very broad, general terms) as ultimately a socially owned commons, with individual possessory rights with varying degrees of strength. The Israelite Jubilee, for example. And the western European open field system, the Russian Mir, and the so-called "Asiatic mode" are all recent survivals. In most cases private appropriation of land with fee simple title, as an alienable and marketable commodity, came about through forcible enclosure with the backing of political authorities.
So IMO the proper approach is to treat all fee-simple property, as such, as in some degree stolen, and then declare it all once again a socially owned commons, but also recognize strong possessory/stewardship rights of the current tenants/occupants in most cases unless some dispossessed party can be identified in recent generations.
That last acknowledgement of dispossessed parties is especially relevant in the case of slave plantation land and Indigenous land.

2026-03-08 16:13:01 UTC

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@nprofile…asjv I don't think complex industrial production can be coordinated via in-kind valuations. And even if they could, there would have to be some mechanism for coordinating the actions of a considerable number of people. A good amount of direct production for use could probably be carried out in the gardens and workshops of a primary social unit like a micro-village, but there would have to be some kind of quantitative accounting mechanism -- whether market pricing or something else -- for distributing producer goods and raw materials.

2026-03-07 22:46:31 UTC

The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense.
All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources -- means of production and raw materials -- are entirely the product of labor acting on free gifts of nature.
The entire point at issue is the legitimacy of the process by which capitalists happen to be in possession of those paper or digital claims, and how workers come to be dependent on those claims. Why, instead of groups of workers simply acting on the free gifts of nature, advancing streams of material resources to one another, and using a simple unit of account to track the balance of these advances of material resources and who owes what to whom, do they have to go to someone who is in possession of stockpiles of these imaginary paper claims?
Why are capitalists able to interpose themselves between groups of workers, and create the illusion that they are "providing" something when they are in fact simply controlling a toll gate?
The problem is the myth that money is a "thing," some sort of commodity with an independent existence and value of its own, when in fact it is simply a unit of measurement like an inch or a pound. We have a money and credit system based on the myth that a certain class of people must accumulate a pile of paper claims and then "lend" credit "against" them -- a "service" for which they are entitled to payment. It's as nonsensical as the idea that, in order to cut lumber and build something, a carpenter must first find someone in possession of a pile of inches who can provide them.

2026-03-07 18:54:54 UTC

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@nprofile…2x84 Damn, sounds like they're getting a real soaking.

2026-03-06 21:04:04 UTC

Happy Herb Car TV jingle from MTV's Daria : r/television
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dxr53i/happy_herb_car_tv_jingle_from_mtvs_daria/

2026-03-04 22:32:00 UTC

I keep expecting Manousos in Pluribus to start ranting about Galt's Gulch

2026-03-04 21:30:27 UTC

Does anyone know what the Mormon Church's position is on soaking the rich?

2026-03-03 21:01:05 UTC

How Albert Einstein Found Faith at the Edge of Reason | The MIT Press Reader
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-albert-einstein-found-faith-at-the-edge-of-reason/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

2026-03-02 23:53:03 UTC

In Spain, Amazon Workers Win with Quick-Hit Walkouts | Labor Notes
https://www.labornotes.org/amazon-workers-spain-cgt-strategy

2026-02-28 23:59:28 UTC

Center for a Stateless Society » Mutual Exchange Radio: Kevin Carson on the Methodenstreit
https://c4ss.org/content/61016

2026-02-28 23:51:17 UTC

Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation - Shareable
https://www.shareable.net/how-to-build-a-network-for-land-and-liberation/

2026-02-28 23:46:55 UTC

Building a solidarity economy, even in authoritarian times | Grassroots Economic Organizing
https://geo.coop/gleanings/building-solidarity-economy-even-authoritarian-times

2026-02-28 23:25:01 UTC

How to Dismantle a Concentration Camp | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/207116/dismantle-concentration-camp-trump-resistance

2026-02-28 19:12:15 UTC

Amazing piece. Hitler invented the concept of "Heritage Germans," and praised America for having a racial subcaste of non-citizen subjects, a century before JD Vance.
https://notablog.net/2026/02/28/two-wrongs-dont-make-a-reich/

2026-02-27 22:08:56 UTC

The Epic, Mega Skydance Paramount Warner Deal: Some Thoughts - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-epic-mega-skydance-paramount-warner-deal-some-thoughts/sharetoken/31079c83-15af-432a-83f2-96ab9fdf2827?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Backchannel%20693&utm_medium=email

2026-02-27 22:03:10 UTC

This Is Not What Winning Looks Like
https://badfaithtimes.com/this-is-not-what-winning-looks-like/?ref=bad-faith-times-newsletter

2026-02-27 21:57:48 UTC

"There are a lot of people who came into Trumpworld just because Trump seemed to be the winner and the kingmaker. As soon as he weakens, I believe people are going to peel off—and he has been weaker and weaker and weaker.... I do believe the only tool he really has left is violence and threats. But that is a brittle form of authority."
https://newrepublic.com/article/207130/transcript-trump-epstein-scandal-takes-brutal-turn-maga-tailspins

2026-02-26 22:37:22 UTC

Tennessee Republicans are introducing a bill that would kill women who get an abortion. Qasim Rashid dug up the MAGAs' names, numbers, emails, & a script to use when calling them. Inundate them. Shut this trash down ASAP.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/tennessee-gop-intro-bill-to-kill

2026-02-25 16:41:02 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Eat and keep in shape, so they can reproduce, and then buy toys for their kids

2026-02-25 16:38:12 UTC

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@nprofile…8e95 @nprofile…j040 @nprofile…7qh8 @nprofile…6kxh @nprofile…2xum @nprofile…j3je @nprofile…7c6k I went through a similar thing with Medicaid, which Arkansas cut off because I didn't respond to an "income verification" they sent to a previous address. I appealed and won, but their stupidity was infuriating.

2026-02-24 23:51:36 UTC

"What we’re seeing is an increasingly chaotic and feral person locked into what was always his binary and even Manichean sick worldview: the dominating and the dominated. And a guy who can’t not escalate. And he is escalating. And it’s his escalation that is hurting him the most."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-to-view-trumps-feral-state-of-the-union

2026-02-24 23:47:28 UTC

As state and corporate surveillance intensifies, a new guide aims to help mutual aid organizations protect themselves - Shareable
https://www.shareable.net/as-state-and-corporate-surveillance-intensifies-a-new-guide-aims-to-help-mutual-aid-organizations-protect-themselves/

2026-02-24 21:10:29 UTC

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

2026-02-22 16:35:55 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Luciente and Sojourner, members of the Mattapoisett village in Massachusetts, year 2137, to Connie, a time traveler from the 1970s, in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time:
“The powerful don’t make revolutions,” Sojourner said with a broad yellow grin.
“Qh, revolution!” She grimaced. “Honchos marching around in imitation uniforms. Big talk and bad-mouthing everybody else. Noise in the streets and nothing changes.”
“No, Connie! It’s the people who worked out the labor-and- land intensive farming we do. It’s all the people who changed how people bought food, raised children, went to school!... Who made new unions, withheld rent, refused to go to wars, wrote and educated and made speeches.”

2026-02-21 15:59:17 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m The only time I've seen anything remotely like that is in newspaper comics, but the panels are sequential moment that just happen to be integrated into adjacent parts of the background.

2026-02-19 17:44:43 UTC

CDF introduces new catalog of shared equity models | Grassroots Economic Organizing
https://geo.coop/gleanings/cdf-introduces-new-catalog-shared-equity-models

2026-02-07 16:02:21 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m The prevalence of humanoid species in the Star Trek franchise. Their version of the seeding hypothesis is more plausible than LeGuin's in the Hainish cycle, but that's not saying much.

2026-02-07 15:54:12 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Do I still know I'm the me that saw it before, and wished I could reexperience it with no memory of the first time?

2026-02-02 16:53:27 UTC

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@nprofile…2a5y IMO it's not a matter of relating to them. It's a question of the functional effect when a regime loses their solid support. A regime isn't brought down primarily by converting a popular majority into ideologically committed opponents. I welcome anything that weakens Trump.

2026-02-01 15:39:35 UTC

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@nprofile…2a5y I think the main effect is tipping low-info people on the margin -- the type who stayed home in 2024, or just voted for Trump for vague reasons of "inflation" or "doing something about immigration," but are horrified by the actual images on the news now.

2026-01-31 17:39:08 UTC

Here's a copy of one of the deleted files, that contains the most damning accusations against Trump (and others). #Streisand
https://gofile.io/d/TkHwis

2026-01-30 16:56:58 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Most episodes of Roadrunner. Wile E. Coyote's plan usually fails because of some minor technical glitch that could be tweaked, or some error in execution that could be remedied in the next go-round, but instead he completely abandons the project and orders a new product from ACME.

2026-01-30 02:26:42 UTC

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@nprofile…92h7 Thank you so much!

2026-01-30 02:01:53 UTC

Anyone have access to a pdf of this? Igor Shoikhedbrod, “Re-Hegelianizing Marx on Rights,” Hegel Bulletin 40, no. 2 (2019): 281–300.

2026-01-28 22:33:45 UTC

"When an army is in retreat its highly vulnerable. It’s usually moving from one entrenched position to — hopefully — another. When it’s on the move it’s not well defended. It’s usually also moving under duress and operating under strained morale. If you’re the advancing army, it’s almost always best, if it is at all possible, to pursue and harry the retreating army as aggressively and as rapidly as possible."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-dems-push-maga-and-its-ice-army-into-a-disorganized-retreat/sharetoken/1417c0f9-753d-431a-9fed-558e408983ce

2026-01-27 16:36:27 UTC

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@nprofile…8e95 No. He only posts about food at random intervals. But he frequently posts stuff about pasta e fagioli or pasta e ceci with south Asian spices, scorpion pepper, or the like.

2026-01-26 23:29:32 UTC

The student organizers who mobilized Friday's massive action are now calling for a National Shutdown this Friday, January 30.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9ULZQjFUU/

2026-01-26 16:05:59 UTC

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@nprofile…8e95 That sounds like something that Pookleblinky guy on Bluesky would do -- making Italian pasta dishes with ghost peppers or SE Asian spices.

2026-01-22 15:44:40 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m Little Bill from The Unforgiven and Top Dollar from The Crow. Whichever one was first to stab the other in the back would have some sardonic comment to make about it, and the other would chuckle along with them.

2026-01-13 15:49:48 UTC

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@nprofile…jk4m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRpl2S9iwk #MoodMusicMonday fuck authority

2026-01-10 00:30:58 UTC

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@nprofile…4v0m I'm sure that was a contributory factor.

2026-01-09 22:49:46 UTC

"a turning point in the public perception of ICE (and the Border Patrol) and their newly hyper-militarized role in American cities beginning last summer."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-turning-point-for-trumps-marauding-secret-police

2026-01-06 15:42:48 UTC

Anna's Archive has been shut down in some kind of legal action by India, but you can still access it at .pm and .in instead of .org.

2025-12-31 18:52:20 UTC

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@nprofile…2yeg "Doop doop doop" is a nice description. I like watching robins hop along the ground. (The little "English" indicator started flashing uncertainly when I was typing "doop doop doop.")

2025-12-30 15:33:23 UTC

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@nprofile…d4mh I hope you're back at catgirl home soon.

2025-12-25 15:38:26 UTC

A Muppet Passion Play starring Dr. Bunsen as Pontius Pilate and Beaker as Jesus. Jesus just makes dismayed eeps through the entire trial, scourging and crucifixion.

2025-12-22 19:09:40 UTC

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@nprofile…63c2 I heard the NASA engineers checked your house when they needed to replace 80s-era electronic equipment on the shuttle

2025-12-22 18:56:52 UTC

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@nprofile…d4mh The Heston (sadly) version of A Man For All Seasons. He hams it up considerably more, but it includes all the original Bolt play content the Scofield version left out.

2025-12-21 16:53:44 UTC

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@nprofile…d4mh Jesus, in the Gospels. He had some interesting things to say before he died, but since coming back he's caused mostly trouble.

2025-12-21 16:45:10 UTC

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@nprofile…v387 No, I mean the current system, where the supply of credit is limited to reserve owners, who can charge interest, is like a transaction tax.

2025-12-15 00:43:00 UTC

That bullet didn't actually strike Charlie Kirk's neck. It snapped one of the guy-wires holding up his head.

2025-12-13 22:37:38 UTC

Between the Best and the Worst: Some Thoughts on Not Surrendering
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-best-and-the-worst-some-thoughts-on-not-surrendering/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

2025-12-12 18:25:34 UTC

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@nprofile…4cck I suspect a digital scale is only as accurate as the analog resistance mechanism built into it, so if that part is cheaply made and can't move freely enough to reflect changes in weight....

2025-12-10 16:40:27 UTC

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@nprofile…lx0q @nprofile…v35z Makes sense Allman thinks AIs can do genius writing, because his own writing comes across like slop from an LLM fed entirely on Atlas shrugged and The Fountainhead.

2025-12-10 16:30:48 UTC

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@nprofile…lx0q @nprofile…v35z Hemenway? It's a utility that reduces your sentence complexity and substitutes words with fewer syllables, in order to rewrite your piece on a 6th grade reading level.

2025-12-09 18:28:07 UTC

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@nprofile…v35z @nprofile…lx0q Chad reminded me of this asshole https://fee.org/articles/the-ego-vs-the-machine/

2025-12-09 18:19:22 UTC

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@nprofile…v35z @nprofile…lx0q The group should have told Chad to stay home and let his LLM attend in his place, since it was doing all his writing for him.

2025-12-09 18:16:49 UTC

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@nprofile…v35z @nprofile…lx0q OMFG Chad. He's the perfect encapsulation of every obnoxious techbro I've ever seen who bloviated about AI surpassing human creative capacity in music, art, literature, etc.
There used to be a guy in the collective I write with -- C4SS -- who tried to talk me into running everything I wrote through Hemenway before I submitted it.

2025-12-06 21:24:07 UTC

Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of “political capitalism” (06 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/

2025-12-05 20:04:25 UTC

@nprofile…kqat @nprofile…99jl @nprofile…zzfh @nprofile…ysry @nprofile…m6wm @nprofile…v6ud @nprofile…hclg Scottish pub food party. Instead of a fondue pot, there's a fry daddy, bowls of batter, and platters of everything imaginable to deep fry.

2025-12-05 19:46:50 UTC

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@nprofile…0xap I don't see anything this is in reply to

2025-12-02 17:28:28 UTC

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
https://time.com/7335723/auto-draft-25-2/

2025-11-28 21:48:28 UTC

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@nprofile…48qu And management interference and interruptions.

2025-11-28 20:24:07 UTC

This, fourteen paragraphs in, is the first smart observation in the article: "To ease the transition to new technologies, she says there should be designs that are repairable or modular rather than the constant purge and replace cycles."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

2025-11-26 18:39:11 UTC

This is what the kind of right-libertarian shitstains, who write those puff pieces on how the guy who makes minimum wage is richer than John D. Rockefeller because he owns a microwave, don't get.