New World Screwworm sounds like a euphemism for the USA or maybe the name of a Rush/Ministry cover band
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NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK TO READ
My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).
Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.
As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.
The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.
https://archive.org/details/the-wild-ethics-and-anti-politics
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New from @josephinelee, in the cover story to our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children #children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more #police. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
I was once engaged to a self-proclaimed communist manchild who made me scream my feelings just to be heard and then called me abusive. He also had a panic attack one time because I held him accountable for his failures to be present in the relationship. I remember he also often used his neurodivergence as an excuse. We're both AuDHD. He's just never been socialised with the same expectations and social standards as women have. He's been outsourcing emotional labour to the women in his life: his mum, his sister, and me back then. So that's just his male privilege, not his neurodivergence. I'm glad he's been deported back to America. Oh, he's an American who never deconstructed his orientalism and colonial gaze, overstaying his welcome here in Indonesia. There are levels of men's fvckeries that are hiding behind leftist and disability justice language and are proof that sexuality isn't a choice. Because what do you mean I still like men? Tf.
Men are the first victims and the ultimate perpetrators of patriarchy. If they haven't dismantled that shit within themselves, they should steer clear of women. Just saying.
Don't argue with me, argue with your dads.
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Rated In the Loop 8/10
Sparkling dialogue, and some of the best swearing you’ll ever hear. Armando Iannucci serves up a comedy treat.
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finished watching Anniversary
A cautionary tale about the USA going full fascist (I know, I'm not downplaying Trump) over... a book? written by an intellectual? How about making the ideology delivery mechanism be... IDK, tweets from a reality show celebrity? That, I would believe.
In all seriousness, I don't know if this movie gets how fascists and fascism work, but I'll give it a 👍 for trying.
I did like that the movement is backed by a corporation, they got that partially right.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) is not 'anti-China,' says founder Luke de Pulford
IPAC aims to help democratic governments develop more realistic policies toward China. Members respect China and the Chinese people. However, they "do not like authoritarianism and don't like the behavior of an authoritarian government."
After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?
As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.
https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/
#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism
Some of you may have spotted a sell-off of shares in AI-related chip makers across the world yesterday (following on from dips last week)... for those of us watching & waiting for the start of an AI-related stock-market crash, this might look like the initiating 'event' many have expected as the returns from AI-related investments fail to materialise or are projected (again) further forward....
or it might just be a profit-taking dip?
Watch this space...
h/t FT
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And so the polls have closed in Clacton & tomorrow morning we'll find out exactly how difficult the Fascist Frog found it to out-run a comedy bin.... if he has!
While I think the Frog will have won on a (very) low turnout, I so hope Count Binface has got a significant (protest) vote...
see you in the morning for news on Bib vs. Frog
And so we find ourselves where we knew we'd end up... the Home Office using AI-generated slop (a document that doesn't;t exist) to refuse an asylum claim.
AI & its associated technologies are having clear & consequential effects, yet they no doubt will allow Home Office officials to escape censure for lying & misrepresentation;
'it was the machine what done it, M'lud'.
Court's will need to be more sceptical of HO claims from now on!
Sounds interesting
Good idea
Way ahead of you, Baron-Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqIVUoy70k My take here
https://nikolaskozloff.substack.com/p/reflections-on-autism-evolution-and #autism #autistic #ASD #evolution #politics #science #psychology #trump #fascism #neurodiversity
#互联网抗癌记 央视新闻消息，当地时间8月14日，法国宪法委员会宣布，否决一项禁止15岁以下未成年人使用社交媒体的法案，认为相关规定对表达和通信自由构成“不成比例的侵犯”。
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33785641
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Here's a Q. to ponder;
given our political class' obsession with the utility of AI & associated technologies & giving Big Tech what it wants... how long will in be before anti-data-centre groups find themselves proscribed as terrorists, once they move to forms of direct action?
The police in Scotland are already citing the issue of direct action & I'm sure Shabana Mahmood will not need that much encouragement to declare data centres vital security assets & damage, terrorism!??
PAULINE HANSON’S TALENT:
TURNING FEAR INTO VOTES 💎
I watched a YouTube video today called: Why Did America Choose a White Supremacist for President?
What struck me was not simply what it said about America. It was what it might be saying about us.
America did not suddenly wake up one morning and become Trumpist. The ground was prepared. People were genuinely struggling. Housing was difficult. Wages were inadequate. Communities were changing. People were frightened, angry and increasingly distrustful of institutions.
Then along came a political movement with a wonderfully simple explanation: YOUR LIFE IS HARD BECAUSE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Immigrants. Black people. Muslims. Women. Queer people. “Woke” people. Elites. Foreigners. Anyone except the economic and political systems that are actually producing much of the insecurity.
That is the bit Australians should be watching.
Because our problems are real too. Housing really is unaffordable. People are really struggling with food, electricity, and rent. Young people really are wondering whether they will ever own a home. Regional communities really do feel neglected.
And when people are frightened and angry, there is enormous political power in giving them somebody to blame.
One Nation understands this. Pauline Hanson is now talking about a “monocultural” Australia. One Nation talks about putting “Australians first” and increasingly presents immigration and multiculturalism as explanations for problems Australians can see and feel every day.
And people are listening.
One Nation is no longer some amusing little protest party on the edge of Australian politics. Recent polling has put it at roughly a quarter or more of the national primary vote.
That should get our attention.
But there is an even greater danger. Trumpism is not really a political party. It is a political method.
Create grievance. Find an enemy. Tell people their country has been stolen from them. Promise to give it back. Attack institutions that get in the way. Keep people angry enough that they stop asking who is actually benefiting.
One Nation may currently be the most obvious Australian vehicle for that politics. But if Labor or the Coalition begin copying it because they are frightened of losing votes, the infection spreads far beyond One Nation.
Australia is not America. Our history is different. Our institutions are different. Our political culture is different.
But we are not magically immune to fear, racism, resentment or demagoguery.
America should not simply be something we stare at in disbelief. It should be a warning.
This stuff does not arrive wearing a sign saying:
FASCISM STARTS MONDAY.
It arrives saying:
I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’RE ANGRY.
And then it quietly tells you who to hate.
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https://youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P7Pk4dUL4FT
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Ignorance is everywhere. Given the rise in lynchings in the news, I Introduced a couple of my nephews to the song ‘Strange Fruit’ and the history behind it this weekend. Up to those who know to teach those who don’t. #Politics #CivilRights
"Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
"What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again."
~ Anne Frank