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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatives have most of us using their own false framing, that economics can be best understood as downstream from culture, rather than economics being the prime motivator of everyone and everything around us

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 3d

Pro tip: The self-checkout cameras cannot distinguish real clumsiness from fake clumsiness

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 3d

Those of us who grew up with a father exhibiting this illness know it cannot be cured by any external force, and that it is often a battle to the death.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 4d

As with all white males, it’s a question of the degree of bigotry. Absence of bigotry is not attainable.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 4d

If you don’t want to live around certain people, it’s on you to move, not them

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 5d

So a LLM is your capable veteran co-worker who you keep at arm’s length because you know they would make a terrible friend

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 8d

So it turns out this crazy ‘prevent capital from corrupting everything’ ideology is working after all?

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 9d

Knowing in our bones that no amount of compelling imagery will sway the people who need to be swayed is not ‘ignoring the role emotions play in politics’.

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 12d

Every day he doesn’t take steps to fix it is an eternity

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 12d

There’s something grotesque about choosing to occupy a bunch of stolen land, far away from other people while pretending it’s a more grounded and connected lifestyle

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 14d

If people simply carried shotguns around as an open accessory these kidnappings would stop

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 14d

Just be patient, we’ll fix the lack of democratic representation in the next placebo election

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 16d

There are ten times as many mosques in China as in the US. In China everyone is free to practice religion, but no one is free to indoctrinate others. Tibetans were slavers who needed to be stopped.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 17d

The west tried to foment a Uyghur terror wave, but when China de-radicalized them instead of having a deadly moral panic, we called it a genocide anyway. We’re just the worst people on earth to have share a planet with

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 19d

We lost Idaho a long time ago

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 21d

If the person informing a worldview is not morally inscrutable, we can ignore that worldview. I don’t make the rules

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 23d

Reminder - Being woke is being compassionate. Tree hugging hippies are right. MLK was a socialist. Communists beat the nazis. Centrism is cowardice. Fascism is bad, antifascism is good. Empathy is awesome. Hold the line.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 23d

This is the exact same kind of policy compartmentalization that all colonizer apologists do. Israel is what it does, period.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 24d

An aboriginal village would recognize this person as possessed by evil spirits and send them on a vision quest

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 26d

I'm sorry but it's just plain hilarious that we're still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting.

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 26d

It’s just the institution that talked my parents into cutting off the tip of my penis as an infant, cut it some slack

Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 26d

A model trained to optimize next-token prediction is by definition structurally prevented from truly understanding anything. It can’t do the one thing human brains do best

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 27d

A glorious, mass-murdering eagle

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 28d

Capitalism: Best system in the history of the world, or best system in the history of creation? The answer may surprise you

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Clockwatcher @johnnypunchclock.bsky.social · 28d

In Romania the communists were gong after Nazi sympathizers because Romania had tried to assist with the Holocaust

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