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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 5h

I think the fundamental problem with the entire ‘it’s a construct’ form of social criticism is that we live our entire lives within a restricted scale. We can only exist within this ‘construct.’ Quantum mechanics and the extremities of gravity which produce black holes are functionally irrelevant.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 6h

The difficult part here is narcissists are chameleons. They can easily hang among all of this provided they can play the part of ‘hero.’ But as age comes for us all and the time comes to settle down a bit or there’s even been a success, they’ll bail, or push for an even more extreme conflict.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 6h

They aren’t threatened by trans people or pronouns or folks doing their psychological therapy through public performances or group expressions of solidarity. They are threatened by the emotional depth being explored and expressed in these things.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 6h

They aren’t threatened by trans people or pronouns or folks doing their psychological therapy through public performances or group expressions of solidarity. They are threatened by the emotional depth being explored and expressed in these things.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

We are living through a time of great stress but it’s important to remember this has been entirely manufactured. There was no outside circumstance which caused this. We were at the height of US/world stability despite a few persistent conflicts. Narcissists just can’t handle peace and prosperity.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

His Israel peace plan won’t come to anything of substance.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

If your core coping mechanism is finding the silver lining, you’ve probably been doing ok emotionally and come from a long line of people successfully leveraging this strategy (it is among the best in my opinion). But I’m afraid Trump is going to reveal even this has limits. No silver lining here.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

If your core coping mechanism is finding the silver lining, you’ve probably been doing ok emotionally and come from a long line of people successfully leveraging this strategy (it is among the best in my opinion). But I’m afraid Trump is going to reveal even this has limits. No silver lining here.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

We can see this in the behavior of the DSA, for instance. One time heroes such as AOC are jettisoned in favor of ideological purity. Also in the labor movement, which was not started by leftists despite popular imagination. Instead, major unions stepped up to support Trump, to make this distinction.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

Under times of stress people generally revert to their core instincts. Ideologies generally tend to make resolutions around their original intent. Where things came from becomes very important, how positions evolved away from their inception during generally more peaceful times quickly fall away.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 7h

Under times of stress people generally revert to their core instincts. Ideologies generally tend to make resolutions around their original intent. Where things came from becomes very important, how positions evolved away from their inception during generally more peaceful times quickly fall away.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

Commercial AI really does seem to exist outside of any real market feedback at all.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

PSA:

Pointing out that something is a social construct has never once changed anyone's behavior about that thing

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s fair to say that we are either on the precipice of no longer practicing market theory at all, or have already plunged off the cliff. I think this is what Marx really meant by the term ‘capitalism.’ But you know, we’ve been here before, so I don’t really go for that ‘late stage’ theory.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I was raised on the idea that a market represented a system which included negative feedback, a poor product meant poor sales which meant you had to stop selling it or go under. But from my viewpoint, it really looks like enough wealth has been consolidated to overcome any negative feedback.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I was raised on the idea that a market represented a system which included negative feedback, a poor product meant poor sales which meant you had to stop selling it or go under. But from my viewpoint, it really looks like enough wealth has been consolidated to overcome any negative feedback.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

Owning almost everything isn’t enough or satisfying for these people. They need ownership to mean they can literally just lift a finger and punch a button and some automated system will do everything. This is all just for vanity.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

AI power demand is forcing a coal revival. Jefferies sees more than 30% rally in one such stock

Long viewed as part of the "old economy," coal is now exacting revenge by taking market share from fuels like natural gas that displaced it.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

Which wing is that? The people shouting genocide Joe and refusing to vote for Harris? Are we sure those folks are actually a wing of the Democratic Party? Because they seem like just a bunch of crazy people, not terrorists, and certainly not dyed in the wool Dems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

But of course, the automobile industry wasn’t launched by private equity, which amounts to a massive slush fund. It was started by people that needed that investment to pan out, otherwise they’d go under. So the cars generally worked as described.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

If at the dawn of the automobile industry 95% of cars had constant maintenance problems to the point that it would have been easier for people to just keep using horses, we’d still be using horses today.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I have to circle back to this, 95% is a big number so I imagine many (probably most) of these companies are also backed by private equity. It’s entirely a bubble. As I said before, many business no longer exist to offer products or services, but to run these experiments for investment firms.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I have to circle back to this, 95% is a big number so I imagine many (probably most) of these companies are also backed by private equity. It’s entirely a bubble. As I said before, many business no longer exist to offer products or services, but to run these experiments for investment firms.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to our friend Chomsky, I learned that libertarian is a term invented by socialists, fun fact! Also yes, I agree with Plato, tyranny and slavery are symptoms of too much liberty concentrated among only a few. Liberalism isn’t perfect, nothing is, but I’d take liberals over communists any day.

Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 1d

lmao liberals are doing "actually the defeat of slavery was due to libertarians" now

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Xavier Horatio Xinicit 🎉 @xinicit.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone can have a little crash out as a treat

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

The communists were obviously very high among the concerns of the founders.

Giddy Gobo @oldheadsz.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech is when you suspect the communist will win an election if it is held fairly, so you prod your puppets in that state to refuse to hold an election and start a massive war killing as many peasants and workers as possible. See Vietnam Elections Geneva-Accord.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

You understand that the original conception was that ethnicity and religion were both just insidious structures, or no?

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, most of today’s progressivism is from those eras.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

People generally seem to think progressives first became a thing in the 1970s, or even 90s.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

People generally seem to think progressives first became a thing in the 1970s, or even 90s.