alexander max
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sound detritus: http://linkfly.to/40124BekC35 research and writing: https://alexandermaxfine.weebly.com/research.html
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“You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States” — unless, of course, you’re a U.S. ally.
January 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States” — unless, of course, you’re a U.S. ally.
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We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
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what the fuck did I wake up to
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
what the fuck did I wake up to
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"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part IV) - Venezuelanalysis
The US blockade brought much suffering to Lake Maracaibo communities, but people responded and resisted by deepening their bonds of solidarity and cooperation.
venezuelanalysis.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
"The US wants our riches—our oil and minerals—but we defend our sovereignty"
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
- Luisana Antúnez, a resident of Venezuela's Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune. venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/f...
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The horrific bombing of Venezuela may have something to do with oil, mining and expansionism.
But I think the better explanation is that Duginesque "multipolarity" has gone from being a fringe, far Right geopolitics to, now, being the default geopolitical diagram of the broader Right.
But I think the better explanation is that Duginesque "multipolarity" has gone from being a fringe, far Right geopolitics to, now, being the default geopolitical diagram of the broader Right.
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
The horrific bombing of Venezuela may have something to do with oil, mining and expansionism.
But I think the better explanation is that Duginesque "multipolarity" has gone from being a fringe, far Right geopolitics to, now, being the default geopolitical diagram of the broader Right.
But I think the better explanation is that Duginesque "multipolarity" has gone from being a fringe, far Right geopolitics to, now, being the default geopolitical diagram of the broader Right.
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slopworld
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
slopworld
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youtu.be/3eAVNGevHTg?... channel posting late 90s Ecuadoran music videos good stuff
J.Q. y Sus Estrellas - Cumbia Del Viajero, La Santa, Amor Lejano, A La Ingrata, Sin Un Querer
YouTube video by Productores Independientes Canal Oficial
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
youtu.be/3eAVNGevHTg?... channel posting late 90s Ecuadoran music videos good stuff
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Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
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The history of Marxist thought has been a struggle between those who want it to be a rich, expanding and empirically informed intellectual project and those who want it to be a comfort blanket of Truths that spare them the trouble of thinking.
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The history of Marxist thought has been a struggle between those who want it to be a rich, expanding and empirically informed intellectual project and those who want it to be a comfort blanket of Truths that spare them the trouble of thinking.
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
weaponizedinformation.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/c...
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i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once
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Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
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September 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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So many misread Debord/D+G as saying that representation is all that matters, where as the whole point is that representation becomes a way to manage material relations without having to directly address them AS LONG AS everyone continues to reap rewards from representation and self-recognition
September 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So many misread Debord/D+G as saying that representation is all that matters, where as the whole point is that representation becomes a way to manage material relations without having to directly address them AS LONG AS everyone continues to reap rewards from representation and self-recognition
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Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this:
Also: this great inter-library loan (one of the world's treasures!) poster from my September visit to Macalester College
August 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reading about expanding threats to interlibrary loan (bc of Trump's IMLS cuts, tariffs, etc.) means I need to re-up this:
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In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'
Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.
www.columnblog.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
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“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out
Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.
www.ajc.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
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“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.”
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
Moore’s Law eat your heart out. Jesus.
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Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.
Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran.
This is unspeakable evil.
archive.ph/PA2n5
This is unspeakable evil.
archive.ph/PA2n5
July 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.
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This piece on the humanities and AI is interesting. But I struggled with the text below, in which research is seen as the efficient extraction of what I already know I want. For me, the point of books is that they’re not ‘customized’ — their quirkiness is a feature, not a bug. tinyurl.run/cwxDSr
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This piece on the humanities and AI is interesting. But I struggled with the text below, in which research is seen as the efficient extraction of what I already know I want. For me, the point of books is that they’re not ‘customized’ — their quirkiness is a feature, not a bug. tinyurl.run/cwxDSr
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I am supposed to be writing questions for a discussion of the ethics of AI for a university panel. I keep coming back to the same question, given the ecological, social, and psychic cost of relying on AI, how can anyone who is serious about anything resembling an ethics actually support this stuff?
June 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am supposed to be writing questions for a discussion of the ethics of AI for a university panel. I keep coming back to the same question, given the ecological, social, and psychic cost of relying on AI, how can anyone who is serious about anything resembling an ethics actually support this stuff?
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these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
June 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
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The typical profile for this kind of political violence:
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
June 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The typical profile for this kind of political violence:
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
• White, middle-aged man with a history of failed (often quixotic) business ventures.
• Tendency towards grandiosity "stolen valor" claims
• Steeped in online extremist milieu
• Recent stressors: bakruptcy, breakup, death of a parent
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tense scene at the salvation army
June 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tense scene at the salvation army