Mutual A
@mutual-a.bsky.social
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✨i'm in my pop front era ✨ i write things to change minds. anarcho-spreadsheetist. learning the hard way, but at least im learning. doordash driver for my sins https://wedontagree.net/ 📍 AUS
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mutual-a.bsky.social
i started writing a book last year on the history of leftist scientists, technologists, hackers etc and then trump got elected so i compressed what i saw as the most important points into this essay and now its done and you can read it

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Technically Radical
Over 2024, we saw major tech investors and company owners overtly turn toward the right, overtly backing Donald Trump in his electoral campaign. This group of individuals, which commentators have take...
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mutual-a.bsky.social
"an ai girlfriend/boyfriend that actually has standards, call that a finite date machine"
mutual-a.bsky.social
funniest thing is people on /r/conspiracy are like "hmmm erica kirk isn't acting like a grieving window is this evidence of something 🤔"
mutual-a.bsky.social
"oh sorry you blossomed into a general intelligence? you become a scrambler"
mutual-a.bsky.social
this includes stronger AI btw
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aelkus.bsky.social
so I think the issue is what kind of machine do we want a liberal state to field? It really is clear to me from the "Reactionary Modernism" book that the Jungerian notion of soldier-machine cannot be allowed to survive
mutual-a.bsky.social
you gotta pitch this conflict as the premise to a light novel to someone
mutual-a.bsky.social
going to embrace the theory that llms and only llms are conscious
mutual-a.bsky.social
the unholy alliance of earth first direct actionists, chinese manufacturers and ESG accountants...
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
one half of energy transition going well. gotta get on the breaking fossil capital part...
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
mutual-a.bsky.social
i just went to /r/hungary and the most upvoted post was of a "banned" pride parade
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iwriteok.bsky.social
welcome to the Resistance, psychotically violent fascists who tear gas children
mutual-a.bsky.social
lol no. jahed is a good friend of mine tho
mutual-a.bsky.social
i wonder what the graph looks like in a world where covid doesnt happen
mutual-a.bsky.social
i think it explains quite a bit as to the mythology of figures like elon, see the beginning of the chapter on Wired Magazine
mutual-a.bsky.social
have you looked at From Cyberculture to Counterculture by fred turner or The Computer Boys Take Over by nathan ensmenger?
mutual-a.bsky.social
roderick long playing the *ahem* long game
lopatto.bsky.social
I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???
davidjbier.bsky.social
These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign
mutual-a.bsky.social
sorry the discourse is unaligned and unstoppable
mutual-a.bsky.social
more seriously, i could actually see you getting a position doing data analysis and eventually becoming an overworked manager at a serious NGO or activist org
mutual-a.bsky.social
particularly because there's an entirely different aesthetic associated with trumpism! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-L...
Mar-a-Lago face - Wikipedia
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mutual-a.bsky.social
basically a significant amount of the cost of the expensive phone made entirely in the US is downstream of security concerns being priced in