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Russell Crowe as Göring still got that gas though.
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Russell Crowe as Göring still got that gas though.
Compare Zone of Interest: utterly impersonal, suffocatingly sterile, compositions of incomprehension that void you out from within. Only one of these is equal to what it's trying to do.
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Compare Zone of Interest: utterly impersonal, suffocatingly sterile, compositions of incomprehension that void you out from within. Only one of these is equal to what it's trying to do.
Forgot to mention the scene where Carol demands the electricity turned on for the entire, completely empty city so she can feel comfortable. This is how resource hoarding and gratuitous waste under colonialism works.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Forgot to mention the scene where Carol demands the electricity turned on for the entire, completely empty city so she can feel comfortable. This is how resource hoarding and gratuitous waste under colonialism works.
Anyway, latest episode has Carol driving the minority-beating mobile over to the black guy's newly declared zone of independence and then she gets upset when he politely implies that it would not be suitable for her to colonize his territory.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Anyway, latest episode has Carol driving the minority-beating mobile over to the black guy's newly declared zone of independence and then she gets upset when he politely implies that it would not be suitable for her to colonize his territory.
Also don't feel great about how the show's only(?) black character is effectively a serial rapist and slave owner? Like maybe don't do that. Seems bad.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Also don't feel great about how the show's only(?) black character is effectively a serial rapist and slave owner? Like maybe don't do that. Seems bad.
Feel like some of you wouldn't know a deliberately shitty character unless they turned to the camera and said "I am literally Adolf Hitler". And even then someone'd be like 'ok but did they go through trauma doe?'
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Feel like some of you wouldn't know a deliberately shitty character unless they turned to the camera and said "I am literally Adolf Hitler". And even then someone'd be like 'ok but did they go through trauma doe?'
[More spoilers] The show is also just kinda hilariously manipulative. Carol sucks so much that ecen at the end of the world, everyone avoids her(!!), but the show keeps parachuting in reasons to not give up on her. Oh the Plurbs eat people now? Oh Carol is ex-conversion therapy?
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
[More spoilers] The show is also just kinda hilariously manipulative. Carol sucks so much that ecen at the end of the world, everyone avoids her(!!), but the show keeps parachuting in reasons to not give up on her. Oh the Plurbs eat people now? Oh Carol is ex-conversion therapy?
The Plurbs, having had enough of Carol's imperialist arrogance, righteously engage in an act of delinking.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
What is delinking?
A crucial strategy for transformation in the 21st century.
jasonhickel.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The Plurbs, having had enough of Carol's imperialist arrogance, righteously engage in an act of delinking.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/what-is-de...
Claire Colebrook agrees with me
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Claire Colebrook agrees with me
Consider maybe that we ought to want dystopia for our enemies, actually.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Consider maybe that we ought to want dystopia for our enemies, actually.
If the fiction of dystopian fiction places a distance between the 'could-be' of the future and 'is' of the now, Hartman's temporal practice collapses past and present and leaves you beneath the rubble of both. I think maybe the future can only be thought on that condition.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If the fiction of dystopian fiction places a distance between the 'could-be' of the future and 'is' of the now, Hartman's temporal practice collapses past and present and leaves you beneath the rubble of both. I think maybe the future can only be thought on that condition.
The present is something to be sloughed off, not for the sake of *it's* future, but simply because it is intolerable in itself. No redemption: only - the slim chance of even recognising our irredeemability.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The present is something to be sloughed off, not for the sake of *it's* future, but simply because it is intolerable in itself. No redemption: only - the slim chance of even recognising our irredeemability.
She renders the present unbearable, suffocating. It sticks to you, like tar, ooze. The weight of past - which is not yet past - crushes all sense of capacity and renders you - not agent, but patient.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
She renders the present unbearable, suffocating. It sticks to you, like tar, ooze. The weight of past - which is not yet past - crushes all sense of capacity and renders you - not agent, but patient.
What's a different model here? Consider Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection. What does she do in that book? A: She establishes a radical *continuity* with the past of slavery and she refuses to let us believe we've moved past it.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What's a different model here? Consider Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection. What does she do in that book? A: She establishes a radical *continuity* with the past of slavery and she refuses to let us believe we've moved past it.
Or differently: dystopian fiction interpolates you as an *agent* of the present, imbued with capacity to make changes for and to the future. It invests you *in* this present, and works to bind you more tightly to it for the sake of *its* alternation.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Or differently: dystopian fiction interpolates you as an *agent* of the present, imbued with capacity to make changes for and to the future. It invests you *in* this present, and works to bind you more tightly to it for the sake of *its* alternation.
What twisted image of the present you must have to ignore the existing conditions of slavery and conjure for yourself an altered present where things are apparently worse? Worse for ~who~, exactly?
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
What twisted image of the present you must have to ignore the existing conditions of slavery and conjure for yourself an altered present where things are apparently worse? Worse for ~who~, exactly?
For the slave, masters trying to save the world as it is, and telling themselves little stories to motivate themselves is at best, a kind of dark humor. To be in chains and watch the man with the whip lament that if we don't ~do something now~ the world will end. Can you imagine?
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For the slave, masters trying to save the world as it is, and telling themselves little stories to motivate themselves is at best, a kind of dark humor. To be in chains and watch the man with the whip lament that if we don't ~do something now~ the world will end. Can you imagine?
A: It looks like masters trying to save themselves and their present so as to perpetuate it *better* than the current condition it's in. But what slave wants that? The slave doesn't ask for an improvement of this world, but for its *end*.
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A: It looks like masters trying to save themselves and their present so as to perpetuate it *better* than the current condition it's in. But what slave wants that? The slave doesn't ask for an improvement of this world, but for its *end*.
Because the idea is that you gotta save the present. Your present is broken in x, y, z ways, and you need to fix it. But - afropessimist hat on - what does dystopian fiction look like from the POV of the slave?
December 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Because the idea is that you gotta save the present. Your present is broken in x, y, z ways, and you need to fix it. But - afropessimist hat on - what does dystopian fiction look like from the POV of the slave?
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Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net