Bug creature @JohnHMcWhorter

All of them are already in Lula’s coalition. Lots of outright rightists, too. Lula’s coalition is one of the broadest fronts in the history of broad fronts. And still getting crushed into minority.

as the collapse of the pink tide countries of latin america into the fold of us backed reaction demonstrates, social democracy is an ineffective hedge against fascism and imperialism

Lula's trajectory has so many important lessons for U.S. social democrats that I am all but certain not a single one of them will pay a lick of attention to.

NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN: "...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."

The end game for commercial genAI music is to create an infinite stream of personalized music. People who use Suno only listen to their own creations, and stop engaging with music off-platform. Total alienation from shared culture.

People who don't listen to music: "AI is going to replace all music" People who don't read: "AI is going to replace literature" People with no friends: "AI will replace all relationships" People who don't practice law: "AI will replace all lawyers" Do any of you do anything

I am not joking when I say this. Traveling is over. Google Street View is now very, very good. You just don’t know yet because all the street views you’ve seen are from 2-3 generations ago. Google Street View has solved infinite personalized travel.

"In adjusting to the mad whole the cured patient becomes really sick—which is not to imply that the uncured are any healthier." Adorno

It's not my fault your hope relies entirely on one person getting into office and doing what politicians with far more leverage couldn't do in Congress. It's not even hope about what you will do or about what the working class will do. It's hope that someone will do it for you.

RT @BRASILWIRE: Breaking: US company Meta has, without explanation, disabled Lula’s Instagram and Facebook profiles’ ability to run ads, 10…

abyss and mistaken it for salvation. He is not even here, but crawling around down below, broken like one of Beckett’s figures that so enraged him....I prefer my rickety luxury hotel. Its luxury, however, consists of nothing other than expressing the most extreme negativity." TWA

that would make israel’s genocide in gaza equivalent to 10,000 9/11s so long as we’re following netanyahu’s rule of proportional 9/11s

that people are taking issue with this is baffling to me. Reflective verbs like “wanting” and “feeling” and even “thinking” imply to most people that there is an experience associated with AI being. If that’s true, show it, don’t smuggle the belief in through convenient language

Even if you read Adorno myopically as if he weren’t a dialectician, as if his critiques of jazz, Stravinsky, etc. did not follow from his critique of advanced musical production as “not exempt from the ubiquitous rule of reification”—in other words, even if you read the jazz>

This is absolutely true. The pedagogical ‘common sense’ that lectures are bad, that assigned readings should not be challenging, that teachers must ‘meet students where they are at’ rather than helping them to cross distance, is an unfortunate misconception of a good education.