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Sam Altman: Advancing AI may require "changes to the social contract." "The entire structure of society will be up for debate and reconfiguration."

The Guardian has published an open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, signed by Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, Walden Bello, among others. These are not people to be dismissed lightly. Several have given their lives to the anti-imperialist and Black liberation movements, and one of them is writing from inside a US prison. I take no pleasure in disagreeing with them. But the letter is wrong, and plays an objectively harmful role. Its central image is the “two blades of a scissors”: the Islamic Republic on one side, US and Israeli imperialism on the other, with the Iranian people crushed between them. It inserts a symmetry between the world’s major imperialist power and an anti-imperialist state that has never invaded another country, and which has stood consistently with the oppressed from Palestine to South Africa to Venezuela. The load-bearing phrase is this: “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism.” Exactly how “hollow” is Tehran’s anti-imperialism? 😵‍💫 For four decades, while almost every Arab government made its accommodation with Washington and Tel Aviv, Iran armed, funded and sustained the Palestinian resistance. It refused normalisation when the Abraham Accords put enormous inducements on the table. It has absorbed forty years of sanctions, assassinations of scientists, sabotaged infrastructure, and now an open war of aggression, rather than abandon that position. The states that normalised are not being bombed. Hollow anti-imperialism is a communiqué and a hashtag. Iran’s anti-imperialism has been measured in the blood of 168 Minab schoolgirls, in the bombing of its hospitals and oil depots. One can vehemently disagree with aspects of Iran’s domestic politics, but the question at hand is: where do we stand in the global struggle against imperialism? What side of the barricade are we on? Do we support a criminal war of aggression waged by the US and Israel, or we we support the resistance to that war? Do we support genocide in Gaza, or do we support the country that has been the Palestinian resistance’s most consistent ally for decades? This letter dissolves the distinction entirely. It asks us to refuse the choice. But in a war of aggression there is no third position available, because only one party benefits from your neutrality – and it’s not the party being bombed. The letter appears in a British newspaper, six months into a US-Israeli war, at the precise moment when Washington cannot win militarily and needs the political terrain softened. It recycles a familiar vocabulary – sham trials, systematic torture, the targeting of minorities – without sourcing, in the genre that has preceded and accompanied every single regime-change war. Whatever the signatories intended, that is the function it will serve: making the moral case for war. Angela Davis was imprisoned by a state that told the world she was a terrorist. Mumia Abu-Jamal is imprisoned by that state today. These are people who know exactly what happens when an empire manufactures the moral case for crushing its enemies. They would not have signed, half a century ago, a letter denouncing both blades of the scissors – COINTELPRO on one side and the Black Panther Party on the other. Progressive and anti-war forces have a duty to support Iran against war, sanctions, regime change plots and destabilisation.

This is why Mark Fisher is right when he argues that capitalist culture absorbs subversive movements and neutralizes them from within. Gangsta rap is one of the easiest genres to neutralize because it is itself a clear manifestation of “capitalist realism”, it depicts life in the ghetto while simultaneously expressing an aspiration to get rich and flaunt one’s wealth. Something far less common in more underground genres such as grunge, hardcore, or punk.

KRISTEN WELKER: Congressman Jolly says he is a capitalist. Would you call yourself a capitalist, or do you reject capitalism? ANGIE NIXON: I live in a capitalistic society. I’m a small-business owner. I like to make money. I don’t see what the problem is. I’m a capitalist who believes that we need some strong regulation.

Woke 1 WAS crazyyyy, Madame President

i’d rather be successful and advocate for the poor than be a broke trump booster advocating for the rich.

I feel like DSA forgot that the impetus for “defund the police” is that the police keep killing Black people. That’s still happening. That didn’t stop.

It's so fucking funny how profoundly unaffordable this hobby became virtually overnight if you didn't build a PC before 2025 lmfao.