Reposted by afrelekGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president 4629128
Reposted by afrelekAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9552803260
Reposted by afrelek👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming 17708235
Reposted by afrelekSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comAbsolute CinemaAlt: Absolute Cinema 351130185
Reposted by afrelekJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401522709
Reposted by afrelekRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026Computerisation is invisibilisation and precarisation of labour part 49462 094
Reposted by afrelekCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨New Paper🚨 From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School Jacob Blumenfeld In: Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South–North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present (2026) PDF: philpapers.org/rec/BLUFST 36817
Reposted by afrelekRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632621550
Reposted by afrelek👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026None of these features is mere sloppiness, they're all symptoms of the way genAI works: the 3rd eye is added to the established pattern of a human face the model cannot deviate from; the Roman Empire is what «antiquity» means in a latent space derived from Hollywood epics: a costume, not an epoch … 47312
Reposted by afrelekQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 13/09/2026Percentage-based forecasts of AI doomsday—like prediction markets and betting lines shifting in chyrons across sports matches—are unprovable expressions of scientism that still create potentially lucrative angles for those uttering and tracking them. 16516
Reposted by afrelekWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage: 1082733836
Reposted by afrelekRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026I still can’t deal with the fact that we live in a timeline that seems to have been written by a first semester gender studies student trying their hand at some bonkers masculinity-themed horror story 314826
Reposted by afrelekDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Here's The Times trying to make masked fascists look good while one *does a Nazi salute in the story's cover photo* 1321066
Reposted by afrelekSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...samf.substack.comSovereignty for saleTech monopolies and the future of the nation state 32589282
Reposted by afrelekRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026I am so so so surprised that it turns out the plagiarism machine’s most „exciting“ research results that had mathematicians fear for their profession turn out to have been plagiarised 14715
Reposted by afrelekQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 06/09/2026State symbiosis www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...nbcnews.comSpaceX and other rocket companies may soon be exempt from key environmental rulesThe FAA wants to waive some environmental review requirements for space companies. Critics worry they won’t be held accountable for harming property or ecosystems. 69650
Reposted by afrelekMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Incredible that they've recreated stagflation through a Middle East energy crisis from the seminal 1970s historical lesson, Don't Create Stagflation Through a Middle East Energy Crisis, It Will Destroy Your Presidency and Political Movement. 15598131
Reposted by afrelekWim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes, but neither was 1.5 with overshoot. If we just stick to what is politically/economically realistic, we might as well forget about the PA goals. The task has always been to do whatever we can to move the goalposts on what is realistic, and make the impossible not so. All else is inadequate. 163
Reposted by afrelekSimon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026all your faschismustheorien are lacking if they do no register that fascism promises cuddling huge rabbits in front of fantasy cathedrals 1726740
Reposted by afrelekCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026REVEALED: #BigTech and #BigOil are teeming up to push new gas-powered #datacentres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emissions, worsening the climate crisis' deadly impacts. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...corporateeurope.orgA deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe ObservatoryBig Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis... 55748
Reposted by afrelekJaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 31/08/2026An excellent thread on a new - seemingly coordinated – wave of German disinformation regarding EVs versus internal combustion engines. (And on how ‘Europe’s best university’ is not doing enough to uphold its academic credentials; with a non-public and non-peer reviewed whitepaper as ‘source’) 47427
afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Can I get some reading material recommendations for a syllabus on 20th century political philosophy? I want it to skew towards contemporary questions. Curious what others would put in, especially re democracy, ruling class, fascism and the capitalist state. Recognizable names probably (meh obv) 100
Reposted by afrelekBrett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"But, but, they have REALLY high EV penetration..!"ft.com‘Drill, baby, drill’ rings out in NorwayScandinavian country looks to double down on oil and gas despite EU green rhetoric 13814
Reposted by afrelekSimon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Its disconcerting that the public encounters a "race realist" for the first time. Things like this have been standard online talk for over a decade, nerdy versions of richard spencer abound. Yarvin used to crank that handle 67520
Reposted by afrelekStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas. 231591315
Reposted by afrelekflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You can’t understand it unless you recognise: the people doing it *loved it*, they had an absolute blast, just as they always do kicking fuck out of some despised unperson, until suddenly all their fun was ruined and they were left babbling excuses. 131758304
Reposted by afrelekOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to 182253744
Reposted by afrelekDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026Tech guys: why do they hate us & our data centers so much? Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!heatmap.newsNvidia Backs OpenAI’s Plan to Build America’s Biggest Power PlantOn Belgium’s fire, African oil, and the Philippines’ trash 20508156
Reposted by afrelekAndrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...historians.orgHow Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHAWriting is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words. 181039336
Reposted by afrelekJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake. 711238656
afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026psychoanalytic theory peers: does anyone have any writings to recommend on the subject of the relation between neuropsychiatry's findings re the biological dimension of mental illness and the non-biological dimension pertinent to psychoanalysis (aside from the well-known, ie Solms etc)? 211
Reposted by afrelekJudith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The thing that people (incl journalists) seem to willingly ignore is that 'right wing' (witch hunt or whatever else) includes you if you behave like it. These are not labels that are conferred onto 'others'. They become 'you' the moment you act like them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh MuirAmid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion 15514
Reposted by afrelekM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One of your writers was specifically told of Jason’s mental health and that he was distressed but he went on to publish 6 articles and do two podcasts in the space of eleven days anyway. “We were only doing our jobs” won’t fucking wash. You are part of this. Own it. 12804225
afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026An addition: I think the overlap between this population and the AI-bros lies precisely in the hatred of intellectual work that involves frustration of the peculiar type inherent to deep work with textual sources. It’s the command “explain Deleuze to me or I’ll fucking kill you” directed at an LLM 110
Reposted by afrelekRicarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026Die Hitzeschutzstrategie der Bundesregierung: Herbst. 1393925872
Reposted by afreleklastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Shilling your book off a bloke's suicide is just so classless wtf, is he not rich enough already!? Bring back shame. 3377398
afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One of the funnier things about the right-wing hysteria spotted here and there about the humanities piece is that they constantly end up in positions were they level their favorite accusations of “jargon” and “babble” and concepts that are often more than a century old and not at all left in origin 111
afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026As an ex-music maker/writer I find it kind of amazing that you can have dated Grimes, have your own AI and unending resources, and still only be capable of prompting up the most lukewarm clap-and-stomp mid-2010’s car commercial slop music for your narcissistic FMV 100
Reposted by afrelekOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/ 253675799
Reposted by afrelekTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742421100
Reposted by afrelekSimon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I'd go harder: the "deformed public sphere" (habermas) that social media have produced is not about "whats normal or acceptable", but has warped the political in general into an reactionary mode that produces fascist superlatives en masse and as a rule. 24519
Reposted by afrelekSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026(this is what Pete Hegseth and con Army guys genuinely believes, btw - primarily over COVID) 714110
Reposted by afrelekBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Counterdisinformation done correctly looks partisan because it has to be. You can't debunk a weaponized narrative intended to create a permission structure to kill off vulnerable people by being nice 6552176
Reposted by afrelekChristina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 14/08/2026When right wing & proto-fascist propaganda and campaigns started for real in the 2010ths in Germany, I said that the media & especially political journalists lack professional training, intellectual understanding & above all the will to bring themselves up to speed with what is happening. 110225
Reposted by afrelekThe Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340... 15322
Reposted by afrelekDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“AI-driven productivity gains in the oil and gas industry will substantially increase global emissions, according to a report led by two former Microsoft employees, outweighing any potential gains from clean energy.” www.ft.com/content/8f16...ft.comAI will boost oil and gas production more than green energy, report findsDebate over tech impact on greenhouse gas emissions stoked by latest study 37753