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@afrelek.bsky.social
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doing critical theory of the domination of nature | PhD @ Laboratory of Environmental Sociology of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences flashes acc @lnskx.bsky.social

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google 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.
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👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI #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
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Absolute Cinema
Alt: Absolute Cinema
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI 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...
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‘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."
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026
Computerisation is invisibilisation and precarisation of labour part 49462
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Cominsitu @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
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 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
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👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
None 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 …
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 13/09/2026
Percentage-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.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
I 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
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's The Times trying to make masked fascists look good while one *does a Nazi salute in the story's cover photo*
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This 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...
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Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
I 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
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 06/09/2026
State symbiosis www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...
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SpaceX and other rocket companies may soon be exempt from key environmental rules
The FAA wants to waive some environmental review requirements for space companies. Critics worry they won’t be held accountable for harming property or ecosystems.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Incredible 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.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes, 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.
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
all your faschismustheorien are lacking if they do no register that fascism promises cuddling huge rabbits in front of fantasy cathedrals
tim pool tweeted zu trump. trump in goldener rüstung hält einen riesigen hasen und kuschelt mit ihm.
der text: "You'll never know want or loneliness again." Trump said. "The world was cruel to you, but you have Trump now."
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026
REVEALED: #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...
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A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe Observatory
Big 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...
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 31/08/2026
An 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’)
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afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can 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)
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"But, but, they have REALLY high EV penetration..!"
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‘Drill, baby, drill’ rings out in Norway
Scandinavian country looks to double down on oil and gas despite EU green rhetoric
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Karl Kraus, 1922
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Its 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
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Stephen 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.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You 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.
The News Agents • @thenewsagents... • 6m
"It was used by The Times newspaper as paid-for ads to get people to click and subscribe.
"Was it necessary to humiliate Jason Arday, which was done in the full glare of public view? At times it felt like a full-blown witch hunt and moral panic"
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#booksky
Can't believe we're at the stage of dystopia where we're destroying old books because Tim from corporate can't write his own emails.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I 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
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Tech 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?!
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Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Plan to Build America’s Biggest Power Plant
On Belgium’s fire, African oil, and the Philippines’ trash
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Andrea 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...
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How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing 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.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’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.
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afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
psychoanalytic 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)?
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The 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...
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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
Amid 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
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One 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.
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afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
An 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
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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Die Hitzeschutzstrategie der Bundesregierung: Herbst.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Shilling your book off a bloke's suicide is just so classless wtf, is he not rich enough already!? Bring back shame.
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afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One 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
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afrelek @afrelek.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As 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
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers 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/
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, 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.
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'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.
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Bevins is describing something very much like Henry Farrell's idea of "malformed publics" a more subtle formulation than the
'"misinformation" frame that suggests that the main toxicity of social media is not that can get you to believe lies or propaganda, but that it alters your notion of what's normal and acceptable to believe or say:
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
(this is what Pete Hegseth and con Army guys genuinely believes, btw - primarily over COVID)
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Counterdisinformation 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
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When 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.
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We'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...
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Dr. 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...
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AI will boost oil and gas production more than green energy, report finds
Debate over tech impact on greenhouse gas emissions stoked by latest study
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