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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026

i haven't kept up with it, but my guess is 1) anti-trump (curveball), 2) takes some of current UK fascist thought, but resists some other, 3) the idiosyncratic elements are utterly reprehensible.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 04/10/2026

yes. it shows (again) how much accusation in a mirror are the tactics of anti-DEI, fascists,etc. supposedly, "woke" society was tyrannized by marginalized people's feelings, but the truth is that everything is about the abuser/oppressor's feelings. DEI is about material conditions, justice, life.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 04/10/2026

a tricky dynamic that just so happens to benefit the people who fall into it.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 04/10/2026

and of course now that so many have publicly / interpersonally used 'woke' as a pejorative, the accompanying shame for remotely compassionate white people will keep most from owning it and learning. so, instead of taking accountability, they'll punish others for their own discomfort.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

i am the same, and i appreciate your comments(:. i do hate that this makes me suspect that the marketing strategy *was good*, because they correctly thought "dngaf about ppl like [me], they'll find out anyway." i like a clever bait and switch, i hate a ruthless but well targeted ad.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

yes, to let out some of my real film buff-ness, the comments above about tom cruise being generous in the riz ahmed scenes made me think "well yeah of course, everyone says cruise is a very generous actor." and i didn't even see the director, i'd checked out so hard from the trailer!

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

damn, the makers of the trailer didn't do it any favors! sell me riz ahmed film with unstable reality and i'll buy it. sell me zany tom cruise as a billionaire with a lot of lebowski energy, i'm sitting out!

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

yes, i'm sure there are scenarios he finds himself in where the cruelty is the point... but what he and his ilk are doing in govt, there are extremely important to articulate goals they have and plans to do them. (gets very sad, ineffectually mentions that they were written and published:( )

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

at this point i can even recognize the feeling where it's going wrong, because my response is less "(elaborate logical explication of "i know you know what i mean, i know you know what you said is nonsense)" and more "😳 what's happening, what's wrong with you 😳." and if it's hostile, yeah, lose it.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

i'm trying very hard to cultivate tolerance for people giving answers that, to me, very obviously don't address my questions. i've always had tolerance for that if it's socially clear that the person isn't engaging with me... but when they're ostensibly earnest, sparks go off in my brain.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 01/10/2026

"most experts acknowledge" (nodding seriously) yeah, cool, yeah

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

move the debate forward to "can Twitch chat be art?"

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

(democrat, soaked in rain and tears) "I vow, on this day, to use THIS $5000 to bring my sacred cabal back to power, and to crush freedom, family, and christ... forever."

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

and the attempts are so embarrassing. i scroll down, "popular movies" "drama films" etc, and it's the same 5 things i've watched in the last 2 months, ranging from stuff from the 1930s to recent releases, etc. the labels are meaningless, and the algorithms transparently bad.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

"i'm not interested in hunting down your library, nor am i interested in watching game of thrones exclusively. i don't actually want to be an expert on varieties of plunger, i do want to be reminded that people and other useful things exist at the hardware store."

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

it's interesting. obviously, consumerism as a concept is a lot of what's wrong with amazon...AND hyper efficient "instant availability" actually kind of sucks for consumerism. like "i used to have 20 channels curated by some rando, now i have 3 streaming whose algorithms pump 2 shows each. worse."

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

im glad most of the people i follow are posting intelligent, informed, empathetic things about SA. also, think it's time for a social media break due to SA infinite scroll. take care of yourselves everyone.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

metoo, but at the end there isn't any patriarchy.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

i think scanning people's posts looking for stuff to call out is dogpiling. QT of a reply is FAFO at worst, *just normal replying to someone* usually. if you don't want someone's followers seeing your post, why are you *replying* to them? im like, too ND to understand it even tho i do basically.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

"i wanted to just say weird shit, I didn't think you would read it and respond." why?

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

personally, i think it's bizarre when someone rolls up out of nowhere to tell a "big account" "you're wrong!" and then gets mad because quote means "sending your followers after me." seems like noncensual discipline kink or just loser internet acting out attention ploy. if i post im fine w/ a reply.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 30/09/2026

this is a perfect insight. i hope to never think of "digger" again, but this joke is just right.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

bc of course i'm not above some embarrassing thing (not that all "recognition" is embarrassing, but you know, like "i like this bc i feel cooler than blabla"), but WHN and your other work stand up IMO. i can't fully define why, bc you have an interesting voice and actually use it. i love it. /4

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

you *wanted*, you (actual you, max graves) could interpret that exciting thing as "bland recognition" or "cis exoticization" or all sorts of deflated things, but i'm fairly sure it's just "original art." "there's something here." i always feel it in the best films or books. i'll interrogate it 3/

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

i've been in love with the comic for years now, and i don't give a shit about being on the right team, showing people my team, etc. it's clear right away that something exciting is happening, "i don't get this from other work," which sets up the more legibly good aspects (e.g. jokes). like, if 2/

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

i mean, i'm sure there are people that come to (and even stay with) WHN for that reason, because people can be stupid...but even those people, i think, are also carried further by the interesting storytelling, POV/voice that's simultaneously cagey and clear. people don't know why they like things 1/

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

said loved one is a long time librarian and literally an expert on educating about resources and helping people learn and contextualize those resources into their lives.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

my loved one's extended family have a shared property that that they want to schedule visits and maintenance for. said loved one made a Google calendar expressly for this, made videos and sent explainers throughout the family. instantly, people scheduled on top of each other, etc etc. it's normal.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

i am a creature of the early internet, so i've already spent down my entire adversarial debate budget.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

(that said, post policing is already losing the plot; the point is just that it's fine to not spend all day figuring out how to gently tell someone who is not engaging in good faith, "here is how you are not engaging in good faith." it's certainly not transphobic)

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

dismissive is appropriate too. the initial reply, "well if you try it it's good at dialects" completely disregards that the whole critique included "i am a sociologist who has seen this fail in AI literacy classes, it doesn't work." replying the former to the latter is pretty disrespectful.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

not coincidental that this same dynamic also holds true for automating corporate work with AI.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

speaking as someone working in infosec, studied cryptography, trained in formal logic and philosophy of language, and been necessarily in psychoanalysis for several years: it's interesting how the core drive in strategy is often "eliminate trust." "eliminate the need for trust." maybe you can't(:

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

tech companies anthropomorphize AI agents to deflect responsibility. if they succeed, they can sell "agent that drops a bomb (it wasn't you)" and "agent that surveils employee (it wasn't you)" and "agent that violates GDPR (it wasn't you)," etc etc. this is kind of "1st thing to realize" here.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

(n.b. i know ppl brush it off bc theyre racists and they can't understand racist speech concerns people not "culture wars" or something, but it's still... like, think for even a second)

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

when people brush that kind of thing off, or get all cavalier like "that's the price of free speech," i feel like, who are you? in almost every other circumstance, if i go somewhere and ppl are like "you should die, I'll kill you!" i take that as *really bad*. but if typed into a computer, nbd? ???

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

its funny actually... "wittgensteins problem with the platonist" is, pretty much exhaustively, why W is important at all. when i say im a Wittgensteinian, i mean precisely and only that i agree with his objection to platonism. it's rich enough to be a big deal (:. I'll stop, apologies again wordy

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

that article is engaging with "kripkenstein" , kripke's characteristically exegetically bad but decently interesting take on some stuff in PInvestigations, but the Finkelstein article moreso functions to unpack what W thinks his imagined "platonist" gets wrong, which basically just is "the later W"

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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language - Wikipedia

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

sorry for so many replies as well, but this article always struck me as a precise unpacking of what later W is doing: it's nothing mysterious, nor is it truth by committee or pushing formal questions back into sociology. hes saying all language is embedded in forms of life, its role its meaning.

humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

anyway, it's "anthropological" because W realized that the "logical form" question really is only applicable to a subset of utterances, and that understanding the gesture involves correctly grasping what the doer is trying to do, and further that even that might not be needed on the listener's part

from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Wikipedia article: "The American philosopher Norman Malcolm credits Piero Sraffa with helping Wittgenstein's break away from the notion that a proposition must literally function as a picture of reality. According to Malcolm, this shift was prompted by a rude gesture from Sraffa, who then asked Wittgenstein, "What is the logical form of that?"[5] In the Introduction of Philosophical Investigations, written in 1945, Wittgenstein acknowledged Sraffa: "for many years unceasingly practiced on my thoughts. I am indebted to this stimulus for the most consequential ideas in this book".[6]"

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

too big a topic for bsky microblogging but yeah, there's entire worlds of philosophy that equally claim plato etc that the EA / analytics just ignore (though that tradition speaks to numerous "paradoxes" theyre stuck on in their view from nowhere)

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

as a consequence, he's able to really lean into his intuition that there's no weird abstraction world providing language+people formal means to communicate, but he gets to keep his cagey "if we can't speak it, it's mysterious" intuition (tho he stops talking about it). also, no actual infinities:)

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

the radical departure (from Frege / Russell and lots lf their followers) is to not privilege truth functional statements as some kind of base form for language, and think of language as things people do bc they know the rules of living with others (and the rules change with the reasons for rules)

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

later W's whole thing is that meaning is use, and therefore understanding meaning is being involved. early W takes on the same "meaning is truth conditions" of Frege and later, but later W realizes the context providing conditions for truth (or command etc) always come from local human context.

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e (they/them) @handle.invalid · 27/09/2026

i felt this all the way back to the daily show w jon stewart in the bush years. like, i get you're trying to inform normies, but i'd rather spend my time doing the stuff these villains are trying to erase, not sitting around laughing and praising myself for seeing how bad they are. + smug isnt cool.

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