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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 14h

this dynamic (from brown's "in the ruins of neoliberalism") will get super-charged by AI...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we already have the axis powers present in south america in kast, fujimori and milei...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this is great. very happy that the ny times is giving space in their magazine to max read. loved the ian hacking reference: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...

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How Everything Became Gambling

It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

and yet, he can't grow any hair on his head...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

just as fascism was taking root around the globe during the era of lázaro cardenas, so mexico remains a beacon for the left today...

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if LATAM was (perhaps) the point of the spear for the introduction of authoritarian neoliberalism in the 1970s, it is once again at the vanguard for the new fascist surge that is at the fore globally

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it makes the mexican example all the more striking, tbh

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

just been mulling this over recently. honestly haven't been paying enough attention to it this year, but has been a region i've lived in and followed off and on for most of my adult life. and there are a bunch of basic reasons why LATAM would be so receptive to (essentially) fascist movements

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

is latin america the most successful example of the democratic far-right take over of government? any other region come close?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@lioneltrolling.bsky.social you might enjoy this piece. interesting contribution to the fascism debate

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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 05/10/2026

This. Anthropic fucked up on the _process_ and they get no sympathy from me, but a hell of a lot of people here seem to think that it's self-evident that summarizing a text into weights in a model is a violation of copyright and boy oh boy do I not think that's self-evident at _all_.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing all these right wing governments take over everywhere gives me the opposite impression. that trump might have still gone on to become president even had he lost in 2016

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

listening to "know your enemy" and them declaring 2016 "the fork in the road moment" for global politics as it relates to the rise of right wing movements, because it allowed others to see "oh wow this could work" seems very naive and not at all how things actually work

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

why not let the second round happen before declaring this a fait accompli?

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah, i was also thinking if it was something that is already an issue where he is truly unpopular with the public (like the iran war or something like that), it could work

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

do you *have* to impeach or else it sets a precedent that this level of corruption and illegality can go on without action from congress or does three failed attempts at impeachment cheapen it as a tool?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah, i really don't know what the politics of impeachment are at this point. does it publicize the wrongdoings of the president or just sound like partisan bickering that people tune-out

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

bolsonaro, kast, and fujimori is a real murderer's row of nepo coup babies

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's crackpot, but hey, so is trying to start tiny fringe groups that will grow and never be snuffed out by states whenever they feel threatened

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

so, the (fanciful) theory of action would be to reach power throughout the major states and begin implementing anarchism at the internaional level

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

that's where you have the best conditions to actually implement a theory of non-coercive, non-hierarchical, non-state (as in world government) system

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ironically, if i were an anarchist i think the place i would try to start to implement my vision is not at the small-scale local level but at the international state level

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God this shit was cool as fuck

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there is always the possibility for error (as there is for human error when i do this data collection), which requires me to double check a subset of them. but it has made my life soooo much easier at work thanks to this technology.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i will just input a spreadsheet into AI with the columns that need to be filled in and it fills them in for me by scouring through the internet for that information. it gives me notes along the way telling me which ones it is less sure about.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

concrete example: part of my work involves soliciting grants which require incredibly burdensome data collection on people who have participated in any grant-funded activity (their current job, position, email address, research output, etc.). i have to do this for like over a hundred individuals.

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

what are these people talking about? the whole point of AI is it gets past the need to go through technical training in coding and allow you to generate extremely intricate code using regular language. you don't have to "go create a model", that's the point!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

umm...you literally type into it what you would like it to do and it does it?

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the *only* reason people quibble with these figures is essentially because of the politics that have accompanied it

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the fact that this is coinciding with like depression-era style politics is completely befuddling

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

plenty of caveats about labor force participation and potential measurement issues, but like, it's truly wild

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

labor market too has been on a truly historic run. remember when economists thought that 5% was the floor for unemployment? well, we've had almost 10 straight years of under 5% unemployment (with the exception of 2020-21 pandemic) and wage growth is also doing historic stuff

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i'm saying "real" because the covid blip was bad, but insanely short and way more tied to the pandemic than any actual economic conditions

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

wild that we haven't had a real recession in almost 20 years...

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Ryan Dahn @ryandahn.com · 02/10/2026

It was a pleasure editing this article, which details how the Nixon administration's assault on science eerily parallels that of Trump 2.0—even using the same administrative entity, the Office of Management and Budget, to axe funding. Check it out at @physicstoday.aip.org!

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on the bright side, it's good that all these coded terms like "high-trust society" and "cultural cohesion"--which you would see thrown around a lot by pretty prestigious empirical social scientists during much of the 2000s and 2010s--are now rightly being associated with racists and eugenicists

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i see it as a commentary on a society drowning in archives, books, written word that is mostly just gathering dust

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hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

one fascinating trend i have noticed in recent literature (and movies), especially in latin america, is the incorporation of archeology and archival research as an integral part of the story (and the writing style). examples include the work of valeria luiselli and cristina rivera garza

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 01/10/2026

Don't miss this amazing analysis from the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. AI is the biggest infrastructure capital investment in American history. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a pillar of fascist aesthetics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_va...

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Ruin value - Wikipedia

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