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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 11h

I would buy that! 🙂 Title? 🤔

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 12h

The net effect has been to reinforce the corporatist point of view that we all exist as functions within our corporations." p. 172 Unconscious Civilization share.google/OlNVdl8FNDon...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 12h

"The deconstructionists have argued against language as communication in order to get at the evils of rhetoric and propaganda. But if language is always self-interest, then there is no possibility of disinterest and therefore no possibility of the public good.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 13h

In 1767 lightning struck a Venetian church whose vaults were filled with gunpowder The explosion killed 3,000 people." p. 172 🤣🤣🤣 Unconscious Civilization share.google/OlNVdl8FNDon...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 13h

Just read this: "...Gunpowder was often stored in churches, to give it divine protection. Church bells were rung during thunderstorms to ward off the bad spirits. Between 1750 and 1784, lightning struck 386 German churches, killing 103 bell-ringers.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15h

They're called "djinn," Mr. Saad. If you're going to be a religious bigot at least do a little research!

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16h

Trying to think of the next batshit crazy thing Tucker might say. 🤔 Sorry, Seth. This is all I could come up with: The Iran war turned my gay frog into an anti-Semite! It got better. 😁

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Monty Python: Well, She Turned Me Into A Newt! I Got Better

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16h

I recently rewatched the old Star Trek series and this episode does not appear to have elicited the caution it was meant to instill in our young incels--now techbros. A similar story is explored in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). The Ultimate Computer www.imdb.com/title/tt0708...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16h

They might be right. 😔 bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16h

Has this been officially approved in the latest edition of the NewSpeak dictionary? youtu.be/skBm0JPQt3w?...

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Family Guy - Tinkle Fairy

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16h

You wrote: "...balance all the layoffs he'll enact to pay down debt...." Isn't that what they all think: implement "AI" --> get rid of people --> repeat until there is only one person getting all the money? The Brain Center at Whipple's www.imdb.com/title/tt0734...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 17h

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm waiting for the announced corporate sponsors and the revelation that any proceeds go to MAGA, Inc. 🫩

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another interesting quote: "Most business leaders who preach the ideology of capitalism, free markets, personal initiative and risk are themselves not capitalists. They are managers: bureaucratic employees specialized in methodology. They are men of reason." p. 125

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@edzitron.com is it possible all those stored GPUs are held in storage with the thought they can be sold on a secondary market to China once Nvidia claims the older ones "obsolete"?

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My fourth cousin, thrice-removed, once gambled in Monte Carlo, so I'm an expert poker player.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Übermensch gotta über, amirite? bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Chinese seem to be doing alright. Political liberty, and the protection of individual human dignity, even at the cost of us all living in poverty would be worth it. Fortunately, we don't have to choose. We can have both, just not with an unaccountable Epstein class and few public services.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

General Rule: Someone will always use a technology to do something stupid or evil to another person. Special Rule: LLMs are a technology that will allow a few people to do stupid or evil things to a shitload of people. #Surveillance #Enshittification

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just throwing this out there: Build factory farm next to datacenter --> run datacenter on methane from farm Eh? Eh?

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Idea Bright Idea

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rewatched "My Dinner with Andre" (1981). Forty years ago I thought it existentially eye-opening. Watching again, I would say the same but for a different reason. Wallace Shawn's monologue at the end about pedestrian life now resonates with me more, and I wanted to strangle Andre into silence. 😁

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor (1935)

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ferdinand Lassalle just rolled over in his grave. 😁

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember that one. Person dies if enough people vote for it online.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two years ago, I told a co-worker that the "AI" (CoPilot) we were being encouraged to use to "increase our productivity by 30%" 🫩 would eventually bite our corporate overlords on the ass once those LLMs were let loose on the company's financial data. Who ordered the forensic accountant? 🤣

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Ben Affleck Brushes It Off

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are all the Reaper…

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Voted yesterday. Two ladies started talking behind me. One was clearly a Democrat, the other a Republican. The Republican said inflation was only two percent and the economy was a lot better than people thought, then revealed she was a real estate agent. Is she watching mortgage rates? 😂

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can't believe anyone would take seriously this left-wing attack piece by a liberal rag! What? WSJ, you say. 🤔

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Chevy Chase & Gilda Radner: Nevermind

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That plus the $32 trillion that the AI boosters are promising to add to the economy should make short work of our $40 trillion national debt.

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Suspicious Fry

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least Buzz Windrip is being honest about his love of fascist power. #ItHasHappenedHere

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These original motives would evolve into the desire for a stable managerial, hierarchical society." The Unconscious Civilization, p. 88. I would add that Huxley's "Fordism" in Brave New World (1932) illustrates this idea taken to its logical conclusion.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting summary from @johnralstonsaul.bsky.social: "...The origin of corporatism in the second half of the níneteenth century lay in two things--the rejection of citizen-based democracy and the desire to react in a stable way to the Industrial Revolution.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Folks, if you're thinking that this government surveillance will only apply to your wicked neighbors then you haven't been paying attention. #ItHasHappenedHere

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm there, dude! I loved this book!!

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Public spaces are not safe spaces for bigotry. The mere existence of secular public spaces do not constitute religious persecution. It's not like the public is banging at Lot's door. The same cannot be said of the white Christian nationalists who seem intent on establishing Gilead.

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