Nihil Postman
superlogical this, superlogical that ... alienum puto
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- Nice to meet you too, yes I'm trying to find where he wrote that, I don't see it on his feed or TPM
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- Where is this? In his feed? On TPM?
- Not a big surprise that the US Copyright Office has come out with a report about generative AI training data claims casting doubt on the fair use defenses of commercial developers. Endorses new theory of market harm.
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- aaaaand ... boom ... credit where credit is due, this article pretty much comes out and says what it's all about www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
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- The directors' cut gives some sense of what the anti-war version of the movie would have looked like, with more colonialism and longueurs. Still I agree with your take. Also, the Godfather films are not anti-crime and are in fact beloved by criminals. Great movies tho from a drama/entertainment pov!
- this is obviously very early but I think at least one “solid R” seat on this map will flip
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- I hear you (from over here in Texas) it just seems like what the Rs have built there might prove relatively unstable ... as others have pointed out, there's only one way to find out!
- Possibly. They need to flip four and not lose any others for the majority. NC, ME are the obvious targets. Then there's OH, though I kind of doubt it's merely "likely" as opposed to "solid" here. I don't think it's really the third-most likely pickup. Even if so, still need to flip one more.
- Kansas. Maybe something freaky will happen in Florida.
- SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.
- 🚨🚨🚨SUBWAY RESTAURANTS, DOOR DASHERS, AND OTHER EATERIES WILL BE TARGETED BY ICE ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-raids-...
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View full threadI dunno, fascism has proven pretty appealing, but with real flaws that need to be pointed out. Gotta find a way to get people off of it just like we gotta figure out how to get beyond car culture, flippant misogyny, lots of things that can be really enjoyable and become dominant but just aren't good
- I take Stancil's point to be that cracking this nut is the essential thing. Sure, it helps to build bike lanes and bus routes, but those will just make inveterate drivers madder! There have to be conversion moments, which are sometimes just necessarily generational.
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- Churches were long the place in American society where people of different political parties / persuasions would meet. When they polarized that was very bad for political culture.
- Well I think your (1) and (2) are just wrong. I do think that it would be good to have democratic reform in the USA and I do think it would help some on the margins in the fight vs fascism, mainly around helping prevent NC/WI style lock-in of R dominance, but I don't think its any kind of panacea.
- I should revise to say that I think your number (2) is wrong; I think your (1) is right but I think that people haven't been so wrong all of these years to describe the US as a uniquely self-divided gov't or set of gov'ts with if anything too many checks and balances and maybe that will even save us
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- Sure, but as 2024 shows it's not just that the electoral college was some sort of tragic achilles heel of the system. If there were no electoral college, Trump would have run a different kind of campaign. No amount of fixing the rules is going to protect us from a loophole exploiter / rule breaker.
- You're torturing political theory to arrive at preordained conclusions when you claim parliamentary systems have more checks and balances. If Reform gets in in the UK it will be a reign of terror!
- And by "weak parties" you seem to mean "parties under the control of strong party leaders" which invites the question of, isn't the problem just that the leaders and rank and file want the fascism?
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- It's true that political organizations with weak executives can be harder to take over totally, but for that very reason, they become more susceptible to authoritarianism brought about because of popular frustration with lack of change -- see Italy (Mussolini, Berlusconi, Meloni)
- That's the opposite of my point. The salient fact is that Trump is a criminal. Tweaking the laws won't help, they need to be enforced. Seat belts save lives, but fine tuning yours isn't really the thing when you've been carjacked. Switching to light cigarettes is just magical thinking.
- The real, socialist, social justice thing to be done is not big political process reform (although we could use that!) it's rigorously enforcing laws (some of them new) against corruption and white collar crime, bringing Trump and the rest of the oligarchs to heel. And tax the fuck out of them too.
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- Um are you saying that fascists can't take control of first one party, and then a whole state, in a multiparty democracy? I'm no big fan of the two party system but, again, it has held out as well against fascism as any other system ...
- A skillful demagogue is going to exploit whatever political system exists just like any sociopath is going to exploit their target's weaknesses--love bombing the insecure, rescuing the lost, or whatever. It's the psychodynamic that is toxic and ultimately far less functional than the status quo ante
- You assume your conclusion when you say engaging demagoguery means describing the political system. Its whole basis, practically by definition, is disrespect for the system! The response to cynical nihilism shouldn't be more of the same. Reforms can be great, but reformism misses what's up w/ Trump.
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- You can't say this and also say in the same breath that the Democrats are the Lincoln party.
- His point isn't that we shouldn't abolish the electoral college, it's that Trump would still have been elected again without the electoral college. The capture of politics by demagoguery has to be engaged on its own terms and not thought of as something that can be engineered away, even by new media
- The reactionary centrist scolds were completely wrong about everything, while the most progressive & leftist people you could find online, the ones with Trump Derangement Syndrome, were completely right. Therefore, the only path forward is more reactionary centrist scolding.
- Holy shit. I knew this @nytimes.com editorial would be bad, but it's so much worse than I could have imagined. I mean, it is indistinguishable from a parody of reactionary centrism. This is every center-left pathology, laid out for your examination.
- tbf plenty of soi-distant leftists have been entranced by Trump
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- He was probably the most pro-Ukrainian member of the administration iirc
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- getting a calendar invite w/o any other communication is weird ... that said, getting one to firm up an appt and facilitate getting it on one's calendar is a good newish thing
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- We have perfectly good sets of answers in our best practices around archiving more or less good artifacts like books. If you think an AI system is soulful like a book or a movie then take similar steps to preserve it ... print out the code on acid free paper, put it in a vault, whatever
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- Is it just because nothing at all is moving at the Capitol because of the current standoff?
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- Sort of, sort of the opposite, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKN...
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- Candidate slogan: “bring back NICE”
- Highly doubt this is true. Lots of popular films enact allegories of the veil of ignorance etc, it’s just that allegory hunting cultural critics aren’t so interested in decoding suchlike
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- Yeah but people who deny that there's any sort of problem there also contributed their share to enabling the anti-antisemitism alibi so
- As I have been saying
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- also that is an amazing font choice just saying
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- Christopher Newfield’s work is all about this. tl:dr is: w/o federal grant money there are *more* resources for teaching and learning, not less. It’s just that the intellectual, social, and cultural capital of the transaction on offer is lessened by no longer having propinquity to the cutting edge.
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- Part of the problem tho is how (neo)liberalism gets retconned by (pseudo)Marxism into a tradition that's oblivious to Marxism even tho in practice it is basically Weberian! Sure, anti-liberals left and right caricature it as hopping from Locke and Smith right to Friedman and Sunstein, but that's BS.
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- What the hell are you talking about. Musk is a habitual criminal who needs Trump in there suspending the rule of law for him
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- The AI experts who operate like climate experts pretty much share a consensus that AI is over-hyped. Those whom Roose in his attempted analogy is calling "AI experts" are more like the fossil fuel company executives in the climate scenario.
- saw a "Congress needs to remove Trump from office" and here's the thing: you can go 18 steps down in the succession order and still be hitting completely insane partisan appointees we have locked ourselves into uncharted territory. we are at a point where there is no purely constitutional remedy
- Well you could elect whomever you wanted Speaker of the House and go to them
- /r/smallbusiness is full of stories like these right now, including from owners who have tried to domestically source products but there are no manufacturers in the U.S. that are set up to make their products
- did Nazi this coming
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- well neither is Ken so
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- Or who he wants to keep within his audience which is slightly different, but yes
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- Maybe we are agreeing if you are saying he doesn’t do it and I am saying he does it in a self-defeatingly ineffectual way. That is a known problem w self-deprecation that it easily comes off as a weird kind of bragging / bar-lowering
- Yes I've been publishing for 30+ years, why
- And as a professional editor one assessment I can share of Yglesias is that he tries to do too much with tone and self-deprecation, which people deliberately underread as him confessing thought crimes
- tbf Yglesias is describing a real rhetorical problem we all face: political discourse touches a lot of people who don't have anything like what we consider proper political ethics. And speaking of ethics, I'm also tiring of ppl screenshotting obviously out of context Yglesias quotations ...
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- hell no
