Dwayne Monroe
@cloudquistador.bsky.social
Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
Reuters: 'OpenAI head and general fool, Sam Altman, desperate for "more electrons" turns for aid to one of Spiderman's oldest foes.'
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reuters: 'OpenAI head and general fool, Sam Altman, desperate for "more electrons" turns for aid to one of Spiderman's oldest foes.'
The Trump regime is not the beginning of US fascism, it has always been oppressive, but the acceleration of a particular type. As @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social has proposed, MAGA's contradictions make space for other fascists to move. Enter Greene, who has crossed the Rubicon
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Trump regime is not the beginning of US fascism, it has always been oppressive, but the acceleration of a particular type. As @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social has proposed, MAGA's contradictions make space for other fascists to move. Enter Greene, who has crossed the Rubicon
Once again for emphasis. This time, with a graphic borrowed from classic Trek and a diagram of factors I cooked up a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Once again for emphasis. This time, with a graphic borrowed from classic Trek and a diagram of factors I cooked up a few years ago
It's interesting to note that the Italian originators of European fascism in Italy (where some of the most serious scholarship still happens) fetishized a mechanistic future of speed combined with a mythologized past. Current fascists, as Alberto Toscano states, lack even this.
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's interesting to note that the Italian originators of European fascism in Italy (where some of the most serious scholarship still happens) fetishized a mechanistic future of speed combined with a mythologized past. Current fascists, as Alberto Toscano states, lack even this.
Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'
Look at this carbuncle's work..
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Look at this carbuncle's work..
To the other suggestions, I'll add: although I think it's important to read key works (certainly Capital) the aim is to understand the method which can be applied to what we see. I find this very helpful:
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
To the other suggestions, I'll add: although I think it's important to read key works (certainly Capital) the aim is to understand the method which can be applied to what we see. I find this very helpful:
I use the term, 'political economy' to describe how to *materially* analyze the tech industry and its 'AI' push. Here, applied dialectics, from Ollman's 'Dance of the Dialectic' and my notebook visualization.
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I use the term, 'political economy' to describe how to *materially* analyze the tech industry and its 'AI' push. Here, applied dialectics, from Ollman's 'Dance of the Dialectic' and my notebook visualization.
Fantastic! I've started my yearly re-read of 'Dance of the Dialectic' and Prof Sheehan's lecture is a marvelous companion, application and energizing source (and of course, I'll get the book).
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Fantastic! I've started my yearly re-read of 'Dance of the Dialectic' and Prof Sheehan's lecture is a marvelous companion, application and energizing source (and of course, I'll get the book).
The simple beauty of this decades old, imagined interface almost makes me weep. We are forced to use stone knives and bear skins with a splash of paint and advertising...
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The simple beauty of this decades old, imagined interface almost makes me weep. We are forced to use stone knives and bear skins with a splash of paint and advertising...
Good luck indeed. What will these men, who've built almost their entire identities on a few companies, do when capital dries up and collapse follows? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Good luck indeed. What will these men, who've built almost their entire identities on a few companies, do when capital dries up and collapse follows? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Earlier today, someone wrote, as encouragement for dismayed US-ians, that Europe overcame fascism. I propose that this isn't the case, as near uniform elite support for genocide shows and, this, from Gabriel Rockhill: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...
October 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Earlier today, someone wrote, as encouragement for dismayed US-ians, that Europe overcame fascism. I propose that this isn't the case, as near uniform elite support for genocide shows and, this, from Gabriel Rockhill: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...
Many posting can, and should, write essays, drawing upon expertise & experience. Most lack time and encouragement to pour knowledge into words. Journalists and academics aplenty: few practitioners. Behold Verdigris. Contact us: fire your arrows into the darkness - [email protected]
September 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Many posting can, and should, write essays, drawing upon expertise & experience. Most lack time and encouragement to pour knowledge into words. Journalists and academics aplenty: few practitioners. Behold Verdigris. Contact us: fire your arrows into the darkness - [email protected]
The entire 'west' and camp followers pursue the fascist path as colonialism falters. I would be remiss to fail pointing out that this was predicted by George Jackson in 1971 in his book, 'Blood in My Eye' - ia803400.us.archive.org/31/items/geo...
September 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The entire 'west' and camp followers pursue the fascist path as colonialism falters. I would be remiss to fail pointing out that this was predicted by George Jackson in 1971 in his book, 'Blood in My Eye' - ia803400.us.archive.org/31/items/geo...
I'm re-reading Weizenbaum and it's striking how, in the late 1970s in response to his ELIZA program, he witnessed precisely the same behavior.
September 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I'm re-reading Weizenbaum and it's striking how, in the late 1970s in response to his ELIZA program, he witnessed precisely the same behavior.
There are no 'right moves' when it comes to these platforms; all owners are enemies. My reasoning for using Twitter is plainly stated:
September 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There are no 'right moves' when it comes to these platforms; all owners are enemies. My reasoning for using Twitter is plainly stated:
In this episode of the Film Conversations podcast, my cohosts @wisehack.bsky.social and Dennis Claxton discuss Murnau's Faust (1926). As usual, we range far afield: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
March 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In this episode of the Film Conversations podcast, my cohosts @wisehack.bsky.social and Dennis Claxton discuss Murnau's Faust (1926). As usual, we range far afield: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Agreed! I'll only add:
1.) Deliberate lack of cybernetic knowledge, along with industry propaganda, explains the belief LLMs think.
2.) This week, I'm formally announcing a study group. We'll start with this book...
1.) Deliberate lack of cybernetic knowledge, along with industry propaganda, explains the belief LLMs think.
2.) This week, I'm formally announcing a study group. We'll start with this book...
March 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Agreed! I'll only add:
1.) Deliberate lack of cybernetic knowledge, along with industry propaganda, explains the belief LLMs think.
2.) This week, I'm formally announcing a study group. We'll start with this book...
1.) Deliberate lack of cybernetic knowledge, along with industry propaganda, explains the belief LLMs think.
2.) This week, I'm formally announcing a study group. We'll start with this book...
Exactly. When LLMs hit the scene, cyberneticians immediately saw the grift: AI bros pretending feedback loops are cognition. I'd like to begin a study group about the lost history generally and Stafford Beer particularly. Here's the starting text...
February 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Exactly. When LLMs hit the scene, cyberneticians immediately saw the grift: AI bros pretending feedback loops are cognition. I'd like to begin a study group about the lost history generally and Stafford Beer particularly. Here's the starting text...
In this announcement, Microsoft claims to have created "a new state of matter" an assertion I'd like to see analyzed by physicists who aren't on the payroll: news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
February 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In this announcement, Microsoft claims to have created "a new state of matter" an assertion I'd like to see analyzed by physicists who aren't on the payroll: news.microsoft.com/source/featu...
In this essay, I argue that the snobbery long deployed against Wikipedia and blogging laid the propaganda ground for ChatGPT and other word assemblers. This is a call for more voices. monroelab.com/2025/02/05/a...
February 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In this essay, I argue that the snobbery long deployed against Wikipedia and blogging laid the propaganda ground for ChatGPT and other word assemblers. This is a call for more voices. monroelab.com/2025/02/05/a...
After nearly 20 years of being encouraged to overshare, it's time to return to an earlier mode: moving in silence, cultivating mystery. Your enemies are listening.
February 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
After nearly 20 years of being encouraged to overshare, it's time to return to an earlier mode: moving in silence, cultivating mystery. Your enemies are listening.
Evil never sleeps. We have recent history to guide us. It's easy to predict SV's next moves:
1.) Call for a ban
2.) Copy code
3.) Lay-off hundreds or thousands of US workers
4.) Deploy Deepseek in 'AI' data centers to get sweet federal cash while lowering runtime costs
5.) Lie
1.) Call for a ban
2.) Copy code
3.) Lay-off hundreds or thousands of US workers
4.) Deploy Deepseek in 'AI' data centers to get sweet federal cash while lowering runtime costs
5.) Lie
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Evil never sleeps. We have recent history to guide us. It's easy to predict SV's next moves:
1.) Call for a ban
2.) Copy code
3.) Lay-off hundreds or thousands of US workers
4.) Deploy Deepseek in 'AI' data centers to get sweet federal cash while lowering runtime costs
5.) Lie
1.) Call for a ban
2.) Copy code
3.) Lay-off hundreds or thousands of US workers
4.) Deploy Deepseek in 'AI' data centers to get sweet federal cash while lowering runtime costs
5.) Lie
On a tech note: I'm curious to get recommendations regarding the use of open source LLMs, running within containers for infosec isolation, to build a text query engine that can answer prompts based on the content of jsons. Ideas welcome!
January 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On a tech note: I'm curious to get recommendations regarding the use of open source LLMs, running within containers for infosec isolation, to build a text query engine that can answer prompts based on the content of jsons. Ideas welcome!