This literally pro-fascism car oriented Czech political party which just won 13 seats in parliament seems like something we’re destined to see in Canada

Sure would be nice if the Toronto Star didn’t quote as experts culture-war-right think tanks with fashy-dogwhistle names and a penchant for genocide denial

democratic socialism just keeps working (and everyone does their best not to notice) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Collective Love” by Ahmad Shamlou www.niloufartalebi.com/ahmad-shamlo...

Mass-psychosis-as-a-service. Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius, but evil. A neighborhood sized map ruining Memohis air. XAI market cap $75 billion and rising, with participation from the Vision Fund, Fidelity, State Street, BlackRock, a16z, Lightspeed Partners, and Sequoia capital.

Peter Kropotkin telling a story about a crab he saw at the aquarium one time.

lol

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights isn’t perfect but it did a remarkable job when you think about it. It isn’t easy to explain its persistence (perhaps, its origins) in terms of US soft power. We (for various “we”s both pro- & anti-liberal) underestimate New Deal internationalism at our peril

Random images of New Orleans, now with alt text

Had a great time listening and presenting at the National Communications Associations conference in the ARSTM pre-conference on the knowability of LLMs (and rhet figures) and with the Panel for Progress on the Digital Divide on opposed visions of pluralism, “entropic or mycelial”, in AI imaginaries

Why is it culturally almost mandatory in these countries to live in a way, in this case for no apparent benefit other than ad-shaped prestige, that accelerates and almost guarantees the destruction of the biosphere? www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Also worth noting that a couple pages later in this collection from 1941 on literary rhetoric is a passage on the necessity of post/degrowth

This is in the beginning of Kenneth Burke’s Philosophy of Literary Form - Burke! (& i see folks with rhetoric phds saying it’s fine to let a few companies own & automate the production of words: ‘vocabulary itself as a way of sizing up reality…the “collective revelation” of testing and discussion’)

It’s a rhetorical question & I know the answer(s) but why are most mainstream tech journalists so horrendously bad at the not-repeating-PR part of their jobs, even in critical articles. Mundane example: there are ten ways to introduce “training data” in plain language but “more humanlike” isn’t it