a threat

I’ve become convinced that the left needs to make the betterment of civil society, culture, art, sports, etc a real priority, and not just on the context of taking on capital. To build social trust and a happier America we need to invest in things that give us joy and community.

So there’s this super rich neighborhood in Seattle. Laurelhurst. They are situated next to a children’s hospital. They decided that the helicopter sound is too loud for them. The helicopters that life flight critically injured children to the hospital. So if a child needs to be taken by helicopter, the pilot has to land a mile away from the hospital. An ambulance will be there to take the child the remaining distance. This is to ensure that the super rich people don’t have to hear helicopters.

What I love about the Apple TV broadcasts is the realism. Like how the "Shot on iPhone" on-field angles actually look like if someone shot a broadcast on an iphone, in that it kinda looks like shit and is definitely worse than the regular on-field cameras local networks use

before we socialize/communize internet infrastructure, a first step that ties in discourse on having to sign in all the time, AI, data centers, climate, surveillance data, etc, is some kind of Internet Jubilee, where so much of this bloat is wiped and we can be freer users

“It’ll be a very safe environment for the massive data centers that we definitely aren’t building underground. We need a place like that.”

@Phil_Lewis_ "just as leon trotsky knew enough to seize the railways and the power stations while the old guard persisted in defending the offices of the state, 'so cultural revolt must seize the grids of expression and the powerhouses of the mind'"

The father-son Ellison duo will soon own a kingdom of media properties now that Warner Bros. shareholders approved a major deal: -TikTok -Warner Bros. (including New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment) -Paramount -DC Studios -The Discovery Channel -CNN -CBS (including news and sports) -HBO -BET -Fandango -Rotten Tomatoes -Nickelodeon -MTV -Cartoon Network -Food Network -Travel Channel -Investigation Discovery -Animal Planet -Comedy Central -Showtime -TBS -TLC -HGTV And more. huffpost.com/entry/ellison-…

@EricNewcomer @eriktorenberg Reality is reality and will always be so, though even in your point — centering your analysis around how media should operate in response, and even calling reality “IRL” — shows the logic of the spectacle is still dictating your disagreement.

Just read @eriktorenberg arguing that The Internet Is Real Life. My take: the internet drives the narrative but treating that as the whole of reality is how you fall into the abyss. Torenberg has a strong argument. Zohran Mamdani is shaping reality by putting out a video clip far more than trying to assemble a press conference. ICE's brutality is real and present when it's on video — not whenever statistics reveal that there's maximum violence. On the other hand, much of real life is still decided in small, offline rooms. Trump situation room meetings, board rooms, etc. And our best moments as human beings — spending time with a child, relaxing on a lake — happen offline. The narrative, the situation, our shared sense of what's happening is online. But fulfilling, true experiences and real exercises of power are often offline. The media (whether elite or "new") is always managing a balancing act between what consumers want to hear about and what they *should* hear about. The argument that internet is real life translates into an embrace of that nihilism of giving the consumer exactly what they want, of not worrying about crosschecking the reality the internet wants to believe with the tangible and real. The hard work is pushing against what people are inclined to believe. I'd say that the old school media these days is often too online with reporters reading tweets instead of talking to people getting novel information. What happens in the real world decides our physical reality, our key life experiences. Are the people who tell you that the world is online ascetics or are they leading great lives in the physical world they don't tell you about, enticing you into a life they wouldn't want for themselves? a16z certainly makes many of its decisions off the public internet. are they going to start live streaming their decisions or only the versions they want you to see online. High-quality media requires a deep engagement with offline to bring online those things that people don't want to offer as their online self-presentation (or don't think to offer). It's easier to create the reality you want online than to do it in the real world. But the best media will always try to point you toward what's really happening and to a satisfying real life, both of which require heavy engagement with IRL.

i wonder if the West ever used the language of "the burden" as an underpinning for global imperialism before

Cyclists struck in SLU, police say?

"just as leon trotsky knew enough to seize the railways and the power stations while the old guard persisted in defending the offices of the state, 'so cultural revolt must seize the grids of expression and the powerhouses of the mind'"

"we must rebel against the tyranny of the apps"

Start stealing

We literally have to kill everyone

Overshadowing legitimate demand shocks and supply disruptions, 90% of "inflation" since Covid has, undeniably, been a multidisciplinary cartel branding tool to see just how much these vampires can get away with

💢 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on U.S. support for Israel: “Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide. I would absolutely support Senator Sanders' bill to restrict military aid, but I'll be entirely honest, looking down the road, this is a nation that right now is exterminating people. It is going to be very difficult for me to ever be able to look at them again and see someone that we should be working with closely… What I am witnessing now is the height of horror. And the fact that it is being done by bombs that are built in this country and paid for with our tax dollars is utterly unconscionable. And it needs to end.” Clip via @MarcoFoster_

I warned back in December 2023 (!!!) that push notifications were a major opsec hazard being exploited by US intelligence to break encryption, and now here were are: kitklarenberg.com/p/push-notific…

A worker in Ontario, California sets his company’s warehouse on fire and has a message for the CEO: “There goes your inventory. All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live.” Expect to see more of this as people struggle to survive under our decaying capitalist system.

Life is so beautiful

I mean who could've predicted that we'd be on the path towards shi'ite-catholicism vs judeo-hinduism