👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
it really do be hiring season huh
indiscriminately shitting on military and intelligence workers is not really any different than sitting on blue collar laborers, just more socially acceptable. good luck having your cushy lifestyle w/o those essential state functions
if someone had told me 5 years ago that I'd be called a variety of colorful words for asking people to explain their reasoning and prodding at it, i wouldn't have believed them, even tho I would have imagined something less ridiculous than the current state of affairs
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RT @ne0agent1c
the outcome will be a lot of "this is what Critical Race Theorists actually believe" style memes and it will likely be decisive in determining that CRT …
https://twitter.com/ne0agent1c/status/1395472407016742913
given this ideological structure, it is instrumental to their movement to deny the existence of inconvenient underlying biological truths, as they undermine the foundations of their arguments
this is why we must make it maximally difficult to deny reality; don't let them do this
like Stalin's USSR, the American woke, the baizou, started from a set of political goals (reparations, full equity, abolishment of extant power structures), influenced by pre-existing ideological currents, then adopted & subverted the ideology to prop up their goals' validity
CRT leverages blank-slatism precisely for this socioeconomic epigenetic argument structure; rather than being caused by any sort of inherent differences, all divergent outcomes can instead be attributed to outside factors, namely intersections of oppression, systemic injustices
if people are infinitely moldable, then their outcomes are entirely a function of their environment; in this sense, Lysenkoism is a more ideological form of Lamarckism; used, as such, to justify a sort of socioeconomic epigenetics
i think you can see where i'm going w/ this
this conclusion is desirable for the reason that it provides an excellent foundation for all sorts of rhetorical trickery; in the Soviet case, it was used to justify the state ideology, lending air cover to its failing policies (see Stalin famines)
this means that the starting point for each ideology is not experiential evidence, which is then used to construct an explanatory system, but rather a desired conclusion, generated by theoretical arguments
the conclusion here, being that all people are identical in their nature
some call CRT & idpol in general "social marxism"; this is a clumsy term, painting w/ too broad a brush. however, it does have some truth to it, in that the ideological predecessor of CRT is Lysenkoism, aka the Soviet flavor of blank-slatism
they both involve motivated reasoning
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RT @ne0agent1c
if we want to be very precise, "race" is simply a coarse classification of human groups by their degree of common descent
"naïve" groupings…
https://twitter.com/ne0agent1c/status/1395511589659365381
the proper baseline to compare bitcoin energy usage against is that of the US military, as it is the consensus layer which backs the security of the US dollar
got fat
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RT @TheAnnaGat
What’s the most significant way in which you changed since COVID started?
https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1395339130897317889
an open secret is that this argument applies to basically every conservation issue, as it almost always puts into direct opposition immediate human quality of life and longer term aesthetic concerns
listen to revealed preferences. people don't care. mb they should but they don't
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RT @midwit100
Starlink is good actually for precisely this reason. If astronomers want us to take them seriously then they’ll quit being little bitches and …
https://twitter.com/midwit100/status/1395188973870407681
🧵about consumerism, efficient markets, and robustness
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RT @pee_zombie
@michaelcurzi re what you said about aesthetic, ads here are not the cause but simply just one manifestation, a symptom, of the banality of a consumerist society grown too large and soft to have anything else uniting it; which, imo, is not a bad thing! an era in which many can grill is gold
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1395232267367235585
Your last saved image is your entire moral philosophy
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RT @egregirls
Your last saved image is your entire moral philosophy https://twitter.com/moothought/status/1395170560078974977 https://t.co/JEldF59t0L
https://twitter.com/egregirls/status/1395171458792439808
this is a weak take by weak people who see their digital environment as immutable & don't try to mold it into something that works for them. I love slack, I get messages constantly but they don't interrupt me. don't externalize responsibility for managing your attention to a tool
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RT @Altimor
I started off as big a fan of Slack as anyone, but now find it easily 10x more anxiety-inducing and less productive than email. I’m not sure where…
https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1394830316037099524
extraordinary
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RT @laurahelmuth
For a microcosm of white people who are mad because they aren't supposed to say the n-word, try suggesting they find a better term than "quantum supremacy" https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1363257042182557696
https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1363608216362434563
beginning to suspect much of this is driven simply by well meaning men trying to score goodboy points from the women in their lives
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RT @geoliberal
What a moral panic looks like:
Imagine these #baizuo being so racist that the first thing they think of when they hear "quantum supremacy" is their own race, then imagine they need to "protect" blacks from the word.
There's nothing soft about the bigotry of low expectations. https://twi…
https://twitter.com/geoliberal/status/1363390762608549896
this is a huge blackpill/whitepill combo, specifically in the domain of interpersonal relations
trying to second-guess people's intentions is an infinite rabbithole, there's nothing at the bottom but paranoia and toxicity
the only way out is to take what people say as true
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RT @leo_tenebrae
