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And from SPK, whose critique of health and capital seem as relevant as ever:

Illness is the essential condition, the presupposition and the result of this capitalist process of production. The capitalist production process is at the same time a process that destroys life. It continuously destroys life and produces capital. Capitalism is dominated by capital’s primary need of accumulation (Marx). Illness is the expression of the life-destroying power of capital. Illness is collectively produced: that is, in so far as the worker creates capital in the work process, which encounters him as an alien force, he collectively produces his own isolation.

And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolitics

imagine sending to all federal employees

Privacy activists are warning about the invasive nature of DeepSeek, which collects a trove of personal user information that could be handed over to the Chinese government

America is like a wolf dressed as a boy crying wolf. US businesses and gov’t have been doing everything these US gov’t funded organizations warn about.

something about the ai calling me comrade and giving me really thoughtful advice for writing my dissertation

did no one commit to trying even just, like, half-precision??? we need 8 decimal places for training our predictive text model because. because um.

yep, i wonder how much of the american industry has been influenced by blind pursuits in model fit/precision scores, no matter how marginal and practically insignificant, because shareholders expect that the “best” model with the best precision is the most profitable. Why not consume consume 50x times as much energy and memory as necessary for a 0.001% gain in one of ten performance metrics if it means doubling your shareholder value?!

damn, for real. the imperial boomerang, like Aime Cesaire described. I hadn’t connected those dots 'til now.

BRICS please

They could never really do anything even aside from that, their biggest trade partner is the US. It would be economic suicide to accept the tarrifs.

What stops Trump from strong-arming practically any country with threats of tariffs?

I’ve been thinking about the tariffs shit from a Canadian POV. Politicians up here have been talking about how they’ll retaliate if Trump places tariffs on Canadian imports (e.g., no more LNG, oil, alcohol, etc.)… but it feels like Canada relies more on the US than the inverse, so I’m assuming the damage on the Canadian economy would be much worse than for the American economy.

It’s like picking option A) “give US what it wants” or B) “Risk your country’s economy collapsing”

Can’t help but feel like the use of “anticapitalist” in place of socialist or communist will show up in a big way in the next 4 years and afterwards.

Decades of Red Scare propaganda have made supporting an alternative system taboo for the masses, but it couldn’t erase socialist/communist movements entirely, especially among young people who’ve only ever experienced capitalism in decay. The next more restrictive, fascistic step for the ruling class is to make all criticism/opposition to the capitalist system taboo

As long as the zionist regime exists, so too will the Resistance

This footage of a hostage transfer shows like a hundred Hamas fighters

In 2020, when Trump was in office, covid killed 385k americans.

In 2021, after Biden took power, covid killed 463k americans … and another 246k in 2022 … and another +100k between 2023 to 2024.

Biden begged cities to spend covid relief funds on police budgets

Biden didn’t save anyone. He just repealed all the protections and social safety nets designed to keep people safe so that the economy could continue chugging along.

Over 50 Palestinians per Israeli, and that’s a fraction of the Palestinians taken by the IOF… makes you wonder who was taking “hostages” all along

Libs doing a victory lap because Dems pulled the plug on their genocide after it killed >50,000 Palestinians and throwing the election because of it

Holy fuck HAHAHAHA

whoopsies, i originally posted in the wrong thread so i’m gonna edit and add news

CW: mentions of SA here, more detail in links

Recent developments on the fascist zionist regime doing fascist zionist regime things :

From Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Israel must be added to UN’s sexual violence blacklist

Israel’s consistent obstructions of all United Nations investigations into allegations of sexual violence since 7 October 2023 is profoundly concerning. These obstructions, coupled with substantial evidence indicating systematic and widespread acts ofremoved and other forms of sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians, including prisoners and detainees, constitute grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. […] It was disclosed last Wednesday that Israel has once again denied authorisation for an investigation by the UN Special Representative on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Pramila Patten. This refusal reportedly stems from concerns that a comprehensive investigation would expose Israel’s systematic use of massremoved against Palestinians, including women and children, as Patten had insisted that access to Israeli detention centres to investigate allegations against Israeli soldiers was a crucial requirement for the process.

From Haaretz: Israel Blocks UN Probe Into Hamas Sexual Crimes From October 7 to Avoid Inquiry Into Abuse of Palestinians

The UN’s special representative on conflict-related sexual violence asked to investigate Hamas’ alleged crimes on October 7 and towards the hostages, but Israel refused her request to access Israeli detention facilities to examine claims of IDF abuse. Israeli women’s rights groups warn this could lead to Israel, instead of Hamas, being added to the UN’s sexual violence blacklist

Those kinds of land acknowledgements are really common place throughout BC too, and aren’t a great indicator of someone’s politics, sadly. Most small businesses have something similar, and if you study at a uni or college, your instructors will (often thoughtlessly) read one off the script at the start of every class

Best I can do is share some jumbled thoughts, cause I’m still wrapping my head around that episode. It was really good, but I should listen again because I think I missed a lot. it definitely got me interested in reading his work though. His latest book is actually free on the publisher’s website

Undoubtedly, the American ruling class is an enemy. But we also have to contend with the complicit masses who, even if they have a world to win, believe that they have more to lose when the world moves beyond capitalism and overthrows American hegemony. These complicit masses (whether it’s the petit bourgeois or the white proletariat or another) also represent an enemy to the revolution. Whether the continued decay of capitalism and the desperate barbarism of American hegemony emboldens their reactionary moment (fascism) or creates a progressive/revolutionary moment (post capitalism/socialism) is TBD, and I think we’re seeing movement in both (good and bad) directions.

ethel cain is an icon, and she just released a new album

457 Israeli Violations against Lebanon were recorded from the date of the ceasefire, November 27 until December 27, 2024.

i’m not familiar with the source, but i’m not surprised by israel’s unwillingness to stop destroying land and people after agreeing to its own “ceasefire”