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Chris Moffett

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i wrote about Israel and Marx and machine learning wherein I take down object-oriented ontology / new materialism as well as “alignment” / x-risk bullshit / Bayesianism as computer pervert ideology along the way joinreboot.org/p/ghost-in-a-r…


Me: What’s the difference between X and Y? GPT: X is A and Y is B Me: That’s funny, I heard the opposite GPT: Yes, that is true Me: So you are now saying the opposite? GPT: Yes Me: Why? GPT: Based on your input Me: My input that I heard something different? GPT: Yep Me:


On archives: “This nation needs more thieves and less librarians.” - Liner notes of Fahey’s 1964 Death Chants… Keeping in mind, of course, that these days the thieves are the new librarians


“The carrot of military funding and the stick of austerity have pushed the academy and the war industry into an intractable embrace.”

The brutal crackdown on the student divestment movement was a mask off moment for the modern university. It underscored a stark truth: these schools cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex. bit.ly/3VmINnv



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On the sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels + the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-drea…

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“I want to offer a series of evidence-based conditions that form the basis of the reading reform I think the US has refused to choose (primarily for ideological reasons grounded in rugged individualism and bootstrapping mythology).”


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He wrote what are IMO some of the best succinct summaries of the Palestinian situation of any non-Palestinian in the 70s & 80s, including one for Mahmoud Darwish's journal al-Karmel, & many of his European fans continue to ignore them. Some excerpts from one essay

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What are your thoughts on this philosopher?

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“Today, we are faced with a much more difficult set of circumstances. How do we work “in and against the state” when we are dealing with a neoliberal state that is so deliberately antisocial?” Extravagances of Neoliberalism thebaffler.com/latest/extrava…


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NYU Punishes Arrested Students By Requiring Them to Complete “Reflection Papers” and Completion of “Integrity” Modules. Read our May 13 press release here: facultyforpalestine.education/2024/05/13/may…


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Has there ever been a left-coded student protest movement that wasn’t immediately derided by the political center and mainstream elite opinion as too radical, deluded, misguided, counter-productive, and dangerous?

The Students Have Never Been the Enemy   Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about.   A thread, based on my new piece (link in bio):   🧵1/

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Holy crap. What a strange desire.

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.



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They do have a good grift going. I gotta hand it to them. Oh no all the bad stuff we’re doing is to save YOU and bring YOU utopia! And we need $7 TRILLION more to do it. Then we will save all of you any day now. Really, any day now.

using technology to create abundance--intelligence, energy, longevity, whatever--will not solve all problems and will not magically make everyone happy. but it is an unequivocally great thing to do, and expands our option space. to me, it feels like a moral imperative.



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