identity politics defection from class warfare, maybe?
@niplav@niplav.github.io “Markov” sounds more like meaningless babble (maybe from a political opponent). See also: “duckspeak”.
Reading : Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Winning the Twenty-First Century https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/30/winning.html #rant #politics
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
Yay! Biden admin drops IP protection on Covid-19 vaccine patents. #TRIPSwaiver ⌘ Read more…
Peter Saint-Andre: Politically Independent ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Asian Women in Fiction https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/21/asian.html #politics #harm #media
On the blog: Explaining Gender to the Biased https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/28/genders.html #quora #rant #politics
Acting as if one is Already Free: David Graeber’s Political Economy and the Strategic Impasse of the Left ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: An Unexpected Case for Reparations https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/14/reparations.html #politics #rant #community
Ad Watch by Persuasion Lab - Political ad spending Belgium Dashboard ⌘ https://ad.watch/country/belgium.html
On the blog: Loving It and/or Leaving It and What “It” Might Be https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/15/love-leave.html #rant #politics #media
I’m not particularly interested in foreign politics, never have been, but this is fucking gold https://imgur.com/uFQx4Ca
On the blog: Post-Election Reconciliation https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/08/reconciliation.html #politics #rant
My Neighbor Joined NXIVM Sex Cult; It Explains a Lot About Trump’s America ⌘ https://medium.com/politically-speaking/my-neighbor-joined-a-sex-cult-it-explains-a-lot-about-trumps-america-6b53697ddf41?_branch_match_id=850021123196509299
On the blog: Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #politics #art #software #rant
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/17/joneses4.html Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #
On the blog: Voting as a Communal Activity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/11/vote.html #politics #voting #rant
On the blog: The Fight of the Century (and The Last Century) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/06/enlight.html #quora #freedom #philosophy #politics #rant
On the blog: Of Course Political Parties Don’t Reflect You! https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/30/parties.html #rant #politics
On the blog: Fiction — Grandfathers, Butterflies, and Patient Minus-One https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/16/butterfly.html #freeculture #creativecommons #politics
What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? | Hacker News
Diversity at all costs: except diversity of opinion. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech | Hacker News
On the blog: Re-Imagining Law Enforcement https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/31/police.html #history #philosophy #politics
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: On Electability and Complicity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/01/electability.html #politics #rant #voting
just finished the ‘It Could Happen Here’ podcast… i highly recommend it, required listening for the current political climate https://www.itcouldhappenherepod.com/
The Politics of Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxtQX9XSJs
Random link from the archives: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html originally archived Thu Aug 2 07:50:49 EDT 2018
The Politics of UFOs https://longreads.com/2019/04/11/the-politics-of-ufos/
Random link from the archives: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16614672/ideology-liberal-conservatives originally archived Fri Nov 10 08:36:31 EST 2017
I could never become a politician. They’d have to swear me in on a copy of the Principia Discordia, and I suspect swearing people in on the Principia might be the cause of our current political situation…
Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction | Leaping Robot Blog | Patrick McCray http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/
All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html
Campus political correctness: Data paints a different picture - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/12/17100496/political-correctness-data
Facebook filed a patent for a ‘civil’ political debate forum - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244632/facebook-political-debate-system-digital-forum-reputation-patent-filing
‘Playing the victim’ is politically vital and morally serious | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/playing-the-victim-is-politically-vital-and-morally-serious
Inertia and institutional damage in politics “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/inertia-and-institutional-damage-in-politics-9d9e670c182?source=friends_link&sk=8d1730ed3c394a1bc1876bd0f7a209c5
Limits of the Market: Notes on Political Economy & Externalities - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYHhc7OsJ0
Avoiding the tendency toward recentralization is a (if not the) primary concern of anarchocommunist & left-libertarian political philosophy, so the association between ancaps & ‘decentralizaiton’ seems strange.
Cultural Criticism and The Politics of Selling Out http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cultural-criticism-and-the-politics-of-selling-out/
Band name of the day: a politics for alienation
[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/
I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/
Video games are political. Here’s how they can be progressive | Games | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/13/video-games-are-political-heres-how-they-can-be-progressive
It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics https://kotaku.com/it-s-time-for-games-to-own-their-politics-1827320727
No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision
Political tribalism in Trump’s America: what Andrew Sullivan gets wrong - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/11/18131370/andrew-sullivan-religion-tribalism-christianity-trump
Rich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/
Reading capital politically - Harry Cleaver https://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver
The 2020 election is the perfect opportunity for visual acuity themed political slogans
Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.
Jonestown’s Victims Have a Lesson to Teach Us, So I Listened – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/jonestowns-victims-have-a-lesson-to-teach-us-so-i-listened-peoples-temple-anniversary-40/
Linus Torvalds Shows His New Polite Side While Pointing Out Bad Kernel Code - Phoronix https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-New-Politeness
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » A/Political (and a deferral on Doomsday) https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8415
Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968 | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/dan-mcquillan/rethinking-ai-through-politics-of-1968
The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/secret-twist-political-philosophy-good-place/
Postmodernism is not identity politics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fIBA7O5Ag
The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/
Dave Rubin and the rise of YouTube’s reactionary right - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17883330/dave-rubin-ben-shapiro-youtube-reactionary-right-peterson
The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653
Anime SHOULD BE(and is) POLITICAL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDQkf-0ke9o
Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.
Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
Campus free speech problem: left-wingers being fired for their opinions - Vox https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown
Interview with Fred Turner https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
The slacktivism of Richard Linklater. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html
story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
Hot take: politics is normal interpersonal drama writ large. Anything done in public is political, and anything done in private is political if it’s repeated often enough, by one person or by many independently.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
“After Posadas’s death, Minazzoli began to focus exclusively on political readings of the great scientific Ufologists like Hynek and Vallee.” Yesss
I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires
In a thousand years, we’ll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.
Remember the good old [hellenic] days, when political parties were sports teams and were also named after their jersey colors, and politicians were elected via lottery?
Chelsea Manning traces her political roots back to rave | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4991/chelsea-manning-traces-her-political-roots-back-to-rave
’Ndrangheta mafia: more powerful, and scarier, than it’s ever been. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/ndrangheta-mafia-more-powerful-and-scarier-than-its-ever-been.html?utm_source=nextdraft
Thinkpiece formula: in the age of
TBH there is nothing more cyberpunk than a world where actual politically-relevant cyberpunk literature is forgotten while shitty shallow corporatized versions with awful politics are blockbusters.
the political spectrum is a horseshoe crab: ancient, ugly, full of blue blood that contains poorly-understood enzymes that might cure some kinds of cancer, and frequently leaving its molted shells along the north atlantic shoreline of north america
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city
200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right â but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html
Goodbye, Cold War | Issue 30 | n+1 https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/politics/goodbye-cold-war/
The junhu and the art of everyday politics in imperial China | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-junhu-and-the-art-of-everyday-politics-in-imperial-china
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/
Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/invisible-algorithms-invisible-politics/
Optimizing for anything other than human happiness seems like a recipe for misery. Of course, no existing political system really seriously attempts to optimize for human happiness.
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
People make the obvious comparison to Blade Runner, but seeing as how Blade Runner is a famously shallow & aesthetically-focused adaptation that strips the social & political elements from its source, Altered Carbon comes out the winner here
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is M… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radical-1970s-group-relevant-science-for-the-people-politics