not only programmers, but executives, have rather comprehensible promethean shame they project onto society writ large, and we're all dealing with the scarcity mania of those building and funding their own redundancy
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Wrote about this back in September. Our X feeds switched over to nonstop posts about WW3 starting because there are now a whole bunch of Verified accounts that make money by psychologically tormenting day traders and crypto bros with poorly aggregated newswires.
what, genuinely, do ppl think is happening with this? feels like a combo of real and justified cybersecurity fears and iran escalations. but also a real
algorithmic tweak that feels suspicious this close to the election (and a lot of rando accounts that could be run by any engagement farmer or nation state)
the self-same who have been pump-faking apocalypse every weekend for the past year have caused daily devastations of medical catastrophe, job loss, gambling ruin, business closure, eviction, off-shore genocide, on-shore abduction, viral propagation, the world over
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ICYMI, ahead of today’s strikes, I wrote profiles of two of the participating Italian ports: Livorno and Gioia Tauro. I asked workers at these places to explain how they organizing their ports in order to participate. I’m doing the same for Genoa, which will publish after today’s International Day of Action.
Here is Gioia Tauro.
progressive.international/wi…
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Live report: “The port belongs to those who work there, and to this city."
Dockworkers at more than 110 ports in 22 countries, across five continents, are striking today against the genocide in Gaza and the arms shipments that sustain it.
In Genoa, thousands of port workers and students have joined USB's general strike. Now, after the manifestation started with burning tires in the streets and blocking the roadway to the terminals, thousands are marching through the city.
"Today we'll block everything, then march into the port, because the port is our home,” said José Nivoi of CALP.
I'll be here reporting on the ground throughout the day as things develop.
(This video has captions with the Italian roughly translated.)
LIVER FROM GENOA 🇮🇹 Alex Colston (@re_colston) reports for the @ProgIntl from the picket line, where dockers are refusing to work for war. Genoa is one of 113 ports workers have shut down across 22 countries as part of today's international day of action.
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"If It Can Happen at The New School ..." by Alice Crary
Now available on our website, In the Midst:
ctjournal.org/2026/10/29/if-…
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Dialectics is the quest to see the new in the old instead of just the old in the new.
— Adorno, Against Epistemology
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The world needs a high-quality, truly open language model. I wrote about why it’s necessary and why it’s easier to build than you might think.
open.substack.com/pub/argmin…
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AI companies: “AI is going to cure cancer and unify physics.”
Also AI companies: “Check out our new product! It’s for phone scams :)”
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To the brave youth in France, from veterans of the Student Intifada at Columbia University
Please circulate widely
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IMO
Data center developers have announced the equivalent of 14% of peak US electricity demand in new behind-the-meter gas plants, according to @CleanviewEnergy. A massive pollution impact
