Notices by Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social), page 3

@cstross brings an incredibly important diary post, linked below.

Know this acronym: TESCREAL

It stands for:
"transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism (in a very specific context), Effective Altruism, and longtermism."

And know the names of the billionaire tech-bros advocating for these insane ideas that benefit them specifically, and harm the rest of us intentionally.

They are: Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Zuck, Marc Andreesen, Nick Land, and Peter Theil.

These people are DANGEROUS. They are bullies. They are thieves. And they are just fine with the implicit murder of millions to achieve their goals.

And, because they're insanely rich, their speech is issued from giant orbiting megaphones. Yours? Not so much. Meaning that, when they saturate the airwaves with their techno-propaganda, we must collectively scream back loud enough to overwhelm their message.

I vehemently oppose TESCREAL. And I vehemently oppose concentrations of capital that allow such minority ideas to drown our majority opinions. Every TESCREAL is a policy failure. #Enough.

#EatTheRich #NoWarButClassWar
#TESCREAL

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

@neednewshorts @InternetEh
The first time the words "skanking on the tarmac like an absolute villain" have been uttered in all eternity has me cryin' over here 🤣

Followed.
You gotta meet my wordsmith friend @Air_Quotes_Comedian

@InternetEh @neednewshorts @Air_Quotes_Comedian It was the "skanking on the tarmac" part that had me busting up.

“The $60 billion bets on oil by Exxon Mobil and Chevron come as the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that demand for oil and natural gas will peak by 2030.

That is not a universal view. OPEC projects global oil demand will gradually rise by more than 16 million barrels per day over the next couple decades, from 99.6 million in 2022 to 116 million in 2045.”

And …

“Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats penned a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, alleging that the Exxon-Pioneer deal and Chevron's Hess purchase are ‘likely to harm competition.’”

It comforts me to know the Senate Democrats are concerned by the competition to destroy planet #Earth.

Wait a second … WHAT?!?!

#ClimateCrisis #climate #BigOil

https://www.investors.com/news/what-do-the-exxon-mobil-and-chevron-deals-say-about-the-oil-industrys-future/

From the Law & Political Economy blog. Today's must read:

"Fredric Jameson once noted that 'it is easier to imagine the end of the #world than the end of #capitalism.'

That’s the famous version. What Jameson wrote in context is, 'Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.'

#ClimateChange offers a vivid illustration of Jameson’s point. Through climate change, the end of the world as #humans have known it is now imaginable to an unprecedented degree. And capitalism, viewed through the lens of climate change, appears to some observers to be a terminal #planetary #disease."

https://lpeproject.org/blog/climate-change-and-the-neoliberal-imagination/

#Capitalism will ultimately fall victim to it's own #logicalfallacy.

Boundless economic growth, constrained within a bounded system, is one such obvious logical impossibility.

Herb Stein -- Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute -- DEFINED IRONY when he coined the phrase "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

One of the most important ways YOU can contribute to the end of rapacious capitalist consumption for profit is to make this clear to everyone you know -- at every opportunity you get.

Once seen ... it cannot be unseen.

#ClimateCrisis #Ecosocialism

@peterbutler @ArrowbearMoore Two sides of the same coin it seems to me. I explain in detail here: https://www.ianwelsh.net/capitalism-as-mental-illness/

@AnthonyJK Most especially them 😉

Serious question:

Who would enjoy a Mastodon account dedicated to promoting and addressing issues confronting,what I've come to call, #RedStateInsurgents ?

You know, all those brave souls who identify on the leftist spectrum, but live in red states and refuse to cede ground.

I think we all have things to talk about that blue state'ers may be able to empathize with, but can never to sympathize with.

Please sound off in the comments and boost for reach.

Thank you.

We long ago established groups of humans are capable of evils that individuals alone find difficult to bear.

Now take a group of people: (i) fix them on profit motive as their sole limiting ethical factor, (ii) place them on a board of directors, (iii) remove individual liability, (iv) shake and stir for two centuries, (v) The Fall of Man.

William Blake anticipated the Act that would fulfill his prophetic vision by 30 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_Liability_Act_1855

@ThomasNeuburger has an important piece up on our journey toward an ice free world.

Ironically ... chilling.
https://neuburger.substack.com/p/ice-melt-in-the-pipeline-climate-change