Notices by 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io), page 2

Last I checked Dugin did meet with Putin once or twice several years back. Bannon has probably spent more time talking to him than Putin has at this point. Lots of weird side projects over time, mixed with sincere theoretical groundwork about multipolarity that statesmen don't actually need. I would argue Dugin is more relevant to the Western reader to help understand "what went wrong." But he gets very sensationalist treatment by weirdo Washington hacks and Ukrainian nationalists. IMO the only sincere English-language critique of him is this book https://www.amazon.com/Dugin-Against-Traditionalist-Critique-Political/dp/1597312193/

The word also at some point got politicized too so that leftists started associating it with right-wingers and also vice versa

I have absolutely no idea what this is asking so I voted neither

I was also having some trouble interpreting your original question since Maimonides was a Jew living in Islamic civilization but with respect simply to the notoriety of individual Muslim polymaths in the West I believe Avicenna's Canon of Medicine was required reading in European universities until relatively recently

We know we are living in a dark age, as we already were at the time of the revelation of every world religion, but only God knows the scale.

No one in my village uses this sort of rhetoric in question, but it is indeed possible this is the time when the strange lust for everything unholy that sometimes possesses people will accelerate and soon predominate everywhere. It's also possible that it's close to peaking for now.

The co-optation by the State of advocacy for the vulnerable has for the last 10 years been extremely useful in manufacturing consent for Washington's wars. The masses that reported in to their Culture War parades did not show up to advocate for the Christians and traditional Muslims slaughtered by al Qaeda in Libya and Syria, or Russian children in the Donbas. They did not care, because they were not told to care.

The dynamics at play in response to the current crisis in the Levant suggest a loss of control or a shift in power. In other words "wokeness" has apparently begun to lose one of its mundane, temporal incentives. We don't know what comes next

I saw some article recently claiming studies show little to no correlation between public opinion and law across the board. Probably US-based data. I believe it. I wish I could find it, it's kind of hilarious

I think they might seriously try this

Thanks for looking

No, either there's some other condition that hasn't been identified or it actually got fixed

That's weird

Jung failed to acknowledge a numinous, transcendent source above the psyche aka the divine Intellect and therefore saw no distinction between the spirit and the psyche. This is very ignorant and actually extremely dangerous. You might be better off as a classical modern materialist

Muted accounts in Firefox come through. Blocks isn't right. Replicated here https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/issues/1497

Would this be an appropriate time to ask if any of you can look into the cause of the bug that basically makes muting not exist in Soapbox? https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/issues/867

They used to run a vegetarian restaurant in Austin that closed during Covid. I guess they run the Epoch Times too

https://scroll.in/article/1059270/ramachandra-guha-are-bad-ideas-at-the-root-of-the-ecological-crisis

Maybe the most annoying thing about it is the designation “AI” which has this cultural legacy of self aware beings in science fiction which has nothing to do with LLMs etc. There is no serious theoretical basis for associating the two, or seeing this tech as having the potential to develop into something conscious in any way, but the mainstream culture is constantly tricked into making that association at least implicitly.

Another thing I notice is an extremely variable range of quality of content produced. Some of it is really impressive and shows practical potential. What’s interesting to me though is how often people respond very positively to lower quality material, as though they are fulfilling some unconscious sense of duty to recognize a greatness that isn’t there. I see this every day with the text generators, and still often but significantly less so with the art generators since the more powerful models have become accessible.

Someone I know works for a company currently testing internal chat bots trained on internal support documentation. The responses are supposed to be checked and rated up or down. The vast majority of its responses are obviously factually wrong, and people still upvote the response in the majority of cases.

Somehow this led me into an hour long Wikipedia rabbit hole on the overseas territories of France and the Catalan independent movement. Anyway assuming some performance artist doesn’t blow it up I hope it lives a long happy future in some Chinese museum

Not sure how true it is but I always heard Buddhists in Tibet have long eaten meat and worn fur but get their Muslim neighbors to kill the animals for them

You’d really think there ought to be some intermediary position between this and “bomb my oil pipelines harder, daddy” but apparently there just isn’t.

?