Notices by Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social), page 8

Yet it's still formally a masterpiece, and while I rejected a lot of its message, it made me think far more than most of what passes for Leftist Cinema these days, which is mostly just a spectacular representation of the revolts of the past, which we wish we could live up to, and project ourselves onto. Two or Three Things I Know About Her interrogates the reasons why we don't, in fact, live up to them

And while there's directors who will occasionally copy aspects of Godard's style to lend their film some radical chic - thinking of Paul Preciado's Orlando above all - there's very few working today who actually match his marriage of formal experimentation and radical critique. Radu Jude is definitely one, and maybe (maybe!) Adam Curtis

And obviously it's not that femininity can't be critiqued, I think in these times of Mumsnet and Moms for Liberty we shouldn't shy away from saying that there's a toxic femininity just as much as there's a toxic masculinity. But the women in this film aren't reactionaries, just living lives of quiet desperation, just as most men live lives of quiet desperation, and to focus only on women does strike me as misogynistic. Especially in the scene where they dabble in sex work with the US war photographer

Tonight I watched Two or Three Things I Know About Her, which was one of the few Classic Godard films I've never seen, and I have to say that on the one hand I found its equation of femininity with conformity to be incredibly misogynistic, and on the other that in spite of that rather large Achilles heel, it's still both formally and thematically more interesting than most of what passes for radical film these days

@scorpiontongue what's the difference between a trotskyist and a Jehovah's witness

@scorpiontongue -the watchtower is free

@hakan_geijer also it ignores that state surveillance is based on a lot more than someone saying hello I have committed a crime like it was the fucking seventies

Like thinking about it that way ignores everything we've learned about how mass surveillance works over the past ten years

The police are a little over two hundred years old, we've done without them before and we can do without them again

Hope the FBI enjoys my nudes

Slowly realizing how many capitol rioters were trying to promote their businesses as they livestreamed breaching the capitol

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs - Kerry Howley

I really can't recommend this one enough. Nominally about Reality Winner in particular and the deep state in general, this book's worth reading even if you already generally know the story just because of the sheer quality of its prose.

With a secondary cast that includes John Walker Lindh, Joe Biggs and John Kiriakou, this book traces the outlines of the post-9/11 security state in a way that emphasizes its tragedy and the way living with it has warped the lives of ordinary people, pushing us to react to it in strange ways, sometimes as whistleblowers and sometimes as people who've convinced ourselves that we are but only questionably at best, as an enemy that terrible sometimes offers a convenient excuse for our actions. That double quality of our relationship to the deep state is what allowed The Intercept to functionally betray their own sources, a betrayal that forms the center of the book

Of all the many books I've read about surveillance and the security state, this is one of the best out there, and one of the few that qualifies as a masterpiece of journalism beyond the information it presents

@BlackAzizAnansi one thing I feel like a lot of people in the anglosphere don't get is that the more you leave the English speaking Internet the more importance Facebook has

And I think it's bad that it has that influence, which is why I'm here

But the amount of ñ posting on the fediverse is still very low (and unfortunately very dominated by Spain)

I may sometimes have strong disagreements with some of my mutuals on here but I'll always have more respect for someone I don't see eye to eye with on certain issues but that always sticks to their principles than someone who changes their mind based on the last thing they heard

@parkermolloy I would say that you are not the only trans woman that Evan has treated this way, he has used the exact same language against me as well. When I found out that that was what had happened I actually laughed, because that's the way he is

Really hoping this will still exist under communism