Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 2

#Tesla #FckNzs #Musk #ElonMusk #Germany #Grünheide

"So what are we?
— Deviants and freaks.

Why do we do what we do?
— Because it serves a personal need.

What can we do then?
— We can at least see the truth of the
situation, perhaps."

(From "We unhappy few" in Endnotes #5 (2020), restating the position of Sam Moss, "On the impotence of revolutionary
groups" (1939).)

"Can MAGA survive in power?
Given the mishmash of various interests, there is certainly potential for enduring crackups. ...
anti-wokeness as a political force is now effectively spent. ...
Without the common enemy of “wokeness” ... binding various factions together, we can expect more fissures."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/trumps-bid-at-a-new-fusionism/
David Walsh: "Trump’s Bid at a New Fusionism"

I recorded this 78 min last night and I like it:
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/februaribasen

Wählt Merz!

@planomenon catacombic communism aka catacombunism

@planomenon Perhaps reincarnated in a tunnel where no one can see it?

Mikael Brunila: "Taking AI into the Tunnels" (E-flux #151, Feb 2025)
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/151/652643/taking-ai-into-the-tunnels/

"So where would we turn from here?
Some guidance can be found in the movements for peer-to-peer file sharing and “online piracy” which boomed in the 2000s, during the prehistory of the platform economy that we have come to take for granted today.
Before Spotify’s streaming model, peer-to-peer file sharing seemed like an inevitable future."

For the last ten years, I have spent quite some time thinking about the history, production and uses of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Only a week ago, it felt radical saying that the end of CPI as we know it is a possibility within this century. (Not as radical than saying that the end of capitalism is a possibility, of course, but still halfway there.)

But right now, it does not seem impossible that the US could abolish its Consumer Price Index within a few weeks, as Musk/DOGE prepares to attack the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Shit. It's hard to imagine the consequences – within the current political economy – of halting the production of such a key statistic.

Æfreþing is higna feoh!

dis is higna feoh!

https://media.nms.ac.uk/news/new-runic-translation-reveals-community-ownership-of-the-galloway-hoard

Today I ordered this cassette mixtape from Hakuna Kuala (Uganda):
https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-club

As #Ukraine considered how to sway a #Trump to continue supporting their country, one strategy was to appeal to Trump’s #transactional nature & offer him a deal — rare earth minerals — for aid.

Now Trump says he’s interested.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Trump said the United States wants Ukrainian rare earth minerals — such as #lithium, #uranium & #titanium — in exchange for the #security assistance that Ukraine depends on for its defense against #Russia’s invasion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/04/ukraine-trump-rare-earth-minerals/

I keep thinking about the NYT Douthat interview with Marc Andreesen, especially emphasizing the centrality of "woke" employees (ie, worker power + tech ethics) in pushing him over into Trumpism.

Now, the White House is holding the economy hostage to root out this perceived ideological enemy.

There is a deep contradiction here.

(Thread.)

The Californian Ideology was always a deeply pernicious thing, as Barbrook and Cameron argued. It was always deeply antidemocratic and resentful of the friction of real human life. But it did what it set out to do. It conquered the world with networks.

On my way to Berlin for CTM festival!
https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/programme/schedule

@phoenaros Indeed!

@phoenaros I found it here:
https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/113911199967983209

I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS THREAD SINCE THE TWENTY FIFTH OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FOUR

AND THE DICKS KEEP GOING IN THE MOUSETRAPS

DESPITE ALL MY WARNINGS

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus." (some street art)

Or maybe... the palace is just returning to its original form?

According to some anthropologists, the court essentially began as a circus, a "theatre state" as Clifford Geertz termed it. Which must of course be a very ambigous and possibly terrible thing. I think that Graeber & Wengrow's "The dawn of everything" has some brief but nuanced thoughts on that point.