Notices by Orm Alephwyr ΘΔ (alephwyr@chitter.xyz)

@irick If you can fight then we need you to fight. If you can't, then your only obligation is to protect yourself. A coma probably prevents you from protecting yourself.

Imperialism is not a valid religion. Ethnic narcissism is not a valid belief system.

New ThinkPad, new stickers

@GreenSkyOverMe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Superbus

It's a depiction of a historical account in which the king signaled by cutting off the heads of the tallest flowers in a patch that the most eminent men among his adversaries should be killed.

Gavrilo Princip is a Christ like figure:

* Nationalist revolutionary
* Who did something stupid
* That destroyed an empire, replaced it with something worse, and entirely failed to achieve his objectives

It would be excusable in some sense if there were only a hierarchy of material wealth, but immaterial wealth is power and power is just when a small number of people feel nice at the expense of others. Nothing is built or maintained by immaterial wealth. It is something that lives in people's heads.

I don't even need to care whether hierarchy, racism, and sexism are intrinsically bad at this point. They increase the human carbon and ecological footprint by many orders of magnitude, turning finite resources into the world's most expensive abstract feeling.

I wonder how many new homeless people Los Angeles gained and, given the affluence of the effected neighborhoods, how many of them were anti homeless

@selzero I agree with this but not in the way Musk means it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites The nicest throughline is probably to destroy the fascists in a swift and legible way that allows libs to pretend they have just been replaced. I've concluded that the main reason libs are hostile to anarchism/leftism is because they don't know how to live under it. Create some sort of dummy apparatus that they can forward their complaints to and make sure it kills someone periodically and they'll fall into their normal habits but with respect to sanity.

So I guess the idea of the cybertruck bomber was that the image of a blown up cybertruck in front of Trump tower would conjure images of Elon Musk and Donald Trump under attack. This seems unreasonable, but also I wasn't the intended target audience, and I'm not sure how insane the intended target audience actually is.

I'm just going to do the 20 books a day challenge all at once, because I don't like the idea of stretching it out. These books aren't necessarily books that factor into my worldview today, and I'm also going to briefly explain what each meant and means to me, which is also a violation of the rules, but I don't really understand the point of posting them without a description of their significance.

By default, AI development is going to cause something worse than death to happen to enormous numbers of conscious beings. That something will then keep happening until the stars burn out. Even the most benign of existing power structures and institutions cannot prevent this. They simply don't have the right priorities, and in fact cannot have the right priorities. This issue occupies all of my attention at the moment. I would like to find common ground, express deeper commitments, or establish myself in factually grounded theory, but I don't think the future depends on me doing any of those things in the same way it depends on me taking strong prefigurative action. The good news is I don't have to make a mess to do this. The bad news is that the mess is coming. Prepare to live at least the remainder of the century within the winepress of the wrath of god.

@libreleah Do you have any T440Ps left you're trying to get rid of?

@AnarchoNinaWrites He was also the CEO of the one with the highest body count. Like use logic people. If it is necessary to deny people, is it necessary to deny a third of all people? No, because the next worst company is like 10% less bad. So even if the second worst company were optimal capitalist triage decision makers, the difference in deaths are still murder.

Disgusted by how many articles are coming out painting the fall of Assad as a problem for the United States.

@aral I mean, it depends on how the money is distributed. No society that asks more of people than they can comfortably deliver is civilized. No society that kills people for failing to labor according to its standards is civilized.

@AnarchoNinaWrites This ignores people who are broadly leftist except for believing in ecologically motivated exterminationism. The point of the term ecofascist is to warn against entryism I would think, not so much to define a subcurrent within mainstream fascist movements.

@SwiftOnSecurity I hope we get new furries out of this.

Just realized that poverty has become a luxury good: the literal aim of state policy in the west is to create and maintain poverty through massive subsidies. Poverty itself is the product.