samirillian

I don’t like NPR but I also don’t like this guy. He lacks loyalty.

a) I like the language use. The title is punchy, and it makes you check it out just because you want to know what it means. Medieval hazards sticks with you.

b) there’s not a lot of money in being a commie journalist so this is probably some volunteer.

c) I live in Kentucky and had not heard about this.

d) re Kentucky, this place is wet

I meant as opposed to wooden pencils

Lead for mechanical pencils is highly conductive, seemingly pure graphite but I think they can have different hardness ratings too, I wonder what the difference is.

lots of things used to be a thing

Fantasy solution, will never happen.

I guess we've gotta hope China solves the problems that we can't

Partially, yes, but you have to mix in the whole idea of treating your house or houses as your retirement plan, which is a screwy, self-perpetuating economic system. It takes a lot of capital to construct an apartment building, and greed seems the only way capital is directed towards housing in the US.

a) agree b) Reads like chatgpt wrote it. Something about needing some stilted conjunction every other sentence. c) If the lab leak theory for covid is true, that'd be a good government example. The whole anthrax thing was weird as hell too.

edit - actually I guess it's fuzzy. Where's the line between prolonging a problem and inventing a problem

It's articles like these that make me miss n-gate. Yeah Kroger, be more like Uber! You basically control a bloated gig economy with W2s!

Old people aged out of reading music blogs? Is that a known phenomenon?

I don't grasp the analogy

I don't think it's too Western-centric to imagine that Palestinians want freedom, which is a universal human desire. Freedom means statehood and self-governance.

Oppression is fertile soil for religious fundamentalists, and radicals of every stripe.

I realize cultural marxist was confusing word choice but I meant it in a purely descriptive sense.

I'm critiquing Tbray who is obviously not a radical leftist from the left. And I'm questioning the implicit claim made by some Marxists that capitalism is now on its last legs, not from left or right but as a question of fact.

Actually I meant Western marxists

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism

> Less concerned with economic analysis than earlier schools of Marxist thought, Western Marxism placed greater emphasis on the study of the cultural trends of capitalist society, deploying the more philosophical and subjective aspects of Marxism, and incorporating non-Marxist approaches to investigating culture and historical development

I thought Western marxist would be obscure to hn readers and that in the context what I meant by cultural Marxism would be clear, but I guess not.

I'm dismissive of the alt-right usage of cultural Marxism to the point of forgetting how much other people care about it

I like Tbray's posts but I want to quibble over language.

What's happening to the term "late stage capitalism"? Feels like it's becoming a meme like neoliberalism. What does it even mean to say that it wasn't tech's fault, it was late stage capitalism's fault? Kind of dodging a particular responsibility with a generality.

I think LSC came to prominence through cultural marxists like David Harvey and Frederic Jameson. (People I read and liked btw). But the people I now hear regurgitating the phrase make me wonder what happened. For Marxists I think the implication is that capitalism will soon die with its host. Which like all prophecies will probably be proven ironic in retrospect, but who knows.

But I'm starting to think the way people use it now, it's like they sub-consciously think there was a good capitalism time just like there was a good Google time.

Hegel observed that the US was founded on greed. When I look at tech, I see greedy people. That's more general and just as specific as the ambiguous term "late stage capitalism".

Yeah, I mean, real estate in BC (where he bought one of his properties) is notoriously corrupt, and lucrative. Most real estate bought in BC is paid in cash, often by some dizzying maze of LLCs or whatever the Canadian equivalent is. Essentially money laundering and investment rolled into one.

Tangential, but Librivox's search leaves a lot to be desired. I love that project, and can mostly just use Google, but it would be a great volunteer project for some good Samaritan with a little more experience enhancing search than me.

I love science

I think he's just wrong about being wrong now. I'll believe it when AI invents a joke. I've still seen 0 creativity, it's just an aggregator.

One may not like Deleuze's system, but I don't think it's fair to call him a charlatan. His work on other philosophers (e.g. Leibniz) is highly regarded, he provided valuable counterpoints to Freud, and Badiou accused him of being a secret platonist, which I think most hn-posters would appreciate. His one-off observations alone should be enough to grant him the benefit of the doubt. If you don't recognize sparks of brilliance in his lectures and conversations, well! See the abecediary, or his lecture on cinema as the creative act, or any of his readings of past philosophers.

I think of this more as a distinction between exercising "platform power" versus "real world" power. #freepalestine is not an issue like #metoo, in that the court of public opinion does not really matter for the former, since Israel is a sovereign nation. The state of Israel is not going to get cancelled for toxic behavior. I think this was the argument framed in the article: despite popular support for the Palestinian cause, you are more likely to lose your job for stating pro-Palestine views. This is one probably reason that those without even enough clout to get fired for an opinion are even more rabid and vociferous. I understand your doubt of the organic pro-Palestine content, and I'm agnostic about it, but it is an easy train to get on right now regardless of the actual depth of your beliefs.

Weird read, not sure what to make of it. Muddled between "everybody is poor in something" and "actually being poor is good". It's like corporate-speak mixed with woke-speak for Christian missionaries who get all their funding from USAID.

Do not like these people.

I almost liked the tone this was written in until I got to "totes". It's a fine line between clever and cloying. Depressing how much of that article I understood.

Honestly, maybe you're right and they're all hot, but I'm not attracted to men so I can't really say. I would be surprised if women/et al found Altman or Sutskever physically attractive but who knows maybe they are kinda cute. What do you think?

Are you claiming that physical appearance has nothing to do with politics, or that we just shouldn't comment on it?

I think it's pretty obvious that the OpenAI men aren't too attractive by most standards, as opposed to say US presidents, who are mostly sexually attractive.

Oh I def think it's a pattern but I don't know that it's a bad pattern. Honestly, being married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt is probably a good sign.

I agreed with you up until I looked her up. Then Tasha McCauley, who I forgot was Joseph Gordon-Levitt's wife. Shivon Zillis, Elon Musk's whatever that is.

So these three plus Mira Murati make 4 for 4 hot women governing OpenAI. I'm not a Data Scientist but that's a pattern. Not one ugly woman who has a concept of AI governance? Not one single George Elliot-looking genius?

I don't know how you begin to ask a question like this without articulating why British elites want distinction in the first place. Sexual selection?

I don't know how to unravel this knot you've tied with out having a lot more questions answered, but your concepts seem a little muddled. Automation and outsourcing jobs will not lead to higher pay here. That much should be obvious.

Who exactly are these Americans who are against all three of those things. It would seem that the workers would be against the first two and the owners would be against the Unions.

How exactly does outsourcing jobs and automation increase a factory worker's pay?