Universities routinely launder the reputations of right-wing extremism (e.g. Thiel, 'race science', 'AI', 'Effective Altruism', etc.) in apparent quid pro quos for a few million, or on occasion because a weird reactionary has lodged themselves in like a tick and wants to push his ideology
Adorno moment: The import of Threads as a criticism of cold war politics is that it presents its endpoint as utterly hopeless! If you put hope into it, the critical role of the artwork dissolves. Given that this will defo be presented as an analogy for climate change, this will simply be propaganda.
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“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
"Max Stirner remains a ghostly regular in the Hippel’s Weinstube of our radical discourses; a spectral presence at the bar who reminds us that we have not yet left the establishment." researchinnovation.kingston.ac.uk/en/publicati...
"Yes, we can!"
And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.
They're building a lot of the infrastructure for this in the cities, one such plan is to build a data centre in Brick Lane.
www.change.org/p/demand-sec...
I stopped writing about cybernetics, surveillance, recognition, and control society after the last two books and 4 articles because at this point Labour teaming up with Palantir via Oswald Mosley's grandson to build a panopticon says enough. The only rational thing to do with such toys is break them
I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.
Ofc! It's finally up on the Kingston research depository in a thankfully more citable form researchinnovation.kingston.ac.uk/en/publicati... hope it's useful!
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
In other news, the Guardian is now running scam ads. This is what happens when you choose to data harvest your readers with surveillance adtech & run shitty programmatic ads…a literal fake BBC news report (starring @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com) embedded into an actual news report
There's a time to mock fascists, and it's when their fascism is clear but unperceived by the majority
And there's a time when it's too late
It's Kant time this February.
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.
Download, mirror, and reshare.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Elane Heffernan and @davidkr.bsky.social join me to discuss the SWP's Comrade Delta abuse scandal, the organisational cultures that lead to it, and how we can learn from the failures of Left Organisations to advance a revolutionary, Marxist and Feminist politics.
open.spotify.com/episode/4XmW...
I rant about Kant a lot on the show as providing the framework or problematics that a lot of the thinkers we discuss are responding to, but we rarely focus on the Critiques themselves. So I've spent dry January writing lectures in a frantic synthetic haze for my first seminar with AHRC!
What's to come in 2026 at Acid Horizon Research Commons:
Next month, I'm teaching a course on Mark Fisher and acid communism thru the Acid Horizon Research Commons. It's online & open to all, but enrollment is capped.
Here are the details:
elftheory.substack.com/p/the-acid-c...
boosts appreciated!
#markfisher #philosophy #psychedelics
URGENT: If you can make it to HMP Bronzefield PLEASE go, the state is trying to kill her
The Editor In Chief of Zer0 Books has resigned in protest at encroachments from Watkins Books amidst the stifling of Palestinian Solidarity. Watkins Books is owned by Etan Ilfeld, a VC partner in the Israeli AI firm Remagine Ventures.
xenogothic.com/2025/12/05/l...
Ill Will is launching a book press. We need your support.
illwilleditions.com
Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future?
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
What does ethical data sharing for training AI look like for artists? I'm creating a Federated Data Commons for Creative Communities w/ @tega.bsky.social @rlukedubois.bsky.social @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social Nick Bryan-Kinns, Lizzie Wilson, & Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. braiduk.org/uk-us-collab...
Reform can't even run Kent county council but thankfully Starmer is here to help by doing the equivalent of putting the little side barriers up on the bowling lane, making sure the infrastructure is primed and ready for the handover to the fascists.
