White House posted a San Andreas meme edit of the footage, too. Just such a wild time of doing war crimes and then posting shitty montages of it online
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White House posted a San Andreas meme edit of the footage, too. Just such a wild time of doing war crimes and then posting shitty montages of it online
I wrote some quick thoughts on the White House Call of Duty / divorced dad movie montages, you can read it on the blog if you'd like. It uses the work of Roger Stahl and Umberto Eco to try to make some sense of the work these posts are doing.
dead-air.ghost.io/heroic-educa...
this is neither new nor an original thought. many have been saying this for years (including myself). just bears repeating
The state will take sites of resistance and treat them as laboratories. That they can forge authoritarian coalitions across race, party, and geography to create states of exception in Atlanta is all part of the program, and it's being prototyped for elsewhere, too.
You really must understand how much Atlanta is the testing grounds for authoritarianism. Most surveilled city in the US, bipartisan support for police state nonsense, public-private partnerships for expanding cop playgrounds, renewed rhetoric of protesters as 'terrorists' or 'outside agitators', &c.
so many people have headed calls to move off Google to places like proton. Actual useful advice is that you try to keep as much sensitive info offline as possible.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
To be clear, the average pledge is like $169 right now (about $5 more than the tier that is essentially everything-but-the-stuffies). People are not only pledging to get access to these products, but paying into higher tiers than just the basic $10 for the Fires ebook
I'm not trying to be toxic (I am a fan of Sanderson), but he's essentially the biggest name in fantasy rn, if not all of speculative fiction. At what point does crowdfunding for millions in revenue become too gauche while tons of smaller writers struggle to find funding for their passion projects?
"Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack. No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page."
my full paper got an honorable mention for best paper (pls clap). i'll be presenting another (different) WoW paper in April, so stay tuned (it's about virtually-embodied disruption/protest/ritual in Azeroth). thanks to everyone who saw the talk + shared their thoughts w me afterwards, too :)
gotta say, really kind of embarrassing to see one of the "pre-eminent fascism experts" on the TL manufacturing consent for the Iran strikes ex post facto 😭😭😭 truly a Rube Goldberg machine of justifying logic 🫠🫠🫠
I'm skipping out on the first full day of early access to Midnight to present a paper I wrote on hauntological World of Warcraft today. I compiled some notes from the paper/talk on my blog here:
Illustrating the Mussolini comparison (pics).
Perhaps also worthwhile to point out that the Mussolini façade was on the former HQ of the Ministry of the Interior and the cheap Trump banner is over the HQ for the DOJ, an agency that has been (imperfectly) known for being independent of White House.
RIP Jesse Jackson.
He spoke at my South Carolina public school right before the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, speaking in direct contradiction to the way SC demanded the war's history be taught. It was something that deeply resonated at the time and also whose impacts I didn't yet understand.
The article in the quote mentions the Black Mirror episode but I'm interested in two possibilities of tech dystopian fiction:
1) that these tech guys have no interest in engaging with speculative fiction that identifies the folly of such ideas, and/or
2) that they instead take inspiration from them
Black Mirror s2e01 (from 2013) aptly described the horrific inauthenticity of this idea. One of the more heartbreaking stories in Sequoia Nagamatsu's 2022 book, How High We Go in the Dark, also dealt with this (and the grief tech angle). Both really interesting fictional portrayals.
The huge success of "actually eating steak and butter every day is GOOD for me" is great evidence for the Everyone is 12 Now theory
Of course! And the real thanks is to you and your interlocutors, for putting in the work, collecting it all together, and putting it down on paper to keep the history current and easy to access
Just finished @letsgomathias.bsky.social's book. It's a stellar read, and it would be a really accessible gift for friends, family, or coworkers who have little previous knowledge but want to understand the last decade of antifascist work in the US.
bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...
Choose your border violence:
Reps: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder right here in your neighborhood!
Dems: we'll institute a racialized regime of mass murder, but it'll happen safely elsewhere such that nice white ppl don't have to see the dead bodies everyday. Like Europe!
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Just got my copy in the mail, can't wait to dive into @augustacaesar.bsky.social's book!
You can order here:
bookshop.org/p/books/savi...
something from the Epstein Files I cannot help but see printed so clearly: Byung-Chul Han couldn't have been more right
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Idk I'm still mulling this over - I might collect these notes into something for a blog but for now thinking aloud.
The Turalyon/Alleria and Light/Void split is a binary that WoW writers are obviously playing with, but it's interesting how old (and gendered) this conversation has been for so long.
WoW writers have constantly talked about how seductive the Void is, parroting some of what Socrates et al were allegedly saying about rhetoric. It's interesting that the first major good (for now?) character representing the Void is a woman, notably one whose sister fell to a different corruption.
Applying this to the Ancient Greek binary (philosophy/rhetoric), it's interesting how the character who loses control in BT (Turalyon) is not the one whose whole character arc is not defined by harnessing ("taming" for Sutton) her source of strength to which she is always on the brink of succumbing.
Quick summary of these two married characters:
Turalyon: light-forged, priest turned paladin, who WoW writers have kept showing as adhering to a deeply manichean worldview
Alleria: void-touched, ranger from tragic house, who WoW writers keep making run from her issues or struggle to keep control
In WoW, I had always thought of the Turalyon/Alleria split between husband/wife and Light/Void an interesting and dramatic decision on WoW storytelling, but reading Jane Sutton's 1992 essay on the gendered problems of the tradition, this perhaps brings these characterizations into clearer focus.
