Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

read this by cosma shalizi if you are interested in central planning and computation http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/

https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2018/08/2018_34_control_room_obs.jpg

I always enjoyed the little detail that the Cybersyn consoles had holders for one’s whiskey glass

likely a stafford beer addition though allende was fond of scotch

Pareene was also on Trillillies (recorded in McConnell's home state)

Laughing hard at the notion that central planning and democracy can co-exist. Laughing even more that they can co-exist thanks to some algorithms that would dictate all distribution of all resources.

Laughing even harder at the ideas of pro-Marxists claiming that our governments should replicate Wal-Mart's planning methods to better market efficiency.

it’s true, marx was famously anti-automation

http://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/04f8e73a2e33f38293194faac1d4b4704d89b-wm.jpg?v=3

I'm in favor of panopticons and in favor of centralized cybernetic control of production

the government needs to promote ego death and self-abnegation

iirc the machines of loving grace cannot provide luxury gay space communism without full automation

I’m at a tech conference this week and a keynote included this weird-brag sidebar of “what if said this technology... is being implemented in a system to help keep a European country safe?” with the implication surveillance, movement, and activity data was going to be aggregated to predict if people were terrorists or something

the crowd got quiet and we’re all looking at each other and mouthing “what the fuck”

how very philip k dick

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pediaofinterest/images/c/c5/POI_Season_3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140628145335

Oh lord is somebody going to pull the “democracy means completely unregulated markets” thing?

adam otm

read this by cosma shalizi if you are interested in central planning and computation http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/

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I'm too much of a dumb ass for this but it seems interesting

I still can't stand to listen to the show itself (Jesus Christ, their personalities!), but I'm happy to see that the CTH subreddit has become the de facto nexus of push-back (since “resistance” has become such a fraught and overloaded word) against fascism and general right-wing shit-headedness on reddit. Military and police propaganda (videos of soldiers coming home from tour to "surprise" their kids and spouses, police doing cutesy bullshit with their dogs) no longer goes unchallenged, republicans role-playing as "centrists" and "libertarians" routinely get called on their bullshit. The CTH subreddit makes reddit a better place.

true facts stated

yeah the CTH subreddit is mostly good. there's a pretty broad left spectrum on there, but try-hard tankies are mocked, and they routinely brigade horrible right-wing subs and pester incels and Anime nazis. I support all of these activities.

also they routinely counter and make fun of every bad Amber take which is the correct approach

ugh yeah, i was made aware yesterday of a truly vile piece she wrote some time back about Warren where she invoked both Tracey Flick and Lisa Simpson, which is somehow idiotic, cruel, and hacky all at once.

what’s the non-amber chapo take on Warren?

They haven't discussed her much AFAIK, beyond maybe briefly mentioning her being less bad than the other non-Bern options. Amber's the only one who's been in a room with her and I think her pessimism on the subject has carried over

I will say that barring the DNA fiasco they haven't spoken ill of her like they have with....basically every other non-Bernie nominee

Pareene was also on Trillillies (recorded in McConnell's home state)

He's on the Majority Report today. I think he's become a semi-regular on the Friday round-up shows, as Virgil Texas has too.

ha, Gravel went on Pod Damn America (which I find unlistenable, oh well)

It’s an interesting conversation, that’s for sure, but I like the two Gravel Teenagers in Current Affairs more compelling

ha I was the one who asked about Means TV, which they answered on the show

I loved the Moby Dick appreciation segment

yes that was excellent, i needed that encouragement bc I’ve been putting off reading it all year, and when I heard that there was literally a copy on my desk

lets get a team together eh

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— Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (@HousingWorksBks) April 3, 2019

my knowledge of lefty history is patchy; need to fly Simon in

(also HOOS)

apparently they're each picking a category so expect 10 questions about anime furries, 10 about video games and another 10 about labor history

and MME

*MMA jfc

Felix's will be questions about the IRG and Hamas.

Brush up your Knausgaard

anyone goin to the red scare show tmrw

Lmao you couldn't pay me

cmon ill fly you out

can't believe I wandered through brooklyn last weekend and no one accosted me demanding I show my socialist card

just get the tattoo. it saves time.

The Wal-Mart planned economy guys were a bit sanguine about potential sacrifices needing to be made to confront climate change. Semi-suspicious Matt sat this out because he would have argued with them.

I finally got through that last Pareene show. They sure talk/laugh over each other a lot. Good Martin Van Buren material though.

matt’s new inebriated history on conspiracy theories fkn rules

yeah that was great, despite him sounding haggard as hell throughout

Former Trump adviser Jason Miller’s defamation suit against Chapo Trap House host @willmenaker has been dismissed. https://t.co/cNS20nuIAg

— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 18, 2019

he referred to being 'intoxicated' rather than 'inebriated' at the start iirc so god only knows how much adrenochrome he was on

my favorite paul simon song