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The guy who just won the Fields Medal – like a Nobel Prize for mathematics – has a work ethic we should all emulate. Three house of focused work per day based on following his desires at that moment. quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-…

Kwame ture on why capitalism must always turn to imperialism in crisis

over the next few years a majority of the population will outsource their taste, their opinions, their thoughts, their work, and ultimately their lives to language models. the great cultural norming is coming, you will be unbelievably powerful if you resist model capture

jamie 💋 ok then I guess there’s nothing you can do 🤷‍♂️

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and

Contemporary culture’s vacuity is directly owed to its reproducible and perpetually available quality, intrinsically creating empty cultural output without self-possession. Agamben’s Heideggerian critique of culture is correct - being is no longer at work within art.

this would be the error of mistaking ontological immanence with empirical horizontality, as if all objects are all available to thought immediately through perceptual/extensive means. in a sense the flatness is stuck in the Actual, never generating a movement of thought. ->

The bargain presented by the empire is simple: imperialism offers the middle and upper strata of workers the benefits of cheap luxury goods, a much higher concentration of managerial/petty bourgeios/technical expertise jobs, and financing; all they surrender is political freedom

The disappearance of coins from daily life has done immeasurable damage to the semiotic substrate of our civilization

The assumption that AI summaries can replace reading books boils down to the misconception that knowledge exists outside of language, instead of in language

feel like it is not the alc but the excuse to do anything spontaneous or dangerous. no alc needed if U are around fun epople

Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) militants, 1979 – Nicaragua. 46 years ago today, they overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza with the support of Cuban revolutionaries.

When asked to explain a line from “Black Skin, White Masks,” Fanon replied: 💡“This sentence is inexplicable. I seek, when I write such things, to touch my reader with affect … that is to say irrationally, almost sensually.…

Happy birthday Frantz Fanon

everytime

Every idea of “politics,” as such, has proved fallow and inoperable.

At a certain point your reading habits will shift from desire to drive: it's not that you'll enjoy reading. It's that you'll be extremely uncomfortable when you don't read for stretches of time because you'll feel your brain atrophying moment by moment.