Tòfol
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degrowth communism, free Palestine
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“In a book so painstakingly and exclusively about work, it is striking to find a politics so explicitly opposed to work.”
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Communist China | The Brooklyn Rail
Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing begins with a scene typical in contemporary accounts of Chinese work: there is a vast industrial space, a grueling hours arrangement (twelve-hour night shifts w...
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October 2, 2026 at 6:05 AM
“In a book so painstakingly and exclusively about work, it is striking to find a politics so explicitly opposed to work.”
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<fires up the bullshit machine for the corporate deliverable due in yesterday>
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's'
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's'
September 30, 2026 at 6:00 PM
<fires up the bullshit machine for the corporate deliverable due in yesterday>
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's'
'And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's'
Nobody's going to vote to reduce their own consumption. Fact. Therefore, climate Maoism.
This interview is making the rounds:
"Global ecological #collapse is inevitable. That’s a fact. & the response — oh no, don’t say that, bc acknowledging how bad things look might lead people to think stuff we don’t want them to think — that seems crazy & very much like infantilising people to me."
"Global ecological #collapse is inevitable. That’s a fact. & the response — oh no, don’t say that, bc acknowledging how bad things look might lead people to think stuff we don’t want them to think — that seems crazy & very much like infantilising people to me."
How do we build social movements in an age of collapse? An interview with activist Tadzio Müller
Honestly, it was also very difficult to create a climate movement in Germany. We worked for five years with hardly any attention. Then the Paris summit happened, and we exploded.
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September 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Nobody's going to vote to reduce their own consumption. Fact. Therefore, climate Maoism.
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Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
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September 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
I've been here before, but it never ceases to amaze me: Hampshire College is itself a private, liberal arts college whose published cost of attendance is $60k a year. $60k a year! That's only a little less than my pre-tax annual salary!
September 29, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I've been here before, but it never ceases to amaze me: Hampshire College is itself a private, liberal arts college whose published cost of attendance is $60k a year. $60k a year! That's only a little less than my pre-tax annual salary!
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God I hate being right.
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
September 29, 2026 at 12:24 AM
God I hate being right.
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No, this is a fridge, which, with the addition of a human skull and a set of scales laden with florins and guilders, might remind the idle snacker that amid the shady boughs of Nature's bounty gleams Temptation like a baleful lure to bring all Men to their ultimate and eternal Ruin.
this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal
a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai
September 28, 2026 at 8:04 PM
No, this is a fridge, which, with the addition of a human skull and a set of scales laden with florins and guilders, might remind the idle snacker that amid the shady boughs of Nature's bounty gleams Temptation like a baleful lure to bring all Men to their ultimate and eternal Ruin.
'The year was chequered with holidays, wakes, and fairs; it was not one dull round of labor.'
September 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
'The year was chequered with holidays, wakes, and fairs; it was not one dull round of labor.'
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What I'm saying here is that as well as all the other collateral damage inflicted by AI uptake, there is the raw fact that it is an unsolvable privacy and security nightmare.
'The honest conclusion is the one you're driving at: verification of "no training" has to come from either owning the computation or a cryptographic proof about it, and if neither is available you're buying a contract, not a guarantee.'
September 28, 2026 at 12:22 PM
What I'm saying here is that as well as all the other collateral damage inflicted by AI uptake, there is the raw fact that it is an unsolvable privacy and security nightmare.
'The honest conclusion is the one you're driving at: verification of "no training" has to come from either owning the computation or a cryptographic proof about it, and if neither is available you're buying a contract, not a guarantee.'
September 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM
'The honest conclusion is the one you're driving at: verification of "no training" has to come from either owning the computation or a cryptographic proof about it, and if neither is available you're buying a contract, not a guarantee.'
In the last 330 days, the author with the tenth highest number of commits to the Linux kernel with the 'Assisted by:' tag (i.e. LLM assisted code) is Greg Kroah-Hartman, Torvald's right hand man. His secret? Running an LLM locally (image below):
September 27, 2026 at 7:44 PM
In the last 330 days, the author with the tenth highest number of commits to the Linux kernel with the 'Assisted by:' tag (i.e. LLM assisted code) is Greg Kroah-Hartman, Torvald's right hand man. His secret? Running an LLM locally (image below):
If your life can be built and executed by CPython then by all means let your AI agents write the scripts for you.
LATEST: 🤖 Mark Zuckerberg says "everyone is going to have an agent" in 5 years that "intimately understands your goals and everything around you," speaking with YouTuber Jacklyn Dallas.
September 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
If your life can be built and executed by CPython then by all means let your AI agents write the scripts for you.
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World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
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September 27, 2026 at 1:52 PM
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
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I am now keeping this on speed-dial
September 24, 2026 at 10:48 AM
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
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“Interesting” re Italy’s RepowerEU funds spent (as of end 2025) 👇
And what about M7, ie RepowerEU funds rearranged after Russia's energy crisis and *explicitly designed to accelerate the green transition*?
Well, of the €2.5bn registered at project level up to 2025, most went to gas (€420m).
Renewables lagged behind. Only double the size of H2 investments.
Well, of the €2.5bn registered at project level up to 2025, most went to gas (€420m).
Renewables lagged behind. Only double the size of H2 investments.
September 25, 2026 at 5:03 PM
“Interesting” re Italy’s RepowerEU funds spent (as of end 2025) 👇
Anyhow, this is what my green growth steelman looks like.
Green growth doesn't depend on joules of energy used in production, it only depends on energy's production price. The idea is that 'green' energy becomes cheaper than fossil fuel energy, hence increases in productivity without increases in fossil fuel combustion.
September 27, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Anyhow, this is what my green growth steelman looks like.
Green growth doesn't depend on joules of energy used in production, it only depends on energy's production price. The idea is that 'green' energy becomes cheaper than fossil fuel energy, hence increases in productivity without increases in fossil fuel combustion.
September 27, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Green growth doesn't depend on joules of energy used in production, it only depends on energy's production price. The idea is that 'green' energy becomes cheaper than fossil fuel energy, hence increases in productivity without increases in fossil fuel combustion.
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Walter Benjamin, 15 juillet 1892 - 26 septembre 1940. In Memoriam. "Il est plus difficile d'honorer la mémoire des sans-noms que celle des gens célèbres. A la mémoire des sans-noms est dédiée la construction historique" (c'est tout le sens du projet Wo, Walter)
September 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Walter Benjamin, 15 juillet 1892 - 26 septembre 1940. In Memoriam. "Il est plus difficile d'honorer la mémoire des sans-noms que celle des gens célèbres. A la mémoire des sans-noms est dédiée la construction historique" (c'est tout le sens du projet Wo, Walter)
'The king is dead, long live the king.'
Jair Bolsonaro is imprisoned for plotting a coup, leaving his eldest son to run against his old rival.
Could Brazil’s first family of the radical right be on the verge of a comeback?ft.trib.al/r4ypl0r
Could Brazil’s first family of the radical right be on the verge of a comeback?ft.trib.al/r4ypl0r
September 26, 2026 at 3:25 PM
'The king is dead, long live the king.'
The hands in question can be seen in the photograph.
AI is powerful enough to kill a billion people if it falls into the wrong hands, Bill Gates has warned, as the Microsoft co-founder urged tougher government regulation of the technology. ft.trib.al/8yuutat
September 25, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The hands in question can be seen in the photograph.
My word, just found a photo of our small yard taken a decade ago today -- shocking, everything is still so green! For the past three years or so the summers have been so much hotter that everything is now brown, burnt almost to a crisp.
September 25, 2026 at 12:41 PM
My word, just found a photo of our small yard taken a decade ago today -- shocking, everything is still so green! For the past three years or so the summers have been so much hotter that everything is now brown, burnt almost to a crisp.
'To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language.' #Mann · 2022-09-25 14:21 UTC · @tofol_22 · 0♥ 0RT
September 25, 2026 at 12:23 PM
'To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language.' #Mann · 2022-09-25 14:21 UTC · @tofol_22 · 0♥ 0RT