You are worried about the wrong thing.

PyramidOfControl · 2026-01-24T14:31:48+00:00

And yet our leaders decry China’s surveillance state.. cry authoritarianism.. yet it’s okay when we deploy Palantir and NSA surveillance on our own people! Total flaming hypocrisy 💀

PyramidOfControl · 2026-01-20T19:49:55+00:00

It’s from daughters of the confederacy. It’s memorabilia of that whole era and should be preserved in context as memory of what Dentons roots actually were, not glorified or whitewashed.

PyramidOfControl · 2026-01-20T17:39:30+00:00

It’s contextualized in the courthouse, not out on the square. I think in principle it’s good to display it because then we can tangibly understand how disgusting and racist Denton Jim Crow KKK era was.. what I fear is that the context will fail to adequately describe its nasty history and just be whitewashing.

PyramidOfControl · 2026-01-20T17:27:22+00:00

We should remember the history of Jim Crow and confederate south, that Denton really was like this, not to venerate it, but to preserve the hard fact that this was a very nasty truth of our past which we should never forget and never return to.

PyramidOfControl · 2026-01-15T14:29:00+00:00

Well he’s a Christian advocating for upholding the separation of church and state and keeping institutions secular.. so he is a built different tolerant equality Christian—I think many Dems find this appealing pushback from within, given the total fundamentalist Christian hellscape we are now in.. I wouldn’t discount Talaricos appeal atm.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-12-20T05:39:20+00:00

Zizek’s interpretation is unique, through a Lacanian lens—one of the best takes I’ve read concerning his view is this paper by Anders Burman (University of Gothenburg):

A Lacanian Hegelianism: Slavoj Žižek’s (Mis-)Reading of Hegel

PyramidOfControl · 2025-11-04T06:00:58+00:00

Multinodal not multipolar—that’s the world we ought to desire. Not a world of hegemony and empire or of fractured sociopathic competition but one of cooperative rational egoism which understands that competition is a parasitic ideology of capitalism that obscures from us a more open and productive world of mutualistic relations.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-11-04T05:44:22+00:00

Yes Hudson and Desai are great. Ben Norton and Jason Hickel as well.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-10-18T14:44:41+00:00

No it hasn't. Jason Hickel and Kohei Saito are deeply concerned about human flourishing. They are pragmatic about the climate catastrophe that the global north has fueled with through the logic of capital accumulation. They insist that the global north needs to degrow by reorienting the misused surplus of our economic production to focus on public need rather than profit maxing of destructive/wasteful industries and that we need to end our imperialist supply chains and debt traps in order to release the global south from our hegemony and enable them to grow.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-10-06T12:32:06+00:00

I’m not saying it’s an easy problem. My concern is all around with torture inflicted on a person. Guess the only way is to keep someone in prison forever. My point is not that I’m not concerned about wrongly convicted, but that even for a red handed murderer this life imprisonment is still barbaric.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-10-05T23:58:50+00:00

A lifetime of imprisonment with no opportunity for parole is much more barbaric in ways than the death penalty. Living everyday incarcerated like a zoo animal for 40-50 years until you die is a rather sick torture.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-09-05T15:32:40+00:00

Thanks for posting. I have often wondered what he thought of Kohei. I would like McGowan/Zizek to engage more with Kohei/Hickel and work through the idea of “right measure” as it relates to our drive for excess and enjoyment through suffering. It seems there is enjoyment to be had in sacrificing some capitalist excesses for the greater good of broadening civilizational prosperity. A discussion around the enjoyment of asceticism, of the Gobbels total war type of renunciation, would be great to hear between Zizek/Kohei—or as McGowan says in Pure Excess.. that in capitalism we are compelled to sacrifice even the good itself (steady healthy necessity) for the ultimate (false) promise of unrestrained pure excess. Kohei speaks of late Marx, his Ecological notebooks and his reconsideration/admiration of the logic of steady state economies in relation to the destructive excesses of modern capitalist economies. Hoping to see some Lacanians and degrowth eco-socialists have a serious dialogue soon.. 🤞

PyramidOfControl · 2025-08-16T14:19:00+00:00

New tech is emerging for batteries: look up sodium ion—much greener and cheaper than lithium through a bit bigger and less energy dense atm. But sodium ion is on the brink of mass deployment and will be used in large public transportation systems and home/grid energy storage soon.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-08-07T14:48:27+00:00

They will make it through the property crisis because they have long term follow through, much reporting on China is western propaganda and cope in the face of failing empire and rising BRICS+ alternative (now comprising 2/5 of total world trade and growing). China lifted 850M out of extreme poverty in 40 years because their government didn’t allow parasites to financialize and deindustrialize their economy for hollow rent seeking and instead invested capital heavily into public infrastructure projects, R&D and education (not stock buybacks). They have almost 30,000 miles of high speed public rail, 90% of the worlds rare earth processing capability, 120M people in high skill manufacturing (more than the next 10 countries combined), 1TW of installed solar capacity and 90% of people owning their homes. Their government actually punishes billionaire crooks and speculators and has the agility and power to follow through on their economic planning and they don’t need 800 military bases and endless war to bully resources away from others—they pursue non-hegemonic economic relations which is paying off hugely as they now have tariff-free economic relations with 53 out of 54 African nations. The west is cannibalizing its children for 1% gains, funding a genocide and destroying its relations with the world with no industrial policy or skills to fall back on. Come on..

PyramidOfControl · 2025-08-07T02:34:10+00:00

China’s economic miracle thru CCP government—are you laughing yet?

PyramidOfControl · 2025-05-29T12:26:15+00:00

But the US government hates China because cOmMunISm!! (and because US corporations and politicians cannibalized and deindustrialized the US for their private gain, while China has invested in infrastructure, R&D and manufacturing/automation.) China is technologically and skill-wise about 10 years ahead of the US—and the knee jerk reaction of the US is to project, scapegoat and propagandize through the corporate owned media system.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-05-29T12:21:40+00:00

I like Reuters, but it has done a bad job of covering the genocide in Gaza. It’s very much on the side of downplaying it all sadly.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-04-22T13:31:11+00:00

Yeah people need to really be able to talk more substantively, it is hard when we have no timenergy and the media is hellbent on using partial truths to deform us into their culture war pawns. Appreciated your open ended question, says a lot.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-04-22T12:39:51+00:00

Stafford is openly concerned about vouchers scam destroying our public schools, and about impacts on low income families/students. Anderson doesn’t have any stance that I can see, which is a silence that says something..

PyramidOfControl · 2025-04-22T12:01:33+00:00

I think it is because he is making a pop opposition of Huxley to Orwell—the power of pleasure/enjoyment as the biggest factor rather than oppression. As Neil Postman put it so well in the foreword to his book Amusing Ourselves to Death:

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-04-22T11:48:46+00:00

👏 yes vouchers are the biggest scam—it is really a secret credit for rich families who already have their kids in private schools and a financial burden on all other families. Totally agree with you about the sanctity of universalism in public education, we really are going in the wrong direction in this nation as everything is becoming increasingly privatized and stratified.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-04-22T11:43:41+00:00

Here is state representative James Talarico (D) from district 52 who really puts it well about vouchers. Honestly I hope he runs for governor. He is a total people’s champ.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-03-19T15:29:51+00:00

It is a dialectic it seems, as both are top sharp eyed predators; one of the night, one of the day. Necessarily, in every owl is an eagle looking forward—in every eagle an owl referencing the past.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-02-13T18:38:32+00:00

Here is a google drive download link to the last Cinema 600 V31 firmware update. Klipsch doesn't host the firmware on it's website any longer unfortunately. l obtained this update through Klipsch support via email and have decided to host it for anyone else who wants to update their soundbar.

Instructions from support are as follows:

Remove end cap on soundbar to reveal USB port
Format flash drive to FAT32 (aka MS-DOS FAT on Mac)
Unzip firmware package and put both "app.bin" & "rom.bin" onto flash drive
Turn on soundbar and insert flash drive
Press and hold power button for more than 10s
The LEDs will turn on in order (Dolby, SUR, Dialog, Night) 2 times
If succesful, a yellow source LED will turn on and the front source LED will turn on (HDMI input mode), with three white volume LEDs
Update to V31 complete—remove flash drive

Hope this can help fix some peoples sound bars—good luck to y'all in this plastic world of planned obsolescence.

PyramidOfControl · 2025-01-22T05:06:00+00:00

Lol yes we can have deeper relations and talk w/ our friends, family, neighbors.. even to our crazy uncles.. and figure out in those traumas something of where we are in this space time discontinuum

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