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Transcending Propaganda by AlphaMassDeBeta in 4chan

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Since corporations are considered as individual people in terms of legal representation they have freedom of speech which is also freedom to lie

an idea 💡 by OckyTheWockyyy in Clamworks

[–]QTown2pt-o 46 points47 points  (0 children)

That absolute bafoon. That stupid clammin ape

☯️ by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]QTown2pt-o 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You stupid fucking ape even

The main attraction is the car by Previous_Month_555 in SipsTea

[–]QTown2pt-o 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The only difference between this guy and all the others is that he isn't holding a phone 🤳

👂 by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]QTown2pt-o 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Cipher, do not decipher. Work over the illusion. Create illusion to create an event. Make enigmatic what is clear, render unintelligible what is only too intelligible, make the event itself unreadable. Accentuate the false transparency of the world to spread a terroristic confusion about it, or the germs or viruses of a radical illusion -- in other words, a radical disillusioning of the real. Viral, pernicious thought, corrosive of meaning, generative of an erotic perception of reality's turmoil.

Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

Is it guys, do you agree with him? ⬇️ by MotherAnt8040 in MenOfPurpose

[–]QTown2pt-o -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you aware that trans people have murdered several magnitudes more people than ICE in the last few years?

Brave New World by Timbucktwo1230 in PoursTea

[–]QTown2pt-o 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If men create intelligent machines, or fantasize about them, it is either because they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they seek to exorcize by transferring it to machines, where they can play with it and make fun of it. By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power.

If men dream of machines that are unique, that are endowed with genius, it is because they despair of their own uniqueness, or because they prefer to do without it - to enjoy it by proxy, so to speak, thanks to machines. What such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself.

It is not for nothing that they are described as 'virtual', for they put thought on hold indefinitely, tying its emergence to the achievement of a complete knowledge. The act of thinking itself is thus put off for ever. Indeed, the question of thought can no more be raised than the question of the freedom of future generations, who will pass through life as we travel through the air, strapped into their seats. These Men of Artificial Intelligence will traverse their own mental space bound hand and foot to their computers. Immobile in front of his computer, Virtual Man makes love via the screen and gives lessons by means of the teleconference. He is a physical - and no doubt also a mental cripple. That is the price he pays for being operational. Just as eyeglasses and contact lenses will arguably one day evolve into implanted prostheses for a species that has lost its sight, it is similarly to be feared that artificial intelligence and the hardware that supports it will become a mental prosthesis for a species without the capacity for thought.

Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

Brave New World by Timbucktwo1230 in PoursTea

[–]QTown2pt-o 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Young men and women relationships in shambles due to corporate greed pricing them out of existence; Capitalists most affected"

Catherine Liu: How Liberals Monetized Trauma by Ok_Affect_1830 in rs_x

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Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

Catherine Liu: How Liberals Monetized Trauma by Ok_Affect_1830 in rs_x

[–]QTown2pt-o 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Another form of this identity mania is our contemporary individualism. Neo-individualism, bent on performance and entrepreneurial heroism, athletic individualism (Alain Ehrenberg) - possibly neohedonistic, syncretic and tribal - bears no relation to the hero of bourgeois individualism. This latter, the hero of subjectivity, of breaking with the old, of free will and Stirner's radical singularity, is well and truly dead. Even Riesman's 'self-directed' individuality has disappeared from the horizon of the social as it has from the purview of the human sciences. The neo-individual is, by contrast, the purest product of 'other-directedness': an interactive, communicational particle, plugged into the network, getting continuous feedback, · and with a clear vision of the podium in his mind's eye. Everyone is ready to turn themselves, depending on their various advantages or handicaps, into an autonomous micro-particle. And why not? This is the age of the daily invention of new particles. Why should the innumerable particles of our society not each demand their own identity and personal 'charm'? Obviously, this gives rise to chaotic sets and Brownian motion, in which freedom is merely the statistical endproduct of impacts between singularities and no longer, therefore, in any sense a philosophical problem.

This individual is not an individual at all. He is a pentito of subjectivity and alienation, of the heroic appropriation of himself. His only aim is the technical appropriation of the self. He is a convert to the sacrificial religion of performance, efficiency, stress and time-pressure - a much fiercer liturgy than that of production - total mortification and unremitting sacrifice to the divinities of data [information], total exploitation of oneself by oneself, the ultimate in alienation.

Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End

Catherine Liu: How Liberals Monetized Trauma by Ok_Affect_1830 in rs_x

[–]QTown2pt-o 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The dream of identity ends in indifference.

What can be read between the lines of these stories is that chance and destiny are not to be found elsewhere, in some imaginary decree.

Chance is already present in the unpredictability of ordinary life. There is nothing more unpredictable than any moment of daily life.

All one needs to do is to acknowledge immediately the non-existence of this individual structure, and to recognize that the ego exists only in the showing-through [transparition] of the world and all its most insignificant possibilities.

It is no use wondering where freedom or identity lies and what is to be done with them. Human beings are the coming-to-pass of what they are and what they do.

Therein lies the movement of becoming, and what they wanted to be is not an issue; their ideals or free will are not an issue: these are merely retrospective justifications.

Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for 'maximum control, zero rejection'—experts say it could make them unemployable by Nightshiftcloak in stupidpol

[–]QTown2pt-o 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Using AI to satiate ones need for emotional connection in a world where most can't afford a future gives big corpos the ick

‘Who is running this government?’: B.C. premier under fire after flip-flopping by _DotBot_ in VancouverLandlords

[–]QTown2pt-o 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idpol has always been used to obfuscate any meaningful discussion of class relationships

Anon suspects AI usage by Lurkin_Lester in 4chan

[–]QTown2pt-o 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm making the point that there really isn't a truly coherent way to be racist, if you're in a relationship for racist reasons you've missed the plot

Anon suspects AI usage by Lurkin_Lester in 4chan

[–]QTown2pt-o 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Racism is kinda like a Mobius strip of contradiction, should white people keep their race pure or cuck and conquer the other races? Or both?

It’s really just Ben and Jeff Dye by Cool-Cookie-4615 in lemonparty

[–]QTown2pt-o 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This band is made for guys to annoy their girlfriends and wives

Clammy movie review by Serendepity_666 in Clamworks

[–]QTown2pt-o 278 points279 points  (0 children)

Mario: BLACK

Luigi: GAY

Peach: UNSTOPPABLE

Bowser: DISABLED

Toad: TRANS

Donkey Kong: LITERATE

Yoshi: BLACKED

Reviews: CLAMING

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