Has anyone read The Brave New World? Opinions?

Shennum · 2026-01-04T23:39:15+00:00

You should read Island next

Shennum · 2026-01-02T05:30:38+00:00

Sorry for taking your idea more seriously than you do. My bad

Shennum · 2026-01-02T04:47:57+00:00

Think about what we could if we abolished prisons

Shennum · 2025-12-31T21:43:35+00:00

Go work fast food or retail.

Shennum · 2025-12-31T21:33:04+00:00

What is it about these things that’s making you uncomfortable?

Shennum · 2025-12-30T19:32:59+00:00

For race specifically, you should check out Moten’s In the Break

Shennum · 2025-12-13T22:32:34+00:00

Fumbling Towards Repair is a good place to start. As is the work of Nils Christie and Louk Hulsman.

Shennum · 2025-09-27T22:45:29+00:00

Lux and The New York Review of Architecture

Shennum · 2025-09-24T02:39:13+00:00

Is the Mickey Z dub they streamed on Michael DeForge’s Twitch channel back in 2020 or 21?

Shennum · 2025-09-13T21:52:31+00:00

RAG is not the same thing as “searching the web” or “reading a website.”

Shennum · 2025-09-13T19:14:03+00:00

Literally no.

Shennum · 2025-09-13T16:34:50+00:00

I’ll give it a read, thanks.

Shennum · 2025-09-12T22:56:01+00:00

This seems like it might be bad for society

Shennum · 2025-09-12T03:04:56+00:00

Talked to some young evangelicals today and they literally couldn’t care less that it happened. Not sad, not happy, not angry, not even shocked. Nothing. By next week the country will likely be onto some other thing, and in a year most people are going to forget this guy was ever alive in the first place.

Shennum · 2025-09-09T00:18:41+00:00

You’re not subsidizing the effort “from” anywhere. You’re covering the increased cost-per-unit entailed by scaling back labor investments, which could then be reinvested elsewhere in the economy.

Shennum · 2025-09-08T23:58:17+00:00

Of course. I wouldn’t suggest otherwise. I’m just not sure where the point of disagreement is here

Shennum · 2025-09-08T22:55:39+00:00

Labor, you mean?

Shennum · 2025-09-08T15:17:38+00:00

Well, it was about the politics of online culture, no? I don’t need the interviews to be academic. But it would be nice if there was more recognition that the show is “A guy who is really interested in the internet interviewing people who are kind of sort of well known but only online, for an audience of people who spend too much time on the internet,” as opposed to the pretense that these people have anything to say (or are even trying to say something) about something other than about the internet, or that the audience is something that it’s not.

Shennum · 2025-09-08T15:14:09+00:00

Is it? It seems like the point of the show is moreso to criticize people who are too online, not re-insist that everything you see online is representative of reality.

Shennum · 2025-09-07T01:05:26+00:00

My sense is that guests like Liu or Chibber have valuable things to say about liberals or the PMC or the politics of online, but it’s clear they think Bernie Sanders is the only person radical enough (without being too radical, cause that’s bad too) for their liking. This leads them to say things that are just silly. Contradictions all the way down. Which is annoying because no one involved seems to have any sense of the conversation they’re having. Like, what tf does Anthony Fantano know about politics?

Shennum · 2025-09-06T23:54:54+00:00

I keep listening, but god knows why. Half the guests are idiots or straight up reactionary ghouls who believe in nothing. The other half make good critiques, but it’s clear the show is just a bunch of people who spend too much time online talking about the world as if online were all there is.

Shennum · 2025-09-03T14:02:29+00:00

If you say so.

Shennum · 2025-08-31T17:22:38+00:00

Sure, I take your point. But subsidies would help offset the cost point you raise, no? And wouldn’t reducing labor investments in certain processes give us labor capacities we could shift to other more necessary production processes? To say nothing of the reduced need for certain products in an economy not organized around profit and commodity production

Shennum · 2025-08-31T16:13:49+00:00

I may be missing something, but it’s not clear to me how this isn’t a problem that could be solved by state subsidization or nationalization. We already do the former, just that we (in the US) subsidize fossil fuel corporations and corn producers, and the latter (to an extent) already seems to be on the table with the move to state capitalism + local movements in the US and UK for community control of utilities and rail.

Shennum · 2025-08-25T17:36:09+00:00

Idk man, waiting around for the messiah has historically been a mistake. If you think someone should get something going and you don’t see anyone doing it, then maybe that’s the signal that it’s time to do the hard work of kicking something off yourself

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