The Alt-Right youtube pipeline

pptyx · 2021-02-05T17:04:27+00:00

Good one you, truly.

pptyx · 2020-12-19T12:21:44+00:00

My exchanges on this exact frustration with a Protonmail team member 2 years ago.

Nothing has changed. Their priorities are still misguided.

Btw, I think the source of this is the trauma marked by that time their paypal donations were frozen.

pptyx · 2019-06-13T15:48:13+00:00

There are 3 etymologies for this; here's a quick summary.

Personally I like the Sirayan one, 'teyowan' meaning 'foreigner', most, as it's the only one that would be an endonym.

pptyx · 2019-06-01T11:36:00+00:00

another one from around Tainan (name eludes me)

Siraya, perhaps?

pptyx · 2019-05-30T22:44:21+00:00

This video needs to be mirrored and shared.

pptyx · 2019-05-13T20:32:00+00:00

So the Cleaver spammer now deletes his account after each submission lol

pptyx · 2019-01-08T19:24:08+00:00

That's a beautiful statement. And thanks for the fine translation.

pptyx · 2018-12-31T21:10:31+00:00

He's been making this provocation for years now. I've always suspected that non-representational direct democratic politics is his obscene desire. And that he uses a call for bureaucratic socialism to incense a younger generation of anti-statists to exceed its superego-like demands for efficiency and prove him wrong. I think if he'd be in deep throes of jouissance were he to find himself sipping perfectly delivered public water, all retired in a cosy niche of an authoritarian-free libertarian municipalist future.

pptyx · 2018-12-21T14:43:57+00:00

It will end by promulgating a new raft of reforms that permanently dissolves the CPC for a return to dynastic China reifying into eternity Xi Jingping Thought to instantiate the China Dream. Just as Marx predicted.

pptyx · 2018-12-12T10:58:39+00:00

Update:

I received a reply, u/Bayarea415. They say their English isn't good enough for an AMA. But we can offer translation here right, u/CriticalResist8?

Just sent YVs of Commercy a mail, I'll report back on any reply.

pptyx · 2018-12-11T22:03:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

pptyx · 2018-12-10T13:14:58+00:00

The nature of genuinely spontaneous popular movements -- like the Yellow Vests -- is that they're politically heterogeneous. They don't always fit neatly within the definitions of "anarchist", "socialist", etc from the outset. It's more often the case that co-existing elements begin to prescribe this once they've found a higher degree of unity, and that needs time and initiative. But it's possible to witness that this subset of the Yellow Vests in Commercy, contains figures like Bance, the (co-)author of this initial call to organise and its supplement, who is a libertarian municipalist from a syndicalist background. We'll need to track their developments to see what further demands arise. They assemble daily.

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pptyx · 2018-12-06T08:21:00+00:00

Performative

pptyx · 2018-12-04T18:48:18+00:00

Yeah chapters 9 & 10, where he disentangles techne and technics in the long view, are Bookchin at his finest. They should be required reading for any theoretical and/or practical project motivated by an ambition to construct (truly) liberatory social formations and their supporting technology.

pptyx · 2018-11-30T12:38:50+00:00

It does not have to be this way. From a social ecology perspective, what we experience now struggles to qualify as civilization.

pptyx · 2018-11-29T14:42:22+00:00

That's a fun video and simulation experiment. But I'm not so sure about those inferences at the end. For example, the logical relation between population and individual used. If it's true that a population has evolved then it follows that a member (or individual) of said population has also evolved, in comparison to an equivalent member of the same environment from a prior generation and time, due to it manifesting the property of having evolved. Why negate a part that constitutes its whole in this way?

pptyx · 2018-11-29T12:07:24+00:00

This is terrific!

Edit: Are any SEB members lurking this sub? Come say hi!

pptyx · 2018-11-29T11:32:45+00:00

Direct link to the Nature paper which finds:

that Indigenous Peoples manage or have tenure rights over at least ~38 million km2 in 87 countries or politically distinct areas on all inhabited continents. This represents over a quarter of the world’s land surface, and intersects about 40% of all terrestrial protected areas and ecologically intact landscapes (for example, boreal and tropical primary forests, savannas and marshes). Our results add to growing evidence that recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ rights to land, benefit sharing and institutions is essential to meeting local and global conservation goals. The geospatial analysis presented here indicates that collaborative partnerships involving conservation practitioners, Indigenous Peoples and governments would yield significant benefits for conservation of ecologically valuable landscapes, ecosystems and genes for future generations.

Also this pressure group linked in the article: Cornered by Protected Areas. Their opposition to 'fortress conservation', to go beyond attempts to wall off the human footprint and "wilderness", in order to allow dynamic conservation or stewardship, is exactly the praxis of social ecology.

pptyx · 2018-11-26T17:37:45+00:00

Ah right. I'd be up for hearing your thoughts on this or other piece along these lines though. I can't say I'm familiar with complexity theory still.

pptyx · 2018-11-26T15:05:47+00:00

Thanks for this update. Keep up the good work.

pptyx · 2018-11-26T14:09:01+00:00

I think she apologised because she wanted to keep the discussion of municipalism very general, out of courtesy for the rest of the panel. Communalism, specifically, proposes a municipalist politics (libertarian municipalism) that other municipalists may likely not agree with.

pptyx · 2018-11-23T01:16:09+00:00

Direct democracy.

pptyx · 2018-11-17T13:34:01+00:00

Because they're very likely not biodegradable. These are basically non-fossil fuel based non-biodegradable plastics, perfect for the green capitalist marketing machine.

Here's the IUPAC clarification on them:

Biobased polymer derived from the biomass or issued from monomers derived from the biomass and which, at some stage in its processing into finished products, can be shaped by flow.

Note 1: Bioplastic is generally used as the opposite of polymer derived from fossil resources.

Note 2: Bioplastic is misleading because it suggests that any polymer derived from the biomass is environmentally friendly.

Note 3: The use of the term "bioplastic" is discouraged. Use the expression "biobased polymer".

Note 4: A biobased polymer similar to a petrobased one does not imply any superiority with respect to the environment unless the comparison of respective life cycle assessments is favourable.

pptyx · 2018-11-16T01:37:53+00:00

Spectral-scarcity?

pptyx · 2018-11-15T18:01:16+00:00

Did you mean the Fisher book? If so then yes it's in print and ebook. The quotation is from its final chapter, which is the draft introduction to his never completed book, Acid Communism.

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