Dwayne Monroe
@cloudquistador
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In this graphic, I visualise the likely impacts of oil shortages, caused by US/Israeli aggression, on the tech industry. The 'AI' bubble may pop for geopolitical and material, rather than purely financial reasons. The financial markets can pretend but supply chains cannot be fooled
About this, I suggest the book, 'The Accumulation of Waste' by Ali Kadri. Kadri's thesis is that death is commodified by and key to capitalism. Yudkowsky is saying this out loud
As the data centers burn, I imagine sharing a glass with General Martok
"Things are changing fast" the man wrote. He's right. Here's video showing the result.
Besides the boring, and common 'AI' tropes therein, the page creator(s) give us evidence of zero understanding of how systems function in this bit. For decades, people have explained how and why a reset to zero clears errors. What are they on about?
Currently reading this outstanding book which, among other virtues, foregrounds the real world application of dialectical materialism and the fact we are in a world war. mronline.org/2026/01/02/w...
Good indeed. I still have my first edition copy of 'The Mismeasure of Man' which, as a young, Black kid in the hostile US context, I studied and wielded like Thor's hammer against 'IQ' fetishists.
We mustn't merely critique tech capitalism, but, as @olivia.science has done with CAIL (olivia.science/ai) propose solutions. I'm writing a 'What is to be Done' pamphlet, inspired by Lenin's 1902 statement: youtu.be/C-eCCtzsiXY?...
Years ago, on Twitter, I shared this diagram I created that shows the reply doctrine I use. It also applies here
Like all such automations using lang models, this obscures and disempowers. To counter this, some friends and I have started a Signal Group, 'Dialectical House Party' in which, we study the Vietnamese approach - signal.group#CjQKILu9ytRs...
Your weekly reminder (the first of more to come) that one of this account's key purposes is boosting your good work - your essays, papers, videos etc. Send them my way for a repost. Making ex cathedra pronouncements is not enough; let's support each other's thought
Today is my birthday. Huzzah for continuation. In lieu of sending dilithium crystals, my preferred gift, needed for my..work, I ask for a show of hands: who wants to join me in making a zine? The topic: a guide to leaving 'the cloud' for activist orgs. Art thou in? Email dmonroe0707 at proton dot me
Precisely. The opening paragraph reeks of rancid, yet warmed over Brit press fetishization of Calif; as old as the supposedly new and 'innovative' firms that are worshipped.
I continue to read the accounts of people and orgs such as the Electronic Intifada, Justin Podur, Mark Ames, Ali Abunimah, Lilly Lynch and others who're carrying on in the face of decay. Still, it is indeed worse... this is what greets you as the app is launched
Reuters: 'OpenAI head and general fool, Sam Altman, desperate for "more electrons" turns for aid to one of Spiderman's oldest foes.'
The Trump regime is not the beginning of US fascism, it has always been oppressive, but the acceleration of a particular type. As @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social has proposed, MAGA's contradictions make space for other fascists to move. Enter Greene, who has crossed the Rubicon
Once again for emphasis. This time, with a graphic borrowed from classic Trek and a diagram of factors I cooked up a few years ago
It's interesting to note that the Italian originators of European fascism in Italy (where some of the most serious scholarship still happens) fetishized a mechanistic future of speed combined with a mythologized past. Current fascists, as Alberto Toscano states, lack even this.
Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'
To the other suggestions, I'll add: although I think it's important to read key works (certainly Capital) the aim is to understand the method which can be applied to what we see. I find this very helpful:
I use the term, 'political economy' to describe how to *materially* analyze the tech industry and its 'AI' push. Here, applied dialectics, from Ollman's 'Dance of the Dialectic' and my notebook visualization.
The simple beauty of this decades old, imagined interface almost makes me weep. We are forced to use stone knives and bear skins with a splash of paint and advertising...
Good luck indeed. What will these men, who've built almost their entire identities on a few companies, do when capital dries up and collapse follows? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Earlier today, someone wrote, as encouragement for dismayed US-ians, that Europe overcame fascism. I propose that this isn't the case, as near uniform elite support for genocide shows and, this, from Gabriel Rockhill: www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/t...
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