C. Rawes

Threeconstruction

He's saying that you can't make America Great Again without breaking a few eggs

China bankrolling Putin’s war to gain advantage over West, MPs told Beijing’s huge support for Russian aggression against Ukraine part of larger threatening posture, air marshal tells Commons committee

China is now “bankrolling” Russia’s war in Ukraine providing “60 per cent” of the funds needed by Moscow to continue fighting.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/da5539f...

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

This is the disabled woman who was abducted by ICE. Utterly horrific

*Smashing my car up with a sledgehammer*

Why won't it go?

*Pouring sugar into the engine*

Really sliding into that competitive authoritarianism now

I feel like structure of concentrated power always reward and institutionalize practices that undermine virtue. Even so, it is shocking just how far it rewards psychopathy.

I'm going to risk the view that a whistle is going to be less re-traumatizing than a gang of masked thugs attacking and abducting you

The whole idea of transhumanism is to frame certain lives as departures from “ordinary humanity" or "nature" rather than as expressions of them.

There is nature but there is no singular natural order. That's just monotheism. What humans do is natural behaviour. Transgenderism is no more or less natural than anything else we do.

It's too late. I've already depicted you, etc.

Meanwhile, I don't think they realise how much university wellbeing services, which aren't funded by fresh air, are absorbing and containing much of the complex mental health care that the NHS can't get too

Will Stancil is Just Some Guy. I don't understand why we all need to have opinions on him or hear other people's opinions of him. This is my one and only Will Stancil related opinion.

Not to be too simplistic about it but the people who didn't think Trump was a serious threat to liberal society are just too stupid and credulous to ever take seriously again. I don't even think you need to say more than that they were simply spectacularly wrong about something very obvious.

ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it

I am dragging my anchor

a portrait of Zhuangzi

I thought her view was that socialism provides the institutions that more properly realize the values that are usually associated with liberalism?

Oh shit, for real?

Because their powerful blonde sinewy (not sinewy, not sexy) bodies wouldn't tolerate less? (I'm not hot for blond beasts, please don't put it in the papers that I'm hot for blond beasts)

I worry that what is now necessary but unpopular will then become popular but impossible

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Honestly, you might as well start shooting heroin

I say this as a temperamental pessimist whose also fairly convinced many of our more pessimistic analyses are probably correct: pessimism is a deep well of poison that should not be given into

Virilio was always one of my favourite critical theorists and I never thought he really got his due. Still have a soft spot for him. So much of what gets talked in terms of the existential risks of AI and climate are really in the shadow of his concept of the integral accident.

Hard to tell if Anders' anthropological transformation of humanity is more or less pessimistic than Virilio's dromological one

This framing is crude and dangerous but it certainly feels like it describes something real

It's starting to feel a little like there are those on the side of civilization and those who would tear it down.

UK loses measles elimination status, warns WHO Vaccination rates in 2024-25 among five-year-olds who had received both MMR jabs hit the lowest level in 15 years.

Arguably more significant than defections, internal party politics and the Beckhams…

In 2024 there were around 3,600 suspected cases of measles.

We need to challenge the nonsense spread by anti vaxxers and ensure children are protected.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

news.sky.com/story/uk-los...

I'll never forget seeing Curtis Yarvin in 2016 complain that Trump and the alt-right weren't his men because although reactionary, they were too demotic and too activist. Essentially, I felt confident in seeing Trump as a fascist in 2016 because the king of the NRx crowd was saying it.