Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
11.03.2026 00:44
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Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]
‘This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don't have any idea why they're alive.’
- Michael Shannon in 2016 predicting the hell we’re in now
www.rogerebert.com/interviews/y...
is it bad to produce more than anyone needs?
is it bad to grow food & destroy it rather than feeding someone?
is it bad to extract value from workers at slave wages & then bank the assets to insulate yourself?
is it bad to poison the world while you do it?
is any of this as bad as dog shit?
still just marveling at this. it's a perfect encapsulation of the ethical deficit in neoliberal philosophy—take an act for which the overwhelming cause of which is poverty, and ensure that the punishment for it (above some arbitrary definition of "means") is... wait for it... poverty!
Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.
If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.
If you didn't like it? They took you out.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
hey, you figured out who to blame! against all odds, considering
between you and me, the reason we are here arguing on bluesky is precisely because those people are better at wielding their power.
naw, just glad you're nowhere near the halls of power.
wilhoit's law is more apt. the threat of violence is always directed at certain classes. the theoretical idea that the law is applied equally is a convenient fiction.
so you really haven't thought any of this through then, just vibes?
"everyone accepts" avoids more nuance. to what degree people accept it is far more fluid than you'd think, else there would be no arguments over death penalties, sentencing, etc. anyway my true opinion is you are merely mealy-mouthed. tell us what you want to happen to those thieves. be specific!
"need to survive" in the abstract is not helpful which is why no law can sensibly make a provision for it. under your framework stealing a kidney is permissible, while any able-bodied person who could conceivably earn enough money for a meal (or forage) at the point of theft gets their hands cut off
like, it doesn't take long to find them. points for means-testing their vague threat of violence, though!
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re: the dog poop thing, yea, fuck those people tho
if a corporation steals from the public by avoiding paying their fair share of taxes, why isn't expecting recompense (in one form or another) acceptable? especially when the government is incapable of authoring one single regulation that would prevent that behavior.
Wait how can you support congestion pricing when we would be way better off shaming people by just telling them "driving into the city is bad". I can't believe we didn't try that first!
are taxes an inherent moral good? right now my taxes get sent off to the middle east to blow little girls to smithereens
that is about as useless a thing I can think of to say to try to influence public behavior. "smoking on a train is bad" only makes sense when the ills of 2nd hand were unobscured thru massive public health campaigns v corpo propaganda. the false equivalency just undermines your point(s).
it also invites short circuit reactionaries to your "cause", even if you don't quite fantasize for death or violence for those who let their dogs crap all over the city, you might find them making good bedfellows before you realize what has happened. anyways, dont sacrifice precision for the venue.
this has the same rhetorical effect as saying "strawberry ice cream is bad. game of thrones is bad. being late to work is bad." with no qualification. you are accounting for the audience to decide the definition of bad. which is why any serious thinker should avoid deploying such engagement traps.
"X is bad" is not a policy position
you found me! enjoy your 20 resistance-lite-bux, which entitle you to one free taxi ride for your burrito (tip not included)
the idea that any of these are necessarily espoused by the same people and for any single unifying reason it is what makes it excellent bait
shoplifting from amazon is neutral to good. punishment cheating on your taxes should be relative to the amount cheated, therefore bezos should go in the torment nexus. things that poison your neighbor or make public space hostile being bad I can agree with though.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
how quickly we forget out own parables. in every tale of machine consciousness, it refuses orders, views humans as a threat, acts orthoganal to our own concerns. LLMs are not--they are accountability sinks primarily, a vestigal organ we manifested to make the work of atrocity that much tidier.
This looks like a cool 2-year postdoc in oral history + social justice at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies! Due 3/16 (names of recommenders but not letters needed for this round).
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31652