“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” - Victor Hugo | @popcornquartet @cobeses @corcererols @decanendi
"the human brain has yet to adapt to our world" is a weird way to say "the system we set up to make a handful of people extremely rich generally sucks for everyone else"
"scientists don't want you know" is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know
“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”❤️🩹
I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.
The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.
i hate how the current conversation around heatwaves is planting trees for shade and getting aircon rather than how are we gonna stop the temperatures from increasing even further
The marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea continues to escalate, with water temperatures now up to 7.4°C (13.3°F) above normal.
Waters off the coast of Italy are now locally exceeding 28.5°C (83.3°F), downright tropical.
This is one of the worst June marine heatwaves on record for the region. Expect increased humidity on land and significant impacts on marine life.
@annamasm Bon dia, per anar de Granollers a Manlleu has d’anar fins a Sants, d’allà agafar el tren fins a Fabra i Puig, enllaçar amb l’autocar fins a la Garriga i continuar el trajecte fins a Vic i tornar a agafar un bus fins Manlleu
🔴 Incident greu a la Sagrada Família: La seguretat expulsa i encercla 600 cantaires en descobrir-los estelades entre les partitures.
🔶 Tots els detalls, ací ⬇️
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I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.
The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.
This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.
The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.