eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️

Independent-contracted gig economist and Jacobin of all trades | IBEW LU 1917 ⚡️

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@BigMeanInternet Ossoff and Newsome are my gimmes for the centrist lane (with sparkly and very lawyerly crafted branding for the primary of course. AOC will be the sheepdog ‘outsider’ and maybe you get a genuine but small stakes leftish challenger

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

Who decided lies are sold in packs? And are there twenty lies in an american pack or is it only ten like in europe? that feels right, these a huge cheap abundance us ones and then an expensive but more refined European set

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@adamjohnsonCHI A whole generation aspiring to The Newsroom and West Wing but being cossetted from cradle to Pedigree University (with the expected enrichment in aspen and study-abroads, and internships by invitation only, of course)

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@nikhil_palsingh Look guys, I love the energy, but we can’t fall into the trap of turning any of that into policy or political action— that would be, uh…demagoguery, and that makes us just as bad as the other side. Just keep up the voting spirit— that’ll show em where the moral arc bends!

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@PanasonicDX4500 @LegoRacers2 Unfortunately I think his grasp of the theoretical and strategic differences between our grand traditions boils down to this

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@matthewstoller I wonder if there was an analogous domestic political response in the UK following the Suez crisis

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@Econ_Marshall Also what he says is just untrue. The vast majority of “political left” thought focuses on the primacy of labor in the creation of wealth and goes from there in various directions depending which strain of left thought you’re talking about

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

Worth a read ⬇️

https://t.co/DYq4fY5rMR

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@NicolasDVillar1 The problem post-Obama and post Bernie-2016 is that everyone is correctly fully cynicalized. Everyone knows that no matter how admirable the stated aim, our system will never allow such a thing to happen. Hence political nihilism on the left and revanchism on the right.

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@ljmontello There was precisely one (1) overwhelmingly selfish generation in modern American history, one whose entire education and culture encouraged total indulgence and greed and said that would benefit everyone maximally. It comes out in the QT— won’t everyone benefit by being greedy??

[David Sheen @davidsheen]

After tireless struggle by victims and finally a 1-hour TV documentary this week, settlements south of Jerusalem admit their leaders have long created child pornography by filming when they gang-rape kids in the community: "No longer in denial: Gush Etzion admits to ritual abuse"

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@rohanpaul_ai Oh good then you’ve solved the question of value and we can all sit around all day and pursue our passions or eat grapes, right?? We no longer need to go work for an employer in order to meet our basic needs! This is great!! Or do you mean something else?

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@alexjordanATL I wasn’t asking cynically I was just curious. Thanks for the answer

[katya schwenk @ktyschwnk]

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.”

Things only got more bizarre from there…

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

Leave it to the PFLP to release the hardest May Day posters every single year.

“Workers of the World! Unite to Smash Imperialism!”

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@GarlicCorgi What, we each only get two minutes in the caldarium? And you think people are gonna stand for that? Next they’ll tell us date shipments aren’t coming for the next two years and we’ll have to drink vinegar instead of wine!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Orcas have brain structures you don't have.

Neurobiologist Lori Marino's MRI work on killer whales identified a fourth cortical segment called the paralimbic lobe. It sits next to the limbic system and handles emotion and social awareness. It doesn't exist in humans or in any land mammal. In orcas, it's so elaborated it erupts into the cortex.

Their cortical limbic lobe, the region handling self-awareness and social processing, is exceptionally developed. Their brain weighs roughly 12 pounds, four times the mass of yours. They have spindle cells, the same neurons that let humans reason about other minds.

When an orca surfaces and locks eyes with you, it's running a social assessment with neural hardware specialized for exactly that. It knows you're a separate being. It knows you're watching it back. It's evaluating you.

Here's what should recontextualize the clip. In all of recorded history, wild orcas have killed zero humans. Zero documented fatalities. One surfer was bitten off California in 1972, and the orca released him the moment it realized he wasn't a sea lion. A 12-year-old was bumped in Alaska in 2005. The orca approached, touched him, turned back.

Orcas hunt great white sharks. They coordinate wave attacks that sweep seals off ice floes. They take down moose swimming between islands. They have every capability to kill you. They have never chosen to.

Marino's explanation: the orca neocortex is developed enough to instantly distinguish a human from prey. Other researchers point to orca culture, the traditions passed through pods across generations, in which humans simply aren't food.

That look is recognition and restraint. From a mind built for social cognition at a scale your brain can't reach.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of mainstream media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @MECAForPeace. Thank you!

https://t.co/lYZoBRpCjz

https://t.co/QUo6elFsBQ

[eldritch colby🔻🔌🛠️ @cosmoprole]

@as_a_worker Get him outta here, he ain’t cut out for this