Alexey Shevchenko

This is all a test, and we are failing it

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

Christopher Hitchens

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@stewartbrand *and by "useful" I mean "steering the world in the right direction"

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@stewartbrand You are and forever will be one of my biggest inspirations. Your works have fundamentally changed the way I look at the world. And if any of it, here's hoping, ever results in something useful, I will attribute it to you. That I promise. Thank you for everything. 🙏

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@org_integral Yet they're all captured by the same dynamic of geopolitical rivalry - directly or by association.
And capitalism, especially deregulated, makes better rivals. For other forms to be as "effective", they have to be wrapped in totalitarianism.
Our entire economies are war machines.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@org_integral Peter I figured it out. It's not even capitalism. It's the war machine. Most our economies and the global economy itself are downstream from it. If the fucken thing isn't shut down within our lifetimes the planet is toast. Protesting/trying to change anything else is a dead end

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@org_integral Moreover: since it's a belief system, to say "capitalism works" is exactly the same thing as to say "Christianity works". There's a bit of truth to it, but at its core this framing is deranged. Belief systems don't "work": guiding principles do.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@org_integral So this perpetuation goes both ways: it goes bottom-up because there are people who share this belief system in the first place, and then it turns others into converts of this religion. Religion does the same thing.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@org_integral This time it's not just stripping social safety net, it's also building concentrating camps. This is a declaration of war, and millions of people are in the crosshairs. If the govt will be as violent as it promises to be - no doubt it will - it won't end well for the country.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

Don't we all complain about the machine while incessantly feeding into it

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

Well, the heavens are my witness, I tried to extend grace. The sad state of the music industry that forces musicians to make way too many concessions these days, big and small. I guess, for some, this is one of them.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@tedgioia Please consider shifting it somewhere else medium-term. I understand that it's hard and takes time to move your audience anywhere, but Substack is a Nazi money making machine these days, and to share revenue with them is suboptimal to say the least.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@tedgioia Please consider shifting it somewhere else medium-term. I understand that it's hard and takes time to move your audience anywhere, but Substack is a Nazi money making machine these days, and to share revenue with them is suboptimal to say the least.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

The sudden convergence of "radical left" and "radical right" over Gaza really makes one suspect that it was a psyop the entire time, and that both have been operating from the same building somewhere in Saint-Petersburg.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@frost7 @ecomarxi Oh you're one of those imaginary Twitter People™. Aight, sorry for wasting my time on you

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@frost7 @ecomarxi Yeah? So let's accelerate the whole thing instead, just in spite? Let's appoint a deranged autocrat so he could "finish the job" faster? While also censoring and terrorizing people at home, deporting protestors, etc? Let's completely blow everyone's chances for a better outcome?

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@jzellis I know it's a common trope that the Left is too divided and needs solidarity to move forward, but it's very difficult for me to not resent these people.

It's as if intelligentsia tried to increase productivity of gas chambers during Holocaust because people suffer for too long.

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@jzellis Much quicker than writing it from scratch in something like Go or Rust anyway

[Alexey Shevchenko @glassbeadsdev]

@jzellis I resent Node you have no idea. Not in the least because I have to work with it all the time.
But I'll take a look