Julius Nyerere

Binadamu na maendeleo

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

Someone told me he thinks dating apps are bad because they let you access connection without having any motion in your life. Normally meeting people requires going out into the world, entering new scenes and navigating unfamiliar situations. You have to be living a life that brings you into contact with other people. Dating apps let you order connection without doing any of that work

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

I rarely agree with Rahman but this is consistent with what many people have pointed out about LFI and its internal culture: no serious interest in governing, despotic, personalist and centred around JLM, happy to mislead the public about policy, entirely theatrical, self-serving, cynical charlatanry, and, yeah, likely willing to fan unrest even in the knowledge that it might fuel support for the far-right, if it puts them in a better position to grandstand. Not that they are to blame for the escalation, but I resent the credulity of the anglophone left that has thrown in their lot with them, just because JLM babbles something about 'the creativity of the youth' and Guetté is 'slaying' holding a cigarette.

Just a total surrender to the worst bourgeois radical impulses which have kept the left irrelevant and obsolete: a focus on the rhetoric, theatre and aesthetics of activism and street politics, married to arcane theorising and academic solipsism.

[Charles @wotancore]

Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@HedgieMarkets cc @sameer_singh17

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

People need to understand this: these billionaire tech bros teach their children Montessori and Waldorf methods which focuses on teaching kids the ability to focus for long periods, think critically, and be creative, while they push attention-destroying short form videos and AI onto the masses and pretend it’s for the good of humanity.

They understand that your ability to focus and be creative is the main factor of success in the future, yet design apps that degrade those crucial life skills. The average person must be aware of this and resist this at all costs.

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@TaylorLorenz Have you seen this: https://t.co/gxenyyjODo

[onion person @CantEverDie]

now a deleted post, but this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

[afra wang @afrazhaowang]

a great @NewYorker essay by Becca Rothfeld on the humanistic reasons behind the anti-AI movement: AI is arriving too early in young people’s lives, and they fear it will prevent them from growing into fully fledged humans—in a sense, an existential threat.

https://t.co/J1is56CrdF

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

A French high school teacher suggests that a phone ban helped lead to riots https://t.co/vDBHc3ipdO

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

One thing too much of the left and center have in common: they seem to think that political compromise/moderation is aimed at *your enemies*, to persuade them

The center naively treats this as possible (e.g. romanticization of Senate bipartisanship), the left as impossible.

But of course to the extent Zohran is placating anyone with his particular version of moderation/compromise on Israel, it is the much quieter and more numerous group of normies who are *not* rabid Islamophobes or hardcore Zionists, but who have a variety of normie beliefs like “I don’t like Israel” and “I don’t like Hamas” held simultaneously.

Yes, dedicated political Zionists will call literally anything and everything antisemitism as it suits them—you can never satisfy them, and this is making “antisemitism” an increasingly toothless accusation—but most normal people still think antisemitism is bad, and have their own internal map for when something/someone crosses the line. That line might not be where the left would like it to be, but Zohran is clearly trying not to trip over it. Not the line his *enemies* draw, which is impossible to be on the right side of, but the line his *voters* draw, which is something more ambiguous but also more possible.

None of this is to say you have to like or agree with his mode of compromise so far, but it is important to understand the idea behind it and the audience for it. You’re never gonna persuade anyone to take a different tack if you can’t understand the motives for this one.

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@MonicaLMarks @ZohranKMamdani Zohran be like

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Something which makes me suspicious: People who are hyper-realist on some foreign policy issues and hyper-idealist on others. E.g thinking both 1) In the interests of peace, Ukraine should come to some compromise settlement with Russia, whether or not all their sovereign territory is returned (hyper-realist) and 2) The only acceptable outcome in the Middle East is a single secular Palestinian state where jews and Palestinians live peacefully side-by-side (hyper-idealist).

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Nobody actually needs a personal AI assistant. The average screen time in the US is 7 hours/day. people have plenty of time. There's no evidence that freeing up more will lead to anything but more tiktok scrolling

If anything daily life needs more offline friction

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@madeleineebaker @j_ckh_ns_n Very much so!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

There exists a martyrdom of those who offer their lives in a single moment, and the more hidden martyrdom of those who give their lives day after day. This is exactly what all Christians are called to do: to give our lives with love, every day.

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@j_ckh_ns_n So if I’m following: the dialectical move is Hegelian, in that theism and atheism remain caught in the same opposition, just as idolatry and its negation can. The critique is to overcome the terms themselves? Which is also why resurrection/materiality matters?

[Benjamin Fogel @BenjaminFogel]

The left is missing anger, rage and the type of mobilization on specific issues against the people that fucked the future. Instead, it settles into a sentimental affect and aesthetic of militancy without posing an actual threat or scaring the people responsible beyond moral panic

[Julius Nyerere @mwalimujulius77]

@arash_tehran Says more about "Israeli liberalism" than it does the Green Party, no?