https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/conflict-with-iran-9.7109761

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-on-iran-28-february-2026

But but one Europeon nonentity said this is an illegal invasion, we can continue being smug

Bombs Iran

What did he mean by this?

If Jesus doesn't have their wallet key, flipping their table won't matter. The transaction is being conducted on the blockchain. This demonstrates how crypto is the future of finance.

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been educating ppl on falun gong, taking down posters, and throwing away every pamphlet I see from them lol

Small world

This is long but worth the read:

The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses. An AI might be able to code faster than you, but there is one advantage that humans still have. It’s called agency, or being highly agentic. The highly agentic are people who just do things. They don’t timidly wait for permission or consensus; they drive like bulldozers through whatever’s in their way. When they see something that could be changed in the world, they don’t write a lengthy critique—they change it. AIs are not capable of accessing whatever unpleasant childhood experience it is that gives you this hunger. Agency is now the most valuable commodity in Silicon Valley.

Somehow, this ended up turning into an invitation for Friday night dinner at Valinor, Alexander’s former group home in Oakland, named for a realm in the Lord of the Rings books. (Rationalists, like termites, live in eusocial mounds.)

Anyway, Eric isn’t involved with the underwriting firm or the venture-capital fund anymore. His new company is called Sperm Racing.

Donald was practically vibrating when we left Cluely. “Dude, he’s just a scared little boy,” he said. “He’s scared he’s not doing the right thing, and because of the fucked-up world we live in, people who should be in The Hague are giving him twenty million dollars. Something bad is gonna happen here, something really fucking bad is gonna happen.” He sighed. “I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs.”

I don't know whether to feel good or bad about this. Glad people are rallying in my community.

Furious that this is happening.

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re the employees helped arrange it into a big pyramid and then distributed it away.

Meanwhile in the USA: Pretzels in the breakroom (LIMIT 6)

He just like me fr fr

https://nitter.net/NathanJRobinson/status/2026806598039920958#m

LINK TO PDF/EPUB: https://archive.org/details/commune-or-nothing/mode/2up

LINK TO AUDIOBOOK FORMAT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KnOf1cWO9g

Several months ago I stumbled across this post. (This book has been mentioned several times by other users as well) Naturally, being a well thought out and earnest attempt at discussion on contemporary marxist-leninist theory and praxis in an extremely relevant area of geopolitics, it was promptly ignored and swept under a rug of streamer slop and twitter drama. So here I am to say, once again, this book is extremely worthwhile (and short! 190 pages) read.

The book consists of Gilbert’s accounts of his and Cira Pascual Marquina’s visits to a wide breadth of communal projects in Venezuela, while also examining the underlying theory and history that drives their creation. The communes that they visit vary wildly from rural, urban or even industrial and also differ in levels of development and organization. But they all share the same common ground in the highly dedicated and politically conscious workers that run them. Gilbert himself is not the strongest writer, often wandering into unnecessarily intellectual descriptions (that usually feature a reference to some sort of greek myth) and also bizarrely, for a single page, Marvel movies. But his accounts of the communes standout because he is not afraid to sit back and feature the voices of the communes themselves, which are often insightful and revealing of the strong grasp on theory that comes from its practical application.

The most interesting part of the book isn't its examination of the material realities of these communes, however, it is in the proposal that they could be the building blocks for a new kind of socialist transition. That through true "protagonistic democracy” and unalienating labour formed at the grassroots level, the communards of Venezuela are creating a movement that could not only survive any reactionary attempts against it, but also build into a more democratic socialist movement that could one day replace the state in its entirety.

Further reading:

Monthly Review issue on the communal project, featuring many of the same voices in the book.

Progressive International is currently doing a 2 part lecture series by Chris and Cira, which updates us on the communal movement of Venezuela, especially in regards to current events.

Link to the course: https://progressiveinternational.notion.site/The-Bolivarian-Revolution-and-its-Adversaries-Reading-List-2f7aef76238f80949ba7c0aee09064eb

As a side note, I’d love if anyone had anymore info on Chris Gilbert. All I’ve been able to find out about him is that he is presumably from the US and joined the Bolivarian University in the 2010s, and I’d just be curious what his story was.

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It is also considered an endangered craft. Some scientific instruments, if broken, cannot realistically be replaced in any reasonable time frame (or sometimes even at all).

People who take up glassblowing as a hobby are closer to being crucial to the world economy than most.

Just something to chew on.

It isn't like mind blowing or anything. But it sure is something.

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