As the the constructed spectacle collapses into its own contradictions, people will become desperate for some other way to understand the world. Some will grasp at the answers provided to them by capital, but that is a diminishing pool.
In many ways these demographics can be seen in the polling regarding Trump and the Dem establishment. This is why the success of demsocs in the recent primaries is such a huge threat to capital. It represents that narrative control is actually crumbling. Many people are already off the script, and this started mostly with BLM and COVID, escalated with Palestine, and now the war on Iran and global oil crisis will push it even further. The primary wins in NYC are most troubling because that is the representative keystone of the capital. "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere."
I think the focus on the online experience creates a false reality, because that is the entire point of the algorithmic apparatus, to reinforce the capitalist realism. Does it work on some people, most certainly. Yet it can also be undone when material reality contradicts that false digital spectacle. This is certainly a especially dangerous time because capital is getting increasingly desperate to reassert itself in powerful materialist ways, but that ultimately unmasks the spectacle even more. Capital can't have its cake and eat it too basically. So the more things clamp down materially, the less effective the narrative control becomes.
So it's sort of a grimdark bloomer perspective that I take. Things will get worse, but it will inevitably sharpen the contradictions. Now there will be a portion of the population that is diehard for capital, and that will likely cause friction and flashpoints and potentially devastating fires, but I don't believe these will be controlled burns. The silver lining is that people ensconced in narrative control are less likely to be materially effective in the ongoing struggle. If they are comfortably online and unbothered by all of this, they are not likely to be forces to be marshaled for the benefit of capital.
That's my hopefully perspective, but maybe it's just my own copium talking.
Thanks for the context. It makes a bit more sense now, but I agree it's not quite a worthy tagline.
e: and of course PJ is there to completely misconstrue the point of the post quite nefariously
a rom-com of sorts that's actually pretty good
also fair warning it's pretty dark in some parts but quite wholesome overall
~~Alligator Auschwitz~~
Crocodile Concentration Camp
I guess we will likely find out how much China AA tech has been made available to Iran during the MOU pause in the near future. I'm also curious how much jet fuel the US has in reserve at their peripheral bases currently, and how many long range sorties they sustain can until there's just not enough fuel anymore.
"The enemy must understand that if they target even a single piece of Iranian infrastructure, everything that has so far remained untouched solely because of Iran's restraint—every piece of infrastructure throughout the region—will be destroyed," the spokesman said.
The western powers desire to control oil in the region has a long history. A major upheaval is currently in progress.
Vote No Matter Who!
"I've been coming for 10 years and I've never seen a pass like that in my life," Ashley Korn told WEAR. "I literally thought we were going to be taken out by Blue Angels, but it was amazing."
Death cult gonna death cult I guess.
So it has nothing to do with the recent riots in Lyiv against conscription? I figured that might be a factor.
U.S. Hosts Conference on 'Far-Left Terrorism' With Representatives From Over 65 Countries: What to Know
list of the countries that attended in some capacity:
spoiler
The countries with officials present were Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.
Mexico and Colombia are cool. There's a few sort of surprising ones in there, but it's mostly just 
Might have to update the emoji eventually if sending officials amounts to anything. Call out any other "cool countries" not attending besides the obvious ones (AES) below.
https://time.com/article/2026/07/16/far-left-terrorism-conference-us-rubio/
"They Live" will remain relevant until capitalism is dead and buried.
O poopiful for spacious balls
For amber waves of piss
For poople mounds on testicles
Above the poop-filled floor
Pig poop his balls on thee
And brown thy balls in pooper-hood
From taint to shining cheeks
So I've been dabbling in the LoRa Mesh networking world for a few months. The meshnets are created between Long Range radios (LoRa), and there are two common protocols/software layers used: Meshtastic (MT) and Meshcore (MC) for basic text messaging. The radios use public frequencies (915 Mhz in the US) that can propagate over many kilometers if there is line-of-sight between two nodes. Generally the same hardware can be firmware flashed to support either option (but not both at the same time).
Meshtastic is the earlier version, and it is very much focused on a non-hierarchical network topology. With MT, every node is also a repeater/router. Now this can be configured in many different ways per device, but the main idea is that the meshnet is fluid and adhoc. This makes sense in some contexts like off-grid coordination, search and rescue in remote areas, stuff where the meshnet is made up of a small number of nodes that are mostly moving independently in a localized area.
Meshcore differently uses dedicated repeater nodes along with the end user "companion" nodes (same hardware with different firmware). So the meshnet is made up of these repeaters (generally fixed in place) that relay messages between companion nodes that do not repeat by default. It is much more suited for urban and suburban contexts where there are more users and many fixed repeaters across the area.
There's a sort of case study from the San Fransisco Bay Area where the early adopters initially tried to create a meshnet based on MT, but later transitioned in mass to MC because it just worked better for the context of the area and use cases.
This reddit comment summarizes their experience:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonomacounty/comments/1rmuuvq/comment/o93ogmh/
This is all just to give some context to my main purpose of this post: different network topologies and organizing principles and how they work in different contexts.
In many ways the guiding philosophy of MT is based in a fairly strict understanding of the anarchic perspective. This can be really useful to prove out how a flat org structure can work at a small scale. The problem arises particularly for MT in that when every node is also a repeater/router the airwaves start to get saturated pretty quickly as the number of nodes scales up. The frequency space is the common resource that the meshnet has to manage effectively and efficiently to function.
MC resolves this issue by introducing a minimum of hierarchy with dedicated repeater nodes. This reduces the overall saturation of the common frequency space pretty well, because the companion nodes (users) don't usually reach too far on their own. So by having these repeater nodes in strategically fixed positions around the geography for line-of-sight coverage, you get a network topology that is a bit closer to the traditional cellular network. It also uses some thoughtful routing algorithms to reduce unneeded message propagation noise. Part of this relies on "paths" messages take across the repeaters. If one node is sending direct messages to anther node in range, then repeating is not warranted. If the other node is at an unknown path, MC defaults to a "flood" routing mechanism while trying to send the message. Once a path to the other node is found, it becomes the default for subsequent messages until that path fails, then it reverts to the "flood" routing again.
TL;DR:
It's an interesting illustration of how adhoc fluidity can be very functional at a smaller scale, but as the scale grows it is often necessary to implement some minimal level of justified hierarchy to keep things functioning effectively. It's also a nice reminder that technology is socially embedded, and understanding the sociological aspects of its context and use cases is very much a dialectical process.
Found this comment on a post about how China is "doing capitalism better then the west, socialism is achieved through capitalism, etc".
I was expecting some weird takes in the thread, but this was beyond parody.
most of the instances are offline or admin only login last I checked
A hamfisted character name for a CIA agent if I ever saw one.