arne ness
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researching oil, technology, and capitalism
Joined August 2020
unironically he's making history as the first hoodie and shorts guy to be elected to the senate in US history. it's an extremely underrepresented group.
John Fetterman will officially be the next US Senator from Pennsylvania, defeating Dr. Oz (NBC)
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genuine q: what are the democrats doing currently lol. is there any organized effort to fight against any of these executive orders? or is it just gonna be aoc handwringing with jon stewart.
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as we all know, restaurant chains love to employ people full time.
If a couple both worked at this pay rate full time, theyād have a household income of roughly $90,000. Hot labor markets are so awesome!
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been thinking about this. what gets me is that the chess pieces literally arenāt all the same
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remember that columbia guy who was mad the student protests were interrupting him from playing cageās 4ā33ā in class lol.
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iām genuinely starting to think these people have a radically different perception of human experience than me.
Not to be too much of an AI Doomer but I just had a FaceTime call with a near realtime ChatGPT-powered AI avatar and it wasā¦surprisingly human. Anyway, I recorded it. This is the actual response speed, itās very fast. (You can also hear me kind of lose it towards the end)
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āin muslim cultures they consider physical humiliation a grave moral affrontā yea you mean like everyone on the face of the earth. thank you dr arabist.
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are we just not gonna talk about how this is the guy who stood by and watched as those two kids drowned in the hudson river a few years ago.
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do i need to pull out her essay against desegregation again.
This is āMargot Robbie is midā, but for philosophers.
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ātruly foreign languageā is maybe the best trumpism to date. deeply majestic phrase. evocative of ontological incommensurability.
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has she failed her first test yet.
Read my full statement on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
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some of the most pristine spines iāve ever seen.
Guys really live in apartments like this.and don't see any issue
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i donāt think anyone is appreciating how funny it is for the richest man in the world to put up stock equity as collateral on a loan at like 5x the value of the principal.
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cannot be overstated how completely irrelevant all the culture war stuff is to how american universities actually operate. there is one ideology being manufactured here: that students are customers paying 20k+/yr to minimize opportunity cost. nothing to do with marx or pomo.
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interesting thatās probably how iād do it too. scoop it into a bucket.
This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano. š½: USGS
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āš„„šā is one of the most depraved combinations of handle emojis iāve seen in a long time.
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president xi sir please do this over new jersey ššš.
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this is an argument for degrowth btw.
Every left-winger should have their eyes held open and be forced to watch this on repeat until it sinks in.
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I miss when weād call things natural disasters and mourn and unify under our shared innate powerlessness under nature and God, knowing control was never ours to have.
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marx failed to consider ideology.
marx convinced everyone that groups act differently because of different class and economic interests but they actually act differently because their mental hologram of reality is different.
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you fucking people i swear to god
Wow. Kamala Harris signals big shift on Gaza after talks with Netanyahu. Says she 'will not be silent' on suffering there, told Netanyahu of 'serious concern' over casualties and aid, tells him it's 'time to get this deal done'.
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āall labor is skilled laborā as a left-liberal rally cry is what happens when not only do you confuse analytic distinctions for moral evaluations but then go on to reconstruct the notion of labor by attaching it to fundamentally bourgeois ethical commitments.
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weāre never getting socialism bro.
āDo we need bananas under socialismā discourse clearly split between parents and non parents. You childless freaks can go eat your bone marrow and sushi but some of us need bananas year round.
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every humanities work written in the past 30 years begins with lip service about how history is not āteleological,ā capitalism is not a āmonolith,ā and categories are āconstructedā and āporous.ā it is hard to even tell who they are arguing against anymore!.
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brother youāre talking about ethnic cleansing. youāre providing the definition of ethnic cleansing.
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there are simply not enough phd holding leftists writing for new media outlets to get this mass working class mobilization off the ground.
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i don't think zuck has done anything more endearing and humanizing in his entire adult life than telling elon to stop fucking around and fight him in this text. that elon seems to think zuck looks like lame here just adds to zuck's integrity. incredible to see honestly.
I got this text message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT showing a screenshot of some text messages in which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they should fight this Monday at Zuckerbergās home in Palo Alto.
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saddest thing i've ever seen - old man who appeared to be a regular perfoming johnny cash's "hurt" for karaoke at a bar in anchorage, alaska.
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we have reached a new low in gifted kid discourse.
found old high school physics tests. fuck i used to be kind of smart but now iām just a dumb bitch on the internet.
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excited to announce the pre-publication of my new paper where i weave together the thought of foucault, derrida, deleuze, marx, frank wilderson, donna haraway, sylvia wynter, judith butler, gramsci, walter mignolo, mao, and lenin to justify voting for joe biden.
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why is everyone tweeting out their jacobin article pitch about this song.
Fast Carā was always a sad song, but in 1988 when it released, you arguably *could* run away with your partner and make a life on the salary of a grocery-store checker. 35 years on it reads as much sadder.
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man i hate this lowest common leftist denominator mofo.
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fiction is low information density. poetry is an extremely inefficient means of dopamine release compared to CoD MW3. and don't even get me started about the opportunity cost of hanging out with your friends.
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everyone reveling in being more abused and exploited than they perceive the starbucks worker to be. what an insane masochistic culture of work we all live in.
Trans Barrister has meltdown because 8 hours is too long to work on a day.
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really really evil stuff. very dark times ahead.
The philosopher Bernard-Henri LĆ©vy wrote on X, āI keep reading everywhere that Lebanon is 'on the brink of collapse.' No. It is on the brink of relief and deliverance.ā.Moments like this come once in a generation, if they even come at all. The Middle East is too often a solid.
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blood and soil is when there is even the slightest friction posed against the otherwise basically unconditional free movement of white tourists across the entire planet.
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@looksbizarre yea they seem very, very obsessed with their media strategy rn and not like, the NIH ceasing to fund research.
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big land grant universities turning into student cities has caused irreparable damage not only to the surrounding communities in which they are embedded but to the general mission of higher education.
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all i know about banana discourse is that if you canāt imagine a world where your desires are fundamentally transformed you should just drop the socialist pretense from your life. youāre fine with how things are, you just want more of that.
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āmy plans for the summer are to write an essay opposing desegregationā. āHannah Arendt.
"You see, my plans for the summer are no plans." . ā Hannah Arendt
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you really donāt have to do this.
Is it just me or did Ella Emhoff manage to appeal to almost every sexuality within 3 nights in 3 wardrobes?
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LIFE STILL IN COLLEGE.as a 30-year-old grad student. -get up at 10am.-twitter.-eat a sandwich.-look at email, make blank drafts of responses which i will 'get to later'.-start writing but then get scared and read instead.-make big pasta.-read wikipedia pages.
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hate this shit so much we need a real estate crisis so badly.
My friends bought 34 acres of Ohio wilderness. While hiking one day, they stumbled upon a dark, dripping cavernāand decided to pour their life savings into it. Today, it's one of the world's most profitable airbnbs. The waitlist is years long. Here's the story. š§µ
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this is so funny man. china is too good at this itās not fair.
"China is now simply too large. ". Addressing a news conference in Beijing, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen decries Chinese "industrial overcapacity,ā reflecting anxiety that China is outpacing the US in the development of green technology.
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cantonese is a microdialect spoken by the residents of canton, ohio.
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why did this get so many likes. how is this relatable at all.
dating apps are hard because iām looking for someone intelligent (positively signaled by having gone to top university) but also not locked into a rigid and scientific materialist view of value and ambition (which top universities are designed to inculcate). what to do.
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unironically i think about mr. beast a lot. he is paradigmatic of Content in a way that i find really fascinating. totally devoid of creativity, AI-like in its uncanny, derivative nature, and i mean self-consciously so, in that the only thing that matters to him is Engagement.
Yeah Iāll be honest the āMr. Beast does Squid Games at scale of $100 million productionā does make sense in this moment but itās just so profoundly evil I donāt even know what to say about it. Nothing anyone will ever say will make me think this dude isnāt the devil.
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being a cop is a form of being a person.
@Erin_R_Hoffman Being a cop is a form of being a person, people hurt people, there isnāt a special way to be a person that guarantees you wonāt hurt someone else.
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this will be an official olympic sport under degrowth communism.
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things sure are getting hitlerian around here huh.
"Homeless" isn't a state of affairs; It's practically a separate breed of person and you have no chance of "becoming homeless" any more than you would become an NBA player.
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students by and large do not think of themselves as having any sort of stake in the university anymore than they have stake as consumers of apple or amazon products/services. universities have done everything they can to cultivate this identity and they have been very successful.
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even if you disagree with what bushnell did, he is unambiguously a political actor and worthy of engagement as a political actor, not an object of pity for your mealy mouthed 'mental health' discourse.
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when religion comes up among twitter marxists, they ādefendā it primarily because they think it can be instrumentalized toward non-religious ends. now iām not a religious person, but this seems to me supremely offensive to what is at stake in religion for the religious.
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'natural limits' are going to impose themselves on us whether we want them to or not. the question is whether they will be consciously or unconsciously mediated. much of the 'ecomodernist' position is about refusing any responsibility in making that decision.
Today I wrote about one under-appreciated facet of climate change: fruit chaos. Think tiny, low-sugar peaches. I regret to inform you that stonefruit summer is on shaky ground.
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it's not gonna kill you to stand up and put your heart on your chest and recite the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of the meeting, comrade. stop alienating workers. just be normal.
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we all know that one white boy who puts on his best latin american accent to say "colombia".
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love the alpha replies on this. no bigger tell that you have literally never been outside than acting like drinking untreated stagnant water from unknown sources is nbd.
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these are the basics for politics.
@WhickTv these are the basics for politics, i'm pretty sure everybody knows these two. the first explains why governments are the way they are, the second, societies. and cgp grey has good short form videos explaining them both if you're lazy
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iām calling it now: islamo-gauchisme is gonna be the next big thing. weāre all gonna be goin to hookah bars, wearing breezy, comfortable tunics, and starting salons where we read kanafani and saadawi to each other. weāre gonna make usury illegal, mandate zakat and islamic banking.
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grad students be like āgrad students šā but they be the grad students those grad students be like.
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genuinely find this mockery confusing. the tactic is occupation. committing as many social activities as possible into that occupation, including apparently apolitical ones, is meant to help it endure, else it gets boring and people leave. there is nothing frivolous about this.
Columbia University students think this dance will somehow āFree Palestine.ā
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i shouldn't get riled up about this but the whole indigeneity vs. marxism rehearsal today is so deeply confused on both sides. it's not about 'magical connections to the land' it's about empirically demonstrable better practices of land stewardship. fire management, for example.
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all of the nonsense about entitled woke college students canceling stuff or about the unis being hotspots for radicalism. i can tell you at big land grant public schools, the backbone of the american postsecondary education, none of that is happening to any significant degree.
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hi š historian here. and honestly, iām pretty confused about the present. looks nothing like the stuff i saw in the archive. i have nothing insightful to say about anything going on right now, really. just feeling lost, scared, and alone. where am i?.
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submitting self-immolation to an empty means-ends analysis or a meta-discussion about what is not 'tactical' is such a fundamentally unsympathetic and superficial interpretation of the act. it's so bizarre to me to take this shitty correctional attitude.
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when ganz says the assassination was "reddit" what he is really saying is that the thought that an act of political violence could be sincere and deliberate scares him deeply.
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the 70s environmentalist movement is maligned by industrialist sycophants of various stripes who always ignore the actual living conditions against which that movement was very reasonably and practically struggling. hard to understate how bad air and water quality was getting
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the plankton thing is reaching new depths of despair for me personally.
if i think a second too long about how much of the world we are sleepwalking through rests on a total denial of climate and ecological science i get a sharp bitter feeling.
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major cope im afraid. real ones buy books they donāt read but also have no need to rationalize it.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:. "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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many american socialists seem to have a view of science and technology basically equivalent to that of a child playing minecraft.
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protip for new grad students: after someone speaks in seminar, no matter what they say, respond ābut iām just wondering whatās at stake hereā¦ā.
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imo this book is another example of me wondering why anthropologists go out in the world and bother some random group of people for a year when what they end up actually wanting to talk about is just some euro-american philosopher. in this case peirce.
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it's always pretty amazing to me how the thing that i'm presently interested in is actually the key to understanding everything.
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marx thought this lenin thought that. doesn't anyone care about what i think.
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white guy alone with his thoughts moment.
āLand backā is incoherent because āindigeneityā is one of the most pernicious social constructs out there. How one defines ethnic-based title to land is hopelessly arbitrary, and even when it isnāt, it provides little practical guidance to the resolution of contemporary conflict.
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how dare you challenge my trite, reactionary convictions about social life. do you even know who i am. i've gawked at abject poverty literally all over southeast asia. you have no idea what i've seen
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i think thatās beautiful
Taylor Swift's whirlwind romance with 'soul mate' Travis Kelce has produced 138 TONS of CO2 emissions in three months - and the singer would need to plant more than 2,200 trees to offset the damage
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it's very funny to me to still be treating latour and foucault as like holding out the promise for a better humanities. brother, you guys ARE the humanities! you won!.
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in all seriousness it is unconscionable to publish this in the midst of a bipartisan consensus to militarize the border and deport millions living in this country, and no 'patriotism is good as long as its pluralistic' is not a good response to this situation. get a fucking grip.
Communist and working-class parties of the past century were deeply rooted in the traditions, history, and culture of their respective countries. This left-wing national identity combined love of homeland with the need for friendship among all peoples.
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