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German Idealism or, as I call it, indigenous Prussian ways of knowing
wally b kleeposting
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wally b kleeposting
@kleeposting
historical materialist, recreational dialectician
Joined November 2018
- Is still the best Sopranos tweet?
Finished Sopranos. I was spoiled about the ambiguity of the ending, but they couldn't have pulled it off any better. "You probably don't even hear it when it happens, right?" - I don't want to defend clap stomp hey music, its kitsch. But there was a certain honesty to it that quickly vanished in the layers of irony of the late 2010s. It was like a teenager's corny poem to their crush. People now don't sing about love in this immediate way anymoreWorst song ever made
00:00 - Saw a girl with a sticker on her laptop that said "Decolonize Berlin!" What does that even mean
Who needs art when math graphs exist?- sometimes i think that zoomers dont know that books exist and have 10x more knowledge on one page than the youtubers who take 20min to summarize a wikipedia article
- "Performative male? Don't we all perform our gender?"
- How I sleep knowing that AI will never be able to sufficiently understand Hegel and Adorno because dialectics and negativity are incompatible with its hardwired Aristotelian logic. AI is literally unable to process contradiction.
- Replying to @parismarxlooks like an absolute death trap. no ventilation, no emergency escape, and a lot of highly explosive batteries...
- The assumption that AI summaries can replace reading books boils down to the misconception that knowledge exists outside of language, instead of in languageSpending an hour asking ChatGPT about Adam Smith generally teaches you 3x as much as spending an hour reading Wealth of Nations. The undergrads are using AI because it's just a better, more efficient way to learn things
- Zizek touches on something important here that made me understand why I enjoyed working as a dish washer. It's less dehumanizing to sell your body in wage labour than your very subjectivity - your mind, judgement and creativity.
00:00 - Without any history left to worry about, it's finally time to game
