Posts by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
(DIR) Post #AXSy75avhUCqDL1cFU by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2023-07-07T22:34:36.994735Z
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@adachi
(DIR) Post #AXV802woX05DpqSgRE by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2023-07-09T00:05:21.477236Z
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@comebackkid44723 @HeavenlyPossum @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs Disregarding for a moment the issue of whether they are opposing anarchism in good faith or not, I don't know if their argument really requires this much attention and effort.At the end of the day, what they are arguing is what every individual who supports the existence of the state argues- that is, that the state is necessary and good. The state must be either the source of a significant amount of good things, or be a safeguard against a significant amount of bad things, in order to justify its existence.In this case, their argument is essentially that the state- as a centralized organ which controls a large territory through institutionalized violence- is necessary to prevent the emergence of violent actors from both inside and outside that territory, and to prevent that territory from being taken over by those who would institutionalize violence in order to establish control of the territory.This isn't even an internally coherent argument. If the goal is to prevent the emergence of rulers using institutionalized violence to dominate and control the masses, then having a ruling body which uses violence to dominate and control the masses is directly opposed to that goal. It is an instant loss. You've failed before you even started.But getting into the question of good and bad faith- I think it's inevitable that the proponent of this system would disregard the shocking incoherence of their stated position, since generally speaking they leave unstated a number of axiomatic assumptions which make it coherent, because they assume these axioms are universal and that everyone is on the same page as them. In reality, they view the violent coercion of the masses as a necessity; they oppose 'warlords' only insofar as those warlords represent a social group peripheral to themselves and their sensibilities. That is to say- Someone is only a warlord, is only doing violence, to the extent that that person isn't entrenched within hegemonic structures. When they are part of hegemony, their violence is 'the rule of law'; the 'warlord' becomes a politician, a police chief, a corporate executive.What they are actually saying is- hegemonic violence is necessary, because otherwise the subaltern might do to us as we are doing to them.Bringing up the historical record and showing how people can and have opposed the imposition of violent structures of rulership without needing to impose their own version of the same will never satisfy the person, because it's addressing only the portion of their argument they're willing to say and not the unspoken elements which make it coherent.Functionally, what we're looking at is a dog whistle. There's no point in responding to a dog whistle with a serious argument, because the whistler's goal was always just to whistle.
(DIR) Post #AXvovWbw9EPgvj7ZnU by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2023-07-21T17:12:00.638313Z
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Watching people get fed up with Bluesky as it continues to be a corporate website run by right wing libertarians, and feeling the urge to start shilling xf to the cooler people on thereI will not, though, since most people on there are well above the allowed level of horny for this fine fedi instance :v
(DIR) Post #AXvqga2dJK2H8ObrZQ by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2023-07-21T21:48:36.328769Z
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@kyouu "Not so much it would make the admins uncomfortable"this is less a rule and more a courtesy thing
(DIR) Post #AaHM2Vz6dBOGMXRUbQ by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2023-09-30T00:52:06.111163Z
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Dianne Feinstein may be gone, but the impacts of climate change will be with us forever.
(DIR) Post #Aok55d6uOVtIyRNTw8 by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2024-12-05T17:17:10.007214Z
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@Mondobizarrro @cannibal @destroy @Nizzy @Sophia I mean, for radfem in particular, IDK
(DIR) Post #AqmWaie2oivzgBr1MW by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-02-04T16:57:27.952696Z
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oh right I should like, share my patreon posts and stuff when they go public have my incoherent ramblings about a story for children I guess?https://www.patreon.com/posts/reviewing-island-121075374?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
(DIR) Post #AqmWarrqWmK2HbNfcm by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-02-04T16:58:09.022097Z
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I should probably just post on here more often in general tbqh
(DIR) Post #Aqt0JK1tFKyRzEO6yW by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-02-07T20:10:41.059464Z
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Read an article he wrote a couple months ago and it crystalized a critique I have of him https://www.patreon.com/posts/brief-thoughts-121743584?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
(DIR) Post #Aqt0JRDUWbPgHEryWu by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-02-07T20:11:54.898672Z
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for those who aren't willing to read the post on patreon (it's a public post but whatever):In light of some of his recent commentary, I think it would be interesting to consider Peter Singer's work, 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality.'In this book, Singer argues that if it is within your ability to save someone from death and suffering, and you fail to do so, then you are a fundamentally immoral person. This is used to support a more conditioned argument; that in order to address famines, wealthy individuals should donate money to charity, specifically charities which provide famine relief, as long as it does not significantly impact their wellbeing in a negative way.There is an interesting sleight of hand here. The argument slips from a statement which is more or less positioned as a universal standard, to a highly specific and limited form of action which can be easily tolerated by a wealthy capitalist elite- that you should donate some money to charity.Pause. Let's put a pin in that.On November 14, 2024, Peter Singer joined many other 'progressives' in discussing what had caused them to lose the election. In his article, "What Progressives Must Learn From Trump's Campaign," Singer posited that a key element of what had lost Democrats the election was the Republican's focus on 'transgender ideology.'To quote the article,"Progressives face an acute dilemma. Should they stand up for every cause that they believe to be right, irrespective of its importance compared to the other issues at stake, or are they justified in taking a more centrist position on some less significant questions on which they have been unable to win over an important section of the electorate? In my view, our focus should be on the issues that matter most to the world as a whole." Postmortems in the months that have followed seem to indicate that what lost Democrats the election was not a preponderance of support for the transgender community, but instead that it was Democrat positions on Gaza- and in particular their enabling of genocide- which lost them the election.Much has been said about how difficult it is to argue against Singer's position in Famine, Affluence, and Morality. But perhaps, in arguing against it, we should look to Singer himself- given it would seem that when taken out of the context of donating to charity, and when in the context of political action, the question of whether or not it is necessary to act to prevent death and suffering is suddenly a less significant question than whether the electorate can be won over to support you, and whether this death 'matters most to the world as a whole.'This should not be terribly surprising. As observed in Julietta Singh's work, 'Unthinking Mastery,' liberal humanitarianism must necessarily have a blind spot towards the greater political-economic system of capitalism, which both enables the liberal humanitarian to engage in heroic missions to save the abject, while also creating the very same conditions of abjection which they 'address' with their charity.If we were to take Singer's argument seriously, then we might very well apply it to the issue of the rising fascist movement more or less openly seeking to exterminate trans people, or the matter of the genocidal war crimes occurring in Gaza, and conclude that there is a strong moral obligation to do whatever we can to prevent death and suffering- and that this obligation requires direct political action. We might even argue that, in the case of famine, much of it is engineered by an exploitative system of wealth extraction, and that therefore we have a moral obligation to abolish that system of wealth extraction and thereby ensure that no famine will ever be engineered to enrich some at the expense of the many. This would represent a utilitarian moral argument for the abolition of capital- at least, so long as we're willing to do away with conditional elements like 'as long as it's not too much of a bother'.But perhaps there's no need to take Singer's moral framework seriously.After all, he clearly doesn't.
(DIR) Post #Ar0hvmSXPbg948EXB2 by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-02-11T13:26:28.679654Z
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Something interesting I've noticed in anarchist spaces is that when you talk to a social anarchist about health you always get this narrative of becoming a hero and fighting against evil, and when you talk to an individualist it's typically about keeping your affinity group safe.It's just funny because based on the narratives people share about anarchist tendencies you'd generally imagine things going the other way around, you know?
(DIR) Post #AseXhFoCuB9f27dfF2 by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-04-01T07:01:31.691188Z
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Comrades, in this time of strife we must come together and form the revolutionary vanguard(s) of the future.
(DIR) Post #AseXhNjBSjtFarLlWS by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-04-01T07:11:15.805802Z
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Embrace Marxism-Leninism-Mercenarianism and form a Private Mercenary Cooperative (PMC) today!
(DIR) Post #AsnKanWHtYwV0jYoym by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-04-05T21:10:11.175126Z
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You know, it strikes me that one of the weirdest elements of supply chain discourse is that every time it happens, it feels like the basic expectation that everyone brings is that self-organizing systems can't scale and that centrally managed systems are the baseline which everything else should be compared to.Meanwhile, in the real world, attempts to organize economic activity by a central management entity have all had significant problems at large scales, while the self-organizing economic framework of capitalism operates on a global scale.It'd be one thing if this was just, like, a state communism vs anarchism thing, but it's not; liberals and even some anarchists presume that centrally managed economics are the baseline, and that self-organization hasn't been proved at scale.I mean, like, I don't want to imply that capitalism and the market economy is an ideal system here, but people do realize that supply chains and stuff are an emergent characteristic of business relations and not, idk, created by Supply Chain Steve, the Guy Who Creates And Manages All Supply Chains, right? We know that self organizing systems can operate at a global scale because the current hegemonic system, operating on a global scale, is self-organizing.
(DIR) Post #AsnKavMejFzXLB7F4q by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-04-05T21:40:48.352249Z
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Like I guess you could argue that the capitalists organize the workers, and there can be some truth to that, but how do capitalists organize among themselves? Generally, it's by contracts, agreements, and other such means- meaning that b2b relations are not the result of companies being 'managed' into a supply chain, but are instead the result of those business actively self-organizing, with the 'supply chain' being a product of that self-organization.
(DIR) Post #AsnKeRKOLViDLHjVoW by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-04-05T22:21:41.758710Z
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@rowb1t @kittenlikeasmallcat IIRC it was 'providence' or something but yeah, Smith argued that even though the petit-boug were motivated by profits and self-interest, their actions still serve to benefit the common good 'as if they were guided by an invisible hand' been quite a while since I read the wealth of nations, though. It was a funny read tbf so I remember several tidbits- particularly that it's pretty much exclusively advocating for the petit rather than the grand bourgeoisie, and has an entire segment calling landlords in particular (and all who 'draw rent' from the work of others without participating in labor themselves in general) parasites.
(DIR) Post #AvJz7NfmQFgWXHr4Vc by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-06-20T11:58:27.539564Z
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Ok, so, I've decided I'm going to re-teach myself how to code and stuff, with a long term goal of building a custom client for bluesky with some features I want (particularly, scheduled posts and bookmarks). But before I jump into that scale of a project, I'm going to start with something smaller.So, what I'm going to do is develop a plugin for Obsidian- a note taking app that I've been playing around with for a few days, after I was gifted a windows laptop by a friend- which has some features that I want.Specifically, I've been playing around with an idea for studying that I've been tentatively calling 'staged elaboration'- a combination of spaced retrieval and elaboration practice.Essentially, it's a combination of flashcards and short form essay writing.The basic idea is that you start by making a series of flashcards which cover topics and concepts you're interested in- so, much like a basic set of flashcards.Then, you stage in elaboration practice- where instead of just retrieving what you know about x concept, you write a short essay.The next stage is to form connections; so essentially asking, 'Is there a connection between X and Y concepts?'If there is a connection, then the next stage after that is to ask you to elaborate on that connection in another short form essay.Now, because this is operating on spaced repetition principles, you'll basically be asked to elaborate on the same concepts multiple times, so I also want to make it so that these essays are stored and then, in an additional stage, you basically revise them into a single essay.Obviously this is all stuff that you could do completely manually, and I think that if you did it'd be a pretty effective study flow, but I also think that it would benefit greatly from automating some of these processes.
(DIR) Post #AvULiNXaefJemoUdyi by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-06-25T09:48:32.627344Z
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someone in VC said that Zohran's key supporter demographic is white guys who say inshallah, and that this is the summer of the White Boy Intifada, which led to me having two realizations: Firstly, 'White Boy Intifada' is absolutely a band name, and secondly, every single person in that band is an irony poisoned trans girl.
(DIR) Post #AwOKL6ykbkhFMLkxZw by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-07-22T08:03:20.175174Z
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so what do we do when we encounter people who are at 'I want a serial killer gf to skin me and use me to make a pair of gloves so her hands are always inside me' levels of bottom, I want to slap them but I'm worried it would give them the wrong idea??
(DIR) Post #AzQP6PAOsDm0YimHBI by Sovereign_Beast@social.xenofem.me
2025-10-21T01:23:32.022254Z
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@nyx honestly every time I hear about the 'use case' for code generated by LLM I'm just like 'wait, isn't there a tool for that already' with literally zero exceptionsLiterally it's like, people are using a chatbot to generate code but they could literally do it faster by just calling an existing function from the library of functions available. Even if you have to look up the function to call, it's still faster. And because it's getting called from an existing library, unless something is broken, it'll just work!