Hypothetically it would be interesting to get some teardowns of these devices and guides for repurposing them for electronics projects.

That was wholesome. Really cool and inspiring.

Yog, I’m getting a lot of good LLM tooling tips from you and wanted to say thanks!

Grayzone does actual investigative reporting from an anti imperialist position and as such I’m very glad they exist. I think we should read them with a critical eye, as we should when reading anything, taking what is of value and leaving weaker/incorrect bits. Grayzone and Max B sometimes give me libertarian vibes, but I feel like with the orientation of their work being mostly war/conflict reporting, any weird economic takes can be discarded. In that sense it’s actually very good Ben Norton and Max B went separate ways bc Ben’s work is much more focused on economics, so the outlets have different focuses.

Sidebar: I remember watching Aaron Mate and Ben Norton reporting together like 10 years ago on The Real News. Cool to see they both are still doing important work.

Wow it’s making sense now. I casually read the links threads and the China section usually has some “china bad” or “china gonna collapse” garbage. Also the smugness of her comment replies.

I found Prashad’s actual writing, which the guardian chose not to link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/03/on-the-emails-between-jeffrey-epstein-and-noam-chomsky/

I’m maybe around HSK2, native eng speaker. Here’s what I’ve done:

• mostly used HelloChinese (I believe this is very similar to duolingo)
• I browse xiaohongshu
• Pleco: dictionary and hanzi char meaning
• Recently I’ve been trying out comprehensible chinese. See the “Lazy Chinese - comprehensible input” youtube channel

They will be the last to attain class consciousness

Man I used to really like Jeremy Scahill, but Dropsite now clearly can’t be trusted. Why leave the intercept if you’re gonna start another shitty news org carrying imperialist water.

Thank you!

Very interesting. Can you share general sources of information that have helped you learn?

Surprising considering Allianz insured SS units, Auschwitz, among other Nazi properties https://shunins.com/article/did-allianz-insurance-auschwitz

How seriously did the West take denazification after WW2 if Nazi collaborators were allowed to keep operating

There’s absolutely no evidence they didn’t huff jenkem either.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with managers or management. Such a function is required if larger and larger teams are to work together effectively. Coordination, strategy, and planning are all valuable and sometimes cannot be effectively undertaken by individual contributors.

Probably plenty of managers are petty hitlers, etc. and plenty of managerial roles are set up to pit manager against worker by setting managers up as slave drivers, but it doesn’t have to be this way imo.

Lolll it’s the guardian, yes, there’s probably literally that rule written down at their office.

Im really enjoying your blog–thanks for the analysis and sharing.

Just curious, how did you read and digest a 700 page pdf?

In the back of my mind I’m thinking about how my retirement contributions are probably headed into oblivion. The likelihood of The Economy™ not taking its final shit before I’m at retirement age seems to be decreasing rapidly. At some point the people who liquidated their retirement accounts will turn out to be the smart ones.

I don’t know about the vegas shooting as it relates to rich people doing crazy evil shit and suppressing it from the news. Can you say more and/or point me to resources pls? Thanks

Tj Maxx suburbanite word art aesthetic.

Your reply here mostly describes my thoughts on the Sachs/Mearscheimer debate vis a vis “spheres of security”. Neither party seemed to me to be engaged in systemic analysis. Sachs’ thesis is normative and idealist and fails to take into account why the u.s.’ belligerence is increasingly unrestrained (decohering economic base). Mearscheimer kind of trots out his standard realist analysis which imo is mechanistic and can’t accommodate factors which don’t fit into the behavior of imperialist powers, i.e. also idealist.

That whole thing was kind of hard to listen to for me. Both of those two are useful in different ways but I thought that discussion simultaneously highlighted their limitations.

For ref https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9465503?scrollToComments=true