Consciousness creates riddles without solutions and then puts Age 2+ on the box.

I'm not 'endorsing' the below sentiment (I'm neither Israeli nor Jewish). But this kind of out-group hardening was an entirely predictable consequence of the way the loudest voices in the 'pro-Palestinian' movement have persistently denied the humanity of Israelis and Jews.

I think the lesson of liberalism is that ideas which persuade themselves they are inevitable end up dying on the vine. Because what is inevitable doesn’t need to be effortfully maintained, nurtured or defended.

RT @BarakRavid: 🚨🚨🚨Trump: There is real starvation in Gaza - you can't fake that.

The banality of mostly everything.

RT @faniaoz: My new opinion article is not only about “How to spot an antisemite”, but also on cutting through the pro-Palestine / pro-Isra….

It is not really a surprise to me that, now that it has been reported that the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight, the until-now private jostling between Israel and the Sauds (and co) for the WH's favor on the regional day after has led to this kind of conflagration.

So have we just accepted from the reality of LLMs is that there appears to be a deep, structural isomorphism between the patterns of human meaning and the patterns of abstract, relational geometry?.

I am pro-Union in principle because I think the ability to enter into voluntary associations to further mutual self-interest (within the law) is both an observable reality (humans do this) and a necessary consequence of the basic principles of liberty (or 'classical liberalism').

Since I apparently have nothing better to do, I'm going to use this bit of off-season 'inside baseball' NFL news to make some observations about labor, organizations and governance. It's a problem that all our social, political and cultural critiques are so siloed (silo-ized[?]).

As someone who is extremely pro-Union in principle, but is often disillusioned by the too common institutional failures of organized labor, I hope NFL players, given their resources and influence, take this opportunity to demonstrate the necessity of member-driven governance.

Semiotic hubris: The conviction that the symbols a system uses to describe the world are more real, more important, and more true than the world they are meant to describe.

As predicted, the mea culpa tour has begun.

Saudi Arabia have thrown their full weight behind Shara'a—notable detail that Shara'a has 'standing' to call MBS directly. I half-joked earlier that this read-out was a de facto declaration of patronage, but I'm finding it hard to describe as otherwise.

What is happening in Syria has the potential to make very public, and therefore maybe even bring to a head, the so far mostly private diplomatic three-way between the US and both Israel and Saudi Arabia on what the future of the region looks like.

Interesting way to declare patronage.

'LLM psychosis' seems to be a kind of supercharged apophenia-folie à deux mix in which a 'free thinking human' and a semantically-blind sycophantic machine play a game of chicken unknowingly.

E.g. When Debord at [3] defines the spectacle as the whole, the part and the unification, he is really describing an actual occasion which flattens the process that generated it into a single, ephemeral, apparently Parmenedian representation.

To some extent I wonder if Debord in Society of the Spectacle gave a near perfect description of the ontology of existing within Whitehead’s actual occasion - a product of the process but formally ignorant of of it and its place within it.

The 'conspiracies' distract us from the reality that, taken even at their most naive, the minimally agreed facts reveal that our 'elite' institutions and their occupants were liable to infiltration and manipulation by what was, at best, two sociopaths engaged in a folie à deux.