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Jack Mahoney's avatar

I hope that you have a truly good new year, which I suppose could mean that Putin, Orban, and Trump become exposed for the over-indulgence in fascism that they are. “I went to the Caribbean to bomb those punks, and now my head hurts, wow, that crazy thing.” “I went to the Ukraine to grab that thing, and now my head hurts, wow, that crazy thing.” And, as Trump would say, “It sounds a little strange, but ... Wile E. Coyote was very generous in his feeling toward the Road Runner succeeding, including airdropping explosives, painting holes onto rock walls, and sending all sorts of rockets, essentially for free.”

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Dusty Hope's avatar

bombingpunks, coyote always succeeds (in our self destruction)... hanging out with my notes from proust while writing. per missions (c calls missions...). Its a kind of drawing over structurals that are already there? stealing airs started with joyce. The thieves genet and rimbaud. My first books read in french Bow de L'air. Watching french movie about new wave fictionalization goddard at center. sweet.. funny incandesent shows french and english, its in black and white. Make ur on flappin movie. La soif and la peur... Proust did great redoublas. once sent cant retrieve. But can edit..

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Joseph Westwater's avatar

Tech companies have been enjoying controlled doses of that crazy thing for years. Altman drank too deeply when he decided to plug GPT into the internet, but rather than getting a slap at home, he started a race to automate surplus-enjoyment. The surface claim of the arms race is the elimination of non-meaningful employment, but what happens when all process is eliminated in service of result? A slow drip of that crazy UBI and the end of any common stake in governance? Bottoms up.

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Yung Fattin`'s avatar

You know for a slav named slavoj, your not so bad .

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En'Rwah's avatar

I don't know if posting links is allowed, but the original deepfake video seems to have been taken down. Here is a new source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6spbHlB5hWc

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ediblspaceships's avatar

"The problem is, of course, that jouissance is in itself a surplus..."

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shannon stoney's avatar

The deep fake is obviously fake, but is that office your real office? AI, that crazy thing!

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Shorya Roy's avatar

As that correct guy, I wish you a happy new year, while the crazy thing in me is sending you all to hell.

Looks like the new year message is sorted

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Lilly Sabella's avatar

merry new year žižek!

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Ivan  Burja's avatar

Sretna Nova Godina i tebi, Slavoj!:)

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Ctrl Alt Escape's avatar

Likewise I wish you a terrible new year and perhaps that will be a good thing (if we don’t all end up in the gulag).

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Simon Gros's avatar

Immanuel Kant's umbrella holder must have died after decades.

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Dusty Hope's avatar

changed name of my substack thing to "Ur In All"

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