Parsani

Commies always asking for cost of living adjustments to their wage, but once a hardworking, salt of the earth lumberjack wants one, its a problem. This is because of woke.

Just over the last few years it went virtual reality, blockchain and crypto crap, and now chatbots.

What will the next fad be? I'd like to know so I can convince one of these VC ghouls that they should give me money for vaporware.

Literally a money laundering scheme

Original post was by a right wing loser, but the libs came out strong in the comments: https://twitter.com/SteveLovesAmmo/status/1757873952850870389

Tldr, graeber is a lib but also a state socialist.

For the first time. Damn I slept on this. It's great, front to back 10/10. I've of course heard New Noise, which is excellent, but never listened to the rest for some reason.

Were they communists or anarchists? Either way I now follow The Refused Party Program.

Just finished this today. I had read Psychopolitics before and wasn't a big fan even if I didn't find it a bad book, but the Burnout Society was very interesting. There were some parts, even core parts of his argument, that I did not agree with, but the majority of it was compelling and put into words a lot of things I had been thinking about. It starts slow, but gets better as it goes and he builds out his ideas. The last chapter was likely the best one, but the short bit on rage really hit me in the "lib civility will probably destroy the world and everyone in it" feels.

Anyone recommend any of his other books?

An interesting paper on planning dealing with the Iterative Economic Planning and Optimized Selections system (I-EPOS), which I am not familiar with.

While this is clearly from the "communizing" perspective, it is worth the read. It seems to be partially set up against the TASS (Towards A New Socialism/labor voucher) perspective, but does not throw it out in dealing with optimization of raw materials/labor/energy/demand on a large scale.

There do seem to be issues here which are glossed over a bit when trying to think about this at scale and considering commodities with especially long or complicated or difficult or dangerous production chains. And of course the typical "communizer" issue of the, Imo, mypoic obsession with the "value-form" and seemingly ignoring the far larger political issue before such a techno-political solution is relevant in any way shape or form (though the latter is something shared among many/most of the writers dealing with economic planning today).

This paper could be interesting for the capital book club who just finished chapter 1, as in a sense, this is a contemporary elaboration of the quite vague description/alternative Marx offers in a short passage dealing with a future non-capitalist social relation.

Sidenote: Is anyone here familiar with I-EPOS? Here is a paper from the footnotes: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3277668 with a use-case/example. The math here goes over my head, so if any math/software engineering comrades can provide a perspective that would be cool.