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the concept socially necessary labor time also captures your intuition that marginal improvements are more valuable than a relative % improvement might imply. also, we’re not talking about wages here:
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in this passage, marx is simply making the point that value is measured by abstract labor, and therefore the level of complexity of its concrete manifestation is irrelevant. programming is not an expenditure of muscle, but it is still labor, and can be measured and compared as such.

developers who are really into the idea of “10x engineers” 🤝 karl marx

everything reminds me of her...

since @kasey.cafe started reading marx i can finally start using things like this
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me, eyes bloodshot, rocking myself back and forth, praying for reprieve from consciousness: the expropriators will be expropriated, the expropriators will be expropriated, the ex-
capital, volume 1, page 929. karl marx

the girlfriend you wish you had
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analytic philosopher (temporarily embarrassed mathematician)



wengrow coming out swinging
david wengrow, On historical materialism and The Dawn of Everything
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good guy rossi coming to dg&dw defense (i agree with w that it largely should have been unnecessary, but it’s endearing nonetheless)
enzo rossi, We Make Our Own History, but in Circumstances of Other People’s Choosing: Intercultural Materialism in Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything
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this is cute
andreas malm, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/14/magazine/andreas-malm-interview.html

Art’s inescapable affirmative essence has become insufferable. Art must turn against itself, in opposition to its own concept, and thus become uncertain of itself right into its innermost fiber.
adorno, aesthetic theory, 39-40
adorno, aesthetic theory, 69
adorno, aesthetic theory, 46
adorno, aesthetic theory, 76
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half of gamer boys would hate crime me and the other half are fags and i’m not sure which i want to fuck more
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what does it mean that i’m searching for lyrics to a song and this is the top result
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the TOC reads like a teenage progressive’s tumblr page

@futanari.tentacle.expert will the eiffel tower survive the revolution


officemate is out on a business trip this week, we are so fucking back

every time i see john oliver im reminded of this passage
philosophy and real politics, 52. raymond geuss
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basic point always worth repeating
raymond geuss, reality and its dreams, 100

marx ate and left no crumbs
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yanfei my beloved
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slowly going insane trying to figure out what xam means
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i can only assume its coming from this twitter spike on dec17 but im too stupid to find it :>


making bad choices once again
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LOL why was my status this

yeah lol the first vid i watched was him reading his lain dissertation a few days after it came out when i was scouring the internet for all lain content

that’s really cool :> he’s influenced me a bunch too lol i searched in my diary and found cute things from a couple years back

this is stupid but i just saw this and broke down crying immediately no one defaults to she/her for me
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this is so brutal lol

he was so real for this i love context
utopian thought between words and action seminar with raymond geuss, pg 340
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prefigurative politics enjoyers in the chat

obligatory geuss quote
reality and its dreams, 146. raymond geuss, economies: good, bad, indifferent

best lyrics award goes to

is twitter trying to tell me something @kasey.cafe