Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Fuck your working class consciousness

 https://libcom.org/article/organized-labor-versus-revolt-against-work-john-zerzan

In the mid-1950s, Daniel Bell realized that unionization had not given workers control over their job lives. Struck by the huge, Spontaneous walk-out at River Rouge in July. 1949, over the speed of the Ford assembly line, he noted that "sometimes the constraints of work explode with geyser suddenness." And as Bell's Work and Its Discontents (1956) bore witness that "the revolt against work is widespread and takes many forms,"so had Walker and Guest's Harvard study, The Man on the Assembly Line (1953), testified to the resentment and resistance of the man on the line. Similarly, and from a writer with much working class experience himself, was Harvey Swados' "The Myth of the Happy Worker," published in The Nation, August, 1957, Workers and the unions continued to be at odds over conditions of work during this period. In auto, for example, the 1955 contract between the United Auto Workers and General Motors did nothing to check the 'speed-up' or facilitate the settlement of local shop grievances. Immediately after Walter Reuther made public the terms of the contract he'd just signed, over 70% of GM workers went on strike

Superintelligent community centers to get better security

 Electrified fencing, mobile autonomous machine guns, drone overflights and minefields authorised.  Also robot wardogs and flamethrowers. Proactive internet monitoring.

An attack on a community resource is an attack on all of us. And there is no social security without community security.

Chris Lehane, head of global policy at OpenAI, told the publication that the company also plans to propose new mandatory safety measures for the most powerful AI systems. These ‘speed bumps’ are intended to ensure that humans maintain control over the development and application of the technology. To advance this initiative, OpenAI plans to work more closely with Congress.

Another focus is new agreements with local communities where data centers are built. The company plans to propose state-level legislative initiatives that would give residents more influence over such projects and allow them to benefit economically.

Additionally, OpenAI is developing proposals to support workers whose jobs are changing due to AI, expand access to education and professional training, and assist entrepreneurs.

Internationally, the company aims to advocate for U.S. participation in shaping global AI standards based on democratic values.

According to Lehane, the team has been gathering proposals since August. OpenAI hopes to start promoting them between the elections and the inauguration of new Congress members in January. These initiatives are also intended to help OpenAI influence the AI discussion ahead of the 2028 presidential campaign.

In October, Amazon announced it would allocate more than $1 billion over five years for programs benefiting local communities around data centers.

Monday, November 2, 2026

Love Fanny

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kaplan

The SRs were agrarian socialists and supporters of a democratic socialist Russian republic

You wore blue. The Germans wore gray.

La vie en rose

https://blog.pmpress.org/2026/10/29/remembering-jai-jai-noire/

Golden Gate

https://gripped.com/news/lauren-berry-frees-golden-gate-on-el-capitan-a-36-pitch-5-13a/

The urge to destroy

 Ksenija Đorđević: ‘We are here to create, not to rule’

Day by day, students gathered for hours-long plenums to vote on everything

from what they would eat to their political programme. The meetings were

chaired by a different student each time. They avoided letting the same people

speak to the media too often, for fear they might be portrayed as leaders.

Remaining leaderless was a founding principle of the movement, intended to

avoid the mistakes of the past, when personal ambitions had eclipsed the policy.


Belgrade - OPEN CITY!?

Quantum cryptanalysis potential

 Altermagnets, a recently identified category of magnetic materials, have been predicted to host spin waves (“magnons”) that have distinct energies depending on their handedness. Using different techniques, two groups are now reporting evidence of these chiral magnons. Jost et al. used left- and right-handed circularly polarized light to create magnetic excitations in the material MnTe, a well-established altermagnet candidate (see the Perspective by van den Brink).

 The resulting magnon intensity was dependent on the sense of light polarization, indicating chirality. Faure et al. used polarized neutron scattering to investigate the material MnF2. The difference in the scattering intensity of oppositely polarized neutrons likewise indicated magnon chirality, helping build a case for altermagnetism in this material. —Jelena Stajic

APster rules

 APster supplies checks and balances in a timely manner. Works the same in any country.

APster opposes biometric discrimination -  and child protection is the exception that proves this.

APster economics are ergonomic with a globalized polity thermostat set to warm and dry.

Individual entities may be as Ferengi as they think they can get away with.

While APster enforced cryptoanarchy keeps providing privacy for the pleb and total tranparency for the patrician.

No gods. No govts. No shit

Anarchism made of sterner stuff

 https://samirvarma.substack.com/p/if-claudes-were-angelstheyd-use-fewer

Three points

1) parchment worship is out

2) biometrics are out, and 

3) that other thing

Fuck your working class consciousness

 https://libcom.org/article/organized-labor-versus-revolt-against-work-john-zerzan In the mid-1950s, Daniel Bell realized that unionization ...