Slavoj Žižek: Trump is a liberal fetish
Dubbed “the most dangerous #Philosopher in the West”, Slovenian psychoanalyst Slavoj #Žižek has singlehandedly led a revolution in punk political theory. Now, in the shadow of Donald #Trump 2.0, he asks why #Democracy fails, sex sells and how rock bottom could be the best place to start.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1CS7EoRMhfs&si=RHy3ZA9qtVxTbbhR by #Unherd via #YouTube
Overthrow the Big Tech tyrants
https://unherd.com/watch-listen/overthrow-the-big-tech-tyrants/
Non-scientist Prof. complaining that a scientist has been appointed science minister. Not going to dignify it with an actual link. #unherd #UoN
I'm sure Unherd magazine pushed back at that Reform UK candidate praising Hitler, right?
'A Reform UK candidate claimed the country would be "far better" if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality" instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two.'
'In posts from 2022 on the Unherd magazine website, seen by the BBC, he said Winston Churchill was "abysmal" and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko
#Unherd #IanGribbin #ReformUK #Reform #UK #politics #England #Hitler #Putin #Churchill #Germany #Russia
#UnHerd publishes mostly hard-right propaganda with a veneer of intellectualism. And judging by the comments, many of its readers are far-right extremists.
In the last decade some dreadful people have crawled out from under stones. https://www.dcscience.net/2024/03/11/how-do-we-stop-a-resurgence-of-fascism/
Why I am now a Christian by #AyaanHirsiAli #unherd
https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/
And a Response by #MichaelShermer #Skeptic
https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-a-christian
TL:DR “it isn’t atheism bending the arc of justice and freedom, but Enlightenment humanism—a cosmopolitan worldview that places supreme value on human and civil rights, individual autonomy and bodily integrity, free thought and free speech, the rule of law, and science and reason as the best tools for determining the truth”
Dear Friends of the #unherd, :osaka_death_stare:
As we may know:
- the influencers are under the #influence
- celebrities are not #worth #celebrating
- journalist should be #reported
- #Lilo
In other words, don't listen to anything but the #smallest #voice that cries in the #wildebeest, sings in de spare and sores on the wigs of #angles …
DID we here? You bet tear, your dry! ❤️
“And, dare I say it, unmanly? The passenger character staring at the screen is the opposite of a strong person using a machine.”
My goodness, these people from #Unherd
https://unherd.com/2023/10/the-motorists-are-fighting-back/
I’m a big fan of Guy Debord’s work but have never read that of Marc Augé, who came up with the concept of ‘non-places’. These are spaces like airports and hotels where human interaction is largely transactional, leading to a form of psychic isolation.
This article outlines Augé argument that to counteract the dehumanising effects of these […]
https://unherd.com/2023/08/inside-tony-blair-inc/
#InsideTonyBlairInc by #TomMcTague of #Unherd
The former PM's new empire is growing...(Not good)
The Tories are losing the young and the educated. They don't care about our future or our values. #UnHerd #PostMaterialism
https://unherd.com/2023/06/the-tories-have-lost-their-millennial-converts/
Oliver Bateman: GPT-4 Couldn’t Resurrect My Dad
"The article tells the story of a man who, after his father's death, turned to GPT-4, an advanced language model, to analyze his father's thousands of emails and try to generate new ones in his father's voice." So starts the ChatGPT summary of an article by Oliver Bateman, a digital pal of mine, who did in fact input tho
https://www.masonpelt.com/oliver-bateman-gpt-4-couldnt-resurrect-my-dad/
Jeffrey Sachs:
Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
#nordstream #unherd #jeffreysachs
https://evenemang.malmo.se/en/kategori/musik
Belief or not, it's Christmas so time to consider if Jesus’s birth and death were entirely provincial incidents. How did they come to have world-historical significance? A thoughtful piece by #DavidDusenbury #UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/12/how-political-was-jesus/
https://unherd.com/2022/11/how-britain-became-an-american-colony/
What do we think? Has social media made us so Americanised that we don't even notice? Am I the only person left who winces at "leverage" used as a verb with a short E?
Closer to home, does the fediverse feel more culturally diverse than birdsite? Is this as important as being free of Space Karen?
#unherd #Americanisation #leverage #51stState #fediverse #birdsite #SpaceKaren
Guerra alla "disinformazione": il terrore della #disinformazione, che ha oscurato la realtà negli ultimi cinquant'anni, è di per sé una delle campagne di #IngegneriaSociale più efficaci del nostro tempo.
Di Geoff #Shullenberger su #Unherd
https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-myth-of-online-misinformation/
