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The Structural Necessity of #ThoughtControl: Why #Theocracy and #IntellectualFreedom Are #Logically Incompatible

This paper argues that #theocratic #governance and #intellectual #freedom are not merely in tension but logically incompatible.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5975597

Somebody alert #Zamboni about the copyright infringement they're suffering. Conservative talking head D^ve Rub|n is selling "Moron Zamboni" T-shirts with an image of their famous ice resurfacing machine in use!
#sue #cease & #desist #conservative #influencer #steals #intellectual #property for #profit
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Gregory Scheckler - Linger the Unknowns

"The imagination lets loose, dream-like, full of fictions borne of the inability to perceive through the darkness of night."

https://getmusic.fm/l/zicF6n

#ambient #electronic #haunting #intellectual #music

#Trump has said that he loves the poorly educated.
Trying to remove barriers preventing #AI from causing further harm to #human #intellectual and #cognitive capacity thus is perfectly coherent.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-executive-order-artificial-intelligence

#thereIsNoAi

'The Independent #Intellectual vs #PostingZero and the #deadinternet' my short, ten minute introduction to SCREENSHOT BABEL, a workshop I ran with Ester Freider as part of The Cyberbaroque: A Neologism-Based Symposium, is now available on my Media Gifts blog:

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html

Organised by Everyone is a Girl (EIAG) (https://everyoneisagirl.cargo.site/), and held at Anomalous in #London on November 20, 2025, the symposium explored the idea of the cyberbaroque allegory (https://everyoneisagirl.substack.com/p/i-lost-track-of-what-is-real-personas) through presentations, a reading, a workshop, and a film screening.

But I do NOT want a system which fades away into two people fighting to the death over whose measurements are the correct ones. I thought we were supposed to have a more universal system than that.

So I say, the only way out of this impasse is to cast doubt upon the definition of *time* in this whole business. There's an internationally fixed and legislated unit of time, the second, based upon that hyperfine cesium transition. But since when is time a mere linear assembly of standard seconds? Isn't that an _approximation_, something adopted solely because it's good for practical predictions?

I say that the #science and #intellectual institutions of "Western civilization" have actually gotten themselves into a real mess in their handling of #time as a scientific quantity.

~Alyx (cont'd)

This is an interesting a well-crafted article

The title should be don't shove large language models down our throat.

True artificial intelligence is that what you have and your games, your simulators, etc which has been here for many many decades. This is large language model talk, a whole other Beast

Interesting read recommended

#LLM #AI #slop #large #language #model #programming #technology #theft #copying #yro #intellectual #property

https://gpt3experiments.substack.com/p/dont-push-ai-down-our-throats

#ChatGPT #effect #unprecedented #changes #intellectual #framework #problem :

"three years into this #transformation, the obvious milestones matter less than the questions we have not yet answered. We are living through something unprecedented, and we may not yet have the intellectual framework to understand what comes next." - #ShellyPalmer https://shellypalmer.com/2025/11/three-years-of-chatgpt-now-the-hard-questions-begin/

“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of #community within which #civility and the #intellectual and #moral life can be sustained through the new #darkages which are already upon us.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue

The debacle at the #HeritageFoundation illustrates the impossibility of abiding by the long-standing #intellectual values of open #debate & #truth-seeking while retaining any influence in a party led by Donald Trump.

#idiocracy #USpol #Trump #Republicans #GOP

…This controversy has shoved the #HeritageFoundation into the spotlight, but it is hardly unique in its #MAGA-fied descent. Its travails reflect the debased state of #conservative institutions, the #Republican Party’s degeneration into a #corrupt personality cult, & the collapse of #intellectual standards. This collapse is a profound problem—one that #Trump both exploited in his rise to power & exacerbated with his control over the #GOP.

#idiocracy #USpol

#GiftArticle

The #Conservative Movement’s #Intellectual Collapse

#Trump is both a product & a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-heritage-foundation-carlson-fuentes/685011/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfF0CAm3AeROGaKOXp6rHD8

"The result of fifteen years of research, #Merchants of Knowledge tells the story of the #multilingual and #transregional #Jewish #scholars who acted as a conduit between the powers through their commercial and intellectual connections.

A key thing to remember about these “merchants of knowledge,” said Morrison, is that while they were scholars, they came from families who were also involved in commerce. These commercial links are described in the book as “the scaffolding of #intellectual exchange.”

Furthermore, stressed Morrison, this exchange of #knowledge was expansive and went beyond Copernicus and #astronomy to cover fields such as #philosophy, #Qabbalah, #astrology, #medicine, and other branches of #science. Furthermore, these #merchants of knowledge, who were largely #Romaniot #Jews originating from the #ByzantineEmpire, belonged neither entirely to the eastern #Ottoman culture nor to the western #European tradition."

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/11/intellectual-exchange-how-transregional-jewish-scholars-contributed-to-the-renaissance.html

“The signal #intellectual #error of the #NewRight, Field says, is that it lets ‘abstractions smother straightforward real-world truths.’ You can’t deport half of #America.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Does MAGA Have Ideas?