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“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.
That question of how we recuperate this humanity is ultimately an organizing question. People have repeated over and over again over the last few days that you “cannot tell Palestinians how to resist.” To me, it seems there is a very literal dimension to this axiom: They are not asking. Part of what has made the experience of this event feel so different from the status quo—and so different to Palestinians and Jews—comes from the fact that Palestinians were undeniably the actors, for once, not the acted upon. The protagonists of the story. I consider it an enormous failure of our movements that we have not been able to build a vehicle for that kind of reversal in any other way thus far.
There is no formidable political formation that I know of that can hold the political subjectivity of both Jews and Palestinians in this moment without simply attempting to assimilate one into the other. No place where Jews and Palestinians who agree on the basics of Palestinian liberation—right of return, equality, and reparations—are poised to turn the synthesis of these two subjectivities into a coherent strategy.
rt.
palestine
·jewishcurrents.org·
“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community
She noticed that EA members in the Bay Area seemed to work together, live together, and sleep together, often in polyamorous sexual relationships with complex professional dynamics. Three times in one year, she says, men at informal EA gatherings tried to convince her to join these so-called “polycules.” When Gopalakrishnan said she wasn’t interested, she recalls, they would “shame” her or try to pressure her, casting monogamy as a lifestyle governed by jealousy, and polyamory as a more enlightened and rational approach.
One commenter wrote that her post was “bigoted” against polyamorous people. Another said it would “pollute the epistemic environment,” and argued it was “net-negative for solving the problem.”
One recalled being “groomed” by a powerful man nearly twice her age who argued that “pedophilic relationships” were both perfectly natural and highly educational. Another told TIME a much older EA recruited her to join his polyamorous relationship while she was still in college. A third described an unsettling experience with an influential figure in EA whose role included picking out promising students and funneling them towards highly coveted jobs. After that leader arranged for her to be flown to the U.K. for a job interview, she recalls being surprised to discover that she was expected to stay in his home, not a hotel. When she arrived, she says, “he told me he needed to masturbate before seeing me.”
The alleged victim came away with the impression that she was being strongly urged not to report the incident to authorities and remembers a general sense that the accused man’s important career was a focus of the conversations.
effective-altruismeffective-altruism#metoo
·time.com·
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Project Update, The First - July 30th, 2023
Project Update, The First - July 30th, 2023
Back in May 2022, I’ve been reminded of a console that I’ve heard about mostly from its Higan/Ares emulation core. It was 8086-based, an oddity in the console world yet a processor I was already familiar with, as well as one which had a healthy supply of both classic and modern development tools. At the same time, despite selling 3.5 million units, the console did not have a modern homebrew toolchain - one which would allow you to write in C without too much pain and provide useful functionality out of the box; one which would be easy to install and use. It is now July 2023, and I’m happy to report that after a lot of research, hacks, head-scratching and side quests, we’re finally here. In the first project update of hopefully many, let’s talk about where we are so far.
retrocomputing#toolchain#compilers#wonderswan
·wonderful.asie.pl·
Project Update, The First - July 30th, 2023
The Wimbledon Experience Is Diligence, Dampness, And Cream | Defector
The Wimbledon Experience Is Diligence, Dampness, And Cream | Defector
True to its stereotype, Wimbledon has concentric circles of exclusivity and access, which reveal themselves to me over time, like layers of a white onion.
Once I make a quick visit to the Last 8 Club, a modest hideaway only accessible to players in history who have stood among the last eight in the tournament—semifinalists in a doubles draw or quarterfinalists in a singles draw. In the words of the club's manager, this space is set aside to “offer a sense of belonging to players who have given the public great entertainment on the courts but return later to find themselves a nobody," which makes me think that everyone in there needed a hug.
Whilst Defector would not normally be an outlet that we would consider accrediting, given the award that you have received, and in consultation with ITWA, we would be happy to accredit you for Week 1 of The Championships to give you the opportunity to experience covering the event onsite.
Later in the tournament, an umpire will deliver a maximally Wimbledon admonition to the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, please: If you are opening a bottle of Champagne, don't do it as the players are about to serve."
sportssports#defector#giri.nathan#tennis
·defector.com·
The Wimbledon Experience Is Diligence, Dampness, And Cream | Defector
The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
Image: Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Pandemonium), 2020 Unfortunately, I have to report that downtown New York does indeed have a cohesive avant-garde. Here is an insular community, committed to the repulsion of the status quo, that has produced at least one new literary mode. It’s unfortunate, though,
reaction#tao.lin#peter.thiel#dimes.square#alt.lit
·versobooks.com·
The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Nothing else needs to be said or thought when you can appeal to vibes
While seemingly open-ended and allowing for an infinite recombination of elements, the idea of “vibes” is reductive. It discourages the more difficult work of interpretation and the search for meaning that defines human experience.
As an analytic, vibes don’t connect feelings and consequence; as such, it is symbiotic with passive modes of media consumption.
neural networks behave in ways similar to vibes in capturing patterns in media and culture, online or otherwise. Both serve as perspectives that focus on associations across vast amounts of data or impressions.
These systems can only instrumentalize taste; they turn any expression of self into a reductive data point meant to generate more data at the same level. They presuppose that “liking” just means more “liking” and that is as deep as our desire can be. As with vibes, these metrics carry no context or narrative; they can tell you nothing about how or why something might be desirable, only that they vaguely seem like they might be desirable because they seem similar to other things that are desirable.
cultureculture#artificial.intelligence#vibes
·reallifemag.com·
Nameless Feeling — Real Life
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
From Aid to Ops On my first night on contract with the Legion a year ago, we drove 6 hours to the Kharkiv oblast for a 0200hrs rendezvous to participate in a multi-team ambush.    I was instructed to pick up an ex-British Royal Marine named Kruger, then get a couple anti-tank and anti-personnel mine
bleakbleak#ukraine
·linkedin.com·
Lessons Learned in Ukraine: A Year of Combat, the Legion, and How You Too Can Serve
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges
DoorDash Inc. illegally prohibited office employees from discussing working conditions and fired one because of their organizing efforts, US labor board prosecutors alleged.
DoorDash also engaged in illegal interrogations and surveillance of employees’ workplace activism, according to the complaint, and terminated an employee because they formed an organization, the Service Desk Analysts group, to address working conditions there.
tech-worker-organizingtech-worker-organizing#doordash#nlrb
·bloomberg.com·
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues, Illegally Fired Activist, NLRB Alleges