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Kind of a heavy feeling.
The pictures will be gone in 30 days, but I can't help but think of the pictures lost forever from Twitpic or Yfrog or all of those other image hosts we all used before image hosting became a standard part of any web app.
The pictures will be gone in 30 days, but I can't help but think of the pictures lost forever from Twitpic or Yfrog or all of those other image hosts we all used before image hosting became a standard part of any web app.
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2018-03-07 04:05 | https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99640641359436224
twitter's culture since 2014 has been so machine-oriented, they probably trust machines more than actual people. like "i don't want to hear what's wrong, i want to know what The Algorithm says is wrong"
essentially, right around the time twitter decided it wanted to be a media company instead of a conversational platform. it cracked down on third party API usage, put in absurd 100,000-user limits, and started breaking everything that was good pre-2014.

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2018-01-27 08:44 | https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99420908783601966
the point of reading theory is to see what ideas other people already came up with, so you don't have to spend time formulating them yourselves. like... you start out with political beliefs and experiences, but they can always be solidified if you have a framework to contextualize them.
and that doesn't really require discussion unless you want to or need more understanding, and it doesn't require organizing if you're not capable of it, and it really doesn't require voting since many people can't vote and many voting systems are designed to minimize choice. it feels wrong to say one *can't* be politically engaged unless one does these things

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neoliberalism is just largely a return to liberalism; the idea that govt's role is to help business, that markets can be used as a force for good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
maybe best exemplified by thatcher, reagan, greenspan, clinton; the support of "free trade" agreements like NAFTA and TPP or organizations like the IMF or WTO; opposition to people like ralph nader in the 1970s; concepts like "the marketplace of ideas" or "soft power"; in short, everything is a market and the experts should decide the best policies to help the market

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## criticisms
pursuing pure voluntarism as an ideology (and not simply an ideal) tends to ignore the realities of power imbalances. If two people are inequal, then they can never come to a voluntary agreement -- the power of one will coerce the other, even if subconsciously.
Consider whether one can "voluntarily" become a slave. Or, more relevant today, consider the wage labor system. Is it truly "voluntary" if your food, shelter, and very survival depends on such a "voluntary" arrangement?
The cold reality is that voluntarism is merely idealism so long as any social class or hierarchy exists. Maybe some prefigurative politics are necessary, but you have to push for progress without 100% support or you'll wait forever.