the grounded theory is to avoid restricting yourself to a theory of advertising. The theories of advertising are all just tools, of which we should use the most effective one for a given task. But must also be wary of cynically selling communism as an identity or a brand. communism must be revolutionary, and that will ultimately differentiate it from a commodity to be advertised.

Good agitprop is no-holds-barred. it can inhabit the entire cultural field. limiting yourself to cheap psychological tricks and refusing to use them are both mistakes.

Revolutionary agitprop or revolutionary thought or lines of flight are rare, but it should be seeked, recognized, leveraged. Recall the situationists’ revival of the utopian tradition not as an example to follow, but an example of the required jouissance.

the first that comes to mind is chernyshevsky’s “what is to be done”

it’s just a rational-agent repackaging of emotional association, as you say. Even worse, it is a fundamentally spectaclist perspective.

“The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images.”

For certain types of agitprop (e.g. motivating people for an action) i think advertising psychology can be effective, but we shouldn’t fall into the trap of theorizing all our agitprop with this lens.

welcome back herobrine

i think they mean infinite induction, which is rejected by ultrafinitists and the like - although i think that’s more of a fringe position than the other big philosophy stuff

more positivism from mr weinersmith

that meme will be responsible for me reading ulysses

the death grips uniform

if you lend any credibility to freud, then germophobia and fetishes involving bodily waste are not mutually exclusive in the least.

you could try turning the laptop on.

as for flashing, make sure that you have the pins correctly connected on the pi side. if you’re using some color code you found online, it may not apply to your clip - consult the chart and follow the wires manually. the pins on the chip are numbered counterclockwise starting at the dot. You can also try reseating the clip a few times, some clips can be finnicky.

is chapotraphouse3 fucking with dat new sahbabii???

if we had more guys in the nucleus then they could do kitty capture which absorbs the cat, turns the guy into a dog, and release an uncharged nearly massless cat-like thing.

GPL is the one that requires you to freely publish your changes to the source code for others to use. its not based to make it much harder to maintain the device once the manufacturer decides to drop support.

you can do a whois, which shows that the redirect is to a domain used for domain seizures. you should edit your post, as it is factually incorrect.

https://www.whois.com/whois/zlibrary-bl.se https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/z-library-ebook-site-domains-seized-by-us-dept-of-justice/

you’re right, but a quick query turns it up as a seized domain https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-more-domains-seized-than-any-other-pirate-site-in-history-240721/

why do you think it wasn’t done by the fbi? fbi is public about their campaign against z-lib devs. and the z-lib devs did acknowledge this siezure in may

https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-carries-out-fresh-round-of-z-library-domain-name-seizures-240530/

i remember this from earlier in the year, so petty LOL american corporate action agency seething. the seized domain is z-lib.se, and it probably logs your ip if you visit it btw.

what would you do for a klondike bar?

firstly understand the context which is smooth manifolds, for simplicity imagine a 2d manifold embedded in 3d space - so a sheet of rubber that can pass through itself but can’t kink or do any funny business, just like in that sphere inversion video.

the definition of a manifold is basically that it can be built out of patches (sheets of rubber in our analogy), for instance to make a sphere, we need two sheets of rubber (ignore the actual logistics of the deformation required).

Now say that our sheets of rubber come with a textured and a smooth side, there are two ways to attach the sheets of rubber to make a sphere, one of which produces a sphere which is entirely smooth on the outside. This is what we mean by orientable, we can build it out of patches with a consistent “outside”.

Consider the counterexample of a mobius strip, which we construct from a single strip of rubber by attaching one end to the other “backwards” (rough-smooth). Since we have defined it this way, it cannot be orientable. The klein bottle is another example, but somewhat cooler than the mobius strip since its a surface without edges.

There are many other definitions of orientable depending on the context, since manifolds are a lot more general than I have shown you here.

I don’t know what orientable manifolds have to do with being responsible.

techno utopianism, the synthesis of defence lab hacker culture and the new left has inherited the flaws of both. the disillusion of the children raised on this heady mix was inevitable. nostalgia beckons, the punch card and mainframe once a symbol of dehumanization is now a quaint museum piece, sublime objects of engineering prowess. i could spend my whole life exploring the intricacies of these old systems. the dream of connecting people through computers is perverted into the goal of connecting to computers. “ah, but it could have been different, if only my preferred programming language or paradigm had won out!” so we tell ourselves, nursing our pet projects. ahhh i’m feeling depressed now