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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza
Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark shift against gender ideology (Laura Donnelly/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/30/nhs-sex-biological-landmark-shift-against-gender-ideology/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p29#a240430p29

The Russian Orthodox Church Declares “Holy War” Against Ukraine and Articulates Tenets of Russia’s Emerging Official Nationalist Ideology: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/30/the-russian-orthodox.html

Reading one of those monographs that, though close to my interests in terms of subject, period and, indeed, politics, I desperately want to chuck across the room. Whether it's Marxism, liberalism, or nationalism, a methodology aimed primarily at upholding (even in a modified form) a given ideology isn't history. I don't care how many footnotes* you have.
*In this particular book, as is often the case, the vast majority of references are to studies, most often theoretical, n…

@… Your blurb is hysterical. Not left. I didn't consider myself left either though my positions on things were way more aligned with those of a left wing ideology than the right. Neither a hiker nor a trail maintainer but I cut and pull invasive vines

@… brings it home today
"PE is committed to an ideology that is far worse than any form of racial animus or other bias. As a sector, it is committed to profit above all other values. As a result, its brutality knows no bounds, no decency, no compassion. Even the worst crimes we commit for hate are nothing compared to the crimes we commit for greed&quo…

This is a really good short article critquing UK Labour Party centrists like Wes Streeting, whom Grace calls 'liberals':
"The contradiction here is very obvious: liberals construct their own tribal political identity based on the claim that they do not appeal to tribal political identities."
#UKLabour

The Establishment Fundamentalists
When centrists claim to be guided by common sense over populism of ideology, they ignore that their loyalty to a bankrupt status quo is a fanaticism of its own.

How Fascism Works
The 10 elements of a dangerous ideology
https://www.theframelab.org/p/how-fascism-works

How Fascism Works
The 10 elements of a dangerous ideology

I'm polishing the front end of a petproject and Im researching front-end design ideology. Right now it just spits out html with class attributes that tie in with a very rudimentary stylesheet.
The goal is allow user css customization of every element but also ensure its not *too* flexible as to break accessibility. So for example, striking a balance between html tables or just dumping everyting as divs and spans and let the grids/flexboxes sort it out.

Fascism isn't adhering to any ideology but “win-no-matter-what”, Mussolini got into power by couping, Hitler got elected. Modern fascist movements have no problem idealizing Europe, Democracy, or “Freedom” because that's what is popular.
The original Nazis called themselves “socialists” for a reason, and some even believe they were that to this day!
The “white power” movement was a horrid “black power” rip-off (those two cannot be compared at all), and modern alt-rightis…

They Make Viral Gun Videos—With Hardline Christian Values – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/t-rex-arms-hardline-christian-nationalism-lucas-botkin/

Meet the viral gun influencers pushing a hardline Christian beliefs
T.Rex Arms sells gun accessories. According to one expert, "The product is ideology, too.”

Mekler's Construction and Murphy's Law for 2-Nilpotent Groups
Blaise Boissonneau, Aris Papadopoulos, Pierre Touchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20270

Mekler's Construction and Murphy's Law for 2-Nilpotent Groups
Mekler's construction is a powerful technique for building purely algebraic structures from combinatorial ones. Its power lies in the fact that it allows various model-theoretic tameness properties of the combinatorial structure to transfer to the algebraic one. In this paper, we push this ideology much further, describing a broad class of properties that transfer through Mekler's construction. This technique subsumes many well-known results and opens avenues for many more. As a straightforwa…

"Put bluntly, fascism is a loser’s ideology, a smothering emotional safety blanket for deeply insecure and broken people (mostly men), which only makes their problems worse until it destroys them and everyone around them."
https://acoup.blog/2024/02/…

Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. Percy, having found a use for some of my books. And of course, less I miss a chance to note…

"Basing your opinion on factional loyalty and vibes is fine for a blogger or a pundit, but it does not make for a sound management strategy."
I beg to differ, Baldur Bjarnason. It's not fine if you're a blogger or a pundit, either. Seeking to profit from expediting the extinction of life on the planet ought to be treated as a crime of the highest order.
#ClimateCatastrophe

Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management
You can’t be a good manager or executive, in any industry, if you operate in constant denial of the facts on the ground. Arguing from ideology or beliefs that aren’t grounded in observation, measurement, or study, is the hallmark of a politician or media personality, not a manager responsible for other people’s jobs.

So farewell, Hong Kong. The vibrant, pulsating city-state that grew, under British rule, into one of the world’s great financial, business, cultural and tourism hubs has finally been brought to heel. Browbeaten, abused, silenced.
//Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate - The Guardian https://

Lies, ideology and repression: China seals Hong Kong’s failed-state fate — Guardian US
The former British territory was a flawed success. Xi Jinping has ended that with the punitive and hastily passed article 23

The brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".
A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network".
It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no #hierarchy, no #leaders

“The problem with Christian nationalism isn’t with Christian participation in politics but rather the belief that there should be Christian primacy in politics and law. It can manifest itself through ideology, identity and emotion. And if it were to take hold, it would both upend our Constitution and fracture our society.” h…

Opinion | What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?
And what is it not?

The US has splintered into 12 news bubbles based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age, and location, making gauging public opinion and finding common agreement hard (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities…

Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities
Traditional media, at least as a center of dominant power, is dead.

Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology offers a stark choice for humanity | The Week
> Capital and Ideology is a work of political economy in the broadest sense — a staggeringly ambitious effort attempting to synthesize centuries of history, economics, and politics into one grand picture.
#economics #modernmonitorytheory #economichistory #swedishhistory

A most enlightening thing I learned, many years ago now, was about how one individual was able to oppress many others. I was not surprised to learn that an oppressor believed themselves superior to others. What surprised me was that many of those that were oppressed also adopted the oppressor's supremacist ideology. Had they all been woke, the oppression could never have persisted.
Never to rule or be ruled.
Vote for Democracy!

“Russia’s relations with Israel was also seen as detrimental by ISIL ideology. So this friction is not new ideologically, but is so tactically,” Taneja added.
https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112144355400603273

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Administration for Unlawfully Using Title IX to Mandate Radical Gender Ideology, Violating Constitution and Putting Women At Risk (Texas Attorney General)
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-unlawfully-using-title-ix-mandate-radical
http://www.memeorandum.com/240429/p48#a240429p48

I've been thinking about this since I saw it.
Maybe the big election year 2024 is time for the middle ground to make a come back?
credit: adam_nicholas on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/t3b…

I might ad, if you migrate don’t try to bring your asshole blue politics with you.
Start fresh and without lefty ideology or go back to your old shithole.
https://youtu.be/pNJluzPEoGM?si=KbroADDJRN7UE9yW

I am sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it promotes a hateful and negative ideology. Please let me know how I can assist you with another topic. #cool

there's too many of them https://akos.ma/blog/manifestos-and-checklists/

Manifestos and Checklists
The Agile Manifesto was probably the first, but certainly not the last attempt at creating a web page that provides a whole platform to a certain ideology.

@… I like to think this is not about political ideology, but about short-sightedness. It doesn't matter what you believe in, if you are unable to tolerate criticism or alternative opinions.

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

Mekler's Construction and Murphy's Law for 2-Nilpotent Groups
Blaise Boissonneau, Aris Papadopoulos, Pierre Touchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20270

Mekler's Construction and Murphy's Law for 2-Nilpotent Groups
Mekler's construction is a powerful technique for building purely algebraic structures from combinatorial ones. Its power lies in the fact that it allows various model-theoretic tameness properties of the combinatorial structure to transfer to the algebraic one. In this paper, we push this ideology much further, describing a broad class of properties that transfer through Mekler's construction. This technique subsumes many well-known results and opens avenues for many more. As a straightforwa…

You were almost there. Citing from https://lausanne.org/global-analysis/queer-theory-on-the-rise:
> We need to find solid arguments for why a traditional understanding of humanity as male and female is such a fundamental part of the created order. In thi…

Queer Theory on the Rise - Lausanne Movement
The last decade has seen the rise of a new ideology in the West, and increasingly also in other parts of the globe. It has sometimes been described as ‘Transgenderism’, and sometimes as ‘Queer Theory’. It differs from previous movements in that it does not specifically push for either...

It's a lie, because 'never seen/used' is part of his stock of lies and he thinks they're fools, but they lap it up:
Theocratic #Trump Tells Right-Wing Christians They Will Have Power at 'Level You've Never Used Before'

Trump Tells Right-Wing Christians They Will Have Power at 'Level You've Never Used Before'
"Christian nationalism is an extremist ideology at odds with the fundamental pluralism of American life," warned one progressive journalist.

RU fake: Nazi ideology prevails in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/ru-fake-nazi.html

On economists & anthropologists:
"#Graeber specialized in theories of value: his Debt: the first 5,000 years provides a much-needed long-term history of money. Debt is exactly the kind of book contemporary economists are incapable of writing, because it requires viewing their paradigm as the product of its own time and ideology, instead of considering it as a natural law."

Marcel Mauss, a founding father of Sci-Fi economic anthropology?
At the Sci-Fi Economics Lab we are always on the lookout for tools to broaden the scope of our economic thinking. Neoclassical economics has been so successful that it has become difficult to see the world in any other way. For this reason, I have long been drawn to scholarly work that takes on economic problems from a different intellectual background. In the past ten years it has been mostly biology for me; but, starting about five years ago, I have been drawn more and more to anthropology. .…

re: ukpol
It's objectively hilarious that the Conservative party have defined extremism in such a way that the Conservative Party surely ought to count as extremists.
For they are indeed surely an organization which promotions the advancement of an ideology based on hatred and intolerance that aims to negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others and undermine, overturn or replace the UK's system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights"
But of course it definitely won't be applied to them. They are above the law.

Gina Carano went full right-wing Republican with her lawsuit.
"Carano alleges [she was fired] over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
"The lawsuit alleges she was fired because she 'dared voice her own opinions' against an 'online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.'"

Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from 'The Mandalorian'
Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from the TV series “The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. Carano filed the suit in federal court on Tuesday. She was fired from the Disney+ show after posts likening the treatment of modern conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. Carano's lawsuit says she was fired for daring to express her own views and stand up to the online mob. D…

There are two types of news articles that, whether they intend to or not, always end up painting Donald #Trump’s #supporters in a sympathetic light.
One type of story usually points to “economic anxiety” as a reason why “average Americans” would support someone as awful as Trump (despite all the data proving this…

Earth to Media: Try to Get It—Nice, Ordinary People Can Be Fascists
It’s not surprising that the people at Trump’s rallies are normal and polite. Their good manners have nothing to do with the toxic ideology they endorse.

Every time I have to do something in Rust, I'm reminded that whilst people may sneer at Go for its simplicity, it doesn't get in your way when you want to make things work.

Yep, the Rust version might have fewer issues with memory, variable hygiene, whatever, but none of that matters if I can't get the damn code working in the first place.

Ideology is fine but pragmatism pays the bills..

How Spammers and Scammers Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth
Renee DiResta, Josh A. Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12838 ht…

How Spammers and Scammers Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth
Much of the research and discourse on risks from artificial intelligence (AI) image generators, such as DALL-E and Midjourney, has centered around whether they could be used to inject false information into political discourse. We show that spammers and scammers - seemingly motivated by profit or clout, not ideology - are already using AI-generated images to gain significant traction on Facebook. At times, the Facebook Feed is recommending unlabeled AI-generated images to users who neither foll…

Was listening to God Awful Movies today and they made a point.
Kids are being taught gender ideology at a young age already when they are told what bathroom to pee in or what clothes to wear.
Just because you can’t stand that some people don’t identify with their sex assigned at birth doesn’t mean you need to stop them from exploring their gender identity.
I knew at 4 and NOBODY told me or encouraged me to be trans. I naturally realised it. My own family actually discourage…

Because "ex-vangelicalism" is defined only by what it is not, it offers a fitful counter to evangelicalism itself, which is as much a political movement as it is a religious tradition.
Ideology is baked into the theology. There is a lot of money, for example, invested in efforts to keep evangelical youth in line.
But the question of class goes unexamined in The Exvangelicals.
Holy war is class war, too, waged by far-right wealth against the rest of us.
The a…

The Exvangelicals Searching for Political Change
Former evangelicals are growing in number. But are they a movement?

Gina Carano went full right-wing Republican with her lawsuit.
"Carano alleges [she was fired] over a post likening the treatment of American conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.
"The lawsuit alleges she was fired because she 'dared voice her own opinions' against an 'online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.'"

Gina Carano sues Lucasfilm and Disney over her firing from 'The Mandalorian'
Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021 firing from the TV series “The Mandalorian,” saying she was let go for expressing right-wing views on social media. Carano filed the suit in federal court on Tuesday. She was fired from the Disney+ show after posts likening the treatment of modern conservatives to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany. Carano's lawsuit says she was fired for daring to express her own views and stand up to the online mob. D…

thinking about the rise in authoritarianism in the hast 10-15 years again, and just what is actually happening in people's minds.
and part of it seems that people seem just more willing to assume that government can or will solve their problems.
like as silly and unhelpful the whole rugged-individualism-american-dream-bootstraps ideology may be, it's probably better than praying to the violence fairy to make everything right for you.

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup | The Hill
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4459617-americans-mostly-women-are-becoming-more-liberal-gallup/

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup
American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years, but women are becoming even more liberal, according to Gallup. The survey data, released Wednesday, shows that while the country remains largely center-right, the percentage of those identifying as or leaning liberal has increased over the past three decades, and is now just…

'He has been able to play the victim very successfully, and it makes his followers feel protective of him. Anything that happens to him is just confirmation of this belief that he is a victim being persecuted. #Jan6 was an attempt to save a distressed leader, & people rallied, & so this is a continuation of that. That ideology of saving the leader from an unjust fate.'
Trump'…

Trump's behavior that 'doesn't get enough attention' exposed by authoritarianism scholar
Donald Trump lies about his prior failed election campaign, but that isn't the only reason he has been so successful, according to one authoritarianism expert. New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Saturday, where she was asked how Trump is polling alo...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05912 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Ideological Ambiguity and Political Spectrum
This study examines the relationship between ambiguity and the ideological positioning of political parties across the political spectrum. We identify a strong non-monotonic (inverted U-shaped) relationship between party ideology and ambiguity within a sample of 202 European political parties. This pattern is observed across all ideological dimensions covered in the data. To explain this pattern, we propose a novel theory that suggests centrist parties are perceived as less risky by voters comp…