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States sue Trump admin over 'gender ideology' sex ed funding rules | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/states-sue-trump-admin-over-gender-ideology-sex-ed-funding-rules/

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation due to the context-sensitive nature of metaphor. This study investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs) to automate metaphor identification in full texts. We compare three methods: (i) retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where the model is provided with a codebook and instructed to …

My regular reminder to everyone is that I am proudly, loudly, unapologetically, relentlessly, and forever opposed to tankie ideology, I always have been, and I always will be, sorry, not sorry!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

6th century BCE ideology fuels 21st century genocide to prove their god has the biggest cock.
Totally fine and normal.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to endeavour to change world-views, unquestioned ideologies about economic growth and the exploitation of environmental resources. We seek to enable people to discuss, challenge and develop their ideas and thinking; to help others see that…

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to e…

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held 'Leftist Ideology,' Utah Governor Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/kirk-shooting-suspect-ideology-partner.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p36#a250914p36

Christianity, Nationalism, and Ideology in a Globalized World
https://ift.tt/RLB2aOK
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Zionism is a supremacist ideology that ultimately denies the Other its right to exist.
Just like Nazism.

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to endeavour to change world-views, unquestioned ideologies about economic growth and the exploitation of environmental resources. We seek to enable people to discuss, challenge and develop their ideas and thinking; to help others see that…

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to e…

Base your ideology on wanting to rid society of the undesirables, yet defend the system that will always cause there to be a relevant amount of them until your last breath. That is how you stay in power indefinitely.

❝“Her [resolution] does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any,” Omar said.❞
Ouch. And then:
❝“Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.❞
🔥 🔥 🔥 https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-wi87YphuRrGElO2FgAa61g:a:436232176-/0

"I want to frame the technology more like an instrument, and get away from GenAI as an intelligence, an ideology, a tool, a crutch, or a weapon.”
"Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice. Instruments require a performance that relies on technique—the horn makes the sound, but how and what you blow into it matters.“
I think this talk offers a differentiated take on AI in how to deal with it in a way that is not all-in and over-consuming.

Christianity, Nationalism, and Ideology in a Globalized World
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b?st=RcR4Xs&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p51#a250911p51

RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/115527424993024365
“These are marketing statements driven by profit-motive and ideology rather than empirical evidence and formal proof”
Es gibt sogar einen Offenen Brief von Wissenschaftler*innen dazu. Ich schw…

"Geoff Horsman, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University... testified that his application for an NSERC grant renewal was turned down because 'I was unable to profess sufficiently enthusiastic support for the official state ideology of EDI.'"
Or maybe, I dunno, dude's grant application just wasn't good enough?

Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs
Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

WSJ revised a headline and added an editor's note to a story suggesting ammo in Charlie Kirk's shooting was engraved with "transgender and antifascist ideology" (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/news/wall-street-journal-charlie-kirk

WSJ falsely ties Charlie Kirk shooter to transgender people
The paper had falsely claimed that the alleged shooter engraved messages consistent with “transgender ideology” on bullets recovered by law enforcement officials.

It’s Never Too Soon For the Right to Blame Trans People – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shooter-trans-ideology-false/

Often more even than ideology, performative politics just drives my blood pressure through the roof.
#oklahoma #oked

Ryan Walters’ promised investigations into schools that didn’t honor Charlie Kirk never happened, records show

You can say that again. Go ahead – say it again! I live in Alberta, and, although I love this province, I am very often embarrassed by our idiotic Trumpist Premier and her anti-VAX ideology.

It's also interesting that we're only tangentially making the connection between shit social media and fascism. What we are not saying is that control of social space *is* a form of governance. Humans have the right to free social spaces, both physical and digital.
When we think about social media as a system of control, as a government, we see that capitalist social media results in incredibly abusive dictatorships. These dictatorships exist solely to exploit their citizens, extracting both labor and attention, for the gain of a few. They manipulate their citizens to keep them locked in. It's not a coincidence that these systems algorithmically promote fascist ideology. They are themselves a type of fascist government that pushes fascism into the physical space.

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/09/20/games-for-degrowth-and-a-viable-future/

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to e…

1. There is no “transgender ideology”. Just people trying to be themselves.
2. Antifascist ideology is what most of us learned in school as “being a good citizen”
#CharlieKirk #uspol #bullet

Christianity, Nationalism, and Ideology in a Globalized World
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The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump
By Adriaan Basson
https://www.news24.com/opinions/columnists/adriaan-basson-the-collaborators-who-betrayed-their-country-for-trump-20251110-1110

Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump
History will call out the names of those who could but chose not to call out Trump’s barefaced lies about the persecution of Afrikaners – one of the wealthiest tribes in Africa – to advance his white supremacist ideology, writes Adriaan Basson.

Judge: WH Denying Grants to Artists Over 'Gender Ideology' Violated 1st Amendment | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nea-gender-trump/2025/09/19/id/1227146/

I truly believe in anarcho-syndicalism. It’s not merely a political position I align with, it’s an emancipatory framework that speaks to me on a level deeper than ideology, a praxis that gives me a sense of meaning and direction I cannot turn away from.
I believe in it because it embodies the struggle against authoritarianism and the hierarchies of the capitalist state, because it affirms horizontalism, mutual aid, and collective power at the very core of life. It matters to me not a…

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

A Synthetic Theory of Socio-Epistemic Structuration: Capital, Ideology, and Agency in the Age of Digital Inequality
Ricardo Alonzo Fern\'andez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25259

A Synthetic Theory of Socio-Epistemic Structuration: Capital, Ideology, and Agency in the Age of Digital Inequality
This article proposes a synthetic theory of socio-epistemic structuration to understand the reproduction of inequality in contemporary societies. I argue that social reality is not only determined by material structures and social networks but is fundamentally shaped by the epistemic frameworks -- ideologies, narratives, and attributions of agency -- that mediate actors' engagement with their environment. The theory integrates findings from critical race theory, network sociology, social capita…

Communist ideology is a big red flag (inter alia)

Transgenderists on YouTube are enraging me again with their false representations and unwillingness to engage with reasonable (left-wing) critiques of their ideology.

Strata-Sword: A Hierarchical Safety Evaluation towards LLMs based on Reasoning Complexity of Jailbreak Instructions
Shiji Zhao, Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu, Xiaojun Jia, Fengxiang Wang, Cheng Wei, Ruoxi Cheng, Yong Xie, Chang Liu, Qing Guo, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue, Xingxing Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01444…

Strata-Sword: A Hierarchical Safety Evaluation towards LLMs based on Reasoning Complexity of Jailbreak Instructions
Large language models (LLMs) have gained widespread recognition for their superior comprehension and have been deployed across numerous domains. Building on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) ideology, Large Reasoning models (LRMs) further exhibit strong reasoning skills, enabling them to infer user intent more accurately and respond appropriately. However, both LLMs and LRMs face the potential safety risks under jailbreak attacks, which raise concerns about their safety capabilities. Current safety evalua…

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

#GiftLink
#Anarchists are now '#antifa': "The indictment defined antifa [as] a “militant enterprise made up of networks of individuals and small groups, primarily ascribing to a revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology [calling] for “the overthrow of the United States government, law enforcement authorities and the system of law.”
Terrorism Charges Against Antifa ‘Cell’ Show Administration’s Focus on the Left - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/politics/justice-department-terrorism-antifa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.a9_Y.RfJdbWfjmAuq&smid=url-share

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Data-Driven Modeling of U.S. Ideological Dynamics
David Sabin-Miller, Christopher Harding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11983 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11983…

Data-Driven Modeling of U.S. Ideological Dynamics
The dynamics of political opinion are a critical component of modern society with large-scale implications for the evolution of intra- and international political discourse and policy. Here we utilize recent high-resolution survey data to quantitatively capture leading-order psychological and information-environmental patterns. We then inform simulations of a theoretical dynamical framework with several different models for how populations' ideology evolves over time, including a model which re…

Beyond the Surface: Probing the Ideological Depth of Large Language Models
Shariar Kabir, Kevin Esterling, Yue Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21448 https://

Beyond the Surface: Probing the Ideological Depth of Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated pronounced ideological leanings, yet the stability and depth of these positions remain poorly understood. Surface-level responses can often be manipulated through simple prompt engineering, calling into question whether they reflect a coherent underlying ideology. This paper investigates the concept of "ideological depth" in LLMs, defined as the robustness and complexity of their internal political representations. We employ a dual approach: first,…

Soon, they might even try anti-fascist ideologies
#politics #resistance #resist #usa