Rick and Morty Season 6 is an interesting episode. While at a glance, it might seems like a conservative skewering of socialist ideals, digging a little deeper helps us find a surprising message.
Respite is pronounced re-SPITE? Not re-SPIT? Huh. Have you ever wondered why time is money, or why if your boss is in you have to pretend to do work while you're at your job? Wonder no more!
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➤ Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism by E. P. Thompson (1967)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/649749
➤ Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Sociohistorical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time by Jonathan Martineau (2015)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27131087-time-capitalism-and-alienation
➤ Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
? MUSIC:
➤ Inside the Deku Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYAqklair1k
➤ Time Passing - Lion Free Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQy7006YePA
➤ Pac-In-Time - The Village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CEHQCeei8
➤ TIME - Michael Flitchett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01LGD7EXX0
? FOOTAGE CREDITS:
➤ Calendar Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzV-u6tf2K8
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A million and one movies, books, and songs have set out to define love. Some do it cynically, while others are much more hopeful. If we asked Plato, love is a spontaneous feeling of attraction that mellows into a lifelong connection. To French philosopher, Alan Badiou, love is, ultimately, a quest for truth, where we answer the question, “[W]hat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?” Now if you asked a TikToker… love becomes more of a game, with hard rules for men and women to follow. And depending on who you ask, it might not even exist anymore. Is modern dating and the quest for love broken? Is love dead in the 21st century?.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z70WVtGo71o
The war in Ukraine is, at its core, a proxy war between Russia and the United States and it's been brewing since the fall of the Soviet Union. The United States has pursued expansionist foreign policy in the post-Soviet states, implementing capitalist shock therapy to plunder Eastern European nations of their resources while establishing itself as the world's single power. Both Russia and Ukraine have been victims of this to varying extents. At the same time, Russia and the post-Soviet states have struggled finding their place in this new world order, and in this struggle for meaning, most post-Soviet states have found themselves aligned closer to the West than the East. Increasingly isolated and encircled, Russia rebuilt itself as an illiberal imperialist power of its own and in its attempt at countering the West’s influence with it’s own, Ukraine has become the unfortunate ground zero of this battle. While the conflict has been escalating for decades, it wasn’t inevitable. There were multiple off-ramps on the path to war that Western powers not only failed to take, but they actively avoided, making the conflict worse. As for what the future holds, it’s hard to say. But, before we go back to the beginning and look at the details, it’s important to remember the losses, the men, women and children who have lost their lives, throughout all of this. When giant powers resort to war, it’s regular people who suffer most.
Sources: In Putin's Footsteps, Is Russia Fascist, After Empire, The Gates of Europe, Ukraine's Orange Revolution, among others. For a more comprehensive list of sources, check out the original script on Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YnSdS8EKnJoms8xROuCiVBQM5sZ2okb-CHlqV9cidUE/edit?usp=sharing
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0:00 Intro
6:13 Shock Therapy
9:45 NATO Expansion
16:05 Bombing of Yugoslavia
23:18 Changing Tides
27:00 An Orange Revolution
33:02 The Great Reset
40:19 The Maidan Moment
51:51 A Double Headed Eagle
56:36 How We Stop The War
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che
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AI art seems problematic. Giant companies sweep the internet for billions of images, feed them to the all-consuming algorithm that then learns to produce art on its own. Depending on who you ask, this is either one of humanity’s greatest creations or nothing more than brazen theft. The AI can even reproduce artists’ individual styles, living or deceased, sometimes leaving the amalgamations of signatures from the artist’s it’s been trained on. AI art is quickly becoming an existential threat for the livelihoods of millions of artists who dedicate themselves to the craft. While the technology isn’t quite at the level of fully replacing artists, it’s advancing fast. Which makes this pretty serious. After all, what could you make as an individual, that a machine trained on the works of every human artist in history can’t do on its own? Especially when it can whip out an image in a couple minutes that would take you hours, day if not weeks. Just another case of big business screwing over creative workers… right? *ahem* Right?
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Mexican authorities had closed foreign factories after hundreds of COVID cases had been discovered within their walls. But only three weeks since their closure, the gates were busted wide-open as the Baja California state government succumbed to pressure from the US federal government and US companies. On May 1st, thousands of workers returned to work with a suite of new restrictions meant to protect the workers. Workers now need to wear face masks, need to apply hand sanitizer every-time they enter, stand 6-feet apart, and so on.
The moment I heard about this, I decided to check it out and see if these companies were actually following these labor protections.
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0:00 - Factory's Re-Open
1:27 - Visiting In-Person
4:53 - Caught Red-Handed
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7f4aH40KLk
Breadtube, Redtube, Lefttube, whatever you call it, these small collection of leftwing political channels have fundamentally changed the landscape of YouTube. Despite this, there remains one aspect of YouTube that Leffttube fails to change or even comes class to challenging: the overwhelming lack of diversity. Ready for the third video you've seen on the topic in the same week? I am!
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? SOURCES:
➤ The Internet May Be as Segregated as a City, The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/the-internet-may-be-as-segregated-as-a-city/498608/
➤ The Time Poor, Claire Vicky - https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/145597.pdf
? MUSIC:
➤ Eva – Zeta Reticuli [Synthwave] from Royalty Free Planet™ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rbJPJuWin8
➤ A Boy and his Blob (Wii): Subterra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgJ0yQNX2cI
➤ Titan Souls OST: Forest Songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRP32r1Rk4
➤ Old Metal Gear by Starry. K - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-o4I1Dxgs
➤ Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Dreaming of Twilight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXc-UxwwkBo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXksTpJS98
I hate to admit it, but I love drama videos. Watching titans rise and fall in the YouTube coliseum is basically a blood sport. And this week has been jampacked with entertainment. Shane Dawson getting called out by the Smith family disintegrating his YouTube career. The beef in the beauty community between Jeffree Star, Tati and James Charles. And the continuing saga between h3h3 and Killer Keemstar has provided an endless cascade of drama and call-out videos that I have been playing nonstop as background noise.
But as much as I like them, I can’t help but feel a little unsettled by them. What's the problem behind these videos?
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You constantly hear about how immigrants are criminals and burdens on the welfare system. Donald Trump got elected mostly on his anti-immigrant rhetoric, and countries everywhere are seeing xenophobic fascism on the rise. In the midst of all this outsider-hatred, could open borders be the cure?
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? SOURCES:
➤ Double World GDP Claim
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.25.3.83
➤ The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration
https://www.nap.edu/read/23550/chapter/2#6
➤ On Poverty
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199914050.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199914050-e-28
➤ The Silver Tsunami
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199914050.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199914050-e-28
➤ John Kenan's Open Border's Study
https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/research/OpenBorders.pdf
? MUSIC:
➤ Kirby Russian Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_pIezwa8o
➤ The Legend of Zelda Russian Theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-TilircJZ4
➤ Russian US Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAzUlJd4yg
➤ Papers Please Victory Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2FxJrK9Amw
➤ Papers Please Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSq6IHu0h9Y
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koDF7qse0PU
Regulatory capture is a term used to refer to when special interests groups successfully lobby the governmental bodies in charge of governing them. Historically, Big Tobacco was very successful at getting the government to rule in favor of them until the science was just so undeniable that the hammer came crashing down. In a lot of ways, Big Food is the new Big Tobacco.
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