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[durangodawood]

Accelerationism sounds like just a slightly slower "revolution".

I'm skeptical of revolutions. I think they mostly turn out bad. The American one was pretty good, but it was strictly speaking a de-colonization rather than a revolution. I mean, the monarchy remained in place.

 

[bèlla]

CBS reported yesterday that more Americans are using buy now, pay later plans to buy groceries.

A growing number of consumers are taking out "buy now, pay later," or BNPL, loans to cover everyday living expenses, data shows, a sign of the precarious financial state facing many U.S. households.

A quarter of Americans now use BNPL loans to pay for groceries, up 14% from last year, according to a recent survey from LendingTree. The personal finance firm also found that more people are using such financing to pay for clothing, technology and housewares.

BNPL loans — which are readily available from financial technology companies such as Affirm, Klarna and PayPal, as well as from household names like Apple — let shoppers make interest-free purchases while spreading payments over several installments. The most common BNPL loans are "pay in four" products, which divide the total cost of a purchase, usually ranging from $50 to $1,000, into four equal payments. Consumers pay the first 25% at the point of sale and the remaining three installments over the next six weeks.

~bella

 

[durangodawood]

CBS reported yesterday that more Americans are using buy now, pay later plans to buy groceries.

A growing number of consumers are taking out "buy now, pay later," or BNPL, loans to cover everyday living expenses, data shows, a sign of the precarious financial state facing many U.S. households.

A quarter of Americans now use BNPL loans to pay for groceries, up 14% from last year, according to a recent survey from LendingTree. The personal finance firm also found that more people are using such financing to pay for clothing, technology and housewares.

BNPL loans — which are readily available from financial technology companies such as Affirm, Klarna and PayPal, as well as from household names like Apple — let shoppers make interest-free purchases while spreading payments over several installments. The most common BNPL loans are "pay in four" products, which divide the total cost of a purchase, usually ranging from $50 to $1,000, into four equal payments. Consumers pay the first 25% at the point of sale and the remaining three installments over the next six weeks.

~bella

Reality check on our "great economy!". This goes for the Biden era claims as well. It was pretty good on paper when averaged. But a lot of people weren't feeling it - and pinned their hopes on Trump and his group to turn it around for them.

 

[Landon Caeli]

It would have been good to read other articles past that single Guardian article. The other dozen links when I google it are about white nationalists adopting accelerationism as part of their ideology. (Though, I should be clear that accelerationism isn't a white nationalist ideology, just something they are starting to adapt.)

It isn't strictly about accelerating technology, but accelerating *change* to get a chance to implement what you really want after destroying the obstacles with the acceleration. Technology is one way to do that.

The problem with accelerationism is that it is about wrecking the things that stand in the way of the goal that accelerationism is being used to support and not caring what else is wrecked or if anyone else (particularly those that might not want their end goal). It is an ideology adopted by tech utopians, white nationalists, monarchists, facists, and others.

And that is why I am concerned about your interest (and understanding). What do you want to use accleeration of tech or events to destroy and what do you want to replace it? (or are you realizing that you are an accelerationist?)

AI is a different question and it isn't fear of the "technology taking over". It is that actual humans are going to trust that unreliable technology.

I didn't say anything about using bad logic.

I'm convinced that woke writers portray accelerationism in such a negative way, because out of their own ignorance and racism, they view people of color as incapable of, or unassociated with progress. But that is their misconception.... And through their ignorance, they create a kind of fictional perspective, almost like that of fake news, or misinformation.

If everyone were as dumb as the writers who portray accelerationists as Skin Heads, or White Nationalists, we would certainly never get anywhere in the future. In fact, we would regress to something similar to how cattle are.

**Edit** Also... When writers claim accelerationists want to destroy things, I'd be curious what evidence they have of this, and what they're referring to, because that sounds like propoganda style scare-talk.

 

[bèlla]

Reality check on our "great economy!". This goes for the Biden era claims as well. It was pretty good on paper when averaged. But a lot of people weren't feeling it - and pinned their hopes on Trump and his group to turn it around for them.

Did you hear what Amazon did? They laid the whole facility off in Nevada. According to the letter they sent the decision impacted 325 employees and is effective August 2nd. I read the comments on the video and it wasn’t the only one. The first message said hundreds were laid off elsewhere as well. Then someone posted that Proctor & Gamble announced a layoff affecting 7,000 people. Another said they lost all the Rite Aid stores in New York. And someone said CNA’s are getting the ax.

There was clip in the video with a hiring manager citing the major companies who’ve announced layoffs for the month of June which include: Boeing, Walmart, HPE, Pfizer, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Chase, Bank of America, Blue Origin and Meta.

A second one included a woman who works as a nurse. They met with HR as a group and were informed the company was seeking volunteers for layoff. They had no information on a severance package and gave them a deadline to decide.

~bella

 

[RDKirk]

Accelerationism sounds like just a slightly slower "revolution".

I'm skeptical of revolutions. I think they mostly turn out bad. The American one was pretty good, but it was strictly speaking a de-colonization rather than a revolution. I mean, the monarchy remained in place.

Accelerationism is intended to "highlight the contradictions" (in Marxist terms) and thereby speed up the revolution.

The Boston Tea Party was an accelerationist action. The intention was to provoke a British over-response that would tip those on the fence to revolution.

I'm convinced that woke writers portray accelerationism in such a negative way, because out of their own ignorance and racism, they view people of color as incapable of, or unassociated with progress. But that is their misconception.... And through their ignorance, they create a kind of fictional perspective, almost like that of fake news, or misinformation.

If everyone were as dumb as the writers who portray accelerationists as Skin Heads, or White Nationalists, we would certainly never get anywhere in the future. In fact, we would regress to something similar to how cattle are.

**Edit&** Also... When writers claim accelerationists want to destroy things, I'd be curious what evidence they have of this, and what they're referring to, because that sounds like propoganda style scare-talk.

Karl Marx coined the term "accelerationism," and Marxists think they own the tactic, although as I mentioned, it was used before Marx put a name on it. But communists still think they own "accelerationism," so it's not a negative to them, it's in their toolbox.

Of course, every tool is negative when the other side uses it.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Also, even if Carl Marx coined a term, doesn't mean it has to continue being associated with him or his ideas. Terminology is a donation, not a domain. We reshape and repurpose things all the time to suit a changing world.