#harrylesliesmith — Public Fediverse posts
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Harry's Last Stand
Nothing Sticks in Neoliberal Politics, Especially Hope
JM Smith"I watched Burnham’s leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference on Sky today, and I wish I hadn’t. During it, I couldn’t shake Andy Warhol’s line about how, in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Except in a Burnham Britain, instead of 15 minutes of fame, it would be 15 minutes of Andy Burnham seeing you."
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Harry's Last Stand
Nothing Sticks in Neoliberal Politics, Especially Hope
JM Smith"I watched Burnham’s leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference on Sky today, and I wish I hadn’t. During it, I couldn’t shake Andy Warhol’s line about how, in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Except in a Burnham Britain, instead of 15 minutes of fame, it would be 15 minutes of Andy Burnham seeing you."
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Harry's Last Stand
Nothing Sticks in Neoliberal Politics, Especially Hope
JM Smith"I watched Burnham’s leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference on Sky today, and I wish I hadn’t. During it, I couldn’t shake Andy Warhol’s line about how, in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Except in a Burnham Britain, instead of 15 minutes of fame, it would be 15 minutes of Andy Burnham seeing you."
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Harry's Last Stand
Nothing Sticks in Neoliberal Politics, Especially Hope
JM Smith"I watched Burnham’s leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference on Sky today, and I wish I hadn’t. During it, I couldn’t shake Andy Warhol’s line about how, in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Except in a Burnham Britain, instead of 15 minutes of fame, it would be 15 minutes of Andy Burnham seeing you."
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Harry's Last Stand
Labour Party Conference: Neoliberalism Parties Like It Was 1914
JM Smith"Outside of the American government, which is brash and proud about its authoritarianism, all other Western governments are rather beige about theirs. The EU, Britain, Canada and Australia go about the business of preserving American hegemony while pretending that they do it for the right reasons:"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #johnSmith #politics #Labour
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Harry's Last Stand
Labour Party Conference: Neoliberalism Parties Like It Was 1914
JM Smith"Outside of the American government, which is brash and proud about its authoritarianism, all other Western governments are rather beige about theirs. The EU, Britain, Canada and Australia go about the business of preserving American hegemony while pretending that they do it for the right reasons:"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #johnSmith #politics #Labour
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Harry's Last Stand
Labour Party Conference: Neoliberalism Parties Like It Was 1914
JM Smith"Outside of the American government, which is brash and proud about its authoritarianism, all other Western governments are rather beige about theirs. The EU, Britain, Canada and Australia go about the business of preserving American hegemony while pretending that they do it for the right reasons:"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #johnSmith #politics #Labour
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Harry's Last Stand
Labour Party Conference: Neoliberalism Parties Like It Was 1914
JM Smith"Outside of the American government, which is brash and proud about its authoritarianism, all other Western governments are rather beige about theirs. The EU, Britain, Canada and Australia go about the business of preserving American hegemony while pretending that they do it for the right reasons:"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #johnSmith #politics #Labour
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Harry's Last Stand
To Care and Be Cared For Is What Makes Being Alive Matter
JM Smith"My parents spent the last 10 years of their marriage not in a golden sunset of retirement but as caregivers to my brother Peter, who had schizophrenia. Their loving care for Peter ensured my brother had a life worth living, but it took its toll on them, especially my mother. She died from cancer a few months shy of her 71st birthday."
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Harry's Last Stand
To Care and Be Cared For Is What Makes Being Alive Matter
JM Smith"My parents spent the last 10 years of their marriage not in a golden sunset of retirement but as caregivers to my brother Peter, who had schizophrenia. Their loving care for Peter ensured my brother had a life worth living, but it took its toll on them, especially my mother. She died from cancer a few months shy of her 71st birthday."
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Harry's Last Stand
To Care and Be Cared For Is What Makes Being Alive Matter
JM Smith"My parents spent the last 10 years of their marriage not in a golden sunset of retirement but as caregivers to my brother Peter, who had schizophrenia. Their loving care for Peter ensured my brother had a life worth living, but it took its toll on them, especially my mother. She died from cancer a few months shy of her 71st birthday."
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Harry's Last Stand
To Care and Be Cared For Is What Makes Being Alive Matter
JM Smith"My parents spent the last 10 years of their marriage not in a golden sunset of retirement but as caregivers to my brother Peter, who had schizophrenia. Their loving care for Peter ensured my brother had a life worth living, but it took its toll on them, especially my mother. She died from cancer a few months shy of her 71st birthday."
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Harry's Last Stand
Trump Drinks The Rule of Law’s Milkshake
JM Smith"For the sake of my mental health, I shouldn’t have watched Trump’s address to the United Nations yesterday because history wasn’t being made; the best parts of it, like the rule of law, were being erased.
To add insult to injury, Trump didn’t even do it with grace or eloquence, but like a petulant sociopath slowly tearing the wings off an insect."
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Harry's Last Stand
Trump Drinks The Rule of Law’s Milkshake
JM Smith"For the sake of my mental health, I shouldn’t have watched Trump’s address to the United Nations yesterday because history wasn’t being made; the best parts of it, like the rule of law, were being erased.
To add insult to injury, Trump didn’t even do it with grace or eloquence, but like a petulant sociopath slowly tearing the wings off an insect."
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Harry's Last Stand
Trump Drinks The Rule of Law’s Milkshake
JM Smith"For the sake of my mental health, I shouldn’t have watched Trump’s address to the United Nations yesterday because history wasn’t being made; the best parts of it, like the rule of law, were being erased.
To add insult to injury, Trump didn’t even do it with grace or eloquence, but like a petulant sociopath slowly tearing the wings off an insect."
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Harry's Last Stand
Trump Drinks The Rule of Law’s Milkshake
JM Smith"For the sake of my mental health, I shouldn’t have watched Trump’s address to the United Nations yesterday because history wasn’t being made; the best parts of it, like the rule of law, were being erased.
To add insult to injury, Trump didn’t even do it with grace or eloquence, but like a petulant sociopath slowly tearing the wings off an insect."
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Harry's Last Stand
Run Rabbit Run
JM Smith"When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe. Yet most were excited by the prospect of conflict, as if battle were a bath to cleanse civilisation of the grime of peace. The start of the Second World War wasn’t like that."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/run-rabbit-run?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Run Rabbit Run
JM Smith"When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe. Yet most were excited by the prospect of conflict, as if battle were a bath to cleanse civilisation of the grime of peace. The start of the Second World War wasn’t like that."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/run-rabbit-run?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Run Rabbit Run
JM Smith"When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe. Yet most were excited by the prospect of conflict, as if battle were a bath to cleanse civilisation of the grime of peace. The start of the Second World War wasn’t like that."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/run-rabbit-run?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Run Rabbit Run
JM Smith"When the First World War broke out in 1914, a British diplomat lamented that the lights were going out across Europe. Yet most were excited by the prospect of conflict, as if battle were a bath to cleanse civilisation of the grime of peace. The start of the Second World War wasn’t like that."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/run-rabbit-run?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
Stop The Fascists, Not The Boats
JM Smith"Eleven years ago, Harry Leslie Smith was alive and 92. He decided his last stand was to remind people that refugees deserve welcome, not contempt. So he travelled to a hard-scrabble refugee camp called the Jungle. It was located on abandoned industrial scrubland in a nether region outside Calais."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #refugees #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
Stop The Fascists, Not The Boats
JM Smith"Eleven years ago, Harry Leslie Smith was alive and 92. He decided his last stand was to remind people that refugees deserve welcome, not contempt. So he travelled to a hard-scrabble refugee camp called the Jungle. It was located on abandoned industrial scrubland in a nether region outside Calais."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #refugees #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
Stop The Fascists, Not The Boats
JM Smith"Eleven years ago, Harry Leslie Smith was alive and 92. He decided his last stand was to remind people that refugees deserve welcome, not contempt. So he travelled to a hard-scrabble refugee camp called the Jungle. It was located on abandoned industrial scrubland in a nether region outside Calais."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #refugees #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
Stop The Fascists, Not The Boats
JM Smith"Eleven years ago, Harry Leslie Smith was alive and 92. He decided his last stand was to remind people that refugees deserve welcome, not contempt. So he travelled to a hard-scrabble refugee camp called the Jungle. It was located on abandoned industrial scrubland in a nether region outside Calais."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #refugees #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Past Feels Frighteningly Familiar
JM Smith"From the beginning, you’ve been a part of this journey to conclude my father’s Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future project, with The Green and Pleasant Land being published as a book. I am now at the query stage, which is a slow, grinding process of finding a publisher"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
The Past Feels Frighteningly Familiar
JM Smith"From the beginning, you’ve been a part of this journey to conclude my father’s Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future project, with The Green and Pleasant Land being published as a book. I am now at the query stage, which is a slow, grinding process of finding a publisher"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
The Past Feels Frighteningly Familiar
JM Smith"From the beginning, you’ve been a part of this journey to conclude my father’s Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future project, with The Green and Pleasant Land being published as a book. I am now at the query stage, which is a slow, grinding process of finding a publisher"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
The Past Feels Frighteningly Familiar
JM Smith"From the beginning, you’ve been a part of this journey to conclude my father’s Don’t Let My Past Be Your Future project, with The Green and Pleasant Land being published as a book. I am now at the query stage, which is a slow, grinding process of finding a publisher"
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #history #politics
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Harry's Last Stand
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“I Don’t Do Politics”
JM Smith"“I don’t do politics” is a phrase that, like bits of food in the mouth of a cocktail party guest, entitled neoliberals, the stupid and naive, spit out to end discussions about unpleasant 21st-century realities. Whether it stems from disingenuousness or a lack of self-awareness doesn’t matter because it is one reason why we are in the shit called 2026."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-dont-do-politics?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
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“I Don’t Do Politics”
JM Smith"“I don’t do politics” is a phrase that, like bits of food in the mouth of a cocktail party guest, entitled neoliberals, the stupid and naive, spit out to end discussions about unpleasant 21st-century realities. Whether it stems from disingenuousness or a lack of self-awareness doesn’t matter because it is one reason why we are in the shit called 2026."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-dont-do-politics?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
more
“I Don’t Do Politics”
JM Smith"“I don’t do politics” is a phrase that, like bits of food in the mouth of a cocktail party guest, entitled neoliberals, the stupid and naive, spit out to end discussions about unpleasant 21st-century realities. Whether it stems from disingenuousness or a lack of self-awareness doesn’t matter because it is one reason why we are in the shit called 2026."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-dont-do-politics?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
more
“I Don’t Do Politics”
JM Smith"“I don’t do politics” is a phrase that, like bits of food in the mouth of a cocktail party guest, entitled neoliberals, the stupid and naive, spit out to end discussions about unpleasant 21st-century realities. Whether it stems from disingenuousness or a lack of self-awareness doesn’t matter because it is one reason why we are in the shit called 2026."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-dont-do-politics?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
Germany's AfD Is The Least Of Democracy's Problems
JM Smith"The news media and neoliberal politicians worked together like clockwork this past Sunday to warn that Germany’s AfD winning a regional election in Saxony-Anhalt put democracy on watch across all of Europe and Britain. Their pronouncements may as well have been the pet shop owner in the Monty Python sketch denying the parrot is already dead."
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Harry's Last Stand
Germany's AfD Is The Least Of Democracy's Problems
JM Smith"The news media and neoliberal politicians worked together like clockwork this past Sunday to warn that Germany’s AfD winning a regional election in Saxony-Anhalt put democracy on watch across all of Europe and Britain. Their pronouncements may as well have been the pet shop owner in the Monty Python sketch denying the parrot is already dead."
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Harry's Last Stand
Germany's AfD Is The Least Of Democracy's Problems
JM Smith"The news media and neoliberal politicians worked together like clockwork this past Sunday to warn that Germany’s AfD winning a regional election in Saxony-Anhalt put democracy on watch across all of Europe and Britain. Their pronouncements may as well have been the pet shop owner in the Monty Python sketch denying the parrot is already dead."
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Harry's Last Stand
Germany's AfD Is The Least Of Democracy's Problems
JM Smith"The news media and neoliberal politicians worked together like clockwork this past Sunday to warn that Germany’s AfD winning a regional election in Saxony-Anhalt put democracy on watch across all of Europe and Britain. Their pronouncements may as well have been the pet shop owner in the Monty Python sketch denying the parrot is already dead."
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Harry's Last Stand
In the Before Times, September Had Only Normal Dread
JM Smith"By the time most of you read this, it will be the first day of school in North America for many young people. I was always ambivalent about most first days of school, never sure of what to expect over the coming term. Excitement and dread were roommates in my head."
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Harry's Last Stand
In the Before Times, September Had Only Normal Dread
JM Smith"By the time most of you read this, it will be the first day of school in North America for many young people. I was always ambivalent about most first days of school, never sure of what to expect over the coming term. Excitement and dread were roommates in my head."
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Harry's Last Stand
In the Before Times, September Had Only Normal Dread
JM Smith"By the time most of you read this, it will be the first day of school in North America for many young people. I was always ambivalent about most first days of school, never sure of what to expect over the coming term. Excitement and dread were roommates in my head."
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Harry's Last Stand
In the Before Times, September Had Only Normal Dread
JM Smith"By the time most of you read this, it will be the first day of school in North America for many young people. I was always ambivalent about most first days of school, never sure of what to expect over the coming term. Excitement and dread were roommates in my head."
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
“We’re in the Shit Now, Lad”
The war they fought, long ago, won't be the war we will fight soon, but let's hope we wage it, like they did, to make a socialist peace.
JM Smith"It’s a sign of getting older and the times we live in, but when wheels are down for August, a sense of grief overcomes me. It’s not strong, just sad, like hearing the song Maggie May by Rod Stewart."
https://jmsmith.substack.com/p/were-in-the-shit-now-lad?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
It Takes a Village to Raise a Hitler or a Trump
JM Smith"August now feels like its last days are being played out to Peggy Lee singing, “Is That All There Is?” But this also goes for Western neoliberal society.
In the Before Times, these waning days of summer carried a weary melancholic echo of the week between Christmas and New Year’s."
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
The West Has Entered Its Last Orders Phase
JM Smith"I am running hard against a clock, ticking down to September, but I think I will complete the last touches for The Green and Pleasant Land on schedule. When Harry’s Last Stand began in March 2010, I didn’t realise it would consume the rest of my life."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism #capitalism
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
AI Slop and the End of Historical Truth
JM Smith"I fear that everything is being turned into AI slop: history, politics, even love. Once we can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy, truth and lies, society becomes collectively psychotic.
AI is changing us as human beings. The ubiquity of AI, rendering the past into a version that best suits modern authoritarians, is terrifying."
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism
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Harry's Last Stand
The Compromises We Must Make to Survive Fascism
JM Smith"I haven’t been watching or reading much of the news this past month. And yet I am up to date on how shitty things have become, or how much worse they are likely to get.
I’ve also been mildly under the weather for weeks, which, as it turns out, is down to a B12 deficiency that is now being sorted with high-dose supplements."
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith #JohnSmith #politics #fascism