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Jacobin

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Jacobin

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Jacobin is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 10, 2021 and October 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Google Trend interest in Jacobin … has been going down”; “Jacobin (a socialist magazine)”; “For example, from Jacobin”. It most often appears alongside 4chan, Donald Trump, Elon Musk.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 10, 2021
  • Last seen: October 10, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars
May 10, 2021 · Original source
And also, New Socialism is looking less and less like an up-and-coming dragon-slayer. It’s hard to track the Google Trend because of the bumps from the Bernie campaign, but I feel like I hear less about it than I used to. Google Trend interest in Jacobin and Chapo Trap House have both been going down for over a year (although this is confounded by increasing distance from the Sanders campaign). The Twitter blow-ups between representatives of New Socialism and the woke establishment are less frequent and less fun to watch. Robby Soave’s prediction that 2018 was a “socialist moment” (a deliberate analogy to the “libertarian moment” that followed Ron Paul’s campaign in 2008) - and not the beginning of an inexorable trend towards more socialism - is starting to feel more prescient. I take no pleasure in reporting this; I disagree with socialism as a philosophy, but they had some good ideas, could have helped some people, and would have been a breath of fresh air after a decade of unremitting wokeness.
Inline links: Jacobin, Chapo Trap House, a “socialist moment”
Links For September
September 20, 2021 · Original source
This picture has some glaring flaws, but the authors at least provide us with some hilarious explanations. For example, right-wingers overuse the word “socialist” so much (eg “Obama wants socialist health care!”, “The Democrats are trying to smuggle socialism in through the back door!”) that the AI interprets use of the word as a cue for conservatism, and so misclassifies Jacobin (a socialist magazine) as right-wing. Still, neat idea.
SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
October 10, 2024 · Original source
Newsom is good at politics, so he’s covering his tracks. To counterbalance his SB 1047 veto and appear strong on AI, he signed several less important anti-AI bills, including a ban on deepfakes which was immediately struck down as unconstitutional. And with all the ferocity of OJ vowing to find the real killer, he’s set up a committee to come up with better AI safety regulation. He’s named a few committee members already, most notably Fei-Fei Li:
Inline links: which was immediately struck down as unconstitutional, a committee, Fei-Fei Li
Last year, I would have told Dean not to worry about us allying with the Left - the Left would never accept an alliance with the likes of us anyway. But I was surprised by how fairly socialist media covered the SB 1047 fight. For example, from Jacobin3:
Inline links: Jacobin, 3
I don’t want to overplay this. Garrison Lovely, author of the Jacobin article, is himself an effective altruist, one of our few really committed socialists. I’ve clashed with him on his socialist opinions in the past, but I’m still grateful to have him as an ally, and happy that our common cause can rally support from across the political spectrum. I also think that regardless of Garrison’s personal opinions, the fact that Jacobin would publish his story suggests a broader sea change within the socialist movement.
Inline links: clashed with him on his socialist opinions in the past