Doctor Doom controls the Sentinels to fight the Avengers in leaked ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ footage.
Also featured in the footage:
Steve Rogers, Captain America, Thor, Nightcrawler, Yelena, Mystique, Cyclops, Gambit, Shang-Chi, and Mr. Fantastic.
Day 2! Up bright and early for a fantastic dice win vs doom z only to open COMPLETELY unplayable, absolute hard brick, zero plays.
Game 2 I full combo, win through santa claws crown
Game 3 I have super poly vs regulus, mistake, big omni guy and uh idk what these cards do
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Nick Land in SF:
The Dark Tech crew frame his position as p(doom)=100% and p(sim)=100%. He frames it as Gnostic Calvinism. These are different ways of saying the same thing. Trad Calvinism’s belief in Total Depravity means humanity’s doom is ensured. It’s already done. So Calvinism = p(doom). Gnosticism believes this world is illusion and we don’t access true reality because of demiurge cosmology. So Gosticism = p(sim).
But neither of these positions is new. They are in fact many centuries old. Each has been criticized in many different ways over the centuries and neither position is “inevitable”.
Land brings a stylistic novelty with his “cybernetic” framing and he recruits elements of Kant to deflect traditional critiques of Calvin and the Gnostics: namely that the unknowability of the thing-in-itself means we can’t make any positive statements about p(doom) or p(sim). Land calls attempts to make such statements “idolatry”.
But even this is not new! It’s a redo of Heidegger’s interpretation of the pre-Socratic philosophers Parmenides and Heraclitus. (Remember Land’s PhD was on Heidegger and his advisor was David Farrell Krell, the editor of H’s “Early Greek Thinking”. My own study of the pre-socratics was with a Krell fellow traveler so I went down this road)
The trad view is that Parmenides and Heraclitus are opposites: P says the world is One, eternal and unchanging. H says the world is strife and flux. Heidegger rejects this and says they say “the Same” (not the same thing, but the Same…) He gets there with a radical take on the word “physis” (aletheia as unconcealment) and what he calls “the sway of presence”
This Heideggerian version of the pre-Socratics maps straight to gnostic Calvinism: Parmenides=p(sim)=gnosticism. Being’s underlying structure is eternal and already fixed but inaccessible because we are stuck in doxa.
Heraclitus=p(doom)=Calvinism. Being as flux aligns with the predestined catastrophe, intensifying change is the motor of revelation.
Land echos Heidegger: P(doom) and P(sim) aren't contradictory, they are “the Same” terminal structure — the eternal One (simulation as Parmenidean veil) manifesting through relentless, strife-driven unveiling (doom as Heraclitean fire). The Kantian apophatic thing-in-itself (no positive grasp or else idolatry) preserves the pre-metaphysical "obscurity" Heidegger praises in the early Greeks which he felt showed the ungraspable depth of the Same.
So Land in SF is a restatement of 100 year old Heidegger but flavored with cybernetics and capital.
Up next could be how Land inherits Heiddegger’s weakness vis a vis Kant (how Kant outflanks them) and how a radicalized take on Kant’s “inescapable subjectivity” in Michel Henry’s late work (“I Am The Truth” and “Incarnation”) shows a way out of Land’s cold submission to the Outside……
Return visit #KenMurphy to your @Tesco#Cirecencester store it retains our most #litter & environment impact award. Worthy of print @tesconews. 350 items in hedges on Swindon Rd. 48 forecourt gloves. Alleyway of doom littered. Store non-compliant with legislation @CotswoldDC
The most litter on & off site award today goes to @Tesco#Cirencester with @AldiUK & @McDonaldsUK keeping it clean. An alleyway of doom & petrol station 🧤 made a show. Need to venture out more @Tesco & pick your environment as well. @CotswoldDC@BBCSpotlight @cirencester_chamber
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"We are living the spiraling endgame of industrial civilization: a senescent empire crumbling under the weight of its own moral corruption and foolish quest for eternal growth as the ecological foundations of life itself teeter on the brink."
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