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@dfmanufracture.bsky.social
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I write about engineering and communism.
https://designformanufracture.com/
Forthcoming F&F Français translation will feature bonus content (new foreword)
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depths of wikipedia
25 days ago
still no updates here
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Meredith Whittaker
about 1 month ago
Running a low-latency platform for instant comms capable of carrying millions of concurrent audio/video calls requires a pre-built, planet-spanning network of compute, storage and edge presence that requires constant maintenance, significant electricity and persistent attention and monitoring. 4/
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It's like they're trying to turn her into a 21st century Lenin by the time she's middle aged.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden
about 2 months ago
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regular meghan 🎄 나영지 🇵🇸
3 months ago
utah police wisely choosing not to show the bullet casing that says ‘if you read this you are gay’ bc they know it would instantly turn the country gay
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rich traditions
3 months ago
its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment
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Ill Will
3 months ago
A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle.
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prada meinhof
3 months ago
Nuova pubblicazione Porfido Edizioni: | LA FORESTA & LA FABBRICA | Contributi ad una fantascienza del comunismo [2025, 128p.] Phil A. Neel & Nick Chavez
@dfmanufracture.bsky.social
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@endnotesjournal.bsky.social
porfidotorino.it/2025/02/01/l...
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Marx haters be like "Marx was very wrong because [something that Kautsky or Stalin said], it's obvious that actually [something Marx said extensively]"
3 months ago
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Cominsitu
4 months ago
now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
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Wonder if any Chinese person has heard a Doechii song and gone "who is this rapper?" and when someone tells them they mishear it as 豆豉 (dòuchǐ), leaving them very impressed that the song was made by fermented soybeans
5 months ago
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Heatwave Magazine
5 months ago
Want to be a cool cat and buy a copy of Issue 1? 🐱 You can snag a copy from haters cafe's webstore (link below). Also, subscribe to our Patreon and get Issue 2 when it launches.
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Heatwave Magazine
5 months ago
"In a sense, Mae Sot is an extension of that little sandbank, where the concept of 'nationality' is unsettled. It’s on the Thai side of the border, but it feels more like a Burmese city." -Wu Qin, in her dispatch on the Myanmar Civil War featured in Heatwave Issue 1
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Heatwave Magazine
6 months ago
Maybe a closer look reveals that the cyclical and the secular are part of the same dysfunction. The crisis portended by new Gaga was always just underneath the surface.
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I cannot stress enough how clever and fun this essay is
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6 months ago
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Heatwave Magazine
6 months ago
Read this piece and others in Heatwave Issue 1, out now. Subscribe to our Patreon to get it mailed to you, or grab it from your favorite lefty bookstore. A PDF of Issue 1 will be freely accessible on our website once Issue 2 is released.
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Heatwave Magazine
6 months ago
Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.
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Mel Buer
6 months ago
Lol, pretty much. From BBC—
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ILC Chicago
6 months ago
Great piece by Chicago ILC member
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
about Trump's tariffs and class war. Give it a read!
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Heatwave Magazine
6 months ago
Read this piece and others in Heatwave Issue 1, out now! Subscribe to our Patreon to get it mailed to you, or grab it from your favorite lefty bookstore -
www.patreon.com/c/HeatwaveMag
A PDF of Issue 1 will be freely accessible on our website once Issue 2 is released
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Fantastic essay on the communist lessons imparted by the noble beaver
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6 months ago
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Imagine you're in China 6000 years ago literally drinking beer all day to stay hydrated, and some fucking dweeb is like "everyone I invented tea, it's safe to drink AND has no alcohol in it!" and you all have to pretend to be stoked about it to not hurt the dweeb's feelings
7 months ago
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Absolutely stacked for a premier issue
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7 months ago
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Was texting a smart friend of mine. Tried to tell him "I want to pick your brain" but it was autocorrected to "I want to lick your brain." While this was funny, it's crazy how many software functions (like autocorrect apparently) are turning into useless garbage.
7 months ago
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Heatwave Magazine
7 months ago
Climate change, state failure, and class self-organization in the wake of Valencia's record-breaking floods. Read Class and Disaster in Valencia by
@proledotinfo.bsky.social
on our site now.
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Anatarah عنترة
8 months ago
The chemical industry as an under-appreciated aspect of the Industrial Revolution. If you want to understand “flows,” you need to understand chemicals.
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Heatwave Magazine
8 months ago
S. Darby walks us through the opening salvos of Trump's blitzkrieg to remind us exactly what the terrain of struggle for us will be, and more importantly what it should not be -
heatwavemag.info/blog/blitzkr...
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Financial Times
8 months ago
Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life
https://www.ft.com/content/01423933-0ce3-4c07-a66c-06f383201ade
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Astronomers claim strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life
Distant planet is covered with an ocean that may be teeming with microbial activity
https://www.ft.com/content/01423933-0ce3-4c07-a66c-06f383201ade
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Søren Mau
8 months ago
new communist magazine ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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This is 100% something to keep an eye on
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8 months ago
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"Now we're seeing subtle regressions creep in. Edge cases not considered. The long tail of AI-generated code, extended by AI is now consuming the majority of my days." Wow, nobody saw this coming 😮
www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
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From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1jqp3s3/i_now_spend_most_of_my_time_debugging_and_fixing/
8 months ago
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Jamie Merchant
8 months ago
lotta economic nationalism, lotta global decline
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wint
8 months ago
im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "
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Between me and him, I think I am the superior kooky theorist of technology and society named Nick (low bar admittedly)
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8 months ago
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Andy Boyle
8 months ago
please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?
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Leo Mairena
9 months ago
I'm actually a big fan of Transformer based architecture; taking 5 regular sized robots and having them combine into one is pretty badass.
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Aaron Benanav
9 months ago
*Chef’s kiss* 10/10 no notes.
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If you're a Californian you have zero problem differentiating between these 3 use cases in conversation
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10 months ago
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Had a crazy dream last night I was in the city of Cambodia (???), capital of Africa (????), and I saw Nathan Fielder. I tried texting my friends to come outside and see him but my phone kept autocorrecting everything to gibberish and then Fielder got away.
10 months ago
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Future Histories
10 months ago
A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (
@cominsitu.bsky.social
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@ktbberlin.bsky.social
) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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In 500 years history students are going to have a tough time grasping the concepts of "woke" and "anti-woke" because of how contextual they are, much like I have never been able to fully and intuitively grasp what the medieval concept of "honor" actually is
10 months ago
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Sharon
10 months ago
"we do not need bureaucracy or logistics, only lethality" is literally IJA/IJN brain
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23.7% effective unemployment rate. The stats have caught up to what anyone with eyes can see.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464
10 months ago
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We should have put something like this in Forest and Factory. Communism would be imo the domestication of human conflict. I would think that if one of the greatest insults you can lob at someone is to gift them the biggest fruit (tuber?) of your labor, things would be pretty good.
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10 months ago
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Currently reading Taylor's "Principles of Scientific Management." Makes me want to go back in time and punch him in the face tbh. It's wildly misanthropic and just drips with disdain for workers. I cannot respect those who think there's a socialist use for Taylorism. Dweeb opinion.
10 months ago
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I am becoming an em dash enjoyer. Nifty little thing. Very useful.
10 months ago
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Cominsitu
11 months ago
publications 2024 1) The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel (Routledge) though it came out last December, the copyright date is 2024 so it counts! affordable paperback should be available in spring 25. still waiting for a review/critique....
www.routledge.com/The-Concept-...
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The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition
This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the center of the philosophical systems of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel and shows how pr...
https://www.routledge.com/The-Concept-of-Property-in-Kant-Fichte-and-Hegel-Freedom-Right-and-Recognition/Blumenfeld/p/book/9781032575186
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Institut for Planwirtschaft
11 months ago
This relationship to the external world, a metabolism, is mediated not only by physical implements such as tools and machines, but the social arrangements that structure how we use these implements. Beitrag von
@dfmanufracture.bsky.social
notesfrombelow.org/article/engi...
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Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method
by Nick Chavez // In this essay, Nick Chavez explores the relationship between engineering - both as an abstract process and as a profession made up of real people - and the communist project, arguing...
https://notesfrombelow.org/article/engineers-and-communist-materialism#
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Institut for Planwirtschaft
11 months ago
Beitrag von
@dfmanufracture.bsky.social
„The miracle of global industrial power is capable of building us a sensible and rational system that prioritizes the health of not only the human species but the entire global ecosystem.“
strangematters.coop/fixed-capita...
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Fixed Capital
Every step I take through a factory reminds me of the failed potential of human ingenuity.
https://strangematters.coop/fixed-capital-nick-chavez/
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Got interviewed by Angry Workers for Vital Signs healthcare workers magazine about medical device engineering. Great discussion covering a range of topics like global supply chains, labor organizing, product development, etc.
www.vitalsignsmag.org/posts/interv...
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Interview with a medical device engineer | Vital Signs
We spoke to a friend who works in medical device engineering
https://www.vitalsignsmag.org/posts/interview-with-a-medical-device-engineer
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