I have such a fascination toward people who are hyper-organized. Like every aspect of their lives is super prim and proper, and nothing is ever out of place or design. When things inevitably crack, it's wild to see how they handle (or don't) it... and YouTube is full of em 🧐

Fascism.

“Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.” –Donella H. Meadows, ‘Thinking in Systems’

“If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.” – Donella H. Meadows, ‘Thinking in Systems: A Primer’

🎶Why did you leave me at the Chinese pavilion girl?🎵

I read these again and…what even is most of this shit? This is largely the vaguest friggin list of shit I’ve ever seen…how are these parameters defined specifically? Like, how bigoted, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, or supportive of my own dominance do I need to be to ensure I’m in the good? 🤨

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This is very good.

Aren't we all?

It was good! Retains the overall messages of the original in a British framing. Doesn’t beat out Ikiru for poignancy though, but a nice adaptation nonetheless. Good entry point for those folks wary of subtitled films or older b&w.

just a disgusting individual through and through

They smoking those indica a little too hard 😅

I’ve begun seeing so many commercials that I can identify actors in different ones for wildly different products…it was a good decade or so there without them, but they’re everywhere now. I’ve seen people complaining they’re even bumpers in the higher paid versions that claim commercial free 🫤

Being against the mass slaughter of civilians and starvation of children shouldn't be offensive to anyone. I stand firmly on the Left, for human rights for all. Unmovable.

Giving the British version of Ikiru a watch 🧐

filling out all the applications is certainly annoying and time-consuming...but the thing that just drives me up a wall is when the university somehow makes access to the application itself the most labyrinthine experience which seemingly serves only to frustrate folks from even bothering 😒

Gonna spend today filling out another boatload of applications while watching a lot of fascism breakdown videos...for no discernable reason whatsoever 😶

What a stupid system of government we have where can't recall corrupt officials in the judiciary, legislature, or executive branch 🙄 Really missed an opportunity for actual democratic control there 🤦‍♂️

Good breakdown of how climate change deniers are weaponizing AI to "flood the zone" with misinformation and falsity 😒 youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg?...

It truly is! youtu.be/8y_KsFaHRQk?...

Morning walk

Jfc…I had forgot how goddamn tedious it is to fill out grad school applications 🫩 and the worst part is, the more you do, the better your chances, so just more tedium and repetition. I bet grant applications are a thousand times worse tho 😳

I just made everything 20% off to help with the vet bills. Perfect time to secure holiday gifts.... allgrimprints.shop

Rest In Power ✊🏼

Thanks to Alex Sayf Cummings and "Tropics of Meta" for featuring my book on the origins of US public media today.

Having never listened to RFK Jr. speak until just now, I didn’t know he had the voice of Diane Rehm 🤨

so ICE is a jobs program for men who like to hit women and get away with it

More people should be talking about this.

That Maggie Gyllenhaal movie The Bride *might* be good…but it could also be real wonky. I dunno, tough to tell from the ads 🧐

If you are currently in academia or plan to go into academia as a career, I urge you to watch this video. This is just another perfect illustration of the problems endemic to exploitative nature of the modern academy, of both instructors and students. youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...

Watching the Dyson Sphere video of Angela Collier’s is reminding me of this dude Doug I worked with when I was like 20. He was convinced he could design/build the technology to both A: create a small, stable blackhole in his basement B: harness that blackhole for infinite energy…he was serious 😑

I only discovered the @acollierastro.bsky.social channel a couple days ago, but as a lowest level amateur physics nerd (know I know equally jack and shit about legit physics but dig it overall) I have been really enjoying the videos because she pulls no punches and it’s great! 🤩

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Months go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Nothing happens. The madness continues. Time passes. We become numb. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

Cheap books for sale. I’ll look up how much they are, take some off, and ship media mail. Dm if you want any.

Identifying yourself on a list in full support of a genocidal ethnostate is…it’s, yeah, it’s something 🤨

Comrade and all around good dude is going through some shitty shit right now. Help if you’re able!!

Update: spent 8 hours at the vet through the night. They admitted Marnie and did an ultrasound and found a foreign object in the small intestine. They’re going to try everything to avoid surgery. Regardless, the bill is jumping. Sharing and/or donating is enormous for us.

This is well worth a watch. Indicative of the broader problem in academia and society, writ large. youtu.be/8DNRBa39Iig?...

I wrote this awhile ago on Berardi and Stiegler's writings on mass shootings. It is in need of updating, but it seems that with the recent shooting incidents the search for "politics" in the sense of a cause and an agenda for collective life misses the point.

It’s called being principled and empathetic ✊

Have you ever noticed this little badge right before you post a picture. Have you ignored it because you didn’t know what it was for. It’s the add alt text button. It’s always there and you should totally use to make your skeets more accessible.

Lotta book people talk about their so-called “To Be Read” (TBR) stack…but what the heck is that? My TBR is literally every book I own that I have not yet read (which is a fuckton). Re-reads don’t really happen for me anymore because of the aforementioned fuckton. Not saying they can’t, they don’t 🤷‍♂️

Hey, imagine if a bunch of sex pests and absolute fuckwits and bigots got together to write a moronically conceived book of shit...have you been excitedly awaiting such an intellectual endeavor? 🤨 Well here it is!! (Seriously, don't buy this crap 😒)

Late night (early morning) leg!