thus has it ever been. Luddism is not technological conservatism, it's labour strategy. we can make arguments against environmental racism, labour exploitation, bias, inherent error, lack of productivity, laundering of responsibility. these are not passive positions!

buddy of mine dug up this old Lanier piece that hits really hard cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/cour..., Agents of Alienation. it makes the case for that agents are primarily an ideological technology in that they require people to surrender agency/criticality/autonomy. this connects interestingly to

This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/

this is a good article and i agree with the conceit that water isn't the central issue. what's frustrating is that POWER is. data centers weren't built yesterday and LLM data centers aren't FUNDAMENTALLY different from existing data centers in terms of consumption and e-waste. there is a fantastic

i think you should play Elsinore

also they tried to pay workers in socks, in a town where a lot of people make socks

Lily's latest is both comprehensive and stylish, it grabs the thread of surveillance and tugs, bringing the rest of modern culture with it

i'm gonna reread it, and i invite you to check it out

"The problem with the clown concept," one [radical clown] later explained at a DAN meeting, "turned out to be that most Americans do not think of clowns as funny. They think of them as scary. On the other hand, most Americans think the idea of someone beating up a clown is very funny."

i think that approaching a work on its own terms is vital in the sense that i want to have a feel for what i think a work is trying to tell me, i think my taste is going to dictate how i receive the work on that basis i.e "i get it, i just don't like it"

tolstoyposting is back!

i think "isn't for me" is probably more of an expression for "i recognize craft in this thing but i don't have a meaningful reaction to it" for me, but maybe the criticism of politeness still makes sense in that context. maybe "i don't have a reaction to it" ALSO warrants further thought?

i have used this album on road trips twice and have not been thrown out of the vehicle yet

ugh this is so incredibly cool

there's also a long and proud tradition of divination being fused with artistic practice but imo divination is compelling when it increases or shifts the space of artistic decision-making or when it provokes response from the artist. the system is ALSO usually the product of artistic decision!

this is a direct consequence of big ball bowling achieving cultural cache over candlepin. big ball perpetuated the illusion of an ordered and boring universe, candlepin embodies the spark of chaos that allows us to see ourselves and others anew as we regularly witness the improbable

i think there's a lot that's just fundamentally backwards in the piece's argument. the right wing patriarchal self help grift is a bait and switch that replaces confidence, community and self improvement by resentment and domination, the goal isn't to reverse that bait and switch, but to pre-empt it

the Liberal overton window ranges from "well we can't/won't address your conditions but we can make you 'safer'" to "we can't/won't address your material conditions but can harm people you don't like" and these are two rhetorical approaches for the same program

I forget whether I shared the full video I commissioned from @onispumoni.bsky.social but here it is, very important work

okay i ran it back, better the second time

garlic scape puree and mozzarella

I am EXTREMELY proud to officially launch New Session's third issue: Adaptations you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com

"i don't believe that personal morality should be grounded on hope that is calculated on the probability that things will work out the way you want them to work out ... we need people who are grounded in the belief in a single humanity, that battles are fought regardless of the calculation that /1

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a sharp critique and, to me, a clear call for PKP to do the bare minimum to hold to its stated principles and refuse contracts from Israeli universities

no scab software

i feel like "minister of artificial intelligence" is the kind of underhand pitch that writers of alternative papers in the 60s would spend their whole lives training for

kill gameplay

what's rare is the political and labour conditions that allow for their extraction increment.com/energy-envir...

we don't need threads in chat apps, we grew up pulling context from 5 overlapping text conversations and we liked it that way

if you're planning an action you should ask yourself and each other: who could do us harm and how do we mitigate this. the best way to not be worried is to have a plan

we had it in 2017 with "kids in cages" and "families separated at the border". these things describe a global system of border enforcement that's unconscionable wherever it happens. these framings stopped happening in 2020 because now the dems were in charge of the same system.

get Naloxone trained, be a WMD countermeasures specialist

theoutline.com/post/8686/ca... an old but pretty good article touching on Canada's political economy

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie... More about C-IRG, the RCMP branch i mentioned

we have a branch of the RCMP whose whole job is to help energy companies repress indigenous resistance. we own half of the world's mining companies. Canadian critique of annexation has to expand past "it's bad when we're not doing it"

an easy way to see this is that games media is part of the games industry and its hollowing out has many of the same causes! in neither of these cases are game workers the cause.

*speaking with weary wisdom* local eyes localize local lies

this is a great thread an something i think about a lot seeing younger people learn how to orient themselves in this environment and bumping into the same problems as 2016. it's important to understand what's happening but vital that we don't cede all space to reaction or bearing witness

"smacking of gender" is the cause of an overturned barbecue ruining this easy to schedule holiday

there’s going to be lots of scary and dubious security advice floating around for the foreseeable future. if you only remember 2 things, remember these: - someone who doesn’t know your threat model can’t give you sound advice - surveillance is a suppression tool; if it’s stopping you, it’s working

we can tease each other about trade goods provided you, too, acknowledge that there is no war but class war and the games of our elites are no games of ours

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whoever booked for the Bang Bang Bar in Twin Peaks in 2016 had a deep rolodex and was owed probably hundreds of favours

i keep trying at length to explain the kind of game that i'd like to make and this video is the whole core idea

Purgatory Dungeoneer's on sale for 50% off ($4.99, the cheapest ever in over two years since release) because AGDQ is going on and I'd like to see people try and speedrun this game someday cannibalinteractive.itch.io/purgatory-du...

@labeler.bike.community could you tag me up with Fixie Rider Bike Enjoyer (also how do you feel about Winter Cyclist?)

every time i try to write anything about visas/borders/migrant labour i realize it's just a bad version of something Nandita Sharma wrote in Home Rule. read Home Rule by Nandita Sharma!

first time babka

people correctly give google a lot of credit for the end of RSS but i also think it's no mistake that its popularity follow the arc of how many people were getting paid. the protocol is so corrosive to making money that people built the profitable one on top of e-mail instead