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fiddling with dns settings is a great way to remember all the other projects you never actually started

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What if instead of countries paying money to ship criminalized people off to other countries' prisons like a bunch of fascists, we had global abolition

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote something up quickly to explain the context, history, and reality of torture in Myanmar's regime jails. It's free to access. www.patreon.com/posts/usa-is...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Myanmar now (English version) reporting 20 individuals have been handed over to the Burmese junta through U.S. deportations. Many of them are now held in a jail notorious for torture and sexual violence. This is exactly what the TPS and CAT is supposed to prevent. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

wonder if we’re gonna see the material dialectic swing away from “cheap plentiful video games and bananas” soon

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

yesterday evening, for no reason at all*, I became deeply curious about how efficient we’ve gotten at making light anyway after two hours of wikipedia’ing, USDA documents about ag yields and inputs, and some sketchy math: 1 cow ≈ 2 LED lightbulbs — so, uh, pretty efficient *neurodivergence

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If anyone was wondering, construction (of systems of care for the ones that have been abandoned or destroyed) have to at minimum be built in PARALLEL to whatever civil disobedient response you are imagining. GOT to. No way around it. Everything from elder care to food supply to waste management.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

good thread, and this all reminds me of the absolutely mind-explosion.gif feeling I had when I first ran across references to projects for “creating an American race” - pretty much always been a racial project I think Imperial San Francisco may have been the very first book to put that in my path

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

this adult supremacy is, imho, one of the most accessible (and acceptable!) forms of supremacy thinking. and once you’ve identified one group that’s “other” it’s not a stretch to start adding more anyway, read carla bergman (esp Trust Kids) and @swordsjew.bsky.social’s Wild Faith!

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riffing on this here but something I would really love is for there to be a “human friendly (no really)” version of something like TOML for normal non-computer-obsessed people to use when making semi-structured documents that can be easily rendered for printing and digital use without special tools

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

really good thread, all the way through (including the impeccable animorphs bit) solid analysis of both the Rogan/Modern American Media Problem and why the type of radical change making I personally work towards is fundamentally hard, slow, and complex

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

every time I look at linkedin I’m like “I probably should post more over here” and every time I think about posting on linkedin I go “lol nah” and post here instead

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

who, in the academic or non-academic realm, is talking about the sociology of how we've learned to relate to computers in the past 50 years, and what impact that has on how AI tools are interpreted? surely someone is writing about this

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

currently my greatest Mode Thought™ is “why does it appear that I cannot use my own data in a notebook anymore*” *I am almost certain I’ve done this before

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

we’re several joins deep and I’m still trying to torture snowflake into doing things it doesn’t want to do (but that I need it to do)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

wow that's not even 1/6th what doordash was just forced to pay drivers in nyc after getting caught stealing their tips for years, who cares

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I despair. "By making the Send button larger and more prominent, participants were able to spot the button four times faster."

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

one of the things I keep returning to in my criticisms of ai mania is that it’s a main character machine terms like “on demand” get tossed around, the output is framed around the wishes and terms of the user, the user acts by asking while everything else is “information” to be acted upon

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The Israeli army is basically admitting to murdering a journalist for “documenting” news. We don’t know what else to say.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

some high level reflections now that I’ve sufficiently reviewed the output of Deep Research and compared it against my own desk research: the output is too long, does too much “interpreting”, and is really weird (though not wrong exactly) about sources.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Gaza rebrands to HBO Gaza to try to get some fucking attention.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Given the extremely thin electoral margins in the last presidential election (*), it's not obvious to me why "winning over more moderate voters" should be the strategy of choice. Lots of things (e.g. support for Palestine) could have made a difference. (*) Trump does not have a popular mandate

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

for the love of god stop using apps for everything! send a group text like a normal person! get a non-gmail email account and put your friends on a big email thread! use a boring calendar (yes even digital calendars can be boring)! post a flyer on a telephone pole

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments