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So the taxidoggy was carried rather than dragged along the ...

2026-11-01T18:46:09Z

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So the taxidoggy was carried rather than dragged along the ground, is what you're saying?

Was less interested in the image than in the story of its impact ...

2026-11-01T18:38:14Z

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Was less interested in the image than in the story of its impact on the mood of those confronted with same.

Was disappointed to discover, curmudgeon that myself am, that ...

2026-11-01T06:57:46Z

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Was disappointed to discover, curmudgeon that myself am, that this was not about the taxidermied dog.

"I don't just want someone who can tell me what freedom ...

2026-10-09T09:48:11Z

"I don't just want someone who can tell me what freedom is. I also want to know like what does your freedom cost the people around you?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQMFNNBGJY

#philosophy

My work in lumpentheory traces back to a critique as a much ...

2026-09-21T00:08:18Z

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My work in lumpentheory traces back to a critique as a much younger me of Marx, whose analysis declares that emotional investment in work is rendered obsolete by wage labor relations.

Programming, as a hobby, was always very much tied up in ego-value, in autohagiographic self-assessment as being good at something. In particular, at being good at something that it was socially unacceptable to be good at. The word "prideful" conveys a moral judgement that is distinct from the way "pride" is used by marginalized groups. And to be a "nerd" or "geek" in my lifetime as a Usian was most definitely to be of a marginalized group.

That wounded masculinity of high school clique culture carried forward into an industry that at the same time was being overrun, at the academic level, by career-minded folk who would take an undergraduate CS degree without ever having touched a computer keyboard before. It was the next doctor or lawyer.

An industry need not be comrpised of folk who overtly promote misogyny in order to masculinize as a matter of accruing power. Patriarchy bakes the misogyny is baked in to that process.

"So then you must wonder, what is programming for?" ...

2026-09-20T21:04:22Z

"So then you must wonder, what is programming for?"

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/117304796447717849

"And having walked around in this field for 25 years, I think the sad answer is that programming is to make programmers happy, and programming is to make programmers proud. That's what it's for.

"Because the people that care about social change, they have left the building. So the people that remain are the people that care about complex systems.

"And of course there might be a few people that also care about social change and also about complex systems. But if you look at our field, this is what programming is for, right? Everything must be made more complicated and more interesting, so that we have a more interesting life, very much this external life and not the moral, internal life."

cc: tools for commensality 🧿 (npub1aq0…mq9f)

"You have to walk the land. You have to see the elevation for ...

2026-08-05T13:30:23Z

"You have to walk the land. You have to see the elevation for yourself, the color of the soil. You have to discover that the ravine is really a valley and that the stream is in fact a river winding south from a glacier in the mountains.

"You can't know any of this beforehand. You can't logic your way through it or retreat to your innate genius. A belief in genius is a large part of what plagues us. And I have found that people widely praised for the power of their intellect are as likely to illuminate as they are to confound."

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Only experience with troubleshooting a residential kitchen ...

2026-07-25T00:45:21Z

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Only experience with troubleshooting a residential kitchen fridge, but depending on age, it might be that there's a coolant leak? Eventually the pipes develop faults and leaks happen. Possibly with a commercial unit the leak can be found and remediated (this is typically more costly, if done by a professional, than the price of a new consumer fridge), the system then reinfused with fresh coolant.

Diagnosis might begin with an infrared thermometer. Start by finding out how hot the compressor and coils that dissipate heat from outflow of same ought be under normal conditions, and use the infrared to confirm they're reaching appropriate temperatures.

If the compressor isn't getting hot enough, despite otherwise running, it may need replaced. (Much cheaper than fixing a leak.) If it does, but heat drops of precipitously before reaching the dissipation coils, there's likely not enough coolant left in the system to be stay compressed, let alone move heat.

Also, while you're back there with the infrared, make sure the coils are clean of dust and debris, as that alone can compromise performance.

Executives will not feel the wrath of a people who will not ...

2026-07-19T08:50:50Z

Executives will not feel the wrath of a people who will not collectively come together in collective wrath.

https://mastodon.art/@NiwlCraft/116943526728991524

#lumpentheory

"The Israeli army fired high-caliber rounds into Gaza’s ...

2026-06-07T21:04:07Z

"The Israeli army fired high-caliber rounds into Gaza’s displacement areas, where families are sheltered in makeshift tents made of fragile materials such as fabric, wood, and recycled coverings."

https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116709955005556811

#ceasefire

Affordable housing is rearguard policy. The vanguard is housing ...

2026-05-22T23:59:15Z

Affordable housing is rearguard policy.

The vanguard is housing for all.

Medicare for all is rearguard policy.

The vanguard is universal care and public health as service.

Universal basic income and wealth taxes are rearguard policy.

The vanguard is trust busting and wealth abolition.

Either we recognize and embrace the understanding that the flourishing of a society depends on the flourishing of all its members...

Or we tinker around the edges of tensegrity, trying to find ways to preserve privilege and retain vested ego-value, thus persisting dispossession as the core engine of rentier society.

#lumpentheory

I mean, maybe it was just someone really excited to have their ...

2026-04-28T20:39:56Z

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I mean, maybe it was just someone really excited to have their opinion of AI validated and thus they didn't really worry overmuch about the age of this.

It certainly seems to be heavy on math, which was the selling point of the post in question.

Looks like it might be, yes. TY Though the way it was framed, by ...

2026-04-28T20:37:36Z

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Looks like it might be, yes. TY

Though the way it was framed, by the post sharing such, suggested that this was new research, not something from two years ago.

There was an article being shared the other day regarding a ...

2026-04-28T20:33:41Z

There was an article being shared the other day regarding a mathematical proof that supposed "AI" machines, if cut off from human input, would in feeding on their own outputs, converge toward a disconnect from representation of the world we inhabit.

Can't lay my finger on same. Anyone got a link?

"Haaretz reports that the Israel Prison Service imposed new ...

2026-04-28T07:34:54Z

"Haaretz reports that the Israel Prison Service imposed new restrictions limiting Palestinian detainees' access to essential medical aids such as eyeglasses, hearing aid batteries, and crutches, following directives from far-right Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir."

https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116481158427111955

Nice! Thank you for digging into this!

2026-04-01T23:46:21Z

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Nice! Thank you for digging into this!

Term seems to be attributed to price-control advocate Isabella ...

2026-04-01T22:51:33Z

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Term seems to be attributed to price-control advocate Isabella Weber, following from viral article in The Guardian from December 2021, despite that term not appearing in said article.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/persons-of-interest/what-if-were-thinking-about-inflation-all-wrong

Of course, it and competing terms are all avoiding talking about rentier society:

"Sellers’ inflation is really just a specific application of the theory of rent-seeking"

https://www.thesling.org/the-inane-indignation-around-sellers-inflation/

Which is to say, rent-bounty harvest.

As noted in further into Sling article, weaselly language abounds in this discourse. Normative custom to read all such analysis through the spectre of capitalism leads to increasingly convoluted euphemisms.

Even "price gouging" is guilty here, both because the term collapses temporality into that of geopolitical shock, thereby marking what is essentially the practice of arbitrage as somehow exceptional, but also by marking the discussion as one of fetishized exchange-value rather than as an expression of use-value capture.

"everyone will be Internet wrong for 15 minutes"

2026-03-31T05:28:54Z

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"everyone will be Internet wrong for 15 minutes"

Yeah, this was early grade school, so had no context for ...

2026-03-16T23:53:54Z

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Yeah, this was early grade school, so had no context for understanding what was happening either.

Personally, would love to be able to say my meltdown (plural? no idea, recall* too little of childhood to say for certain) was due to autism, as that would indicate being part of a group of folk with common experiences.

But the more myself am educated about the lived experiences of autistic folk, the more clear it becomes that my neurospicy brain ain't fit that designation.

*Probably only recall that event because of the trauma afterward of being told that would not be coming back to the Quaker school. Though, of course, don't recall being told. Only the fact that being told happened.

Once during a melt-down, where myself "spazzed out", my ...

2026-03-16T22:17:02Z

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Once during a melt-down, where myself "spazzed out", my vision was reduced to black and white. That would be the time myself got kicked out of a Quaker elementary school.

"Restrictions have reduced daily food deliveries from 25 ...

2026-02-27T00:02:28Z

"Restrictions have reduced daily food deliveries from 25 trucks to just five and forced WCK to purchase supplies from within Israel, raising costs and complicating logistics. WCK, which provides over 60% of NGO-delivered food aid in Gaza, has delivered at least 272 million meals since the 2023 war but says it cannot continue indefinitely without consistent access."

https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116139422995471342

As in Gaza, so in NYC. Deaths by freezing, for denial of housing. ...

2026-01-25T05:38:40Z

As in Gaza, so in NYC.

Deaths by freezing, for denial of housing.

Violence by another means.

Razorcake Webcomic #480 by Silas Haglund ❖ #WearAMask ...

2026-01-15T01:42:02Z

Razorcake Webcomic #480 by Silas Haglund

❖ #WearAMask #PunksNotDead #CovidIsNotOver #BirdFluBegins #punk #RSV #Flu #COVID19