2026-08-22T17:24:46Z https://nostr.now mutual https://nostr.now/npub1n6da4cp2e5gchg8qgk8zjh0zsms2hcrzzwjhv44kf4vn5kh95dwqpgsfa0 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/243/560/348/533/076/original/52636aab0a34f2d1.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/243/560/348/533/076/original/52636aab0a34f2d1.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsynn7ux69vds0u9x6ulv83qc7zarqymcsn56ajaqpmmmlf7hx6z2szyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cp0u299 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7npry3kshvyf98hrvavwpptuu22pke0g82zdgs5qzekaygxah7srvx3lk'>nevent1q…x3lk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have spent the last decade of my life deeply engaged with leftists intellectuals and activists and IME there is a vast dearth of serious positive visions<br/><br/>that doesn&#39;t mean that people aren&#39;t doing good work, but there&#39;s a reason that slogans like &#34;it&#39;s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism&#34; caught on 2025-08-01T09:54:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs973mhvvglkfkjrruv3jhgf3swllxsrne9k3ea4sztdc38w8g0efszyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cm9r7nh the thing about pomo abuse of insights like the incompleteness theroem is that i actually think that turing&#39;s halting problem has implications for ethics in that it allows you to refine the intuition that you can never make a system of rules that can guide you in every possible circumstance 2025-06-16T11:47:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx5yzjmlc6wpydhz30d0fjml7ya2m4dshwxk62ldlm2nh2n2ltyygzyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cdsvl5r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw9dltvkrqyvwk8a6fzf8jp9ys29e8a43qymdkp6ngrd9xe38qt7cqgtk6d'>nevent1q…tk6d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>your questions are a major part of *why* this thing im writing is so important there&#39;s been an immense amount of progress and possibility that is *fucking invisible* because people are both not aware of it and also there&#39;s no narrative to slot it into. in particular fucking marxists. so often they *just don&#39;t get it*. i&#39;ve had aging marxist professors ask me *to my face* to explain what something like signal might do<br/><br/>unbelievably frustrating 2025-01-11T07:41:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw9dltvkrqyvwk8a6fzf8jp9ys29e8a43qymdkp6ngrd9xe38qt7czyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34c089c03 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd3nddjfw2jma4ks8fw3j6w66arlpas30fpuj8t4lxdkyjxq0s82gqdcdtu'>nevent1q…cdtu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>5) finally anarchists *have* been successful at using the things you listed! we outorganized the alt right, we&#39;ve popularized signal, tor, etc. there&#39;s a revolution in myanmar straight out of carson&#39;s homebrew industrial revolution that&#39;s built on 3d printed guns and crowdfunding. we have intelligence agencies admitting that open source intelligence is superior to their analysis. the work groups like four thieves vinegar is going to make abortion bans harder etc<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/808/580/359/708/824/original/9b11d29c76b6d453.png"> <br/> 2025-01-11T07:39:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd3nddjfw2jma4ks8fw3j6w66arlpas30fpuj8t4lxdkyjxq0s82gzyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34c8xmf7z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8h3za4g34mkgv2ajwdk42wqfykmvlkw54e2dv9qar2q0g2l62x8s46hgsh'>nevent1q…hgsh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>3) ideological legacy. marxism was taken, even by many anarchists, as *the* theory of capitalism and it doesn&#39;t really account for the internet so a bunch of people got blindsided by its emergence<br/><br/>4) hacker culture early on was confused about its politics and the existing left didn&#39;t have much to offer them – cf gaberilla coleman, <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub16xpwqwhgwrxaahlswqx3vac87z0w9h2326dwaqle5ale48rnvchszpkvxd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Danny O'B</span> (<span class="italic">npub16xp…kvxd</span>)</a></span> and christopher kelty (from my book)<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/808/565/614/922/888/original/b6f5c3b2712f1242.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/808/567/058/645/311/original/99a35cc81cd5ae17.png"> <br/> 2025-01-11T07:36:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8h3za4g34mkgv2ajwdk42wqfykmvlkw54e2dv9qar2q0g2l62x8szyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cnclp3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs24e0lyfcjdd3pququdd4mfsasg9czvp4dcacf9a6ee9dz5ssd32g8g5a0l'>nevent1q…5a0l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>off the top of my head<br/><br/>1) <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1syheaxnauwen68946qearfe92a6umg7hhahxhmvxkyzy7feyfxes749vf5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>William Gillis 🏴</span> (<span class="italic">npub1syh…9vf5</span>)</a></span> has pointed out in a bunch of places that the influence of primitivst and anti-civ anarchism meant that the internet was derided in the 90s and 00s<br/><br/>2) there&#39;s also the fact that the people who were into tech didn&#39;t do much outreach. ive met anarchist hackers involved in green activism who had to hide their interest back in the day 2025-01-11T07:31:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9ewqep9h9exmvcdrw5ljgrshrgwj7zdxna8kjxhvcamtsw44pm8szyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34c0zhfta In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswp7guslsw94yq82p2qpxseg2qe6gxqykx9xufmx0p6u7m4ekuzlqysftur'>nevent1q…ftur</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>have you read Werskey&#39;s The Visible College?<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/127/379/854/611/379/original/41f0d81811eeca7d.png"> <br/> 2024-09-13T00:20:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstqzrstj4p9cmlju0ktxe8uw3jc20t8nd5gtcvyd0nwkfqym5adqszyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34clcg6fr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswfx53eun4v2u9jg4e73l3nyufar6kurysdylwuajnnd6rkvuyudq0z7cvm'>nevent1q…7cvm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>seriously asking, do we have any examples of existing ones? 2024-09-12T21:41:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgerent2z55aj0gx2e35tgpjxf6sn87y7rkuqultv2l8maqw0erqqzyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cwa37tc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstx8qr26p2xhlsuvf6ljywpurpe4v2yny57z9c3wsf62hjy370v9cdjjysj'>nevent1q…jysj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>i&#39;d be happy to lend a hand editing if you need any help 2024-09-09T05:56:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvh6uyh7vmltw6fj2arh2aj87wskhk407zvc3736k59nsl9k3jdeszyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34ceave77 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5srr962ulpadamy6gtsa5hqc8sf0w5a73sl63qk8aakj3uhvwksuemxcn'>nevent1q…mxcn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hoping to publish an essay that touches on this by the end of the year<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/106/021/734/329/244/original/b58bc4164671fe8d.png"> <br/> 2024-09-09T05:49:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfn5c4ztxn6fzeg20cnr0lmkagmz47eaq5gdfc6dsq8rm5zslqtaczyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cfwkd62 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv3hs0up0kxsgt3uwnmjm2an0zwanu54v30vpx587wj9lcx7n9cugvnjlhg'>nevent1q…jlhg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that said, looking forward to the Discourse when various redbrowns start accusing radical greens of being neoliberal shills for destroying working class coal jobs and replacing them with solar 2024-09-02T21:17:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv3hs0up0kxsgt3uwnmjm2an0zwanu54v30vpx587wj9lcx7n9cugzyz0fhkhq9tx3rzaqupzcu22au2rwp2lqvgf62ajkkex4jwj6uk34cutuxmk I *suspect* that various forms of sabotage and protest might become more effective if replacing the targeted infrastructure is cheaper than repairing or maintaining it<br/><br/>this is of course me purely drawing up a hypothetical economic scenario, much the same way you would model a carbon tax <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/solar-power-free-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk4.p9NH.vd5W25pZC_rs&amp;smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/solar-power-free-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk4.p9NH.vd5W25pZC_rs&amp;smid=url-share</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/070/024/289/116/749/original/ec36e478b2f28aad.png"> <br/> 2024-09-02T21:15:26Z