My first computer printer was a #Teletype 33 which I could barely pick up, as it was a big beast made almost entirely of metal. And not flimsy metal, this thing could have taken a bullet and not flinched.
Printing was at an incredible - very noisy - 3ish characters per second, and all UPPER CASE!
Listening to Steve Fuller confidently lecture that Nick Land says technological progress is good because it will cause a catastrophe that will stop technology and return humans to nature. Lord, may I never be granted the kind of confident ignorance of an academic grifter.
@rechelon what little nothing i heard about Nick Land does not sound compelling, so i will continue to assume he is an actual piece of land, like a square meter of grass somewhere.
Honestly in all my time being in politics. I have never seen a good argument for why you can't be an anarchist and advocate voting for the lesser evil. It always boils down to some weird no true Scotsman fallacy about how you're not a true anarchist because you don't have the analysis of one. Like it's some religion where you have to believe x and believe x. No anarchism is simply opposition to all hierarchy. That's it. I'm going to stick to the label of anarchist transhumanist because that's what I am. I want to build a world where everyone is their own master. their own God. And I dislike the centralization of many marxists. So because of that I'm an anarchist. And I'm adding the label anarchist back to my bio. I honestly no longer care if people call me a liberal. I'm going to stand my ground. though I'm still going to develop a new ideology. It's just going to take a very long time to develop. So until then I'm just going to call myself a Anarchist transhumanist. though to give you a hint of what the new ideology is going to be. It's going to be a synthesis of anarchist transhumanism. Left accelerationism and cyber communism all combined into a new ideology
@KinocKayfar i think the real concern with voting is just what it does to you. that you become attached to a party/candidate, and to some level accept their ruling position as legitimate. i do think that's a real risk, but i also think there's gotta be some some risk in telling antiauthoritarian-leaning people in particular not to vote. saying the average person shoudn't vote would be another issue, but that's probably not who you reach/convince with anti-voting sentiment.
@mina@feld@kaia@sun interesting that i remember that hobo's face so well, despite having probably never having held a 1000 Mark bill 🤔. i guess their image was commonly used in advertising and fake bills (play money, candy, etc)…
@mina@feld@kaia@sun oh wait, that face wasn't even on the 90s bills. okay then i'm pretty sure i've never seen in in real life, probably just a very memorable picture 😅.
i should finally seek out #ADHD treatment (and diagnosis), but somehow people saying "there'll be a 3 year waiting time" really doesn't help me get motivated 😑…