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thomkennon

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Post-advertising insights whisperer. Founder at #FreeRadicals. Punk adjunct, joyful dilettante, shit poet, da to 5, partner to 1, faulty anarchist ...
AUTHOR: The Big Leap - an Ethics of Insight https://bit.ly/anEthicsofInsight

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fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 31: More from outside Columbia last night, via CNN. Reporter Miguel Marquez says: "I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and I've never seen this many police moving into one area."

thomkennon,
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@fkamiah17 fuck 12

thomkennon,
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@fkamiah17 It's shorthand for "pigs", usually paired with ACAB. Looks like urban dictionary traces it back to narcs
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fuck%2012

microtones, to AmbientMusic
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listening to my own stuff this morning, quite pleased how it came out...almost two hours of music for you.


https://davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/blue-in-blue-in-blue

thomkennon,
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@microtones digging it now too....

thomkennon,
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@microtones digging it... keep it coming, che!

easysociology, to Sociology
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Understanding the Black Economy in Sociology

https://buff.ly/3TQrits


@sociology
@academicchatter
@academicsunite

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite wtf... "more cops" is a sociologist's solution?

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite

"4. Enhancing Law Enforcement: Improving law enforcement capabilities, cooperation between agencies, and international collaboration can help combat illicit activities associated with the black economy."

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite

"Enhanced " is neoliberal for "more".

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite Yeah I get it. The problem for me (see Foucault) is the apparatus. We cant think outside it. The presumption of having a "police" is never challenged when considering solutions to social problems. In this case I might argue the carceral state is the generative engine for gray and black economies. The taxing, regulating and monopoly protection apparatus comes with a for-profit incarceration industry. Cops are money - and cops bring dearh.

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite
death*

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @SociologyMag

Thx & yes I dig the complaint at the heart of this essay on the NHS. Its insights as lines of attack (choice, theft, death, ignorance etc) are strong and compelling.

Makes me realize, again, that the real problem isnt the ascendancy of reactionaries into positions of power, it's late capitalism.
Capital determines State is perhaps a clarification of the actually-existing fascism at the heart of all neoliberal systems.

thomkennon,
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@easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @SociologyMag
Hollah all that, comrade... this is why I've turned to the hopeful activism (and happy delusion!) of anarchism and mutual aid in my later years. Go prefigurative or go home! :))

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@roman @easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @SociologyMag
Yeah I started out 50 years ago as a suburban white wanna be revolutionary and fell in with mostly MLs in SF and over the years drifted across the spectrum thru liberal left and finally back to happy if deeply skeptical anarchist. During the George Floyd uprising here in so-called New York I was absolutely re-energized by the shared desiring production of a bunch of queer, black, trans, brown, anarchists.

thomkennon,
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@roman @easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @SociologyMag
But yeah, back to my original noise: all cops are bastards because capitalism determines the carceral state. At least for me, abolition is a primary prefiguration of a federated world of self determining (and thus self policing) socious.

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@roman @easysociology @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @SociologyMag
Yeah totally. The beauty (and simplicity) of becoming-anarchist is we behave now as though the world we fight for is already here. At least for me, that world has no political parties, or states, or central banks or private property. These models for self-determing federation are actually quite ancient. Indigenuity is my humble brief!

thisismissem, to random
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Specifically, there's a bunch of what look like fake accounts all posting a pro-Israel set of hashtags / messages; The other posts by these accounts seem completely random garbage, like a quote from breaking bad with a picture of flamingos, or random "feel good" quotes. https://josh.tel/@josh/112180104323769056

thomkennon,
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@thisismissem yeah, I've had 4 whackamoles in past week

thomkennon, to maine
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The still wintry sun rising over the wood within which our little cabin wakes.




aral, (edited ) to threads
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There goes the neighbourhood.

thomkennon,
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@aral yeah well let's mass block this mutherfucker 🖤✊

thomkennon,
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@kommaKucken thanks ! And it is time I migrated. Any recommendations?

nixCraft, to random
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Nvidia’s Huang says AGI is 5 years away. 😂 Do you believe him? My guess is Jensen really trying to sell those GPUs. https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/agi-and-hallucinations/

thomkennon,
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@nixCraft these asshole predator valley bros have become pure clickbait

thomkennon, to random
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Sometimes a single sign packs more depthful humor and ironic force than volumes of culture production.




Jaycee, (edited ) to random
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'Bright Light, Cold Air' (2024) -- A Refreshing Winter's Walk Down the Schoonerhead Trail, Acadia National Park, ME

#acadia #acadianationalpark
#maine #downeast #landscape
#landscapephotography #photography #treesofmastodon #TreesOfFediverse #naturephotography #bwphotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#monochrome #jayceecrawford #mastoart #fediart #ayearforart #bipocartists

thomkennon,
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@Jaycee so good!
Just read Simard re trees and their kin --- now I notice (as you do in alt text) the couplings, the groupings the close-in neighbors above ground. Also now (because Simard) constantly imagining how it all looks and feels below the surfaces.

thomkennon,
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@Jaycee Yes - its Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard. We bought a little cabin on a dirt road amidst the pine woods by the sea on St George maine last summer. My neighbor loaned me the book when I started going on about connecting with the woods. I now go out each nite before sleep and just stand there communing with the woods because of how this book changed my sensing apparatus. :)

thomkennon,
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@Jaycee thx and I only wish it was all year already! We're back and forth between Tenants Harbor and Philly for a little while longer as I still teach in New York 2x a week. Looks like you're Downeast yes? We love that part of paradise almost as much as our little corner of it in midcoast!

thomkennon, to maine
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Snowbound stream neath falling trees in Somerville ME.

pluralistic, to Watches
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It's time for action

thomkennon,
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@pluralistic every clock is a cop is strong

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