I fear my best and most beautiful girl has very little time left. We're going to the vet in a couple of hours to see if there is anything left that can be done.
Each successive blog post from Sean Bonner reads more and more like the longer-each-time manic and self-knotting letters you might get from a smart cousin who got into Scientology during a low period at university, and who keeps trying to explain to you (and by proxy to himself) that really it's all quite rational and there's nothing to worry about, which only makes you wonder how often he speaks to anyone outside of the echo-chamber
"Cryptopunks are art. Culturally important genre defining art. I know it, if you are reading this you probably know it, and others are starting to realize it every day."
Substitute "Xenu is love" for "Cryptopunks are art", and you see what I mean.
And the whole post is basically about how much of a predictable clusterfuck some recent "drop" turned out to be, and it's all very sad, because this is a very smart and creative person who (if you ask me) inducted themselves into a cult while trying to deal with the one-two punch of a major relocation between countries followed by pandemic lockdown isolation, and I do wonder how long it will be before we can have a conversation about the psychological damage of that era.
And yeah, I know we're not supposed to diagnose at a ̶d̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ distance, esp. if we're not actually mental health professionals, but all the same I'm pretty sure we will look back on the early 2020s as a period of fairly extreme psychological distress. We can discuss the causality, sure, but the basic fact of social isolation causing serious cognitive warping needs to be put on the table without all the "stop denying the pandemic!" stuff (which is another manifestation of the same thing).
It's ironic and depressing how all the other Swedish parties have policy points or slogans on their EU parliament posters, while the Social Democrats just say, "yeah...vote for us because of... vibes".
@Loukas@guldfiske They might find the vibes things worked a little better for them if they didn't all dress like the sort of person in late middle-age who's been stuck in the lower tiers of middle management at a major accounting consultancy for the last fifteen years.
@Loukas@guldfiske Yeah, very similar vibes. Perhaps due to the omnipresent influence of Sun Tzu on politics in the West: the old saw about "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" is here somehow translated into "blend into the wallpaper, and maybe you'll be the last ones left standing"
@Loukas Fair point! But that rhetorical weakness, the whole "don't scare the horses" thing, is plausibly a legacy of the long drift toward the managerial center.
@jonty@mhoye It may not have been a firm-wide document, but the stuff it's talking about was IBM dogma; my old man worked for Big Blue in the mainframe era, and he drilled shit like this into me as a computer-obsessed kid in the mid-Eighties.