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adamgreenfield

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Endurance athlete, heavy-music fan, compulsive greeter of cats. My next book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire,” coming from Verso mid-'24. #syndicateofinitiative

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I kinda buried the lede yesterday: my next book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World On Fire” is finally available for pre-order from Verso! It’s about how we organize ourselves as communities to survive the climate-systems collapse unfolding all around us, drawing on lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, Occupy Sandy and the Crisis-era Greek solidarity clinics straight through to municipalism in Spain and democratic confederalism in Rojava! https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse

adamgreenfield,
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If you’ve been enjoying our conversations here about the Long Emergency, the , assembly-based systems of local self-determination, and the itself as a concrete implementation of values and ideas about the world, and as a way of sheltering ourselves against all the storms to come, I genuinely think you’ll find something useful in this book. 👊

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Oh, and if you let me know that you pre-ordered it through this link, I’ll organize something small but special for you, as a way of thanking you for your support.

adamgreenfield,
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@luis_in_brief 🫡

subMedia, to random
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Anarchists in Chile are trying to recover from a deadly forest fire that destroyed communes, popular soup kitchens, and anarchist infrastructure in Valparaíso, Viña del Mar and Quilpué.

The Anarchist Assembly of Valparaíso and the Flora anarchist space are trying to raise €1000. They have 6 days to meet their fundraising goal in order to receive the funds.

Please chip in a few bucks, and help them get back on their feet.

https://www.firefund.net/capitalistfire

adamgreenfield,
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@subMedia Tried to pitch them a few bucks, but the Firefund site doesn’t seem to work. Do you know any other way of supporting them?

inquiline, to Neoliberal
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"Like most institutions, had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs"

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

adamgreenfield,
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@inquiline @Yuki lolololololololol 🤌

urlyman, to random
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@jackofalltrades just to say thank you for trying so hard in this thread https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/112133626258185236

The number of people imputing things they wanted to hear, seemingly so they could accuse you, but which you didn’t say, and/or not investing any curiosity in what you did actually point them at… was quite something.

It kind of brings home just how much is functionally invisible

adamgreenfield,
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@Loukas @neonsnake @RD4Anarchy @HeavenlyPossum I share this fear, and am beginning to regret not having fought harder to keep the green-brown fusion material in “Lifehouse.” : . (

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@RD4Anarchy @neonsnake @HeavenlyPossum @Loukas I kinda want to publish it as a PDF zine?

adamgreenfield,
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@HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @neonsnake @Loukas Heh. You know I’m torn down the middle of my soul – it should either look like “Search & Destroy” or like Müller-Brockmann did it his ownself.

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In a low-diligence culture like the UK – a term I’ll explain shortly – overlaying digital systems (like these smart meters) over the processes of everyday life results not in efficiency or productivity gains, but in just the opposite: compounded failures that take extra time, effort and resource to correct. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/smart-meter-rollout-number-faulty-machines-leaps-great-britain

adamgreenfield,
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Sure, some of this can be accounted for by the deskilling, outsourcing, shoddy lowest-bidder automation and responsibilization that are part and parcel of neoliberal governance/management/governmentality. But much of it feels deep to the culture, in a way that absconds from awareness or visibility. And I don’t, actually, want to bellyache about this state of affairs: I would like to find some ways for us to do something about it together. But it’s daunting, “vaster than empires and more slow.”

adamgreenfield,
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I only observe it. People you rely on for important things lose critical documents. A task that you’d expect to be done right the first time needs to be redone and then redone again. The wrong kind of emulsion is specified, or the financial support is deposited in someone else’s account, or the wrong form is filed, or the referral is lost in the mail. (These are all real examples from the past year of my life.) And when you layer brittle, overspecified and inflexible digital processes over this

adamgreenfield,
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Here’s what I mean by “low-diligence”: Of the five cultures I’ve lived in as an adult, the American, Japanese, Korean and Finnish in addition to that of the British Isles, the UK is on the lower end of the scale in terms of the care and attention to detail people bring to bear on everyday tasks. As we’ve discussed before, this is true across classes, backgrounds and occupational sectors here. It’s true in the NHS, in the academy, in the trades and above all in business. I can’t explain it –

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From Dr. Philip Metzger. The culmination of 27 years’ work.

How to design a rocket to land on the Lunar surface WITHOUT the damn engine exhaust excavating a big hole and causing a ship-destroying crash.

Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 1: identifying the rate-limiting physics

Erosion rate of lunar soil under a landing rocket, part 2: benchmarking and predictions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18583

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18584

adamgreenfield,
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@isaackuo @Sevoris @tkinias @nyrath @tarheel These are v cool designs. I like the actual “tilt-out engine” lunar lander concept.

adamgreenfield,
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@RogerBW @Sevoris @tkinias @nyrath @n1vux @isaackuo Commended for the wonderful sequence of words “you don’t need a single universal skycrane.” 👊

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I had never heard of the Noahopinion blog until a friend sent me a link to it the other day, specifically to a post about this book, “Emergent Tokyo.” Noahpinion characterized it, glowingly, as an empirical defense of market YIMBYism, and it very nearly put me off ordering the book despite its being highly relevant to my interests. That guy’s dumber than a bag of rocks! This book is nothing of the sort! It’s wonderful!

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It’s the furthest thing from a paean to the market – my old nemesis the megadeveloper Mori Building comes in for a proper slating, in particular (though, in perfectly Japanese style, never by name). What it is is a detailed consideration of five spatial strategies – yokocho alleys, rail infrastructure infill, ankyo streets, the low-rise cell of the chome-scale neighborhood & the mixed-use zakkyo building typology – the authors think combine to produce the wonderful and distinct Tokyo urbanity.

adamgreenfield,
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As someone who lived in Tokyo and cherished precisely those qualities of it, yet found discourse about it overwhelmed by both Western orientalist fetishization and the grotesque domestic exceptionalism, I particularly appreciate the great care the authors have taken to see the city for what it is, and their attempt to understand how it actually works. I have no idea what book Noahpinion read, or thought he did, but this one slaps.

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@PaulGrahamRaven Oh. Well then. Duly noted. He certainly seems to have utterly missed the very clearly articulated point (and explicit intent) of this book.

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So let’s talk about prosopagnosia, or “faceblindness.” I have it! What this means is that I could well have known you for twenty years, but if I see you outside of the context in which I usually encounter you, or even if you change your hairstyle (!), I may simply not recognize you the next time we cross paths. It’s mortifying! I have literally introduced myself to people I’ve worked alongside for years – who are, entirely understandably, generally fairly miffed that I’ve treated them so poorly.

inquiline, to random
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If I add to my bio "liberals DNI", would that actually affect my replies? No, right?

adamgreenfield,
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@inquiline liberals kant read

adamgreenfield,
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@inquiline this so much. it’s actually amazing how inert she is. like she underperformed even my very low expectations for her.

adamgreenfield,
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@inquiline it perplexes me too, especially given what i have viscerally experienced of her ambition. maybe she realized she just doesn’t have a taste for the actuality of the office?

inquiline, to random
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Are we allowed to be glad Lieberman is dead on here

(affirmations only)

adamgreenfield,
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@danhon @inquiline is it me

adamgreenfield,
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@MichaelTBacon @inquiline My beef with Kamala is personal, but yes, you are absolutely correct.

adamgreenfield,
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@MichaelTBacon @xdydx @inquiline lol. lmao. lol.

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