adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

One of the most frustrating things in life is that – like a great many people, I suspect – I have a few areas of interest in which I’ve developed enough of a competence that I feel I could probably make a meaningful contribution to their future development, but which are fated to remain secondary because I simply do not have time to attend to them, and also do the work to which I’m centrally committed.

adamgreenfield, 6 months ago to random

Remember that this woman calls herself a Buddhist. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/04/suella-braverman-says-rough-sleeping-is-lifestyle-choice

adamgreenfield, 10 months ago to random

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adamgreenfield, 1 year ago to random

I’ve been expecting this for quite some time now – this and Florida, actually. This is the harbinger of a more complete abandonment: in practical terms, uninsurable means undevelopable. I expect this to cascade as well. https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/26/state-farm-says-no-new-property-insurance-clients-in-california/

adamgreenfield, 1 year ago to random

It’s great that the Guardian wants to talk about the semiotics of type, but this is just typographically illiterate. (Reading “These sleeker typefaces, like Arial and Helvetica, are closely related to modernity and the internet” makes me want to cease to exist, in much the same way as a wall text I read last week at the Barbican’s Alice Neel show, which described Neel’s work as commenting on the “beatnik community” of 1931 Greenwich Village.) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/16/neutraface-font-gentrification

adamgreenfield, 11 months ago to random

Also I don’t think I ever realized just how infrequently Survival Research Laboratories had mounted full-on performances, making me gladder than ever that I managed to catch their ‘88 show in the parking lot of Shea Stadium, “The Misfortunes of Desire (Acted Out at an Imaginary Location Symbolizing Everything Worth Having).” https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/17/arts/monster-robots-bash-paradise-in-mock-battle.html

adamgreenfield, 11 months ago to random

Shoutout to Valerie at the Apple Store in SoHo, who dug a few cc’s of indescribably vile compacted pocket-crud out of the charging port of my phone, in a process every bit as mortifyingly intimate as having your teeth scaled, with all the same overtones of abjection and shame. For the price of a few minutes’ embarrassment, my phone charges again!

adamgreenfield, 11 months ago to random

Ahh, some of you heads asked for the full quote from "Invisible Cities," which is so apropos to our moment it hurts: “And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it...

adamgreenfield, 10 months ago to random

UGH the Children’s Health Defense/RFK Jr. people have just reached out to me, asking if I’d be interested to serve as an “expert on smart cities.” It’s the exact same vibe I got when approached by the Spiked!/Battle of Ideas Festival lunatics and the similarly conspiracist “Architects for Social Housing” guy: I feel soiled that they’d think of me as someone sympathetic to their worldviews. What am I doing wrong?

adamgreenfield, 10 months ago to ChatGPT

I haven’t played with #ChatGPT in awhile, but after struggling to find the information I was looking for on Google, I figured I’d give it a shot at answering the question: Who was the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albany Division on March 4th, 1968? Simple historical question, right? I gave it three tries. On the first I got a superficially very plausible answer (“John J. Malone”), which sadly turned out to be a hallucination. Then I asked for historical lists: total confabulations.

adamgreenfield, 10 months ago to random

Here’s a sneak preview of the book, BTW – this here’s a passage about #Rojava, from Section 3 on “Collective Power.” The sentence structure here could still use a tweak or two, but in general I’m not displeased with the way it reads.

adamgreenfield, 10 months ago to random

Can I just say again how brilliant the Merlin #bird ID app is? It’s one of the few legitimate applications of “AI.” In just the last week alone, it’s tagged House Sparrow, European Robin, European Starling, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Eurasian Magpie, Eurasian Coot, Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Blackcap, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Wren, Common Wood-Pigeon, Common Swift and Carrion Crow calls from my kitchen window. which is everyday-magical. Hello birds! https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

adamgreenfield, 4 months ago to random

The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven: Bill Ackman destroyed Claudine Gay’s career (ostensibly) due to her (alleged) plagiarism…yet Ackman’s own wife Neri Oxman has committed acts of plagiarism at least as egregious and extensive. https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-mit-dissertation-plagiarism-2024-1

adamgreenfield, 1 year ago to random

I’ve hit “cancel” on things I was about to post, oh, easily six or eight times this week, and in so doing have saved you and me both a great deal of aggravation. A lesson, really.

adamgreenfield, 7 months ago to random

The other thing nothing can prepare you for about times of horror is that ordinary life keeps going for some, and maybe even for you. In one tab on your browser there is genocide and atrocity, the next an article about the best restaurants in Philadelphia right now, or a silly meme someone's sent you that you can't help giggling at. The affective shear is tidal, and can keep you from readily finding your feet, even when it doesn't tear you apart in and of itself.

adamgreenfield, 5 months ago to random

How much do you want to bet that vile Michelle Mone’s criticism of the equally vile Rishi Sunak, however well deserved, is primarily founded in her documented, public racism?

adamgreenfield, 4 months ago to random

Announcing the Liberation Studies Collective: a regular, shared, silent meditation practice for folks with liberatory politics, however you interpret that.

While founded in a Buddhist ontology, epistemology and ethics, there is no religious or “spiritual” content in these sessions – they consist merely of brief, practical guidance, followed by an opportunity to be still and present for 40 minutes.

Session times TBA shortly. I hope you’ll join me. #liberationstudiescollective #libstud

adamgreenfield, 5 months ago to random

Look, there’s not a whole lot of bad shit you could accuse Israel of that I would even blink at, but please, please check all your sources before repeating or reposting claims that Israel has been harvesting organs from dead Palestinians for resale on the black market. I see a lot of my friends in the struggle reposting these stories, and they are invariably sourced very thinly, with reference to the same two or three original posts, in a way that doesn’t satisfy my standard for veracity.

adamgreenfield, 3 months ago to random

Galleys are in.

adamgreenfield, 3 months ago to languagelearning

Say! My 2013 book “Against the Smart City” is out in #Italian translation today, courtesy of the lovely folks at GOG Edizioni! (I’m told it’s been “retitled to reflect the current terms of Italian debate.” I’ll allow it.) https://www.gogedizioni.it/prodotto/citta-cyborg/ #books #technology #smartcities

adamgreenfield, 3 months ago to random

I appreciated the forthrightness of these wastebins on ASU campus, but given what we know about the recycling industry, the options should probably be labeled LANDFILL HERE and LANDFILL SOMEWHERE ELSE ON EARTH, AT A HIGHER CARBON COST.

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to Hrvatska

Just a heads up that I’m going to be in #Zagreb in April to continue my research into comparative #municipalism. If you are or have been involved in Zagreb je NAŠ!/Možemo, or have opinions about them you’d like to share, I’d love to talk to you.

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

You know what’s absolutely fucking nuts, though? Even after everything we’ve supposedly learned, I’m not at all convinced we won’t have another highly consequential global respiratory pandemic in the balance of my lifetime.

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

I buy this thesis completely. Ackman (ptui) I didn’t know about, but I’ve been saying for months that Elon (ptui) broke hard right when he couldn’t deal with his kid transitioning. https://publicseminar.org/2024/03/psychosis-bill-ackman-elon-musk/

adamgreenfield, 5 days ago to KindActions

Just popping up to share that we now have confirmed dates for the West Coast leg of my Lifehouse tour! It would make me beyond happy to see you on August 1st at Elliott Bay in Seattle (w/Dean Spade!),
August 3rd at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach,
August 6th at Green Apple’s 9th Ave store in San Francisco, or August 8 at Powell's in Portland – and hopefully break bread with you afterward. Feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested!
#mutualaid #climate #anarchism #books