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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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So here’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I live in the UK, where (as you may know) our National Health Service, the , is under severe strain. I believe a lot of that strain is intentional – designed to fracture the system so that it’s easy to privatize – but some of it is organic, and however it arises, it’s a real thing. With the need for access to care increasingly desperate, what I wonder is why people with healthcare skills are not setting up free clinics.

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I’ve tried to shine a light on some of these practices in “Lifehouse,” particularly the extensive solidarity infrastructure of clinics and pharmacies developed during the Crisis years in Greece, but I also want to share some of the primary sources I relied upon in writing the book. Not to be evangelical about it, but if we’re not talking about these stories – and it feels like for the most part we aren’t, even here – then people won’t calibrate their expectations of the world to include them.

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@pete @passenger Ah, there’s a section about the Greek clinics in “Lifehouse,” so all the data is still right on my desktop. This is recent experience, in a developed economy, with a public health system.

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I’m still trying to figure out why people pushed back so hard not so much against the wisdom of this idea, but that it was possible at all. The first thing that comes to mind is that I’m simply not the most effective advocate for it – which, OK. But another possibility is that folks remain unaware of some of recent cases in which people under pressure have set up just the kind of community-based free clinics I’m talking about here.

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Aberdeenshire, by my count, has two seats at Westminster. Rishi Sunak just fucked the future for the sake of two votes in Parliament, in an election he’s almost certain to lose anyway. I don’t want to ride my hobbyhorse, but if this is how mitigation’s going, we really need to think harder about what happens in its failure. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/rishi-sunak-approval-100-new-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences-fossil-fuel-climate-crisis

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I’ve seen the name now on prominent and no doubt vertiginously expensive buildings in two major cities, so I am finally moved to ask: WTF is “Salesforce”?

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WTAF: late to discover this, because, y’know, I was off having a got-damn life, but all umpty-thousand of the tweets I deleted when I left Twitter for good have evidently been summarily undeleted. There they are, plain as day. Fuck you very much, Elon.

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Your classic surf instrumental is a pretty fucken great cultural achievement. Few things get me quite nearly as amped.

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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!

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Oh, and a very important follow-up request for folks in , , the and the basin: if you work with or know of any efforts that would like to present themselves to my audience, set out literature, etc., please let me know as soon as possible. It’s my great hope to use each one of these book talks to share a little bit of shine with local organizers in every city I’ll be visiting. 👊

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Often imitated, never bettered. swoon https://open.spotify.com/track/6SEMWLEAQs90K4XSacidwM

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Hey kids: this time it’s for real. I am severely under the hammer writing-wise, and with apologies, am canceling and/or turning down all other commitments for the remainder of the month. Please assume that I have not seen and will not see any messages, comments, posts, etc., intended for me until at least the 1st of August. Enjoy your summer. 👊

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But then, most of what we do on Earth is an attempt to manage somehow our undoing fear of death, in its immensity, its inevitability and utter inscrutability.

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Am I wrong to think that the actual petrostate kleptocrats/African dictators/Michelle Mones of the world trivially have any number of ways around all the “know your customer” and “anti-money laundering” requirements, and that they really only constitute a brake and an onerous friction on the activities of ordinary people undertaking legitimate transactions?

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Once again, I need your help: I am trying to scare up a cellular automata-based visualization I remember seeing from a few years back, that essentially used a game-theoretical ruleset to illustrate how few sociopaths are necessary to turn a whole society sociopathic. Under the right circumstances, only a few moves were necessary to flip the entire field from "cooperator" cells to "betrayers." Is this ringing any bells for anyone, or am I making this all up?

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Erin Kissane is one of our best. I don’t quite agree with her synthesis/conclusion, but if you enjoy the things I post about here, I’m willing to bet you’ll derive still greater pleasure from seeing many of those same concepts more thoughtfully elucidated, given space to breathe and brought into fructifying alignment with one another. https://erinkissane.com/patterns-prophets-and-priests

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Become ungovernable. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests

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Look, I too love the letter X. I like Malcolm X. I like the band X. I like Speed Racer’s brother, Racer X. I like “The X-Files.” I like “eXIstenz.” I even like the x-axis. But even I can’t get over how hostile and malevolent it looks when I click on a Twitter link now. That shit just looks grim.

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Dudes, I have lived in the UK near enough ten years now, and am well adapted to it in many ways, but one thing I’ll never, ever get is the festival thing. “Glasto”? Pay hundreds of pounds to stand around in filthy conditions, getting sunburned with a hundred thousand munted strangers, to see mainstream schmaltz I’d pay twice that much to never have to hear again?? Are you fucking insane? No and never.

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Just a heads up that I’m going to be followers-only posting from here on out – on reflection, I think it’s the wisest and best way for me to be here.

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Spent a decent chunk of yesterday with food justice activists mostly in their twenties and thirties, and was struck (and moved, and saddened) by the common structure of feeling among them. Their language turned, consistently, to the trauma and violence they felt the state and the market had inflicted on their communities, and on their bodies as well. I had to sit with it for awhile.

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The saddest thing about Elon Musk — and there are many, many sad things about Elon Musk — is that this nominal grown-ass man still uses the word "based" in 2023.

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Dang but Kissane keeps knocking it out of the park. https://erinkissane.com/all-this-unmobilized-love

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Last night I dreamed I was in a St. Marks- or Camden High Street-ish tat shop trying to find a replacement for my (third) worn-out Unknown Pleasures t-shirt, and being frustrated to find only parodies, rip-offs, pastiches and references thereof.

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Sometimes it feels like we’re fated to live out “The Dispossessed,” right here on Mastodon. Here we’re freed from the shackles of the systems that constrained us before, free to make whatever kind of culture we collectively desire, and yet that culture so often feels circumscribed by our dreariness, our failure to imagine, our inability to show up for one other. An ambiguous utopia indeed.

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I am 55.

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Greenfield’s Law of Requisite Variety: Every single cornershop/bodega/konbini in your neighborhood offers some item for sale that none of the others carry. If you want the good bread, the good hummus, the good beer and the good chocolate, that’s four different trips and four different transactions.

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