adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

Heads up that I simply don’t read wall-of-text posts or comments, and I strongly suspect I’m not the only one. The 500-character limit on my home instance feels juuuuust about right for easy, pleasant readability.

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

Sure, this wannabe-Gilead stuff sounds goofy AF, but fortune favors the prepared mind. These troglodytes have an existing network. They have capital. They have a more or less clear sense of what they want to do, and the order they want to do it in. And you better believe they will have a sufficiency of people willing to do the foot-soldiering. We mock them at our peril. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-a-secret-society-of-prominent-right-wing-christian-men-prepping-for-a-national-divorce

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

We’re moving house, which has meant turning up all kinds of stuff I squirreled away and haven’t laid eyes on in a good long while. This is the iPhone I bought at the Apple Store in San Francisco on launch day, June 29th, 2007. It’s not often you get to be present at the actual hinge of an epoch in human history.

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

This piece shimmers with something uncanny right beneath the surface, which is the specter of a direction machine learning might have taken had it not been developed inside the constraints of the late-capitalist political economy and property-rights regime. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/science/ai-learning-biology.html

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, 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

Can’t quite believe I’m saying this, but entire stretches of Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for “Dune: Part Two” could slide seamlessly between, say, Phurpa, Hildur Guðnadóttir and SUNN O))) in a Real Heavy playlist. In fact I wish more movies sounded like this. https://open.spotify.com/album/1PeYjDmxcRNvxLd5mGHuCC?si=E7f9X_QsTXKnb-xfQfJZ2g

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

It can never be said often enough: Garrett Hardin was an unregenerate, overt white supremacist, and you should never allow your interlocutors to refer to a or the “tragedy of the commons,” even in casual speech, without making this explicit.

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, 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, 3 months ago to random

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/05/republicans-far-right-extremists-augusto-pinochet-helicopters

adamgreenfield, 3 months ago to random

Can we not?

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, 4 months ago to random

“Direct, life-saving aid in Gaza, near the Rafah crossing”: This is urgent work and it deserves your support. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HRG8NM9XvYAufETLAZzr08EezCsmPJjhlVGHg2sP-bQ/edit

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, 4 months ago to random

I’m genuinely disturbed that the Guardian/Observer is platforming Hannah Ritchie’s irresponsible, tone-deaf platitudes. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/02/hannah-ritchie-not-the-end-of-the-world-extract-climate-crisis

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, 4 months ago to random

@inquiline ^.^/ #jawns

adamgreenfield, 4 months ago to random

What’s your favorite recent heavy music? Looking for new things to listen to that are roughly of the drone/sludge/doom/blackgaze persuasion. 🤘👊

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, 5 months ago to random

I really appreciate, in spacefaring fiction, when the author has included a diagram of the ship or environment in which the action takes place. MacInnes – so good at furnishing “In Ascension” with vivid, telling description otherwise – hasn’t described the layout of the Nereus in a way that allows me to grasp where the characters are in relation to one another. In another story it might not matter; here it does.

adamgreenfield, 5 months ago to random

It is 56 degrees fondly Fahrenheit, a little over twelve hours out from the winter solstice here at 51.5 degrees N – not freakishly warm, but certainly gentle enough to do our Christmas grocery shopping in spring clothing.

adamgreenfield, 5 months ago to random

I have always liked the salary scheme John Brunner devised toward the end of “The Shockwave Rider,” with jobs being compensated in direct proportion to their social utility, energy requirements and degree of difficulty, danger or unpleasantness. A world where middle-school teachers and care nurses were paid a hundred times what baseball players or newsreaders were would be a good world.

adamgreenfield, 5 months ago to random

Really, though: if you’re serious about making headway with any kind of degrowth/“postgrowth” strategy, enacting a ban on advertising is where you want to start.