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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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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?

adamgreenfield, to random
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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.

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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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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 🫡

adamgreenfield, to random
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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.

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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?

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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.” 👊

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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@inquiline 🎉🥳

adamgreenfield,
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@inquiline I know there’s people here who think Amrika gonna Amrika no matter what, but on the basis of harm reduction alone I think it’s better when Democrats are in the Oval Office, and I have always held this manifest sack of shit responsible for George W. Bush.

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@inquiline Joe Lieberman was up there with Kamala Harris so far as terrible running mate choices go. I sure hope selecting him wasn’t some kind of cynical ploy to lock in the Jewish vote – all the Jews I know despise him on GP, and always have.

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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.

adamgreenfield, to random
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Here’s a pamphlet introducing the idea of Convivial Research, from the pleasingly-named Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy. (Via Ashley Cooper – she’s not on here, is she? Damn.) http://cril.mitotedigital.org/sites/default/files/content/ccra_convivial_research_2-18.pdf

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

adamgreenfield,
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@pvonhellermannn 10,000% this, goodness.

adamgreenfield,
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@pvonhellermannn In a class on the architecture of public participation I once taught at [institution], I had cause to show the famous image of the Tiananmen Square “tank man.” Not a single one of the Chinese students in the unit, which was 11 of the 14, recognized the image (or would admit to recognizing it in front of their peers, which is another kind of problem but with the same effect on in-class discussion).

adamgreenfield,
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@pvonhellermannn I felt that by far the better part of the 11 were not prepared to discuss or do work relating to public dissensus at the graduate level they were ostensibly there to pursue, and that we were sandbagging the one or two who were really into it by facilitating their enthusiasm & then sending them back into the maw of a context where they had no way to act on it.

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