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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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kissane, to random
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Bluesky has been apocalyptically unhinged for about a week now and I still haven't had a single dude rock up in my mentions over there to tell me how (not) to talk, which remains one of the most common interactions here, even when I barely post at all.

I am not sure how you deal with a standing wave of people socialized to behave like an army of chiding lawn gnomes, but it's so offputting.

adamgreenfield,
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@wifsten @kissane Well. I mean…you’re a dude, right?

adamgreenfield,
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@kissane I’m not following the drama, and am content to receive occasional recaps from folks who are more engaged – unhinged in what way?

adamgreenfield, to random
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Twenty-eight years after our first meeting, @Jwomack remains every bit the gentleman litterateur (and Keens remains the place to go for Porterhouses and martinis).

adamgreenfield,
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@Theblueone On a good night I think Peter Luger’s still tops it, but Peter Luger’s doesn’t have many (if any) good nights anymore.

adamgreenfield,
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@Theblueone This is unquestionably the case.

adamgreenfield, to random
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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,
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@acousticmirror 👆👆👆👆👆

adamgreenfield, to random
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Dudes I have crossed the threshold of Age: I bought a pair of ECCO shoes. #아저씨

timbray, to random
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TFW you go out your Pacific Northwest front door and can smell smoke from the fires 1000+ km northeast, the same smoke that is also evident thousands of km east of the fires. North America is burning. This is May, the fire season should just be starting.

Also, the local government is still madly rubber-stamping fossil-fuel projects AAARGH.

adamgreenfield,
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@timbray Sounds a whole lot like the end of “The Sheep Look Up” to me.

adamgreenfield, to random
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Last week, chief numpty Rishi Sunak called for a “Europe-wide approach” to combating human trafficking; inferior-to-lettuce Liz Truss, similarly, yesterday called for an “economic NATO” to counter China. You had both of these things, idiots: it was called belonging to the EU, and you trashed it for a generation. I want to tear my teeth out when I listen to these muppets.

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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,
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@acousticmirror lel

MediaActivist, to random

Imagine an online space where you could go to not only receive the latest news about actions in your locality, but also share information about campaigns or events – without driving more traffic to the digital capitalists of Facebook and Twitter, who continue to ban anti-fascists.

Those who recall will not only be familiar with the concept, but also lament its lack of editorial oversight and eventual collapse under the weight of conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism that have no place in antifascist media.

Last year, the celebrated writers at The Canary overthrowing management and becoming a workers’ co-operative. But even now, much like the (a private company with directors), still faces a battle for online clicks within the commercial landscape.

It’s useful to remember that the term “freedom of the press” did not originally mean the media marketplace, but literally the freedom to publish using a printing press: , based on the spirit of .

It is mutual aid that inspired the name of France’s that today has over a dozen regional websites in not just , but also and , reporting on striking workers, occupying students, and other local struggles, operated in a non-hierarchical but also non-commercial way – true citizen journalism, with a set of agreed standards.

Several of us media activists have started to discuss how we could develop Local Autonomous Media (or ) in the UK after hearing about the success of . We’ve set up chat groups and even held Jitsi meetings online with Mutu contributors in Switzerland. And we’re looking to set in place the building blocks to create something similar in the UK.

If you’re interested, contact me or email loam at riseup dot net.

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@MediaActivist 👋

adamgreenfield,
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@MediaActivist Let me know who you’re talking to on my patch of London (Stoke Newington/Hackney), it’d be great to compare notes with them.

adamgreenfield, to random
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Started reading “A Half-Built Garden” a few days ago, and – apologies to those of you who’ve enjoyed it/recommended it to me – found it so awful that I haven’t gone back to it. I have detailed thoughts as to why this is, but honestly they don’t matter. Let’s just say this book is Not For Me, and leave it at that.

adamgreenfield,
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I am so disappointed in science fiction these past few years. Writers I used to find reliable keep turning out work that misses by a mile (IMO, of course), and virtually all the new SF I’ve been exposed to seems to be written in the same clunky voice. I know this is a problem on my side, in that there must be great work out there I’m simply not seeing, but it’s a solid drag.

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@acousticmirror hott

adamgreenfield,
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In all fairness: it is not easy. I got frustrated enough with the state of contemporary SF to try my hand at writing a short story a few years back, and it was terrrrrible. I sent it to Cory D to see if he thought it was worth working on further, and when he kindly indicated just how much work it would take to turn it into something readable, I figured I’d quit playing dilettante and leave the field to people who’d at least be able to dedicate all their time to their craft.

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror lololol

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror “Herbert Frank.”

adamgreenfield,
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@counterapparatus @acousticmirror 👆👆👆👆

adamgreenfield, to random
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heads and others who would know: check out this very strange edit war on Wikipedia, revolving around the assertion that a Guadeloupean-French singer contributed to the first single, “United/Zyklon B Zombie.” This, to put it mildly, is news to me, and I know the history of this band fairly well. Does anyone know the story behind this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1127251549

adamgreenfield,
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@cour13r5 That's a great book. They both are.

adamgreenfield,
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@cour13r5 @acousticmirror Someone should make the appropriate edit to Wikipedia. 👊

adamgreenfield, to random
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Remind me: have we talked much, here, about my notion of the “convivial stack”? This is the idea that, to the greatest extent possible, community governance, the built environment and the technological surround should all, simultaneously be designed so that they are open, participatory and actively invitational; modular, user-modifiable and extensible; and reward experimentation?

adamgreenfield,
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@smallcircles @neil @dajb @bonfire This precisely. I’ve struggled with the language around this, tbh, and I know my editor thinks both of the terms in “convivial stack” will require so much explanation to my audience as to render the whole thing unappealing. (Annoyingly, I tend to feel that those readers most likely to pick up the Illichian resonances of “convivial” are the same most likely to be turned-off or misled by “stack,” and maybe vice versa.)

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@strypey quite!

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