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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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info_activism, to random
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What could the future look like? Anarchonauts, by architect & artist Olalekan B. Jeyifous, are the imagined inhabitants of a speculative future that depicts a vision emerging from diverse cultures of adaptation, reuse & repair. Find out more about this piece and the artist at the digital exhibition: https://everythingfine.org/en/berlin-09-2022/digital-hope-outer/anarchonaut-12/

adamgreenfield,
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@info_activism Kid Cadaver! He’s the best.

adamgreenfield, to random
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Rewatching Villeneuve’s “Dune.” It’s got the grandeur down, I’ll give it that much.

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror The casting is impeccable throughout. Even the loathed Chalamet.

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@acousticmirror @Em0nM4stodon Oh, I’ve had these characters in my mind since 1980, and I can tell you Villeneuve’s choices in this respect exceeded any furniture of my imagination. I have such warm feelings about most all the actors in the primary roles. Except, of course…well, you know.

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Hooooo snap! Get my friend Benedetta’s new jawn “Solar-Powered Media”! It’s a “Riso-printed about building your own website and sharing it online,” and it “includes instructions and suggestions about the hardware and software required, as well as ideas and directions for the kinds of applications and aesthetics that work best with such systems.” https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/62381/

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With regard to the matter of Donald John Trump, I really do think this is more the beginning of the end than the end of the beginning. God bless E. Jean Carroll.

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Read @KevinCarson1 here on the experience of with Cuban characteristics – and pay especially close attention to the statistic upholding Colin Ward’s old contention that intensively farmed urban land often enough offers higher caloric yield than the same acreage did as preurbanized agricultural land. https://c4ss.org/content/58541

GWillow, to random

Twitter somehow gets worse week by week--right now it is an unusable swamp of right wing conspiracy theory, wave after wave of racism (there is currently an "invasion" underway at the southern border that must be stopped by lethal force) crypto bros, and bots selling high-follower accounts. Amazing really.

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@bensaufley @GWillow Well…or a municipalist or cooperativist proposition? I think it does imply that technical competence and wherewithal are pretty broadly distributed, but not necessarily that they need to be pushed down to the level of the individual.

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Anonymous, "The Go'ing Insurrection: Thoughts on Social Revolt and the Game of Go", ca. 2013.

This anonymous pamphlet came out a few years ago, and is now, for some reason, not very easy to locate online.

Luckily someone left a copy here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9ccfvslnhf8dqc7/AACcfXy0Sl6rYSNYDnDVbnHLa?dl=0

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror wow!

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@acousticmirror Thanks for sharing this. I am sitting down to read it with the greatest interest, as I do the other texts on go and struggle you've shared. They do make me despair somewhat that my game has never improved — I halfway-seriously speculate that the ability to see live patterns forming originates in the same part of the brain that recognizes faces, which is why I have such a hard time developing as a player.

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror (Interestingly, as we now know, the passage about computation being inadequate to defeat human players remained true for only about two years after this was published.)

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@acousticmirror innaresting!

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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"Just wanted to hop on a phone call with you and pick your brain about (x)" is just another way of saying "just wanted to have you do some consulting for us in your area of expertise, but we don't want to pay you for your time"

adamgreenfield,
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@AbandonedAmerica oh my FUCKING god this.

simon_brooke, to random
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This evening's production of construction quality timber. I'm quite pleased with this: despite being nothing like fit, I am getting useful work done.

adamgreenfield,
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@CoolBlenderKitten @simon_brooke Many, many people derive a significant part of their self-esteem from their competence at a bullshit job, the title they’re given in that role, or the opportunity it affords them to exert petty authority over others. Dismantling these psychic structures and knots of affiliation is much, much harder than simply pointing out the meaningless churn of a large part of the economy. What do you plan to offer those people in replacement?

adamgreenfield,
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@simon_brooke @Loukas @CoolBlenderKitten @brianstorms But they can and do have the temporal power to hire lobbyists to ensure there are as many regulatory roadblocks as possible in place to thwart our ability to share the power we collect from the sun. Try setting up a community microgrid. Just try. Let me know what you find.

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@reclaimed_alicma @CoolBlenderKitten @simon_brooke @brianstorms @Loukas When I left Tokyo in 2003, I was told that the average commercial real-estate investment in Japan was predicated on a seven-year lifespan.

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@Loukas @brianstorms @simon_brooke @reclaimed_alicma @CoolBlenderKitten The analogy here is programming: as computation became cheaper, elegance in coding yielded to brute-force techniques. Our craft is sloppy precisely because motive power is artificially cheap.

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Beloved! Aiyeeee! How, how has it come to pass that Osmium (Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shabara et al.) played the Barbican (!) last night, and I remained unaware until just now? https://www.unsound.pl/en/archive/en/bubbles-2022/artists/osmium-hildur-gudnadottirsam-slaterjames-ginzbergrully-shabara.html

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror TRUTH.

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror (Do you know Senyawa, though? omg.)

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror ohhhh you’re in for a treat.

adamgreenfield, to random
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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

adamgreenfield, to random
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Lookit: to a reasonable first order of approximation, anything crypto is just Galt’s Gulch, and Galt’s Gulch always fails. I wish more people would wrap their heads around this.

adamgreenfield,
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@acousticmirror ❤️

Em0nM4stodon, to random

Older Millennials and GenX
have a unique perspective on the before and after world.

We use (and build) them now, but we grew up without IoT, without social media, without "smart" phones. When cameras were big and privacy was some sort of the default.

We have an important responsibility to fight for privacy rights so that younger generations will also know the freedom given by these rights.

We cannot let society
make them think this is normal and that nothing else is possible.

We must fight for for them too ✊🔒

adamgreenfield,
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@Em0nM4stodon Oh, I know, I know. We’re not at liberty to desist from the work, etc. I get it. But nothing else I have ever done is quite as thankless. I look back on the “ethical guidelines for ubiquitous computing” I first started framing out toward the end of 2004, and think: how arrogant, how thoroughly naive can someone be as to try and wrap an industry in ethics?

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