beadsland

@beadsland@mastodon.social

Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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beadsland, to random

"In modern fantasy (literary and governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions."

~ Ursula K.

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Once again I don't like the framing that the people who are able to avoid Covid are the "smart" ones.

Yes, one can take more or fewer precautions, & I agree one should take more if one can. But this is not only about individual choice; and too many people on here mistake their ability to stay safe with virtue.

Make the best choices you can, yes; & do it for yourself & for others; but don't emanate superiority over everyone else who isn't as "smart", lucky, disciplined, or privileged, ok?

beadsland,

@inquiline Reboosting as just spoke to this very theme in another thread.

beadsland,

@inquiline Given how many fell—or as often were pushed—into this only with the emergence of a threat that directly got their attention, that absence of history on the activism resume stands to reason.

Per my yesterday thread—concerning narrative of the traumatized vs. the flourishing—whiteness is very much a project of not being prepared for life shattering experiences, which in turn entails not being connected to history.

Except, of course, the scoldy history of secularized Protestantism.

beadsland,

@inquiline Given that the that informs my analysis and activism is hardly common currency, a strict no-boosting-when-don't-fully-agree policy would leave me with terribly little to do here on fedi.

But yeah, certainly grok the questioning.

beadsland, to random

A post on TL today paints a stark picture:

Poster suggest that some folk flourished during 2020—incl. someone close to them—while many others were traumatized. Implied is that those who want to still talk about covid don't recognize just how triggering events surrounding its emergence were.

As 2019 came to an end, there were two types of people: those accustomed to their life being shattered, and those for whom that would be a new experience. Pieces are still being picked up.

beadsland,

Am decidedly not linking to or direct quoting OP. Ain't about them.

This is about the challenge we—who want to work toward better—face as we grapple with the apparent ease with which so many have returned to .

That apparent ease disguises profound unpreparedness to deal with anguish of loss. Both an unpreparedness to deal with that anguish in the moment, and to deal with the pain of that anguish in retrospect.

That so many welcome offer of escape… is to be expected.

beadsland,

This is what keeps of aloft—falling ever more robustly into stability.

This is why even before 2020, the morality play of poverty-as-bad-choices served to underwrite for those of —the promises an unshattered life for being good.

For those denied tools to do work of , those unprepared to do hard work of , a default on said social contract is world ending.

That contract is what makes them feel safe.

beadsland,

Until we—who want to work toward better—address this lack of tools for , confront head on societal aversion to , we will remain tangled in binds.

Denial is incomplete grief. Anger at reminders of loss—unconcluded mourning. So too bargains made about when precautions ought or ought not be taken.

We must do the work of collective mourning—with utmost urgency.

The only alternative is continuing to rail against "denialism" even as fires of burning planet engulf us all.

hannu_ikonen, to random
@hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com avatar

Petition to name denial and self-immolation in the form of cumulative viral damage to ones body, due to anti-masking and anti-vaxx bs:

"Folie à You Do You".

@beadsland

#Eugenics #COVID19 #FolieaYouDoYou #COVIDIsAirborne #COVIDIsNotOver

Referencing this of course.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux

beadsland,

@hannu_ikonen

So the French would be: "Folie à Vous Faites Vous"? Where here the verb is a conjugation of "faire", as in "laissez faire".

There's an etymological poetry to it, of a dark comedic sort. My tooth for the sweetness of wordplay is certainly satisfied.

That said, not sure that pathologizing what is perhaps better understood as short-circuited , unresolved , moves us collectively toward better outcomes.

See:

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110958894517789143

Also:

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110954239706372292

beadsland,

@SueSullivan @hannu_ikonen Aborted retro-futures are at heart of .

Inability to imagine a future without that which is lost, which is only resolved when find oneself—unexpectedly—living that life that could not, at incomprehensible threshold of grief, have ever been imagined.

https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110198716101230227

Yet, again, our culture lacks tools to do this vital work of clearing space for imagining new futures. This is by design.

is a place of power. White supremacism can't have that.

beadsland, to random

We cannot inform others to new ways of living. Certainly not when old ways have yet to be mourned.

bitprophet, to random
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

trying to sleep but all my brain wants to do is run in circles screaming about how the entire world has gone mad

beadsland,

@bitprophet "gone"?

beadsland, to random

In a discussion with octogenarian roommate about Gaza & doubling down on inequality by those who have been hurt by inequality & IBM machines in Nazi Germany & "effective altruism" & "gender-critical feminism" & wounded masculinity of nerd/geek culture that made the tech industry so unpalatable to me & "lost faith in humanity" narrative among many …

Struck by sudden realization as to why JKR's misanthropy lore was so much more popular than Pullman's critique of institutional power.

beadsland,

Common currency of Western discourse is the Sin of the Species or the Specific.

One face of this coin has it that humans are incapable of seeing the truth of what must be done—but for an insightful yet powerless minority.

The other has it that most humans know what is at stake—but are helpless in face of a cadre of the ultra-powerful.

Both rest on idea of nature—whether human nature or villainous nature—as the inescapable threat, irredeemable and immutable.

Both uphold certainty over change.

18+ beadsland, to random

NCHS estimates of —based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.

Census Bureau latest updated early Nov—still no word on next release date.

As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer & fewer have been staffing our hospitals.

This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [.]

Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/111485340545695625

beadsland,

Here's hoping—as records broken for annual U.S. mass shootings & Earth's hottest year, Sunak works to undermine road safety, German health minister speaks truth, Atlanta poised to enact mask ban & CDC director tells folk to mask, hundreds dead from flooding in east Africa, dogs receive Paxlovid for "mystery" illness & U.S. blocks U.N. resolution—that all those reading this are having a week wherein they & theirs are putting health & welfare of those they love—and share air with—first & foremost.

beadsland, to random

TFW, after weeks of one frustratingly challenging task to provide for a niggling outcome after another frustratingly challenging task to provide for a niggling outcome, a long-deferred task anticipated to be just as frustratingly challenging proves to be... painlessly easy.

beadsland, to random

Ah, can see the TL is gonna be pretty full-throatily one-note tonight.

beadsland, to mathematics

Run up against a problem for which my search fu is failing me.

Given a closed polyline path and a drawn line of width 2×𝑟, which line traces said path as its midline, is there an algorithmic method for finding the paths defined by the outer and inner edge of that line, respectively?

Suspect the hurdle am hitting is that this is problem with known solution and more importantly, a jargony name, which name would readily search up a result if only such jargon were known to me.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Watched a video of Gigantiops destructor (the ant with the best eyesight of ants) A lone ant hunting makes a point of sneaking up on the prey from behind, circling them to stay clear of their antennae and out of range of their eyes.

Can that be done without a "theory of the mind of the other" ?

"It can see me here, it can't see me there?"

Were this a mammal I bet people would call this evidence sufficient. Since ants are so tiny, & have such tiny brains we look for other explanations.

beadsland,

@OrionKidder @futurebird @queenofnewyork @TruthSandwich @qurlyjoe @justafrog @johnshirley2024

That's certainly at play.

However, can't help but wonder if there weren't aphants & image-thinkers & pattern-only thinkers even in precolonial contexts. That is, word thinking might only be however late to the party, but predisposition to a non-universality of human cognitive modes was already there to slot such in.

Nonetheless, the centrality of language as power inescapably informs this discourse.

beadsland,

@TruthSandwich @futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog @johnshirley2024

The part in parentheses is waffling: "potentially or actually" is still a contingency. Remove the actually to see why. Potentially entails a teleological endpoint whether or not actualized.

That Dennett is a behaviorist—however times removed—is only a statement of epistemological commitments.

Let us not conflate a methodological postulate with the fundamentals of things to which we apply such method of inquiry.

beadsland,

@TruthSandwich @futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog @johnshirley2024

Repetition of an argument doesn't make it any less flawed.

To be clear, problem isn't his methodology. His methodology is a sound one—if short-sighted.

Problem is mapping methodology onto that which is to be studied—mistaking the map for the territory.

Consider the possibility that there may be behaviors we can only begin to unravel if we set aside the presumption that thought manifests as behavioral potential.

beadsland,

@futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog @johnshirley2024

That noisy exchange having died down, must admit to being amused at the notion that thought is somehow necessarily about reducing parallel processes to a serial one.

Implication—when taken with postulate that thought is behavioral potential—is that behavior is sequential; further requires a sequential process to feed it.

Rather than considering the possibility that we have confounded behavior with our methods of observing same.

beadsland,

@OrionKidder @futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog @johnshirley2024

Perhaps Socrates had a point:

[Plato. c.399-347 BCE. “Phaedrus.” Pp. 551-552 in Compete Works, edited by J. M. Cooper. Indianapolis IN: Hackett.

https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing ]

beadsland,

@johnshirley2024 @futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog

Oh, goodness, was this thread originally about free will? Goodness me, but what a can of worms have I stepped into?

beadsland,

@ccshan @johnshirley2024 @futurebird @queenofnewyork @qurlyjoe @justafrog

"Come now, Sheets-Johnstone, tell us how you really feel about heterophenomenologists." 🤣

Indeed, these passages bring to light in hetero-phenomenology what in post-colonial critical theory would be termed subalternity.

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