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detritus

@detritus@todon.eu

Artist. Parent. Geek. In Tucson, Arizona, US. https://www.patreon.com/detritus http://detritus.net/steev $dayjob (looking for a new [meaningful] one actually!) = I write software. Meanwhile, I make art to stay sane. Experimental music, video art, films, metal sculpture, paper collage, and more. I post about art, music, audio, technology, radical politics, borders, justice, equality, etc etc.
Also, I edit the Border Chronicle podcast: theborderchronicle.com

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detritus, to random
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more photos of mine from the protest on Saturday here in Tucson.

march in Tucson on March 2 2024
March in Tucson for Palestine on 3/2/2024
woman holding sign that says "None of us are free until all of us are free Cease Fire Free Palestine"

CrimethInc, to random
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“Every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.”

-Tucker Carlson

Liberal outrage over Carlson saying this to excuse Vladimir Putin—immediately before he had Alexei Navalny killed—misses the point. The fans of Carlson, Putin, and Donald Trump admire killers. Liberals are just offering a more milquetoast version of the same vertical political model, which puts them at a disadvantage today.

The anarchist alternative is to seek to distribute agency horizontally: not to worship leaders, not to glorify the state and its violence, but to make it impossible for anyone to dominate others. In the long run, this is the only real alternative to authoritarianism.

https://tochangeeverything.com

"Leadership is a social disorder in which the majority of participants in a group fail to take initiative or think critically about their actions. As long as we understand agency as a property of specific individuals rather than a relationship between people, we will always be dependent on leaders—and at their mercy. Truly exemplary leaders are as dangerous as the obviously corrupt, in that all their praiseworthy qualities only reinforce their status and others’ deference, not to mention the legitimacy of leadership itself."

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@CrimethInc yes everyone should kill, not just leaders. 😂

detritus,
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@CrimethInc it was a joke. Duh.

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Friday, 400 people crossed the border in the mountains east of Sasabe, Arizona ( about 2 hours southwest of Tucson) to present themselves to Border Patrol for asylum. Through the night, snow and freezing temperatures set in. The BP just left them there, never showed up.

Volunteer groups yesterday like No More Deaths and Samaritans ended up transporting the migrants to the Sasabe Border Patrol station, but the agents inside refused to let them in. In fact they threatened the volunteers with arrest for helping the refugees. Hundreds of people out in freezing cold weather all night again. Volunteers did what they could to keep them warm through the night. Finally at 9am this morning they started letting them into the station.

This kind of thing has been persisting for the last three months, and Border Patrol has failed to adequately allocate resources to address this ongoing crisis. Call Tucson Border Patrol Sector to demand they allocate resources to this ongoing crisis: 520-748-3000

https://nomoredeaths.org/border-patrol-leaves-hundred-of-asylum-seekers-stranded-in-the-cold-detains-and-threatens-aid-workers-attempting-to-respond-2/

Strandjunker, to random
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1923: Hitler’s failed coup.

No real consequences.
No fundamental changes.

1933: Hitler takes power.

I wish I could implant this into everyone’s brain.

detritus,
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@Strandjunker Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to retoot it.

_L1vY_, to Utah
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Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.

Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024

"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."

https://letutahread.org

detritus,
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@_L1vY_ meanwhile here in Arizona they want to ban ‘spending taxpayer dollars to promote, advocate or plan to, among other examples, reduce motor vehicle traffic through biking or public transit, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, limit increases in global temperatures, reduce consumption of meat or dairy products, or anything “furthering Marxist ideologies including stakeholder capitalism.’’’

Lockdownyourlife, to random

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    detritus,
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    @Lockdownyourlife just stop reading the news.

    detritus, to random
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    Donald Trump could potentially have his real estate empire ordered “dissolved”
    🤞🏻 https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-business-law-courts-banks-lending-punishment-1355c3b48cdefa2894ce623ec59748bd
    “Some legal experts worry if the New York judge goes ahead with such a penalty in a final ruling expected by the end of this month, it could make it easier for courts to wipe out companies in the future.”
    That’s fine AFAIC. wipe them all out….

    johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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    If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 2.5 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes inside feel nothing but gravity.

    Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves — ripples in the curvature of spacetime — with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.

    It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should see mergers of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)

    It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation": the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. These gravitational waves were created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So they're older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.

    It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2035.

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    @johncarlosbaez hopefully civilization won’t collapse before then. Or degrade to the point where such an achievement is impossible.

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    @johncarlosbaez @kevinrns but that’s not replacing fossil fuels, just adding to them. That wont save us.

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    @johncarlosbaez @kevinrns the little dip in your graph even for US alone is due to covid, most likely. Overall there’s no slowdown in our march toward global doom.

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    @johncarlosbaez @kevinrns well that’s good to know but it may be too little too late. Im gonna stick with my previous forecast: we’re fucked. 😬

    GottaLaff, to iowa
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    among those forced to cancel campaign events due to massive winter storm - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cancels-event-in-iowa/

    detritus,
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    @GottaLaff he should be cancelling due to being in jail.

    detritus, to art
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    this is sad and indicative of the horrid state of support for the arts: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the oldest art school in the United States, will be shuttering its degree-earning programs at the end of the 2024–2025 academic year.⁠ (via Hyperallergic )

    Mrfunkedude, to random
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    "Get a bidet." they told me.

    "It's so much cleaner!" they insisted.

    detritus,
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    @Mrfunkedude the solution to pollution is dilution

    flexghost, to random
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    ** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

    Tonight’s theme is:

    ⚡💡🔋 PUMPED UP! 🔌✨⚡

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    🎵 Post music that pumps (clap) you up! along with what you’re drinking 🎶
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    Change, nothin' stays the same
    Unchained, and ya hit the ground running
    Change, ain't nothin' stays the same
    Unchained, yeah ya hit the ground runnin'

    🍷 Unchained - Van Halen + Guava Whiskey Smash🍸

    Post often • share • make some friends

    Video is a still of Van Halen album cover for Fair Warning I want drugs.

    detritus,
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    @flexghost drinking a coffee martini but not listening to any music yet

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    People who don't want to practice, grow and get better at things, cheat.

    detritus,
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    @StillIRise1963 or just modify their ambitions steadily lower 😉

    detritus,
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    @StillIRise1963 hmm. That would have the same meaning though.

    detritus,
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    @StillIRise1963 My original reply was just to say that i think your statement was not accurate, to be honest. It's only true if someone still wants to DO the thing AND still appear to be progressing/"winning" at the thing, despite not wanting to practice, etc. Maybe i'm just thinking of different examples than you, but point is that as a general rule your statement just isn't true. Take for example playing a musical instrument. Some people have no desire to get better or practice. They just play for fun & that's ok. They don't have ambition about it. If they had that attitude of not wanting to work at it AND they expected to somehow become rich and famous via that, then yes, probably they'd have to "cheat" in some way, that would be the only option, other than I guess just waiting around for dumb luck. I guess now I'm curious what you were thinking of when you made the original statement. Your re-phrasing does help, makes it specifically about cheaters, rather than calling everyone cheaters. But even then, there's other reasons for cheating depending on the specific case. Like, if you cheat at game of chance, it might be just bcuz you want to win. there's no way to "practice" at a game of pure chance. but you might still want the money you might win, cuz u need the money. So, still curious.

    detritus,
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    @StillIRise1963 im sure you know, but presumably people say things in public with the hope of being understood by others. No? 😉

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Donald Trump is Russia, and the U.S. is Ukraine.

    detritus,
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    @StillIRise1963 except we don’t have a USA giving us weapons to fight him with. Unfortunately.

    detritus, to climate
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    Yesterday my wife was on the way to taking our daughter to school via our electric cargo bike, as usual, and a classmate's father taking the classmate to school in a car pulled up beside them and offered to take our kid the rest of the way. As if the only reason we'd be biking is because of economic necessity. My wife replied "No thanks, we LIKE biking"... Now I'm wondering if maybe I should make a flag or sign for the bike that says "we're not poor, we just like bikes"... or "we just hate cars"? Or "we just believe in climate change and live by our beliefs"?

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    Red Lobster lost $11million because of an all you can eat shrimp deal last fiscal quarter.

    detritus, to history
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    This piece (essay? story? autofiction?) is really really extraordinary not only in the sociopolitical issues it brings to light but the sheer pleasure of reading it and the innovative form of it. I can't wait to read some of this guy's novels, if they're anything like this piece. https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikipedia-and-the-problem-of-historical-memory/

    detritus, to random
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    A fan died from the extreme heat at a Taylor Swift concert in Rio. 139°F. Taylor is traumatized, flying home for thnxgivng and then back to Brazil for another show in Sao Paulo. Hmm. 139° .

    Her flight will generate more than 3 metric tons of carbon emissions.

    https://pagesix.com/2023/11/20/entertainment/taylor-swifts-thanksgiving-plans-now-on-hold-after-brazil-trials/

    Those emissions melt this much Arctic sea ice: 118.5 square feet or 11 square meters.

    139°F.

    (Stats from flightfree.org )

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