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One thing you can do is shun employees of associated companies (Amazon, Tesla, Facebook) and refuse to give them a job. That requires some sacrifice though.

I believe type-fest supports this, previously as “Opaque” types: https://github.com/sindresorhus/type-fest/blob/main/source/o...

They got there by getting us to the point we’re at now, by burning fossil fuels and offloading many of their social ills to other regions. By all means, let’s improve education and get more money in people’s pockets. But degrowth is much more likely to be accomplished through fascism than by raising the standard of living globally in a way that preserves regional independence.

How is that easy to accomplish nationally let alone globally? What if there’s places that buck the trend, or don’t want to incentivize low birth rates in this way?

Do you have children? How do you propose to convince or force others not to have children without devolving into something that could reasonably be called “eco-fascism”?

There are so many great games out right now but, like many others, I’ve found myself returning to games like Old School Essentials and other games from the Old School Renaissance. I’ve been inconsistently playing in this game - https://attronarch.com/wilderlands - and dying a fair amount . That game is perhaps more lethal than most, but the stories I’ve come away with have made it maybe the best game I’ve participated in.

Catherine Liu's short book Virtue Hoarders has this thesis, arguing that the class that this language is a marker of is the professional managerial class (PMC), a social class originally posited by the John and Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s. I can't recommend the book too highly but I think it was correct in most of its observations.

Missing from this article is any discussion of Wright’s This Other World, a large collection of haiku written while he was in exile in France toward the end of his life. For those who are less into his political fiction these poems are a great introduction to his writing.

I think the point is that people have different ideas about what the focus needs to be on.

I think they are real. Just because they are a temporary state or contradicted by other real feelings doesn’t make them not real. For me it has been helpful to remember that how I’m feeling now is not the only way I’ll feel and how I’m thinking about a subject is not the only way I have to think about that subject. Feelings and thoughts change, as you said.

That was really great and explained it really well, thanks!

I’m not super educated on the subject but am I wrong to think that basically all large non-domesticated mammals will go extinct over the next few generations? It doesn't look like humans are inclined to do anything about the climate and these animals seem particularly vulnerable.

I’ve been really interested in dsp for music and computer music for a while now but am kind of at a loss as to where to learn more after having gone through Xavier Serra’s excellent Coursers class. Can anyone recommend further resources for learning about the subject?

A review of the plant’s page on Wikipedia shows that it did indeed have a number of low level incidents. Do you have any sources about those being the true cause of the shutdown?

This was the great lesson of this book for me, and it is a constant inspiration to me.

Glad to see this here. Really took away a lot of the "magic" that intimidated be about the lower level operations of computers.

Sure I think MF DOOM is a good place to start especially his Madvillainy album with the producer Madlib which is really well regarded. More recent stuff I enjoy is Mick Jenkins from Chicago, his 2014 The Waters mixtape was also really well reviewed. Aesop Rock is also generally thought of as a really good technical rapper. His album None Shall Pass from the Def Jux days is really good though I prefer Skelethon which has less word play but is also brilliant.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant but there's a ton of word play in American Hip-Hop, it's pretty core to the genre. Literally any rapper you pick will be doing some amount of word play.

This website appears to be messing with my history? After clicking some filters I can't go back.

I'm always impressed when I look at vim plugins. I've fiddled with some vimscript and mostly bounced right off it.

r/litfiction The subreddit is pretty inactive but the Discord is a great place, if a little quiet: https://discord.gg/JuGRMYP

I moderate a small writing subresdit and discord. I can't speak to how useful it is for other participants but for me it's been tremendously helpful in keeping my writing front of mind, not to mention the writing sprints that take place there represent a significant amount of my output. Interacting with other writers has been the best way to improve my own writing as well as develop new ideas and inspiration.

I mostly know about this work because of the Phil Elverum track of the same name which is also incredible.

I read and enjoyed https://github.com/kohsuke/args4j. I don't know if it's the "best" code put there but it was comprehensible and I learned a lot from it when I was new to Java.

I think we will see what is happening to the Uighurs now as a genocide in that it is an intentional destruction of a culture and people. I'm not sure what can be done when a country so powerful as China is the perpetrator but it's pretty terrible to watch as it is happening.

The prohibition against conducting business on the sabbath might be where this comes from.

I read this book and, to be honest, did not enjoy it very much. It consists largely of profiles of people involved in this sort of philanthrocapitalism. The main theme seems to be that the ultra-wealthy have coopted the work of social institutions in such a way as to undermine efforts for truly revolutionary change, that is change that might threaten them. The premise is interesting but the content is pretty boring. I got tired of reading about people whom the author believes to be mislead or malicious or otherwise on the wrong path. For those interested he gave a talk at Google in Cambridge that was pretty good. https://youtu.be/d_zt3kGW1NM

"The mass media was completely played by the GRU and wrote the stories they wanted after the DNC and Podesta disclosures. You could argue that this was much more impactful than the IRA disinfo, and there has been almost no self-reflection by NYT/WaPo/WSJ/TV on their role."

These are some remarkable poems. I feel lucky that someone took the time to translate and share these poems on the internet where they can find a wider audience.

I don't think of rap as poetry. I love both, and to me the claim that rap is a form of poetry seems more like an unnecessary attempt to coopt the legitimacy of poetry than anything.