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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14h

Also Bubba Sparxxx’s “Deliverance” is somehow still the best solo album by a white rapper.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14h

“Ugly” is peak-period Timbaland, no need to be apologetic.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14h

I’m mostly not a huge fan but Aliens is probably the best-ever sequel by someone who didn’t direct the original?

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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 1d

Cities used to be full of co-living spaces. But Seattle demolished almost half of its downtown SROs in the 60s and spent the 00s layering building restrictions.

Luckily WA re-legalized SROs in 2024 (kicking in now-ish), building on a similar OR win in 2023.

Washington Bill Would Legalize Low-cost “Co-living” Homes | Sightline Institute

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

In context I think Alinsky was engaged in a critique of the late-period SDS approach, in the same way that some of MLK’s later writing is an argument with Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

Alinsky on persuasion:
“To reject them is to lose them by default. They will not shrivel and disappear. You can't switch channels and get rid of them. … They are here and will be. If we don't win them Wallace or Spiro T. Nixon will.”

Rules for Radicals (1971): “To reject them is to lose them by default. They will not shrivel and disappear. You can't switch channels and get rid of them. This is what you have been doing in your radicalized dream world but they are here and will be.
If we don't win them Wallace or Spiro T. Nixon will.
Never doubt it that the voice may be Agnew's but the words, the vindictive smearing, is Nixon's. There never was a vice-president who didn't either faithfully serve as his superior's faithful sounding board or else be silent.
Remember that even if you cannot win over the lower middle-class, at least parts of them must be persuaded to where there is at least communication, then to a series of partial agreements and a willingness to abstain from hard opposition as changes take place.”

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

Alinsky: “[The organizer] is seeking bridges of communication … he will view with strategic sensitivity the nature of middle-class behavior with its hangups over rudeness or aggressive, insulting, profane actions. All this and more must be grasped and used to radicalize parts of the middle class.”

Rules for Radicals (1971): “…must be "square" enough to get the action started. Turning back to the middle class as an organizer, he will find that everything now has a different meaning and purpose. He learns to view actions outside of the experience of people as serving only to confuse and antagonize them. He begins to understand the differences in value definition of the older generation regarding "the privilege of college experi-ence," and their current reaction to the tactics a sizeable minority of students uses in campus rebellions. He discovers what their definition of the police is, and their language—he discards the rhetoric that always says pig." Instead of hostile rejection he is seeking bridges of communication and unity over the gaps, generation, value, or others. He will view with strategic sensitivity the nature of middle-class behavior with its hangups over rudeness or aggressive, insulting, profane actions. All this and more must be grasped and used to radicalize parts of the middle class.”

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

Saul Alinsky: “Tactics must begin within the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don't scare them off. The opposition's reactions will provide the "education" or radicalization of the middle class. It does it every time.”

Rules for Radicals (1971): “Tactics must begin within the experience of the middle class, accepting their aversion to rideness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don't scare them off. The opposition's reactions will provide the "education" or radicalization of the middle class. It does it every time.”

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

My father-in-law gave me “Rules for Radicals” for Christmas a couple years ago and the biggest surprise to me was how much Alinsky’s advice to radicals was “don’t scare the normies because you will need them.”

Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

In fairness I think people forget that the last chapter of “Rules for Radicals” is all about the need to appeal to the conventionally-minded white middle class.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

anyways read theory

www.amazon.com/Waging-Good-...

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

Metal bands catching a lot of collateral damage from this rule.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 2d

In fairness I think people forget that the last chapter of “Rules for Radicals” is all about the need to appeal to the conventionally-minded white middle class.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 7d

So far as I know baseball never has to end, which I think is neat.

Distribution curve of Major League Baseball game lengths, 2010 through 2017. (Games since 2023 are probably shorter, but the right tail is still long.)

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 10d

This is a big deal because public space only works if the public shows up, and having food trucks and other types of vendors at parks will encourage people not only to visit, but to stay there and hang out a while.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/08/n...

New city program makes vending at parks easier and cheaper

Imagine grabbing snack in Forest Park after a fun ride in the dirt.

bikeportland.org

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 11d

Memento mori (man in red shirt shrugs, reflecting on his mortality)

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 11d

We went through this like 20 years ago with CFC-based aerosol inhalers: pharmaceutical companies lobbied to get them banned ostensibly to protect the ozone layer, but I assume because it let them extend patent protection with a new delivery mechanism.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 12d

Honestly I would love to have some holidays involving unusual fruits.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

Hm. To put it another way it seems like an implication of epiphenomenalism is that philosophical zombies would have the same kinds of conversations about qualia as we do—but why?

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

I used to be team epiphenomenalism but I don’t think I understand how we end up talking about epiphenomenalism in an epiphenomenalist world.

Like the fact of talking about qualia seems like an instance of qualia affecting the physical world.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, as a parent I think downtown Portland really needs a locally-focused natural history museum, but a big dumb object is easier.

(But Timothy Boyle, if you’re listening…)

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

Nice, I need to read up on that. There’s a lot of opportunity!

Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

Straightforward from here:

• Portlandia statue moves to the waterfront
• Portland extends its hot-dog socialist agenda to legalize food carts around the new Portlandia location
• Waterfront Park has a new food & tourism destination.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

The presentation didn’t dwell on this because it’s outside the scope of a wayfinding project, but one idea they included that I liked was moving Portlandia:

The second-largest copper repoussé sculpture in the US, mounted on the first-ugliest building in Portland.

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Binnig at Hanging Rock @binnig.bsky.social · 14d

I went around to some of the signs & markings that are part of the wayfinding pilot afterward & I do think it’s nicely done!

trec.pdx.edu/events/psu-t...

Portland wayfinding sign with map, Pioneer Courthouse Square

“Downtown Route” wayfinding decal on sidewalk

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