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He/Him Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

thank you

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

@adbusters.bsky.social had it right when they warned us about the change: www.filmsforaction.org/articles/hip...
Look at who they are talking about speciicly

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Douglas Haddow

Im sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the citys heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk types, who...

www.filmsforaction.org

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Learn your history. Puppets have saved lives.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Before the commodification of p d x, alll that “weird” was continuity of movements from Labor, SNCC, Vietnam, spray wars, etc etc etc. it was demolished in the p ortlsndia tv era.

The weird was movement memory.
Afterward it was kind of just boring

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Also usually it follows whatever is going on linguistically at the time

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

The best assumption for any weird thing you hear in one of his novels is to check because it’s probably true the stuff that’s not true is usually anytime a character comments about reality

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

So. The opening scene of pynchon’s new novel includes people involved in illegal bowling ball heating in order to change the density and grip of rubberized bowling balls in the 1930s as part of a legal fixing of games. I had no idea

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Because this has a price attached to it this isn’t free public fountains this isn’t water bubblers so that everybody has something to drink, this isn’t a place to sit, or like Christopher Alexander said a safe society can support people resting and sleeping in public

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

And sure once it’s established and normalize it’ll be fun to be in a park and get a burrito or whatever but it’s a breakdown of a set of values that actually I still adhere to there needs to be some sort of commons of the people not commons of corporations or businesses

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

The “revolution” of the 1970s of citizen participation redirection of highway projects building of urban planning tools development of neighborhood coalitions was designed to stop this kind of thing

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

So many people see this is a win but if you look at who they are they are “green developers” and those adjacent to them who have bought into the idea that we can have a weird marketplace

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

and rather than being a public space they privatize The edges of public space. And it’s so interesting watching this process of food carts in the parks having worked in the parks having understood the long range long-term vision of Parks is non-private non-marketplace non-commercial non-buying

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Give the example of food cart specifically because while they are very fun and it’s nice to go hang out at the food carts they’re away for people to retain value of empty lots while they’re waiting for the price point for development

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

So we had a Urban planner who was pretty great who left Portland about 15 years ago and his reason was that he believed that Portland has shifted from actual strategic urban planning to this sort of festive marketplace thing that really was covering up privatization and real estate.

Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 2d

Great news from Portland Parks. They've made it easier and cheaper for mobile vendors to set up at local parks!

Food trucks & other vendors make public spaces sticky & build community.

Hope this gives momentum to @councilorgreen.bsky.social hot dog ordinance. www.portland.gov/parks/news/2...

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly this shows exactly why it’s important to educate people about their true epistemological and ontological roots of eugenics what it actually is saying and doing. AI IS the result that project, not a victim of it.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. And back and and back. No major repercussions. No one punished for Iran contra, or bay of pigs, etc etc

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of the writing is actually based on account that somebody made of actually meeting them and the journals. When I was in high school my mom bought me a copy of their published journals for drawing the line and it’s interesting to read it alongside the book

Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Mason was not an imperialist he was obviously involved in the royal society and he participated in empire. But wasn’t like an advocate for it, mostly just was depressed and made obs

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

That was a AutoCorrect imperialism is correct but the word I was trying to say was empiricism

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Like you could never actually do a movie of the book you have to do a movie of the movie

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

I remember watching him being like wait this is about a road trip with the actors? And then I started to understand that like no no this is how you tell the story true to the spirit because not only is it like the first novel it’s also the first weird novel

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly by being a Meta story its the only way you could even get close to what Tristram shandy is going for

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

And questioning what and who this LINE was really for and what it would do maybe even years in the future.

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

With Mason the melancholic astronomer and Dixon the Geordie and surveyor being forced by Powers unseen to draw a perfect political line through their combination of imperialism and reason in the land of revolution, massacre and slavery. Lamenting the death of the Subjunctive

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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 2d

It’s told in a parlor in the new America I believe just the year before Kant publishes. By somebody who knew Mason and Dixon looking back to the 1760s.

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