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no one of consequence. professional cybersecurity person and failed academic. queer feminist wittgensteinian artist who values privacy and is inspired by people.
(e.g. quite a bit of it is "making information available, and enforcing policies that prevent the disappearance of crucial knowledge." categorization and security aren't always some scary method of coercive control!)
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
(e.g. quite a bit of it is "making information available, and enforcing policies that prevent the disappearance of crucial knowledge." categorization and security aren't always some scary method of coercive control!)
this whole case gives me strong, familiar feelings as an infosec professional who also values free speech (and freedom generally). a lot of people who share my views would think of much of my day to day dealings and requirements as "being a cop," but not all "compliance" is "restraint"!
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
this whole case gives me strong, familiar feelings as an infosec professional who also values free speech (and freedom generally). a lot of people who share my views would think of much of my day to day dealings and requirements as "being a cop," but not all "compliance" is "restraint"!
i don't think people can really understand either fact without realizing that both are true. it's not just 1 bad idea passing from a nation to another, it's a large suite of strategies to hold power and systematically dominate/kill people, that bleeds through the whole body of society.
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
i don't think people can really understand either fact without realizing that both are true. it's not just 1 bad idea passing from a nation to another, it's a large suite of strategies to hold power and systematically dominate/kill people, that bleeds through the whole body of society.
"you don't understand; those people in the past just weren't killing the *right* people!"
(goes on to basically advocate killing the same people anyway)
(goes on to basically advocate killing the same people anyway)
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"you don't understand; those people in the past just weren't killing the *right* people!"
(goes on to basically advocate killing the same people anyway)
(goes on to basically advocate killing the same people anyway)
i kind of hate it even more when people apologize first. like "i'm sorry, but the only word for it is she's being a b-" etc. like that's the ONLY word that means what the speaker wants to mean here... so like, you mean she's being "a woman (pejorative)" right?
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
i kind of hate it even more when people apologize first. like "i'm sorry, but the only word for it is she's being a b-" etc. like that's the ONLY word that means what the speaker wants to mean here... so like, you mean she's being "a woman (pejorative)" right?
i recently saw video of myself and some friends recording music in someone's basement in the early 2000s. while it's jarring and upsetting to see multiple pre-transition people acting young and sad, the main takeaway from the video is "what the fuck there was a Titanic poster there the whole time?"
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
i recently saw video of myself and some friends recording music in someone's basement in the early 2000s. while it's jarring and upsetting to see multiple pre-transition people acting young and sad, the main takeaway from the video is "what the fuck there was a Titanic poster there the whole time?"
yes. conservatives can long for a simpler (read: comfortable, unquestioned; others more silenced) world *simultaneously to* everyone longing for authentic experience unburdened by people who don't care about you trying to sell you something that has nothing to do with you. capitalism still sucks.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
yes. conservatives can long for a simpler (read: comfortable, unquestioned; others more silenced) world *simultaneously to* everyone longing for authentic experience unburdened by people who don't care about you trying to sell you something that has nothing to do with you. capitalism still sucks.
fewer intellectual moves are faster than "western student of buddhism sees anything that's happened in history and says 'yeah but that wasn't actual buddhism.'"
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
fewer intellectual moves are faster than "western student of buddhism sees anything that's happened in history and says 'yeah but that wasn't actual buddhism.'"
"trust us, this will help poorer consumers while corporations make even greater profits" is like the biggest sucker thing to say or believe.
trust me, solidifying an unequal power relation will not be used to harm the less powerful. okay........
trust me, solidifying an unequal power relation will not be used to harm the less powerful. okay........
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"trust us, this will help poorer consumers while corporations make even greater profits" is like the biggest sucker thing to say or believe.
trust me, solidifying an unequal power relation will not be used to harm the less powerful. okay........
trust me, solidifying an unequal power relation will not be used to harm the less powerful. okay........
yeah, i mean... unless we're just thinking about the most limited possible sphere and we had a good year, we're talking 2020 level "this year was fucked" on a very large scale.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
yeah, i mean... unless we're just thinking about the most limited possible sphere and we had a good year, we're talking 2020 level "this year was fucked" on a very large scale.
Both films leave open (or perhaps wave at, if one reads things generously) the possibility of meaningful life and change (neither, for example, grapples with actual social justice movements). They're not abstract treatises, they're displays surfacing how modern power relations produce absurdity.6/6
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Both films leave open (or perhaps wave at, if one reads things generously) the possibility of meaningful life and change (neither, for example, grapples with actual social justice movements). They're not abstract treatises, they're displays surfacing how modern power relations produce absurdity.6/6
The dilemma isn't "how can people govern" or "can humans exist together," it's "in THIS world, which you recognize, how can there be meaningful life when the governing conflict appears to be two sides struggling toward meaninglessness." it's less that this is all there is, more focused critique. 5/6
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The dilemma isn't "how can people govern" or "can humans exist together," it's "in THIS world, which you recognize, how can there be meaningful life when the governing conflict appears to be two sides struggling toward meaninglessness." it's less that this is all there is, more focused critique. 5/6
If one acts with worldsized impact on others w/ no consequences to oneself, or one is acted upon well beyond one's ability to even register on the actor: absurdity. Its the trolley problem meets Zeno's paradox. Both films seem like "human nature" films but they're actually concrete dilemma films.4/6
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If one acts with worldsized impact on others w/ no consequences to oneself, or one is acted upon well beyond one's ability to even register on the actor: absurdity. Its the trolley problem meets Zeno's paradox. Both films seem like "human nature" films but they're actually concrete dilemma films.4/6
The technocrats' philosophy is reductive, reckless, heartless. The fantasy of disenfranchised individuals about how "the world really works" is conspiratorial nonsense.
Both films suggest power/access exceeding care/personal stakes (or vice versa) to the point of separation = pure absurdity. 3/6
Both films suggest power/access exceeding care/personal stakes (or vice versa) to the point of separation = pure absurdity. 3/6
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The technocrats' philosophy is reductive, reckless, heartless. The fantasy of disenfranchised individuals about how "the world really works" is conspiratorial nonsense.
Both films suggest power/access exceeding care/personal stakes (or vice versa) to the point of separation = pure absurdity. 3/6
Both films suggest power/access exceeding care/personal stakes (or vice versa) to the point of separation = pure absurdity. 3/6
The latter film is about how paternal technocrats and the people who enable and emulate them will destroy the world if their ruthless behavior is left unchecked. Meanwhile family-minded, rugged individuals who might stop them would need to take radically murderous action do so. 2/6
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The latter film is about how paternal technocrats and the people who enable and emulate them will destroy the world if their ruthless behavior is left unchecked. Meanwhile family-minded, rugged individuals who might stop them would need to take radically murderous action do so. 2/6
while i agree with you, i also know that ML spam filters and antimalware programs were constantly pumped as "AI" as a meaningless advertising term. that the product was actually good is kind of incidental.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
while i agree with you, i also know that ML spam filters and antimalware programs were constantly pumped as "AI" as a meaningless advertising term. that the product was actually good is kind of incidental.
yes. also undercuts the "leftists can't win anywhere else b/c NYC is totally unique" rhetoric right at the start by painting the speaker as out of touch and sephiroth-tongued.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
yes. also undercuts the "leftists can't win anywhere else b/c NYC is totally unique" rhetoric right at the start by painting the speaker as out of touch and sephiroth-tongued.
never too early to start looking.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
never too early to start looking.
yes (:. related: while i think literally everything (e.g. baseline ontology) is contextual, it's a mistake to think context is magically intuited rather than "1 of the infinitely many things you can study, learn about, gain facility with, etc." context, like, systems, can be thought about by anyone.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
yes (:. related: while i think literally everything (e.g. baseline ontology) is contextual, it's a mistake to think context is magically intuited rather than "1 of the infinitely many things you can study, learn about, gain facility with, etc." context, like, systems, can be thought about by anyone.
on a roll with "posts i sent to others that really should be stuff i talk about with my therapist or trusted loved ones" here.
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
on a roll with "posts i sent to others that really should be stuff i talk about with my therapist or trusted loved ones" here.
no offense to any astronauts reading; it's a trope.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
no offense to any astronauts reading; it's a trope.
yes, i make DNS changes regularly, and while i'm "confident" enough, they are always something i slow down and think around. you need to have the recklessness of an astronaut to be nonchalant about DNS.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
yes, i make DNS changes regularly, and while i'm "confident" enough, they are always something i slow down and think around. you need to have the recklessness of an astronaut to be nonchalant about DNS.
america runs on DARVO.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
america runs on DARVO.