The Political Spectacle According to Murray Edelman: When Power Presents Itself as Performance

What if the #State were, above all, a spectacle? Murray #Edelman shows how #political #power relies more on the #manipulation of #symbols, #emotions, and #narratives than on #facts or rational #decisions. The State exists primarily in its staging: a #collective fiction that shapes our #beliefs and expectations. #sociology #rationality #PoliticalPhilosophy #philosophy The…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/the-political-spectacle-according-to-murray-edelman-when-power-presents-itself-as-performance/

The Political Spectacle According to Murray Edelman: When Power Presents Itself as Performance

What if the #State were, above all, a spectacle? Murray #Edelman shows how #political #power relies more on the #manipulation of #symbols, #emotions, and #narratives than on #facts or rational #dec…

Homo Hortus
Solace and Community in a Tigray Spice Mill

The ancient work is an act of resilience for this women’s collective, preserving identity in the aftermath of war

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here is my double pirated trend and sentiment data report #non unique prompts #linux server hacks #collective intelligence

🔟 Best IT Ideas Lately

Micro-clusters for SMB AI
Using 3–5 small, off-the-shelf nodes instead of one giant server — cheaper, easier to scale, less downtime risk, and ideal for running open-source AI stacks locally.

Wi-Fi offload with USB dongles & adapters
Just like you did — pivoting from flaky integrated cards to high-gain USB Wi-Fi adapters. Especially with 5 GHz/6 GHz support, this gives SMBs consumer-grade speeds without replacing laptops.

“Composable” Debian builds
Pre-baked OS images that can be quickly layered with security, AI, or developer toolkits — reproducible, portable, and easy to roll back. A way to do immutable infrastructure but for SMB desktops/servers.

RAG for Logwatch / system reports
Feeding daily syslog + Logwatch reports into an LLM backend for plain-English summaries and trend detection. Small move, but a big productivity bump for sysadmins.

Reverse-proxy clusters with WireGuard
Instead of exposing every service directly, run a few reverse proxies connected via WireGuard to a cheap VPS for SSL termination, hiding the LAN. Simple but powerful for security and uptime.

Decentralized AI results exchange
Small P2P mesh where clusters share model outputs, scraped data, or embeddings anonymously. Lets orgs collaborate without shipping raw data.

Energy-aware scheduling
AI workloads (or even backups) scheduled around real-time electricity prices — saving serious money in regions with dynamic billing.

Federated scraping + indexing
Groups of small sites running their own spiders but contributing to a shared vector database — essentially a grassroots search engine alternative to Google.

Gamified threat hunting
Turning IDS/packet capture logs into “capture-the-flag” style puzzles internally, so staff learn security by actually playing with real network data.

Tiny HPC pods for research/SMB
Instead of selling massive racks, folks are bundling mini-clusters (5–10 nodes) for biotech, physics, or financial modeling. “AI/HPC as a desk-side appliance” is starting to resonate.

💡 These are things I’ve seen people experimenting with (forums, mailing lists, Slack/Matrix chatter). Not pie-in-the-sky, but practical hacks and pivots that make IT more efficient, affordable, or resilient.

Félix Guattari: Machinicity and Capitalist Subjectivation, a Radical Critique of Modernity

Guattari denounces “#machinicity”: #capitalism does not just produce goods; it fabricates #subjectivities adapted to its machines and flows. #Resisting means inventing other ways of living, other #collective assemblages! #Guattari #Subjectivation #Philosophy #Critique #Deleuze Félix Guattari, in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, proposes an original critique of capitalism centered on…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/felix-guattari-machinicity-and-capitalist-subjectivation-a-radical-critique-of-modernity/

Félix Guattari: Machinicity and Capitalist Subjectivation, a Radical Critique of Modernity

Guattari denounces “#machinicity”: #capitalism does not just produce goods; it fabricates #subjectivities adapted to its machines and flows. #Resisting means inventing other ways of living, other #…

Homo Hortus

What if Capitalism Conflicts with Values?

Disclaimer Unlike most novaTopFlex posts, pronouns will be required to discuss the post topic. Main No matter what individuals and society at large may believe, there is actually an extremely valid fear of capitalism, particularly in terms of exploitation, but also in additional terms such as isolation, cruelty, and a race-to-the-bottom mentality. novaTopFlex believes that capitalism is a form of cruelty and that two particular crises are privatization and the race to the bottom, both of […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/what-if-capitalism-conflicts-with-values/

What if Capitalism Conflicts with Values?

Disclaimer Unlike most novaTopFlex posts, pronouns will be required to discuss the post topic. Main No matter what individuals and society at large may believe, there is actually an extremely valid…

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Why am I doing this? Simon Sinek says that all good stories start with "Why" so... I had a go at starting with "Why", and it made me realise how #fairness and #progress exist in tension, and how to leverage that.

https://nonzerosum.games/why.html

Understand this process for yourself and discover where your own motivation comes from.

#PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #Values #Ethics #WellBeing #Humanity #Collective #Individual #nonzero

FAIRNESS & PROGRESS

Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.

Why am I doing this? Simon Sinek says that all good stories start with "Why" so... I had a go at starting with "Why", and it changed the way I think about #fairness and #progress. #PersonalDevelopment #SelfHelp #Values #Ethics #WellBeing #Humanity #Collective #Individual #nonzero

FAIRNESS & PROGRESS
FAIRNESS & PROGRESS

Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.

#collective : gathered into a mass, sum, or body

- French: collectif

- German: Kollektiv, Gemeinschaft

- Italian: collettivo

- Portuguese: coletivo

- Spanish: colectivo

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

Word of The Hour - Annual Survey (2025)

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Hey our incredibly newsy All-Hands wrap-up newletter is now public!

https://comradery.co/aldercone/posts/01K4N8B58KCVDGJPH94GJC84NT

Lots of updates about what we've done for the year so far, plans for , some love for #GDoCExpo, upcoming Cayenne M'Cormik demo update, lots of links, and much more!

Become a member to get early access, discounts, and exclusive behind the scene posts!
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Aldercone All-Hands August Account 2025

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The Kite Collective - Happy | Lincoln City Fall 2017

https://makertube.net/w/iEYMtRgN4LX7wiC3sgqS9a

The Kite Collective - Happy | Lincoln City Fall 2017

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