Johnny Wallflower

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Nature's architecture
New gender-neutral greeting dropped
I may not exactly be Lester Bangs, but it’s good to have aspirations, right? Enjoying my new part-time career writing reviews for Glorious Noise. https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/die-spitz-throw-yourself-to-the-sword
Die Spitz: Throw Yourself to the Sword

Video: Die Spitz – “Throw Yourself to the Sword” Directed by Emily Sanchez. From Something to Consume, out now on Third Man. What am I hearing? Sugar? Mastodon? Foo Fighters? Porc…

Glorious Noise

Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’

Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of Covid-19 on overall health.

"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.

Source: https://archive.md/Qsv13

Trans women. Boost if you agree.
It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
Today I wrote about the Male Loneliness Epidemic, and the ways that a cult(ure) of abuse leads so many to seek paths of healing solely on behalf of abusers, and doing so not by building paths of universal liberation, but by repairing paths of domination.
https://www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hearts-or-die/
Fix Your Hearts or Die

It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

The Reframe

Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.

He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.

The scale says:

  • Type 1: Uses all the energy available to its planet. For example, an albedo-zero world completely covered in solar cells.
  • Type 2: Uses all the energy available to its star system. Not a million satellites in orbit, but a Dyson sphere that captures all the light and radiation of a star.
  • Type 3: Uses the energy of all stars in a galaxy.

The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:

The Kardashian scale

  • A Type 1 civilization on the Kardashian scale has a public discourse that is no longer driven by facts, but by emotion and attention.
  • A Type 2 civilization no longer has this discourse under control, and counterfactual emotional discourse begins to control politics, research, and the economy, where unscientific and outright stupid narratives now take over steering.
  • A Type 3 civilization has complete epistemic decoupling: visibility has fully replaced truth, reach beats evidence, and consistency is irrelevant as long as the narrative is exciting. Physical limits are dismissed as “bad vibes”, and criticism is read as a moral flaw and subversion.

So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.

We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.

Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia

This is the piece that made me fall in love with Inuit art
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63421