They/them online pseudonym. Anti-capitalist, anti-religious, anti-spiritual, anti-AI, anti-fascist. I was apparently raised in one of the more relaxed branches of a cult.
I don't have a fleshed-out political theory yet. I'm not sure I can attain to one, but I belong somewhere among the anarchists and socialists.
I make music, pottery, food, repairs, software, and hardware. I boost much more than I post, but I don't boost images without alt-text.
Fascists fuck off.
| Digital Garden | http://lyk.so |
| Bandcamp | https://mumbleandsigh.bandcamp.com |
| Mirlo | https://mirlo.space/mumbleandsigh |
| Codeberg | https://codeberg.org/lykso |
Armed conflict is not a sports game.
You don’t need to pick a side.
You can also oppose one government without supporting the government that declares war on said government.
You can also, and I know this is a big stretch, oppose a third government in the conflict!
You can declare solidarity with all the people in the region who aren’t murdering thieving assholes.
You can call for mitigating a bad situation without that being a declaration of support for the whole mess.
I've got a bunch of fun projects to share soon, here's the first: "Forever Peanuts."
Styrofoam peanuts never do seem to go away, do they? So I thought it would be nice to make them even more permanent.
I melted E-waste hard drive cases and household waste to make these lost-foam aluminum peanuts during our last Otis Street Arts Project aluminum pour.
They will debut in "Future Finds" at Bathers Library in Oakland CA, opening 1/17 5-8PM. https://futurefinds.cargo.site/
Drop your most recent photo in the replies. Doesn't matter what it is. Just the last image you took.
Go.
I believe that in authoritarian-leaning cultures “callout culture” has a perfomative shaming function, but in historically authority-averse cultures it’s an important form of soft self-policing. If you’re comfortable calling the cops, you might find it tasteless or pointless! But if your community - reasonably - does not feel any safety around cops or formal authority structures, it’s a necessary tool for community safety.
I was struck by this:
"In the 1950s about 70% of manual workers voted Labour and the same percentage of non-manual workers voted Conservative. Today, education and age both predict voting affiliation better than class."
It is an example, I think, of the myopia of centrist or 'liberal' thinking. It misses the point that the current association of education and age with political affiliation comes out of the expansion of higher education in the 60s and 70s, then the generational inequality perpetrated by the single-generation handout of neoliberal privatisation, that has produced a society in the UK (and to some extent elsewhere) in which lots of well-educated young people don't have any assets to fall back on - which is really what being working class means - rather than having a regional accent or liking chips, as 'liberals' would have it - and lots of older people living longer that are less well educated but have both assets and relatively generous pensions.
What is 'social class' supposed to mean if not the difference between having no choice but to keep working all hours for somebody else, or conversely receiving unearned asset income ?
But naturally 'centrists', 'liberals', whatever you call them, must never see this, because if they did they would have to admit the economic interests (in preserving the status-quo) that really lie behind their own supposedly a-historical 'ideas' and 'values'.
> As more software engineers use AI agents daily, there’s also more sloppy software, outages, quality issues, and even a slowdown in shipping velocity. What’s happening, and how do we solve it?
i feel like there are obvious answers here and yet people will make it seem like i’m crazy for suggesting them
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/are-ai-agents-actually-slowing-us
Wren Reilly
Geoffrey Giebelhaus
Chris Combs (he/him)
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mhoye
Jackie
GeofCox
Colin McMillen
david celis