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hazbin hotel extended mixes
the songs in hazbin hotel slap but b/c they focus on character / plot development they have an odd structure
thankfully this youtuber has made a bunch of extended mixes which are closer to traditional song structure, highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAU3wV5OOhY
"live your life in a such a way that those who come after you can make more interesting makes than you did"
no joke coming up with the joke titles for essays and books and chapters and subsections is like half of why i write sometimes
Uhhhhh hey can someone lend me $3-$5 to avoid an overdraft fee before friday?
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man decision theory is stupid
(hashtag not all decision theorists)
Would it really be the end of the world if there was a heist film for 9/11? Like you have to track down all the types of guys to recruit them for their niche skillsets. "you sonofabitch, I'm in" and so on.
this is the best argument for a multipolar world
The thing about killing an oil executive to lower carbon emissions, or similar ideas, feels fundamentally like dream logic. It's bizarre to me how common this kind of thinking is. Like the thing about how the planet isn't dying, it's being killed by people with names and addresses. It's like...sympathetic magic. That if you kill someone associated with a bad thing, it will stop the bad thing. Like climate change is the boss in a video game and you have to hit its weak points
okay but oil didnât just come to dominate the world via magic, oil companies deliberately lobbied governments and pushed for infrastructure and technologies (most obviously cars) that rely on consuming oil
for something that wonât get a three letter agency knocking on my door, take something less extreme, like professionals looking to oil by refusing to work there
(https://gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/young-people-dont-want-to-work-at-oil-companies/)
this sort of thing wont magically erase the oil industry overnight, but making the oil companies work harder means higher costs and less capacity to shape society, which in turn encourages countries to get off of it
how that should be done and what should be prioritized is a horribly complicated question, but there is a logic there, even if most people express it poorly
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if class first politics was the âone weird trickâ to change society for the better, surely people from whatever political background would naturally arrive it given its supposed potency.
like if its possible to enact policy that improves the welfare of the vast majority of people, why do you think politicians not naturally arrive at it? Surely we would see convergence on class politics across the world, rather than people being repelled from it (which even at the height of mass socialism we still saw!)
the entire thing is deeply frustrating because defaulting to the shibboleth of class acts a thought terminating cliche which makes actual inquiry frustrating
my (extremely simplistic) narrative of the past 8 years or so in tech is the entire industry spent the massive amounts of free money they got in the good macroeconomic climate searching for the next [iphone/google ad service/facebook ad service/AWS] and essentially came up empty.
amazon had alexa, facebook had meta, google had... whatever the fuck it is that google has, idk i can't keep track of all the shit they start and then kill, uber and lyft had self driving cars, innumerable startups had a billion other products, and none of these ideas really panned out. some of it was good enough to stay in business, but a lot of it was just setting money on fire.
but now everyone's running out of money to set on fire. the fundamentals are still there, all of [iphone/google ad service/facebook ad service/AWS] are still around and still insanely profitable, it's not like the industry is going to die or something. but i think people are sobering up a bit to the idea that the low-hanging fruit has been picked, which is kind of a funny position for an industry that likes to think of itself as the forefront of global innovation to be in.
the remaining unanswered question is mostly whether or not this LLM stuff pans out, and if so, to what degree
except even the value of advertising may be overstated - see Subprime Attention Crisis https://logicmag.io/subprime-attention-crisis/
i remember reading that Trotsky once met an anarchist (the first anarchist he met?) in prison where said anarchist was introducing his fellow captives to anarchism. trostky regales us that he asked said anarchist how the trains would run in anarchy. the anarchist responded to the tune of âwhy the hell would there be trains?!â (epic, btw), and that was the end for trotsky's fleeting flirtation with anarchism.
coupla things i want to point out here:
i started writing this a day ago, left it in drafts, and now I've forgotten most of what I wanted to say
it strikes me how much this is consumer-based as a level of questioning, very much similar to the recent discourse of âhow will insulin be created """under anarchy?"""â
while on the surface asking about what relations make transportation via train possible, thereby being a labor organization question, it actually asks how can trains be reliable and operational for the people using the them, thereby revealing a consumer-bias contrary to a worker concern.
and, it's interesting, no?
sex workers have constantly fought against anti-porn activists in part because the latter are so concerned with the pearl-clutching mentality of having porn exist, whilst the former ask that if you're concerned about porn, truly, then be concerned about the workers, the labor conditions, and the social and societal backdrop that might force one's hand to accept such work and such conditions.
Trotsky, and every other Leninist that employs unto this type of âgatchaâ rhetorical tricks, doesn't actually care. the honest and truest answer is that that's up to the train workers/insulin pharmacist/sex workers to decide. it's their work, their livelihood, their safety and expertise. it's a labor matter, not a consumer one. fuck the consumer, honestly.
was trostky a train conductor or railroad worker when he asked that question? did he have truly a vested interest in contrast to those that were? that are? he would've gotten along well with Adam Smith
i mean yes but also just punting the question of how youâll run a railway system anarchistically off until after the revolution is IMO bad because trial and error when shit is going down is a bad idea
thats not to say we need to bikeshed everything but i do thing having answers in the sense of âoh hereâs how X large scale infrastructure was done we can learn from themâ is better than just being like âfreedom is a singularity beyond which we cannot say anythingâ
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What do you think about the dismantling of most big industry companies in favor of small local cottage industry? What do you think about the idea of humans returning to hand spun textiles and the arts and hand craftsmanship becoming a large part of human society again? What jobs do you think would be most common in a solar punk society?
I think itâs a great idea! And I honestly, sincerely hope that thatâs the way a solarpunk society would operate, preferably in conjunction with the fully-automated-luxury-communism model. Basically, I think that local industry and handcrafted production are a great way to operate, but with two major caveats:
there should be an alternative (or many alternatives) for those who canât craft on their own, or who need something non-handcrafted for whatever reason, and
no one should be forced to work in one of those industries if they canât or donât want to.
What I really think would be great for a solarpunk society is people not needing to work, but being able to to go into the kind of cottage/crafting industries they like if they choose to. I like to think that some of the most common jobs in a solarpunk community would be those kinds of creative crafting jobs. Those are the ones that many people today donât or canât go into because theyâre not sufficiently profitable to support the creator, so it would be great if that wasnât a concern.
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Solarpunk: recycled clothes
I donât just mean reused clothes, I mean clothes made out of recycled materials. For some context: right now I am watching Project Runway and theyâre doing an unconventional materials challenge. It occurred to me that I donât often see solarpunk fashion posts where plastic type materials are reused to make the fashion.
Thatâs from the first unconventional materials challenge this current season. Just a quick Google image search brought up a bunch of examples from past seasons. Maybe it wouldnât be everyday/comfortable, but maybe a high fashion concept?
Iâve looked into 3d-printing clothing out of plastic and its possible but is very labor intensive. Some sort of automating process could make fashion dramatically more democratic (especially if the automation software was open source and the parts could be sourced cheaply).
Whats more exciting is that plastic recycling equipment is relatively cheap (couple hundred USD) and you could end up with a microfactory at your home that prints clothing that you then recycle into plastic that you then reuse. Could be a complete game changer
Books for Solarpunks
These books were not all conceived as solarpunk, but they all fit some aspect of the movement. Add on if you know of more.
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston, by Ernest Callenbach â this is one of the first ecological utopias, and, as a Northwesterner, I have to put it before all others. Cascadia Forever.
Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy â youâll find a legitimately utopian world in this novel. Iâve never been a huge fan of the plot, but as an ecological/cultural thought experiment it rules.
Science in the Capitol series, by Kim Stanley Robinson â beginning with 40 Signs of Rain, this series imagines a near-future/present day shift to politicians actually giving a fuck about global warming.
The Gaea Trilogy, by John Varley â anything by Varely will have solarpunk aspects, but the Gaea Trilogy is an interesting look at what solarpunk in space might look like. Humanity encounters a massive Stanford torus orbiting Saturn. Is it closer to fantasy than sci-fi? Yeah. But who doesnât love centaurs?
Three Californias trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson â this trilogy explores three versions of future California. The third book, Pacific Edge, is the only ecologically sound future imagined, a very solarpunkish utopia.
The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson â I saved this for last because as far as Iâm concerned itâs legit solarpunk. Gorgeous imagery and world-building any solarpunk will love.
Cory Doctorowâs Walkaway has solarpunk undertones to it
