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The free market solves nothing have a nice day
what ever happened to crop circles
@Gargron pretty sure it’s death to america
One domino can weigh infinity
the true secret to success is just getting too old and tired and disinterested in sabotaging yourself
I think it’s profound how we live long enough to see our sincere beliefs and hard work become ridiculous and obsolete as we mature but also sucks tbh lol
The evil eye ancient cultures tried to ward off is probably just our simulation’s tracking algo
I guess my point from the last post is, (excluding absolute necessity/opportunity), it’s probably better to work jobs that give you skills to be independent living somewhere cheap vs in a rat race where nothing is ever paid off and the consequences of that life is ecological disaster consumption
free as a bird as in confined to specific, well-defined migratory paths
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#TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’
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📄 Lori Emerson, “Did We Dream Enough?” THE THING BBS as an Experiment in Social-Cyber Sculpture, 2020 https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/dec/16/did-we-dream-enough-the-thing-bbs/
“… with a PC, the right software, a phone line, and a modem, in theory anyone could not just participate in but help build this consensual hallucination. And perhaps it’s exactly this vision of cyberspace that we can bring back to 2020: small, vibrant online communities—like those exemplified by mesh networks—that are independently/communally owned and managed, whose technical infrastructure is intentionally modest, and whose slowness is fully embraced.”
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after the world shut down i am emerging as something else
i don't know how the youths do it, watching their phone screens for constant bad opinions and attention seeking
so much going on in this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RqfvE6_eg
Going out to see people when the city is half-open is like starting the windows 95 in safe mode. Feeling the simulation hard today.
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1986 Puma shoes that connect to your "Apple IIE, Commodore 64 or 128 or IBM PC Computer"
M'lon Eusk, star war lizard monkey
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Sharing a list of online bookstores I know about so you don't have to buy from Amazon or B&N (EXPAND)
McSweeney’s, independent nonprofit publishing company
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/
Detritus Books
https://www.detritusbooks.com/
Firestorm Coop, collectively-owned radical bookstore
https://firestorm.coop/
AK Press, worker-run, collectively-managed, anarchist publishing and distribution
https://www.akpress.org/
Thriftbooks, huge independent bookseller, sells new and used books for good prices
https://www.thriftbooks.com/
Fellow Traveler, bookstore owned and operated by Listen Left Audiobooks
https://fellowtravelerbooks.org/
Small Beer Press, publisher of fantasy and literary fiction
https://smallbeerpress.com/
Left Wing Books, publisher and distributor of radical books and pamphlets
https://www.leftwingbooks.net/
Bookshop.org, online bookstore with a mission to support local bookstores
https://bookshop.org/
#book #books #bookstore #online #boycottamazon #indie #independant
2001: a Space Odyssey
@bulkington sure, esp when it breaks style to bring focus on something, and it’s often totally necessary in sff, which need new rules set for the reader to understand (physics, foreign political systems etc)
