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murdery marxists 

weird to learn that in some pockets of academia people who make their students read Althusser don't teach their students that Althusser murdered his wife (who was, for the record, a Marxist theorist herself)!

I've also been picking up a few missing things in #OpenStreetMap and improving the OSM-Wikidata linkage.

Battery storage is arriving in the UK at a slightly terrifying rate now.

https://openinframap.org/stats/area/United%20Kingdom/plants?source=battery

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happy new Algiers album release day to all who celebrate

what if I start releasing new zines by making fake Publishers Marketplace screenshots about them

@pettter Fisher is much more doomy; Graeber really approached life as a carnival most of the time

Love that feeling when my advisor tells me to read a bunch of Marxist theory and then instead I find something by David Graeber that explains it perfectly

America’s only rare-earths producer has agreed a deal to ship output from its new processing plant to Japan, part of a broader move by the US and allies to reduce China’s role in their critical supply chains https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-22/us-made-rare-earths-to-skip-china-in-supply-deal-with-japan?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter?sref=gMvqgK3G via @markets

@kit probably pretty hard though I wonder how much you could just hack a dymaxion

getting thrown out of the cartography conference for insisting that the path to liberation is using the most fucked up projections

I know it's just an academic journal URL but the proximity of "culanth" to "cthulhu" is too close, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.