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"making things that aren't prisons into prisons" as the kids say

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The best thing I've seen written on Musk and Twitter is this random YouTube comment (that I can't find a way to link to directly)

Oh no, it happened: I'm at the part of my thesis where I explain James C. Scott's premise of legibility

has anyone out there used Library, NYT's app created for documentation sites that basically turns a folder of Google Docs into a wiki?

github.com/nytimes/library

I'm looking at frameworksto make a relatively lightweight website for a team project where the team is largely not developers. I don't love the dependence on Google but do like meeting non-technical users where they're at.

period complains 

getting my period TWICE in February, the rudest and shortest month, seems unreasonable

this week's newsletter has a gentle reminder of ways to give me money which I always feel a little gross about but also I got a bunch of new subscribers via a tweet by a partner at a venture capital firm

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buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: NIBBB, geodesy, a growing colony of possums, anyone else at all, 'goblin' stuff, Gerald Ford, musical reproduction

yesterday Julie told us about academic debates around something called the Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation which apparently people call THED and I almost immediately made a "thanks for coming to my THED talk" joke

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

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

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Horsin' Around

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