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"I use technology in order to hate it properly"

- Nam June Paik

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: truculent realities, relationship with geography, dread sustains, overladen, courageous (and not altogether successful), this exotic example

Maybe the economy hasn't been "good" ever since the late 1980s when the top 1%'s share of income bypassed the bottom 50%'s? Feel like these guys telling me the economy is good actually aren't looking at the data

The Ones Who Produce Speculative Design Imagining Different Futures For Omelas

how the hell does a metal water bottle develop a pinprick leak

Everyone always asking for Mads Mikkelson they don't even notice Sads Mikkelson

really miss my expired debit cart that had the 3 digit code 420, always made customer service people chuckle whenever I had to provide a card over the phone

every February I have to decide whether or not to renew wernerherzogvalentines.com

Academia life 

Just got comments back from my first peer reviewed journal article and the peers really liked it!? Minor revisions but pretty manageable. Very relieved!!

Hallmark Christmas movie where a tech executive comes from the big city to get an AI data center built on the town Christmas tree farm

Hi everyone, sorry for going so long without an update!

While Fastmail management declined to give us voluntary recognition, today we had our NLRB vote, and unionizing with CWA won with 75% of the vote! We're looking forward to negotiating a contract with Fastmail that helps ensure a safe and equitable future for everyone here!

Thanks to everyone who offered their support throughout this process!

wares.lifewinning.com/products heads up that I am closing up orders on this yearlong project of quarterly plotter postcards today so I have a consistent edition through the year. Printing for the first postcard starts soon, gets mailed out in March.

If you want to read long email chains that amount to "Adam Mosseri feels there's a big gap between 'perceived' harm and actual technical violations and "Mark Zuckerberg declines to fund any work on improving known and terrible Meta performance on abusive everything" this is a "fun" read

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13124metadocuments.pdf

(Link courtesy Adi Robertson at The Verge, I couldn't find it on anyone's sites.)

Got to the part in the Doppelganger audiobook where Naomi Klein bemoans that Kissinger continues to advise governments and I got to yell "he's dead now Naomi!!" I hope she had a great day when that happened

last night a student told me the extent of her political education during her engineering degree came from playing Disco Elysium

aging dog, weird housing life 

for this kind of building in this part of Brooklyn, the most likely buyer is going to gut the whole place anyway, so while it is a decent move on his part for our quality of life it's pretty irrational for him to spend more money on things like this if he really wants to sell in the next year. very confusing mixed messages!!

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Horsin' Around

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