Trying to make peace with a sinking suspicion my dissertation has to get into the history and political economy of remote sensing

Politics shitpost 

American imperialism seeking deranged expansionist projects, an Italian assassinating a millionaire, people sincerely debating the merits of pasteurization

2020s really are giving 1890s

It's a minor gripe but I find it so annoying that Jesse Welles is making some of the best anti-capitalist folk ballads of the 21st century and the dude does not sell his music on Bandcamp, man I want to own your MP3s why must we do this

My mom had a cold over the weekend and on Monday her next door neighbor not only shoveled the show from her bit of sidewalk but also shoveled her stoop, knowing she has a bad knee and wasn't feeling well. Unasked!

I'm so glad she has a little community around her to lend a hand as she gets older

my most deranged cope in the face of all the media and platform complying in advance is "maybe I should do a print publication again"

politics, life 

Update: I was so stressed out this evening I actually exercised lol

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politics, life 

Ramsey is going back to Lebanon today to see family and for various timing and life reasons I am not coming with. I'm not that worried about shit going down in the next few days/before Trump's inaugurated, but also don't love the uncertainty of it all

My downstairs neighbor made getting back into playing the cello his 2024 resolution and it's so nice on this first 2025 Sunday afternoon to hear him practicing. He's gotten so good!

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: burning arrows, sharks on cocaine, whatever they distill, stultifying disappointment, cheap willow ware, sultry summer

US politics 

Feel like the culprit might have worked backwards from the image of a cyber truck on fire outside a Trump hotel

On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."

https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml

#internet #technology #history #OnThisDay #OTD

In 2025 I'm going to just start calling ~all this~ World War III, it's time

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2024-corp just under the wire please enjoy the annual 2024 Year In Corporate Deaths episode with Tim Hwang

my 2024 highlights 

- some of my friends had babies
- I worked with some artists to bully an art nonprofit into giving away a total of $60K to Palestinian artists and organizers
- the movie I Saw The TV Glow
- saw @kissane and fam IRL for the first time in 5 years
- Luigi Mangione happening

Menustration complaint posting 

Perhaps this exhaustion is a result of massive blood loss, she realized after several hours of massive blood loss

youtu.be/jnyyuxPBPeg?si=do8uDa blown away that this was 13 years ago but as the year comes to a close and rousing anthems are needed here is one of my favorite performances of The Mountain Goats' "This Year", with guest vocals from Craig Finn. I was in the audience at this show, it was great.

It's a little weird to have a parent haunt you via current events

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my mom said that the radio (NPR I think?) coverage of Carter's death included a clip of my dad reporting on the Camp David Accords which was kind of a weird jolt while driving but neat

It takes a lot for me to post anything about AI. This really must be stopped:

"the [Biden] White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of #AI #DataCenters along with power plants to fuel them. Environmental regulations would reportedly be eased to facilitate faster construction, and the power plants would be fueled by fossil gas"
https://truthout.org/articles/gas-exports-and-ai-boom-poised-to-spike-energy-prices-for-consumers-under-trump/

#Energy #FossilFuel #LNG

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