Bert Latamore @BertL@mastodon.social

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A valid post-left criticism of Futurism is that the idea of "progress" is not necessarily good and in many ways can actually be harmful.

In my opinion, this is because the idea of progress is currently married to and believed to shown by constantly expanding growth of consumption and productions. Social progress is shown by different groups' ability to perform as worker-consumers.

We can and must decouple technology - as a practice and body of knowledge - from the dynamics of Capitalism.

Mexican architect Javier Senosiain specialises in sustainable "organic architecture" and it's pretty cool. #solarpunk

#birb

My good friend Brett is a musician.

He is also a recording engineer, and he records some beautiful music.

Like this: https://brettschieber.bandcamp.com/track/lightning-strikes-extended-acoustic-version

Or This: https://brettschieber.bandcamp.com/track/our-last-cigarette

Or this: https://brettschieber.bandcamp.com/track/cinema-sheet

Or this spoken word album he did with my friend Caleb: https://brettschieber.bandcamp.com/album/unnecessary-content

Or this score he did for a Georges Melies short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvM4P2HuUc

Anyway, Brett's car was totaled today. He's fine, his wife is fine, their little girl is fine. But he's a school teacher trying to support a family. Did I mention that? He teaches elementary school special education, in spite of the fact that it barely pays anything.

His car was totaled. Insurance is going to cover some of it, but not enough for him to replace it with something reliable. Listen to some of his music and, if you like it, maybe buy some, or tell someone else about it so that he can get a new car.