crw @crwbot@mastodon.social

who wants to be in my punk band "the moore-locke's" ??

learned a brilliant magic spell:

obtain an old-school muni token and keep it in your pocket. if asked to provide proof of payment on your ride, produce the token and say "i just got on and have been unable to negotiate my way to the front to pay this in"

seen the same old-timer pull that trick 3 times now, and that's enough to know that it's the word "negotiate" that it all hinges on. you can see the context switching happen in realtime in the cop's face and body language. amazing.

brb, writing a book called Anarchism, Surrealism, Utopianism: Owls that Moo

well, i survived reading a book on anarcho-primitivism.

i'm still not anti-tech or anti-civ and it's uncomfortable for me because i think it means i'm more of an optimist than whatever foundational identity facet of mine is still holding on to cynicism.

i haven't formally defined "foundational identity facets" yet, but it's something i've been thinking about a lot lately and is kinda self-explanatory anyway.

maybe another time.

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slightly obsessed with modernizing the 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours what we will. we're working too much and ignoring important responsibilities in our off-hours.

i've got it down to something like:

- 8 hours rest
- 4 hours work
- 4 hours self/family
- 4 hours community/politics
- 4 hours planet/environment

thoughts?

i wanted to see leland ripped apart by a tardigrade and spores overwhelmingly smothering the remaining nanobots

TIL "hulu" means "upstream" - this does not change my view of their service.

my ticket tracking system just gave me this quote during a loading screen: "i resolve, therefore i am"

1) i'm not dns
2) it's monday and just no
3) just no
4) no

you've all let me down

someone talk me out of doing an anthropology phd?

know those weird-looking structural elements designed by an algorithm to be super-strong? that, but for efficiently-insulating roofing tiles.

"let it be said that the only thing one can ever truly own is one's own thoughts, and with advances in technology that might not always be the case"

her book includes this gem:

As Jacqui Alexander asks: what would "taking the Sacred seriously mean for transnational feminism and related radical projects, beyond an institutionalized use value of theorizing marginalization?" It would mean that "the sacred would thus have to be taken as real and the belief structure of its practitioners as having effects that are real."

quoted from Alexander's "Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred"

woke up to this anne clark classic via my fave podcast, radio etiopia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkWOVz1h9k

in somewhat related news, i'm excited to be going to see Erica Lagalisse tonight at CIIS (http://www.pmpress.org/content/calendar_event.php?eid=20190202211513636)

i read her book yesterday and it touched on a few things that have been on my mind lately. surprisingly, she weighs in on culture-as-property, which is timely with the whole country billboard debacle.

celebrating a rainy end of the week with this discordant deep funk that was the hands-down winner of my weekly spotify discovery mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0HQ2G9-cCA

kid built a lego handheld remote control device that he calls a "time speeder" which controls the passage of time.

brought me back to my own youth when i would dream of a time-stopping device that i would use to allow me to nip off to the toy store undetected and play with all the toys.

the story about fb asking new users to verify their email by supplying the password for their email accounts made me wobder why fb doesn't simply become an email provider. i wonder how many users they could siphon off from gmail.

thought msft said no april fools jokes? then why did i wake up to a win10 feature update having installed itself despite my having autoupdate turned off?

dunno how he learned it, but kiddo picked up the word "never," and he seems to understand the context in terms of time.

this has led to behavior where any time anything remotely not to his liking happens, he'll point an accusatory finger and shriek NEVER. which is often funny, but is gonna be tiresome when it manifests itself in say, a grocery store.