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Eleanor Goldfield on Marches

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Protestor at J20, Trump’s first Inauguration, 2017. Photo By Eleanor Goldfield See her Substack piece Can We Be Honest About Marches? She says I don’t want our banners of solidarity to be our collective death shrouds. I don’t want the genocide to end because there’s no one left to kill. I want it to end because it was stopped. I want us to get to the other side of empire, as many of us who can. I want us to care for each other in ways that show that there’s something other than this death-making machine. This too is our power, our power outside of the system. Our power to imagine, and brainstorm, and be weird and wild and creative and fluid - all the things which the system tries to beat out of us so we’re good, obedient proles. We have to build what we want to see amidst the horrors we see, and that takes a lot of imaginative power, the kind that goes beyond configuring parade routes. This walks in parallel with our systemic power. Direct action: general strikes, targeting the cente...
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Strange Kind of Women - Soldier of Fortune

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Time for Bedlam Subscribe to Strange Kind of Women .
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On Web Sites for LETS Schemes and DAOs

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See  Local exchange trading system  and the Law Commission of England & Wales scoping paper  Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) . See Matthew Slater and https://communityforge.net/en/our-solutions /. See also https://meshtastic.org/ Here's the grammar of grammars: RULES <- RULE | RULE ?ws? RULES RULE <- SYM ?ws? '<-' ?ws? SYMSLIST SYMSLIST <- SYMS | SYMS ?ws? '|' ?ws? SYMSLIST SYMS <- SYM | SYM ?ws? SYMS SYM <- '"' ?notdquote? '"' | "'" ?notsquote? "'" | ?AZs? | '?' ?azAZs? '?' When I talk about ALT, SEQ etc. I mean that a grammar is a list of RULE s, each of which defines a SYM (short for symbol ) as an alternation or a sequence of symbols, represented respectively in the grammar by a vertical bar or juxtaposition . Here alternations are sums and sequences are products in a Cartesian Closed Category.  See Philip Wadler - Propositions as Types   and make sure ...
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Sayaka Fixing a 1986 NES

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This machine was made the same year that Theodore Roszak published The Cult of Information . At the time I was too busy trying to learn how to to write communications protocol stacks. See Matt Taibbi's Opening Statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Censorship . Subscribe to Sayaka's Digital Attic .
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Matt Taibbi's Opening Statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Censorship

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He says he's been covering fictional digital censorship issues since 2018. And coincidentally, ... James Di Eugenio on the CIA and FBI blocking declassification of JFK assassination documents (see also Oliver Stone opening statement at JFK assassination hearing ): Subscribe to Forbes Breaking News . I also watched some of this Chris Hedges interview with Yasha Levine on his book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet . He's very awkward and not very convincing. He says they were ingesting lots of data. I don't think he knows what he is talking about. You can get Theodore Roszak's 1986 book The Cult of Information on The Internet Archive.  Subscribe to Chris Hedges . Bill Binney talking in March, 2019 about the way mass surveillance by the FBI/NSA/CIA triumvirate works and shares data with the intelligence agencies of other countries. Subscribe to Allard Prize . A Good American Subscribe to Tony Griffiths . It's all blinking red lights an...
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Futo Are Building an Open Source Swipe-typing Dataset

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Futo Keyboard on Android is way, way better than Google's Gboard now. See  https://keyboard.futo.org/ Google AI says that "Swipe typing, also known as glide typing, is a text input method where you enter words by swiping your finger across the letters of a word on a touchscreen keyboard, rather than tapping each letter individually". see https://swipe.futo.org/ and if you're on a mobile device then you can help train the dataset.  Subscribe to FUTO .
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Ana Victoria Cedillo - Cycling from From Cabo St Vincent in Portugal to Grense Jakobselv in Norway

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See 7,600 km across the continent — European Divide Trail . Subscribe to Ana Victoria Cedillo .
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MBARI Have A New Research Vessel Called David Packard!

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Alice Boyd - The Sounds of King's Cross

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This is her "first ever spatial sound installation, The Sounds of King's Cross , which will be presented at Kings Place this Saturday Sat 5 Apr - 6.30pm, 7pm as part of their Earth Unwrapped programme." She's also doing a performance afterwards: see Alice Boyd & Guests: Concert + Natalie Wildgoose : In this performance, Alice Boyd and her ensemble share her latest music, including songs and sounds inspired by her trip to the Cairngorms retracing the steps of legendary nature writer Nan Shepherd. Alice and her band will be debuting a new song, created for EarthPercent and Museum for the United Nation’s ‘Sounds Right’ initiative, featuring NATURE as an official artist, which will be released on Earth Day 2025. Life in Cities: Subscribe to Alice Boyd .
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Buster Keaton Stunt

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These sorts of things are supposed to come with a "Don't try this at home, ..." warning, aren't they?  Subscribe to Lost In Time Vids .
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