mysternee @mysteronia@leafy.town
@steph yeah the difference is out all proportion to how small it a change it seems. my inner statist wants all seats to be redesigned by some kind of global dictat
yeah so I wrote another very long blog post that is basically about sitting on a cushion: https://psychonomad.space/2021/02/15/meditation-ii-the-cushioning/
reading Three Body Problem atm, and it's very good. i definitely feel like the translation is close to the original, because there's just something about the phrasing that doesn't feel 'natural' to me as an english speaker, but which feels familiar from watching subtitled hong kong films. it's kind of strange, and reminds me how little non-english literature i read.
@ryanpower powerful bird
they got a bit naff later but still, the early albums are just completely at odds with the prevailing culture, and completely in tune with (even ahead of) politics today
back on a manics binge again. just can't get over how much more politically/thematically interesting they were than basically any other mainstream act at the time:
@steph @olistiel @ryanpower get ready for a serious boost to your hit counter
@steph @olistiel @ryanpower is that your blog? I saw you mention one but not a domain
@olistiel @ryanpower awwww thanks
comrades i have added a blog links page featuring some of your blogs on my blog that nobody visits, blogblogblog. if you have a blog and would like me to add it, or on the contrary would like me to remove it, you can @ me
As promised, a (possibly dull) post about the practical steps I took (and didn't take) to get off the corporate web:
https://psychonomad.space/2021/01/20/map-of-the-technomadique/
@steph so weirdly I thought it was a book as well, but it's actually just an essay, like I read it in well under an hour. I did a quick search after and I think it's sometimes bundled with a bunch of his other essays with this being the titular one, but the actual piece is extremely brief (I enjoyed it though)
Reading the 3rd book of The Expanse atm, and something just jumped out at me: there are basically no robots in the books. Or like, even mechanisd automation in general. You get the occasional person sitting into a mech, but actual machines, or even something already as ubiquitous as drones, are absent. I haven't looked into it in case I hit spoilers, but it must be a deliberate authorial choice. Still, it already seems anachronistic in a world of automated rocket flights.
"My friend keeps telling me he accidentally glued himself to a copy of his autobiography, but I don't believe him.
But that's his story and he's sticking to it..."
mouse wheel stopped working. ordered new mouse. then went 'hmmm' and googled. one leatherman and a 4x4mm piece of paper later, mouse repaired. capitalism, planned obsolescence defeated
In an effort to actually like, use my site again, I might do an overview of how I've set up my tech life, including the stuff I haven't done and want to do. It's something I thought about writing before but never got round to, mostly because it's kind of dull.
In case anyone's interested, about a year ago I wrote this (long) post on ditching the corporate web. Not sure how it holds up, but it was definitely a pretty accurate representation of my motivations at the time, and might be useful for some people here: https://psychonomad.space/2019/12/07/going-nomad/
