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Merlin

@danielperlin.bsky.social
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Planetary Design, Art, Music, Writing, Built and unbuilt environments, Making, Collaborating. Here for you, here for community.

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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is a picture of a skeleton of a stingray. Beauty is everywhere, if we take even a moment and stop and listen. The earth has created everything that all its species need, and want. I’d really like to encourage you to put your phone down now and just listen, look, smell, feel. I will too.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Gonna say it again: Stop saying decentralized when you mean distributed networks. Decentralized still re-creates hierarchical power.. it’s what we live right now, with ISP’s and govt/corporate/capitalist world system. Distributed is what you mean.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Your article is great, and I agree with the choke point issue. I would like to point to an opportunity to move towards better, more accurate name for the architecture. not ‘decentralized’, a misread appearing due to rise of crypto, but the original concept: distributed networks.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Welp, finally time to really leave IG too…
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I filmed here it is fake Paris outside of Shanghai and it is a simulation of a a repressed dream. Perfect place for scary robots, well done.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Let’s not be cruel to pigs, people…they would never eat this slop! for anyone who uses AI, you know the hard work to product this shit, literally. He knows all press is good press- attention is the economy he wants to dominate! please don’t re-up him, and don’t debase pigs with the comparison
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I have a masters Brazilian studies and completed my thesis Tracing Tropicalia in 1999. It was a look at its history as a counter-modernity, from 1922 to 1999, and its transdisciplinary approach. A chapter was on “tropicalia”, by Hélio Oiticica, an installation that I now see changed my life.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The illusion of the middle class coincided with the same time period of highest tax of the wealthy. If your goal is to go back, Make America Tax The Rich Again
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Got a 401k or etfs? Your $ makes a direct difference…
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
In case you have a 401k, etfs or mutual funds, and are curious about your investment in Nextstar, just gonna put this here…your $ speaks louder than words to these folks, and a little move can make a big difference…
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Aside from subscriptions, if you are lucky and Have an etf or 401k or mutual fund…moving $ is easy and very impactful…
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
etf and mutual fund holdings in nextstar
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I wanna go ahead and take ESQUIVALIENCE and make it a meme and force it to be resubmitted and become official.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I mean it’s almost as if we live in a society of the spectacle, and the ‘news’ is just another show to sell ads, and that the media is in service of the large corporations that run it to generate more clicks, to sell more products, and collect more individual user data to sell targeted ads.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Here’s art by Guga Ferraz. The only positive thing about the shitshow slide into authoritarianism is it clearly shows the fragility of capitalism and systems of oppression, like 2008, when ‘total systemic collapse’ was part Of the vernacular. It’s also very awful and horrible, for sure. Vai passar.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Don’t believe the hype. But do pay attention to it, because many folks would rather believe in it than question it.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Making a chrome plugin that fixes these headlines…and automatically sends it back to @nytimes.com … taking suggestions for a rewrite here
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thing is, some folks and lots of machines love (AI) slop. One slop is another’s hallucinated dream. The question is, do the machines like slop? Or are they just playing with humans until we are reduced to Wall-e boneless bodies and we become more docile batteries…until we are their slop they love…
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Love this film, hate living in it. @johncusack.bsky.social perhaps time for a sequel?
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Fuck. I have 2 kids and really can’t afford the legal trouble. But also ICE GTFO of LA and this administration is a bunch of posturing wannabe low level mobsters who don’t know wtf they are doing. Time for them to go. Here’s a picture of an albino peacock.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Is there a chance that the current administration hates De Santis so much they got rid of NOAA and put an idiot in charge so that hurricanes would wipe out Florida and Mar A Lago would get huge insurance $$? Asking for a friend.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
There is no tomorrow. There is only now. When you think of the past, you construct it now. Live fully now. Live fully, now. Live, fully now. View of the matrix from my hospital room this weekend. I’m on the mend, and very lucky.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
THE FORMAL END TO HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN. THE CALL FOR RADICAL ECOLOGY. THERE CAN ONLY BE PLANETARY DESIGN. EVERY DESIGN AND BRIEF MUST STATE THE SPECIES IT BENEFITS, WHY AND HOW.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
When you consider who to prosecute in 4 years, this guy and Lee Zeldin should be at the top of the list. I am not a huge fan of these institutions at all, both historically and now, but doubling down on punishing the whole world due to xenophobia & greed is corruption at its core.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Unpopular opinion, but I think that the best Gene Hackman film is The Conversation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con...
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
People! we need to keep our strength up and stay together! the sun will rise, your friends and family love you and you are probably already incredibly lucky like me, who has food and shelter. Now pause, close your eyes, breathe, and remember how fucking awesome you are.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Y'all, I feel for this kid. It's dangerous to be stuck in a garbage fire.
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Merlin @danielperlin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For all of those shocked by speed, paul Virilio and guy debord taught us, that speed is a tool, a modality. We don’t have to run when others sprint, we can split up, go slow, block traffic, appear together and disperse keep lines of communication, set meet ups, build tunnels
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