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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"a lot of it from Vienna... the 1920s... uh, Freud and all that" ❤️

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The Sun is, I would say, the most unique thing in daily life. It lights up the spring leaves like little stained glass windows. I imagine a hyper-dimensional SUN whose "light" is our single soul.

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Another way of reading this though... perhaps here is a man who like me has been banging on for 15 years about how fucked up "smart"phones are, but has now with infinite weariness, given in to the universal shrug

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

GNU IceCat is a liberated Firefox fork installable on Windows, Mac, and Linux. www.gnu.org/software/gnu...

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GNUzilla and IceCat - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"we better do what Reform wants, otherwise it's only fuel for Reform". Garrulous nicotine-stained wanker outwits Sir Keir Starmer KC at every turn.

Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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Doing a zoom podcast tomorrow with David Agrnovff. 6 pm PST Dec 9. No password, open to all, and bring questions. Mostly we'll talk about new novel SQINKS. Name of the show is Dickheads Hangout, as Dave is a hug PKD fan. sfsu.zoom.us/j/8790030362...

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

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But there's something just about the imprint of time, & experience. A photograph decays in the particular way it does because of all the thousands of moments it was handled and exposed to light... LPs corrode uniquely with each playing - every particular engagement destroys it a little bit more.

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Right... we need a society for protection against restoration. Let ruination take its natural course. Now scanning his monograph; he summarisingly puts it as "[celebrating] fragmentedness and ability to contest dogmatism". It's close to what I was thinking, that beauty is in complexity - in chaos.

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And of course, in nature, all life depends on decay.

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I think we need to get back to appreciating decay... photographs fade, LPs regress steadily into pure noise. There's something very beautiful about it. (And in fact, come to think of it, didn't Uncle Monty concur precisely on this point...?) There is something unholy & cryogenic about digital media.

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Virtually every digital technology of this century has been designed to feed and flatter the worst parts of yourself

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

there's a wonderful live version of this from the mama cass show. She sings like a blackbird. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nds...

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Joni Mitchell Both sides now on Mama Cass Show 1969

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

the wonderful detail also that he did 20 mins of Zen meditation every morning and only founded Apple Computer having returned to the US from a fruitless search in India for his guru...

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

For what does it profit a man, to save the whole world, yet forfeit his Brontë country?

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

But this is just an excuse not to bother reading or listening to what Chomsky actually said in that interview. The author of the article distorted what he said in order to turn him into a pro-Putin "tankie" & discredit his position. Monbiot repeated that. I expected higher intellectual standards.

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well, Alex is actually one of my oldest and most esteemed friends, and I can confirm he's read more Chomsky than I have. I understand the position, I just don't share it exactly, and I think journalistic integrity is now maybe more than ever incredibly important. Disappointed by Monbiot's slurs

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I think there's a big difference between saying, of some monster, that Western states have done a lot worse, to saying that, actually, that monster is "moderate and restrained". You might think the former claim is false, but the latter words convey actual praise, which is not what he said at all.

Good point. Why bother listening to the actual words of someone who doesn't share your opinion? Just rely in the interpretations of people who already do. I forgot we're still on the internet...

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Yes, indeed, I read it. Those are the words of the author of the article, not Chomsky.

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I can't believe I'm telling George Monbiot, one of my heroes, not to fabricate quotations. Boris Johnson got sacked for that...

certainly not much if you didn't watch the actual interview....

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did you watch the interview? he doesn't say that. what Monbiot ascribes to him here is fabricated

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if you watch the interview, he actually doesn't say what Monbiot ascribes to him. The "moderation and restraint" quotation is fabricated.

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where does Chomsky say "with moderation and restraint"? The writer of the article says that. I can't see a quote from Chomsky. The quote from Chomsky is that Russia is acting more humanely than the US did in Iraq. That's a different claim.

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You're riled by this article because the writer calls you a "chairborne war hawk" in the Question Time appearance. You hit back with "tankies". It's childish. I expected more mature, careful argument.

citations, citations. Add productively to the discussion on how to advance

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put those thoughts into a comprehensive blog post - it would get traction on hackernews and could be helpful to improving Arch

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correct :D Arch is a great distribution, but you don't have to use it if you don't like it.

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

no doubt you also have some "thoughts" on vim, or emacs... but are they actually helpful...?

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“phone” that halves your IQ and triples your anxiety

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

it's the popularity - the fact that it's now so widely understood that a very large part of the "economy" is actually diminishing human well-being, at best adding nothing. A system is in place that rewards creation of addiction, distraction, frustration - actual human harm.

rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

that's awful, sorry to hear it. Just think of T.E.Lawrence, who lost the first 250,000 word manuscript for 'Seven Pillars' when changing trains.

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

found this tweet, and its popularity very interesting. How much human 'work' is going into creating all this froth? And that's merely the upper layer of absurdity of consumer capitalism. There is the waste.

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rchrdchrstn @rpxpx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I understand this POV, but what do you mean by "hold the line" here? Keep feeding conscripted Ukrainian men into the Russian grinder? Or send British troops? You imagine waging war until all Ukrainian territory is recaptured? Are there intl relations scholars who consider Russia a threat to Romania?