"just jokingly thought "it's so #ableist to make me #work during a flare up" and then stopped what I was doing and just stood there for a second because. yeah. that's. that's #ableism man. you shouldn't have to work during flare ups. that's just. a true #fact."
💬 9 🔁 6693 ❤️ 12759 · just jokingly thought "it's so ableist to make me work during a flare up" and then stopped what I was doing and just stood there for a second because. yeah. that's. that's a…
"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."
Ep. 331 Liana Gillooly , an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedelics.
What Barlow said was directed at corporate governance as much as it was at state governments;
"Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron."
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us.
The persistent misrepresention of Barlow and other tech rights pioneers as stooges of corporatism (usually mislabeled as "libertarianism") really grind my gears. @pluralistic wrote a great column on this earlier in the year;
I just finished the first episode of Can't Get You Out of My Head, a 2021 documentary series by Adam Curtis. Curtis is an intriguing filmmaker. The best of his work deep dives the political history of the 20th century in surprising and insightful ways; The Century of the Self (2002), The Power of Nightmares (2004), The Trap (2007), Bitter Lake (2015) and Hypernormalization (2017).
Unfortunately, I think Can't Get You Out of My Head is going to be the other kind of Adam Curtis film series. Like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, where he tries to collapse hacker culture, the 1960s counterculture, SillyCon Valley and chokepoint capitalism into a monolith, supposedly driven by a unified Ayn Randian philosophy. As if Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs were on the same side of history.
"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."
Ep. 331 Liana Gillooly , an advocate for purpose-built ecosystems and psychedelics, joins Rushkoff for a conversation about the evolving landscape of psychedelics.
In the first episode he seems to take Discordianism seriously, implies that counterculturists were all Randian conspiracy theorists, explores the hyperindividualist philosophy of Chairman Mao's paramour and connects this to the Cultural Revolution (its logical opposite), and hints that it's all somehow connected to Boolean logic and computers.
I'll keep to watching to see if he can bring all this together into a coherent and historically accurate narrative. But I'm not holding my breath.
US$ 700K spent on frivolous lawsuits against a single mom/surrogate and dumping the legal and medical fees on her. Trying to get charges laid for pregnancy lost on her surrogate.
HoverAir Aqua: Erste Drohne speziell für Wassersportler
Der US-amerikanische Drohnenhersteller hat in Berlin seinen Quadrokopter vorgestellt, den er selbst als "erste wasserdichte selbstfliegende Kamera" bezeichnet.
Xena is the reason I am queer. As a 10 year old: looking at this, no reason I could see why I might want to be straight sunny.garden/@fringemagnet/115…
Today marks 30 years since the premiere of 'Xena: Warrior Princess' back in 1995. A show that was never ashamed of its campiness, but at the same time managed to be groundbreaking on multiple levels. Setting new standards for female action heroines, featuring a main character that was messy and flawed, physically strong and athletic, who started as a villain seeking redemption.
Xena, despite its cheesiness and often ridiculous premise, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of queer representation, challenged stereotypes, defied several of the sexist tropes of '90s media, explored LGBTQIA+ themes, even themes of gender identity, and made a clear statement against the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS at the time.
It may not be a flawless masterpiece, but it's a beloved cult classic for good reason.
A delicious way to celebrate twenty years together. I wonder what those two kids in 2005 sitting on the KU campus, talking all night, would make of the life and family we’ve built together over these two decades? ❤️ 😘 @Dbenhg
Il Cremlino è "assolutamente" contrario alle garanzie militari americane ed europee offerte all'Ucraina per la sua sicurezza. Lo ha affermato il portavoce Dmitri Peskov. (ANSA)
Tonight's fun project: research how to rip #vinyl records. Pretty fun and rewarding to be combining some old audio hardware I had, yard-sale-acquired records, and my penchant for #opensource via my repairable #framework laptop running #fedora and #audacity . I think I'm almost all configured for a fun weekend of ripping!
Elly Schlein l’ha voluta vicepresidente del Pd pugliese: “Dobbiamo continuare lo straordinario lavoro iniziato 20 anni fa che ha portato la Puglia ad essere og…
It's NOT hyperbole. If you try to make sense of what they're doing via a sane "healthcare should help all people" lens, it makes no sense.
But via the eugenics fascist lens - "healthcare only for the bourgeoisie, while only the Aryans survive to toil as a permanent underclass" - it makes perfect sense.
What RFK Jr's doing is part of this broader eugenics plan for a multi-phase mass-scale culling of the population.
So, something I got a kick out of... Seeing TYPEWRITTEN bits of my stories. Before #Computers! (And thank you #WednesdayAddams for bringing back the #typewriter!)
Republican Representative Thomas Massie: “Let me give you the name of one of the billionaires, John Paulson. He is a major donor to the Republican Party, a major donor to the Speaker of the House, a major donor to the president's campaign and he is in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.”
Republican Representative Thomas Massie said billionaire John Paulson is a significant political donor linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Paulson, founder of Paulson & Co Inc, earned $5 billion in 2010 from event-driven investments.
Welcome to Tdr Now & The Heritage Hunters Podcast with Dawn Piercy and The Heritage Huntress. A somewhat trusty AI bot coded and programmed by Dawn herself to help locate sources, cross-referen…
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •What Barlow said was directed at corporate governance as much as it was at state governments;
"Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron."
eff.org/cyberspace-independenc…
... and particularly tumorous hybrids of the 2; "IP" legislation, DMCA, PRISM, Christchurch Call.
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Electronic Frontier FoundationStrypey
in reply to Strypey • • •The persistent misrepresention of Barlow and other tech rights pioneers as stooges of corporatism (usually mislabeled as "libertarianism") really grind my gears. @pluralistic wrote a great column on this earlier in the year;
pluralistic.net/2025/02/13/dig…
@Rushkoff knows better, and it's sad to see him scoring cheap cool points off someone who's no longer here to contextualise his legacy.
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Pluralistic: Premature Internet Activists (13 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netStrypey
in reply to Strypey • • •I just finished the first episode of Can't Get You Out of My Head, a 2021 documentary series by Adam Curtis. Curtis is an intriguing filmmaker. The best of his work deep dives the political history of the 20th century in surprising and insightful ways; The Century of the Self (2002), The Power of Nightmares (2004), The Trap (2007), Bitter Lake (2015) and Hypernormalization (2017).
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#film #documentary #AdamCurtis #CantGetYouOutOfMyHead
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Unfortunately, I think Can't Get You Out of My Head is going to be the other kind of Adam Curtis film series. Like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, where he tries to collapse hacker culture, the 1960s counterculture, SillyCon Valley and chokepoint capitalism into a monolith, supposedly driven by a unified Ayn Randian philosophy. As if Richard Stallman and Steve Jobs were on the same side of history.
A classic example of what I talked about here;
mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115…
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Strypey
2025-09-05 03:34:04
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •In the first episode he seems to take Discordianism seriously, implies that counterculturists were all Randian conspiracy theorists, explores the hyperindividualist philosophy of Chairman Mao's paramour and connects this to the Cultural Revolution (its logical opposite), and hints that it's all somehow connected to Boolean logic and computers.
I'll keep to watching to see if he can bring all this together into a coherent and historically accurate narrative. But I'm not holding my breath.
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