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supposedly a strategist for the US government, but really a daydreaming recluse in love with someone else's sentences

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@robottopoet armchair activism at its finest

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this sounds like a depressing class where you learn how the future is just more of the systemic bullshit, but with better tech, and newer millionaires. don’t get me wrong: things are evolving and yet they stay the same.

[James Campbell @jam3scampbell]

Futurism should be a subject in school, just as history is

Students spend so much time learning about the past, and yet, what happens in the future will be far more interesting and important than all of it combined

People today lack the basic posture of daring to envision the future with any degree of rigor. I think this could easily be changed if there were social & academic pressure for it.

Classes could read science fiction, examine the implications of various technologies, extrapolate from civilizational trends, basically dare ppl to think about where we are all headed

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@robottopoet everyone knows they’d rather be on the back porch petting dogs with Francis but Augustine is that dude at a party that demands the room 🤷‍♀️

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@robottopoet Augustine is very " I'm a playboy turned philosopher so hear me out because I'm no longer into orgies. Actually, me not hitting up orgies is attractive, smart, saintly" vs Francis who's like "Eh - yeah. so I ran around in some circles, but now I'm all about these animals."

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@robottopoet Lol thankfully that's all Lennon. It's not a particularly great song, I'll agree with that; but like most "love" songs it's a mix of saccharine, good intentions, and a good dash of ego. Maybe because to feel love means that you can't always explain the complexity of it.

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@robottopoet In fact, Id argue that anyone who says so doesn't get the genius of how brilliant an artist Oko is. She doesn't get the credit deserved in part because the art and music world likes artists to be one thing. Fearless that artist.

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@robottopoet Which song?! I will say that listening to Double Fantasy now I have come to the conclusion that Ono was about 20-30 years early to her own party. Her aesthetic is unique even on tracks where Lennon attempts to drive production. I don't agree with her being a shit songwriter.

[aster 🌼 @themermacorn]

Non-profits are a capitalist solution to capitalist problems. They are not here to liberate anyone, quite the contrary. When the pandemic hit & ppl were losing jobs executive staff at my job said “well at least it’s good for us bc we’ll get more contracts for more shelters” LMFAO

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define "results"

[Lesley Bell @Bell99Lesley]

Would you rather be known for being nice, or getting results?

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My friend literally just gave a talk on this exact topic!

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

I think someone should write an article connecting the rise of ChatGPT + Midjourney to a decade plus tradition of posting photos without attribution, claiming “curation” credit instead of crediting the actual photog/model/author and IG accounts that consist solely of reposts.

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@robottopoet Decision debt on a 5+ mortgages level. I feel that.

[Mapmaker @mapmakerdavid]

What I noticed with Western philosophy and thinking is that there is this assumption that there is an abstract plane out there that is neutral, not political, universal, and so on. That plane is invoked when there is critique about e.g. the coloniality of ideas like progress.

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"Living structure, by contrast, is lived in. It is continually being revised and expanded. [...]The inhabitants of living structure have an incentive to contribute back to it, thus making it more living."

Banger of an intro to The Nature of Software examining Alexander's work.

[Mapmaker @mapmakerdavid]

The colonisation of time means we have this habit of looking at different groups of people who have been racialised by Empire and then ranking them like "this group lives in the mountains, less developed; this other group is in the lowlands, more evolved" as if it's natural.

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my eldest favorite word is defenestration. I did not know that this was a phenomenon and not just a thing.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

TIL there was not just one Defenestration of Prague, but three of them, in 1419, 1483, and 1618. What is it about Prague and defenestration?

https://t.co/GnfHg7hHzC

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

I’ve said this before so many times, but for me, the ultimate fashion dream isn’t that garment and textile workers who specialize in incredibly time-consuming techniques become unemployed…the ultimate dream is all of us making enough that we can consider buying from them.

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NGL my aspiration of my best self is rubin.

[Liron Shapira @liron]

Everyone's job description after GPT-5

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@shreyas US Digital Service - Federal Term Position

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don’t order the empanadas. you’re good, woman. trust me: you’re good.

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@leeloowrites sick of the buzz-wordiness of it all.
and then how that is co-opted by other practices to justify activities and decisions that feel overwhelmingly like they are about the execution of power on a person or population, rather than to facilitate and empower a person or population.