@RichDecibels @clenchner Charles made the only critique of identity politics / left spaces that ever landed with me
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Hailey Cooperrider
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Hailey Cooperrider
@imhaileycoop
Exploring the intersection of games & ways of working. Aspiring game designer & mutant futurist. Collaboration pro. Amble Studio crew member.
Melbourne, Victoria Katılım Kasım 2007
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@RichDecibels Recommend @clenchner - impressive resume of direct action and political organizing. Insights and discourse served with equal parts earnestness and sarcasm
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who is someone you follow that you think other people should follow?
pls reply with a short ad telling us why they are awesome
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@RichDecibels It’s not just here in this thread. I’m responding to a lot of posting I’m seeing along these lines.
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@RichDecibels Love seeing people who are comfortably ensconced in the imperial core, or rich vassal states like Australia and NZ, lounging atop centuries of pillage, screaming at “Americans” to “do something”. This is a global phenomenon. Regime change in the US won’t stop what’s unfolding.
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it’s so weird that Trump has essentially broken the western alliance and none of my american twitter friends seem to give a single fuck
Mike Levin@MikeLevin
This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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@gengelstein I guilty watch this. I don't like the guy. But he fails forward quickly. Season 2 seems like a good iteration so far, and distillation / amplification of what he already proved on YouTube. Feels like we're in the Running Man timeline, and this is the strain that evolves from.
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@RichDecibels Just got back from Winterfest. Knew the drop was coming and planned accordingly. Lots of good conversations about low resource living and community living. Definitely feel myself reprioritising in this direction.
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you cope with loneliness by being intensely dissociated
then you come to a camp, drop your guard, get a taste of how good it feels to have sufficient social contact
then you go home with the dissociation switched off and the comedown is bruuutal as you recognise what you lacked
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@DaveIrving99 @onward2waffles @spencerbeswick An essay from the perspective Odo sounds really interesting. Thanks all.
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@onward2waffles @imhaileycoop @spencerbeswick I'd say edited rather than repudiated, but her ongoing thinking about the implications of "The Left Hand of Darkness" is interesting.
Have read the Odo essay – it's in a collection of her Hainish cycle stories I have.
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Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2
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@DaveIrving99 @spencerbeswick Ok👍🏻 I haven’t done that. Any recommended starting points?
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@imhaileycoop @spencerbeswick Not a bold claim at all. Read some of her essays.
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@iconoclassism @BruceRayCarr1 @spencerbeswick I think the reason I originally said communist was because of DivLab, which centrally assigns work. But I reckon a big part of the project of the book was to also show how philosophy (Odo) and culture can maintain the system without heavy central authority.
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@DaveIrving99 @spencerbeswick Bold claim! I’ve read my fair share. I don’t agree. I’d say she’s definitely more on the side of Anarres for sure, but I think there’s also critique of that system to be found in the novel.
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@imhaileycoop @spencerbeswick It almost certainly is a direct expression of her beliefs.
You'd know that if you had even a passing familiarity with her work.
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@spencerbeswick I agree with you folks re more anarchist. I found her exploration of Odonianism super compelling, including the necessary philosophical components, and the use of shame, to make it work. But I don’t think that it was her intention to argue that “this is an ideal system”.
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@spencerbeswick This quote is from “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” in which Le Guin explores two parallel economic systems on two nearby planets. One is much like our current system, and one is closer to communism. It’s not necessarily a direct expression of the author’s beliefs.
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@RichDecibels @imhaileycoop @limitoftruth Note: linguistic complexity does not mean "uses fancy vocabulary" or "sounds like a professor" - those measure perspectively relationship complexity via words and short phrases.
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"NPC" is certainly unhelpful but it does seem that some people mostly generate novel thoughts and other people mostly restate them
attentionmech@attentionmech
there are no npcs. everyone lives as interesting life as yours.
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@imhaileycoop @KubaFYI novel descriptions of recognisable phenomena
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@RichDecibels @limitoftruth Uncorrelated or only loosely correlated.
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@imhaileycoop @limitoftruth so is the suggestion that everyone has about the same level of complexity and richness in their inner experiences? or the complexity of external expressions is uncorrelated to inner experience?
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@RichDecibels @limitoftruth I’m with Iorena on this one. All you did was state the opposite of their point but you did it succinctly. It gains the appearance of an aphorism and gets likes. I think it proves their point.
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@limitoftruth it seems reasonable to assume a correlation between outer expression and inner experience
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@RichDecibels @KubaFYI I don’t think many of your thoughts are particularly novel but I still value them. You are talented at crystallising ideas and making your own experience a teachable example.
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The Melbourne International Comedy Festival kicked his legacy to the curb in 2019 bbc.com/news/world-aus…
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Maybe @samriegel could reclaim the Dame Edna character but hoping to see some acknowledgment of what a POS Humphries was. #CriticalRole
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@RichDecibels Haha yup. Every time I resolve another issue the scope of my ambition shrinks. Thankfully I have more than enough issues to last me until retirement. It’s all timed out beautifully.
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warning for entrepreneurs. if you heal your daddy issues you may lose interest in your business
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