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okay consider this: bluesky releases an opt-out on-by-default !hide moderation label for alt accounts that you can self-apply, and a moderation list of people that opt-out so you can block them

it’s so convoluted it just might work (you can use the hack to whitelist people)

the more reasonable method is follows but ew ! the social graph

i work at the most scuffed “big tech” org

dude the SSO shit is like weird, i kinda hate that we don’t just ship a normal program

i like hoodie strings

confidence is a fickle thing

in other words, i feel pretty solid this morning

arguable what value such a conditional confidence really has but unconditioned confidence seems pretty absurd

every month that passes is another dialectical moment in the conversation “against articulation”

not the essay itself, the signifier has taken on a lot more meaning for me into a variety of discursive contexts

it’s hard to know when to best exercise my capacity for speech. sometimes it seems clearly best to wait until a higher degree of self-knowledge is obtained or for more propitious circumstances, other times it seems better to just stumble through

it’s extra difficult with online relationships, where the available interactive modes are circumscribed

hailey is a fun relationship in this context where there’s a mutual implicit recognition that chatting online doesn’t work so well for us, and we don’t feel pressured to try. but we don’t lack any warmth as a result, and can pick up whenever.

juliet is more complex, where i wouldn’t be content to let it sit there without contact. it’s not a matter of disinterest like it is for others. it’s this kind of gnawing desire to get it right and not having the ability to do so.

waiting on and on and on won’t do, so i guess for now the best option is meager expressions of interest and sentiment that are always slightly off-balance

i tell myself to give it time and that it will feel more natural eventually, i just don’t know how long i can wait, and it’s not clear what im waiting for, or if passivity is appropriate or erosive

i don’t think i’m going to arrive at general answers or define some new strategy, and that lack of codification is of course for the best. i’ll keep stumbling through, same as always

the solution to decentralized governance is sortition and i’m tired of pretending it’s not

i really do feel kind of old

OF COURSE you cite illich

you're all a bunch of pathetic hacks

if you say "meaning-making" i get the ick

reading contemporary academics is just wading through this syrupy sludge of disgusting phrases used for perniciously pathetic ends, with all the bluster and showmanship of something radical

ugly and overly careful and so much language with no value what-so-fucking-ever

i keep waiting for anyone to say anything meaningful rather than this meandering drivel

regurgitation of received truism after received truism, it's all so fucking boring

like i'm sorry but its just so fucking empty, how do you take yourself seriously after waffling about for pages and pages and saying "a synchrony binds the smaller and larger scales of political life". wow !

weird but ok

i had three separate heart attacks reading this

i think that might be one of my least favorite paragraphs. truly an impressively unfortunate use of the english language

obvi the bit that hes trying to get at with republican freedom is well-taken but lol lmao NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS WHAT THEYRE TALKING ABOUT

STOP REINVENTING WORDS FOR ESTABLISHED PHENOMENA THAT DEMONSTRATE YOU HAVENT DONE THE HOMEWORK

it's also just choice feminism of political theory, and giving yourself enough slack to endorse your friends absent a meaningful defense

tfw ur a poetry school drop out

contextualism is cool and all when pursued carefully but this is just lazy and flat obscurantism with no concrete abstractions with which to move. no history, no conceptual analysis, just vibes and buzz words

i'm following the footnotes like a good boy and oh my fucking god bruh im so bored

erm actually im serving derrida and its really cool

i think this is really bad history ret-con

ur just imposing and injecting your conception backwards and its awkward

even if i took for granted what you're saying, just because something has inherent tensions doesn't make it laudable. yay you can do some dialectical twists but it's pathetic if you lead yourself in a dead-end like this

"dead-end to come"

re-discovering instantly re-callable delegates by another name is pretty funny

if it isn't obvious i'm going through the citations i can find from the bsky-related ppl and those they reference positively

it must be so humiliating to have pre-DSA professional activist political consciousness (or yknow, would be if they were self-aware)

honestly though its way worse to be the intelligentsia providing grist for their mill, what's your excuse?

lmfao