god that was fucking ELECTRIC

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unironically tabbed out to start playing this after reading "they’re identification methods, but not decentralized identification methods" and it only got better from there

let ya nuts hang queen

swapping between dotesmite and hegel is so peak as an effort-relief cycle

using buzzwords like this is very goofy nooby undergradcore but its useful to invoke an immediate sense of what im reading yknow

preface §13

monochromatic formalism: this expansion has not come about through one and the same principle spontaneously assuming different shapes but rather through shapeless repetition of one and the same formula, only externally applied to diverse materials, thereby obtaining merely a boring show of diversity

being-in-and-for-itself must be *for itself* too, not just __for us__

gotta love making the familiar strange

§32 is great for "the tremendous power of the negative". analysis breaks up the familiar into thoughts which are themselves familiar but what is separated is the essential negative moment.

holding onto dead intert objects requires strength (eg. positivism). beauty lacks strength and hates understanding (eg. esotericism). spirit doesnt shrink from death but devastates itself and maintains itself through this process of dismembering analysis

i think really this is what is at stake with my recent turning away from this "let's get lost" mindset. that yes for a long time i was too determinate, too fixed, i needed to think myself out of my time and place. but what i failed to recognize (and probably couldn't have recognized until going

through it painfully) was that escape from determinateness and understanding was just that negative moment but wasn't the last word. yes i was overwhelmed with assertions and bad dismemberments and impositions of legibility for others. but just rejecting those doesn't move you anywhere by itself,

it's just pure resistance. historically necessary resistance that i now feel ready to supersede, which is why this is an apt time to return to hegel

gonna take a break again. preface, §33

productive labor is simply determined by what generates surplus value

this accounts for how self-employed workers are still productive laborers (surplus value need not imply that the surplus is appropriated by another) and also accounts for the negative cases where some type of human expenditure does not count as productive labor (arguably thereby not labor as such)

im full of love and sparkles and joy

! but not exuberance

after great successes u gotta run it down mid to keep urself humble

really it just keeps the pressure off having to be great all the time yknow

i'm in such a kaseycoded mood lately

except i love people instead of hating them

the jian ying to her yang

made a piglin bartering loot table datapack where they just drop gold ingots and keep going forever

these pure souls never feel the bite of the hedonic treadmill

once a maggot always a maggot

here we go again motherfucker!

fuck me, i'm all out of enemies

the whole i thing i think is sick!

its slipknot day baybeee

i love my friends !

elf harem is my favorite sitcom

sugar is literally so dangerous for me

life is fun :)

i have to pee tho

nostr is kinda neat for being so restricted/straightforward but i like atproto better

pds my beloved

it’s funny to imagine “what if all relays went nonarchival” and what that would mean for each proto

yay thanks mary threadgate

just wise to get ahead of it yknow

boat the goat

this got way off track but one last thing i wanna mention is the unbelievably massive gulf between bsky and literally any other app. where like the reference appv and every other existing app arent operating at anything resembling the complexity,

and it feels like there’s a lot of underestimation of how much inside baseball benefits there are and it’s frustrating how opaque things are. zeppy is cool! but also like lowkey in ruins atm and i don’t think that’s an individual failing.

idk despite all the hemming and hawing in some corners here about power and political-adjacent theorizing, no one really has any clue what they’re talking about. which is fair on multiple grounds, and to build anything at all you kinda just have to take the leap, but at minimum

i do wish there were a more developed vision of what the path to “future enemy” looked like to these people because it’s kind of a cop out to be like “waow ya we’re gonna be so evil one day” and take no preventative measures bc you don’t understand the process.

which is again going to appear unfair bc ofc they’ve thought about it, but we needed more than dorm room speculation

shrug this is boring, gl proto

oh and last thing re:conflation of interests/success, it’s funny how that less categorical form of centralization on bsky the app leads to weird situations where the success of the app leads to direct conflict of the success of the proto. pds/client userbase and impl details have outsize influence