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a man wearing a hard hat and an orange vest says so i 'm here next to the shale quarry ..

Alt: tom scott wearing a hard hat and an orange vest says so i'm here next to the shale quarry

usumgalluJun 20, 2025
wait i’ve got an idea
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waow
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wait i’ve got an idea
willow
mfw when the LLM lacks justified true belief
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willow
“the ai doesn’t know facts” idk man do u
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stop putting things on my timeline
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hell yea brother
willowDec 13, 2024
some instances of segregation are fine actually
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read in kkona
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i better reconnect the thread here
willowDec 13, 2024
things like “safe spaces” are discriminatory segregation, and they are all the better for it. using morally thick language is a neat trick to smuggle normative baggage into a term that can be descriptively accurate
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willowJun 19, 2025
this of course isn't a unique complaint, although there's a reason i kinda leave them unacknowledged. they are entirely valid criticisms but for conversions i'm not interested in having (with this audience, in this context)
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tessa's just cautious with revealing herself and prefers slumber parties to the spotlight. i'm sure you'll meet her some day if you stick around
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this of course isn't a unique complaint, although there's a reason i kinda leave them unacknowledged. they are entirely valid criticisms but for conversions i'm not interested in having (with this audience, in this context)

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willow
yes that's awfully convenient for me, and i don't blame anyone for finding it unimpressively grating, but i also don't really have any interest in being a doctrinaire or making myself understood to everyone
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willow
it's also somewhat a matter of what discursive norms are deemed acceptable, and part of my reticence to broadcast my views is that their form often violate folks' expectations
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overall the kind of conversations i find generative are predicated upon a fair amount of trust and suspension and while that's understandably frustrating for everyone else, i'm okay with that for now
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like the people i'm really tight with are familiar with my recurring positions, evaluations, temperaments, dispositions, orienting metaphors, allegories, whatever. and while yea there's plenty of polishing that can be done to make them fit for public consumption, something gets lost in that process
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of formulation, and i don't feel much incentive to mangle myself for purposes of conversing more widely
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i went to wokeville and everyone inexplicably knew you
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never heard of that guy :P
willowJun 19, 2025
the tyranny of the clock, george woodcock
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posts that never hit main
boot stomping a cracked clock on fire, encircled, with two anarchist circle-a symbols artist: Tom Abdulhadi-Turner aka TAT original caption: "burn the clocks" and "abolish productivity" ...performative (not to mention co-opting and commodifying). at best they throw a tantrum in an attempt to appear imposing, but the weakness shines through so apparently willow 5/18/25 11:27 AM still can't speak i want to say that i'm disliking my relation to time right now preferably in ways other than words but the best i can find is some revolting "agit-prop" poster made for sale
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willow
here are those follow-up posts btw
i don't really feel anger politically nowadays, mostly fragility and pain and powerlessness expressions like the above feel trite, pathetic, performative (not to mention co-opting and commodifying). at best they throw a tantrum in an attempt to appear imposing, but the weakness shines through so apparently
willow
where my fellow bedtime abolitionists at
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willowFeb 20, 2025
my actual positions are far less tenable than even your least charitable characterization. you all have pathetically impoverished political imaginations
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and they said left unity was impossible
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thanks a lot futur now this is gonna be stuck in my head for days again

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time, labor, and social domination, moishe postone The "progress" of abstract time as a dominant form of time is closely tied to the "progress" of capitalism as a form of life. It became increasingly prevalent as the commodity form slowly became the dominant structuring form of social life in the course of the following centuries. It was only in the seventeenth century that Huygens's invention of the pendulum clock made the mechanical clock into a reliable measuring instrument, and that the notion of abstract mathematical time was formulated explicitly. Nevertheless, the changes in the early fourteenth century that I have outlined did have important ramifications then. The equality and divisibility of constant time units abstracted from the sensuous reality of light, darkness, and the seasons became a feature of everyday urban life (even if it did not affect all town dwellers equally), as did the related equality it divisibility of value, expressed in the money form, which is abstracted from the sensuous reality of various products. These moments in the growing abstraction and quantification of everyday objects — indeed, of various aspects of everyday life itself — probably played an important role in changing social consciousness. This is suggested, for example, by the new significance accorded time, the increased importance of arithmetic in fourteenth-century Europe, The abstract form of time associated with the new structure of social relations also expressed a new form of domination. The new time proclaimed by the clocktowers—which frequently were erected opposite the church belltowers— was the time associated with a new social order, dominated by the bourgeoisie who not only controlled the cities politically and socially but also had begun to wrest cultural hegemony away from the Church. Unlike the concrete time of the Church, a form of temporality controlled overtly by a social institution, abstract time, like other aspects of domination in capitalist
Just as labor is transformed from an action of individuals to the alienated general principle of the totality under which the individuals are subsumed, time expenditure is formed from a result of activity into a normative measure for activity. Although, as we shall see, the magnitude of socially necessary labor time is a dependent variable of society as a whole, it is an independent variable with regard to individual activity. This process, whereby a concrete, dependent variable of human activity becomes an abstract, independent variable governing this activity, is real and not illusory. It is intrinsic to the process of alienated social constitution effected by labor. I have suggested that this form of temporal alienation involves a transformation of the nature of time itself. Not only is socially necessary labor time constituted as an "objective" temporal norm, which exerts an external compulsion on the producers, but time itself has been constituted as absolute and abstract. The amount of time that determines a single commodity's magnitude of value is a dependent variable. The time itself, however, has become independent of activity — whether individual, social, or natural. It has become an independent variable, measured in constant, continuous, commensurable, and interchangeable conventional units (hours, minutes, seconds), which serves as an absolute measure of motion and of labor qua expenditure. Events and action in general, labor and production in particular, now take place within and are determined by time — a time that has become abstract, absolute, and homogeneous. The temporal domination constituted by the forms of the commodity and capital is not restricted to the process of production but extends into all areas of life.
society, "objective." It would, however, be mistaken to regard this "objectivity" as no more than a veil that disguises the concrete particularistic interests of the bourgeoisie. As with the other categorial social forms investigated in this work, abstract time is a form that emerged historically with the development of the domination of the bourgeoisie and has served the interests of that class; but it has also helped to constitute those interests historically (indeed, the very category of "interests"), and it expresses a form of domination beyond that of the dominating class. The temporal social forms, as I shall show, have a life of their own, and are compelling for all members of capitalist society — even if in a way that benefits the bourgeois class materially. Although constituted socially, time in Capitalism exerts an abstract form of compulsion. As Aaron Gurevich puts it: "The town had become master of its own time... in the sense that time had been wrestled from the control of the Church. But it is also true that it was precisely in the town that man ceased to be master of time, for time, being now free to pass by independently of man and events, established its tyranny, to which men are constrained to submit." The tyranny of time in capitalist society is a central dimension of the Marxian Categorial analysis. In my consideration of the category of socially necessary labor time thus far, I have shown that it does not simply describe the time expended in the production of a particular commodity; rather, it is a category that, by virtue of a process of general social mediation, determines the amount of time that producers must expend if they are to receive the full value of their labor time. In other words, as a result of general social mediation, labor time expenditure is transformed into a temporal norm that not only is abstracted from, but also stands above and determines, individual action.
Giddens writes: "The commodification of time... holds the key to the deepest transformations of day-to-day social life that are brought about by the emergence of capitalism. These relate both to the central phenomenon of the organization of production processes, and to the "workplace", and also the intimate textures of how daily social life is experienced." I shall not, in the present work, address the effects of this temporal domination on the texture of experience in everyday life.
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the tyranny of the clock, george woodcock

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The Tyranny of the Clock

George Woodcock The Tyranny of the Clock March 1944 First published in War Commentary — For Anarchism.

willow
7x7 is far and away the best WCA puzzle
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i would probably like 6x6 a lot more if not for
willowNov 29, 2023
internal pops on even-layered cubes are the bane of my existence
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like seriously
willowNov 23, 2024
an inordinate portion of my life has been dedicated to repairing 6x6es that have popped
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i like bad tracks imbued with significance
willow
i wanna quit
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willow
been feeling “reply to dave” lately
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i love when i wake up and start posting early enough to catch the laurens likes
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reee i deleted for phrasing >.<
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could be worse en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol...
Retail sale of alcohol State law prohibits retail sale of liquor and wine between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and beer between midnight and 6:00 a.m. 61 17] State law allows local municipalities to further restrict retail sales of alcohol, or ban the issuance of retail liquor licenses altogether. 8 Local ordinances often prohibit retail beer sale after 9:00 p.m.
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similar thing
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i should turn my uri-liker utility into a userscript like i did for pinboards
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:)
alice robertsMay 14, 2025
sailor moon blanket on my window idk what time it is ever and i dont rlly care.. haven't showered in 2 weeks i dont wanna go outside my room i feel so fucking scared i wanna watch 10,000 anime be4 i die i rlly hope i can!!!!!!
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same
willowJan 25, 2025
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agree
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everything, including his ideas of good and bad, right and wrong, lose their shape and their hold on him, and he feels at sea, dissatisfied but unsure why. It isn’t even clear, at the end, whether he fails to understand his life, or whether he disapproves of what it has been, or whether he simply feels that something important has been left out. It is not at all clear why exactly it has all been so unsatisfactory. Perhaps what is really unsatisfactory is not his previous life, but the fact that he now is dying. Ivan Is Unwell, Raymond Geuss, Who Needs A Worldview?, pg. 138 pre-filled alt-text: Maybe he was wrong at the end and the great obsession with getting ahead in the world, good food and drink and sex, which motivated him in his twenties, was really the right way to life his life. Maybe this correct insight was just covered over by the length of years, or he could no longer grasp its truth when he came to die. Perhaps he simply got too old to enjoy the pleasures of a man of twenty. Or perhaps his view of life at age twenty isn’t “right,” but it is no more wrong than the views he develops on his deathbed. Or perhaps it is just the case that what suits one in one’s healthy twenties will not necessarily suit one equally well in one’s sixties if they are spent in ill health or in the senility of one’s seventies. Last words and last thoughts are not invariably those most replete with human wisdom. If this seems to be the case, it is because unmemorable ones are nor remembered.
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To return to Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy writes that at the end of his life Ivan Ilyich was able to tell himself the story of his life. He told it as a story of failure, although he can never really articulate the reason it was a failure. The point of Ivan Ilyich’s story, though, it has always seemed to me, is not so much that at the end for the first time he can tell the story of his life as a whole; the whole story suggests that this was something he could always do, had he wanted to; it is just that his narrative, like his life, would have been conventional, banal, and boring. His life was trop comme il faut to be at all interesting. Neither is the main point that he now sees his life differently and clearly, although that is what he (and perhaps Tolstoy, too) might think. Rather, the shocking thing at the end is that Ivan understands that the narrative does not matter. In the end, all this does not matter. This does not mean that at age twenty “all this” did not matter to Ivan Ivan Is Unwell 141 Ilyich. Since, to repeat, Ivan does not exist and never existed except as a literary creation of Tolstoy, the only reasonable meaning one can give to this question is whether Tolstoy represents “all this” as mattering to him. He says it did, so it did (unless I, as reader, have some overwhelmingly strong reason I can give for disagreeing with Tolstoy on this point). Nor that “all this” did not matter to him at age forty; it probably did, although the actual content of “all this” had probably changed for him between the ages of twenty and forty. That is all there is: sometimes things mean something; then they don’t; sometimes observers can hazard a guess about “causal” connections; sometimes they cannot. Is it obvious that a person’s judgment must be sharpest and most correct at the moment of death? Even if he is wasting away and losing his faculties?
willowMar 16, 2025
and why give present me interpretative authority? maybe old me knew something i’ve since forgotten
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discord status willow 7/18/22, 12:45 PM Let's get lost.
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i like having a discord diary because i can correlate the date and track down connections
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Rather than orienting ourselves in any particular direction, I have tried to write in such a way that the book doesn’t just conceptualize bewilderment, it can also produce it in the reader. Let’s get lost. Nathan Snaza, Animate Literacies, pg 10
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such are the benefits of being an obscurantist archivist, i get to make my own puzzles and solve them later
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are there wizard gleebos
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