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yea totally tho, i think you’re right to call those out. i’ll note that the methodological negativism is intentional but again i understand that it can be nauseating, especially when paired with my tone. i mention in the vid that i have my misgivings out the bzzzt reply in particular because that
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was a very emotive and unhelpful response. there’s also some degree of in-group posting, like self-indulgently posting for myself and those who are already familiar with me, and i think i resort to that more and more as my breadth grows since the outside attention can feel invasive
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no i don’t mind at all :) i was happy to receive the comment
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i use a razer viper ultimate for my email job
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usumgallu
i look nothing like diza and im keeping it for now
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how’s this
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usumgallu
been thinking about the velocity of relationships lately, as an extension of “velocity of money”. not in the sense of fungibility, and intrarelationship not interrelationship. the frequency of interaction and experience, and what such a measure could indicate in what circumstances
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usumgallu
this gets a lot more interesting if you think about it from a development econ pov, like what stages an relationship can go through and characterizing it relative to its neighbors
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usumgallu
also thinking about it in terms of intentions, like what goals a country has and what trajectory they’re on, what limitations are imposed from without, what burdens do decisionmakers have from the historical position they’re thrown into
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usumgallu
i’m obviously not taking this terribly seriously and there are myriad landmines with this metaphor,
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usumgallu
it’s emblematic of the significance of what metaphors are readily available and why culture and having a “scene” is so important. even within that, there are limits to the boundaries of imagination imposed by history (though it may be beneficial to often forget this and ride the delusion)
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willowJan 25, 2025
also related: non-scene woes
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willowJan 24, 2024
Raymond Geuss, Who Needs A World View?
We can say without fear of contradiction that some delusion/obsessive illusion has always gone ahead and illuminated the path to any large form of structuring of human communal life
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willowMay 2, 2025
Nietzsche's Philosophical Ethnology, Raymond Geuss My third and final point is that, as Nietzsche argues, self-knowledge itself may not be as important in all contexts as philosophers have made it out to be. Much more important is creative activity, the invention and production of something new, and this does not necessarily always require a high degree of self-knowledge; in fact it is often associated with a blindness to the self, to delusion about the world and to various forms of divine madness.
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willowJul 18, 2024
I think romanticizing is not always that bad. It helps to do it sometimes when you're dealing with a repressed memory. I think it is called an advantaged delusion? Sometimes, that's the only way I can remember parts of me l don't want to remember, so that I can lay her to rest and heal.
willow
they’re doing macroecon at the polycule bro
usumgalluJun 20, 2025
been thinking about the velocity of relationships lately, as an extension of “velocity of money”. not in the sense of fungibility, and intrarelationship not interrelationship. the frequency of interaction and experience, and what such a measure could indicate in what circumstances
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willow
one of the most distasteful things from “polysecure” was the occasional valorization of “experience”, and i have some knots to untangle to explicate precisely why
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also i think i’m gonna stop being so play-pilled about things, i’ve overshot
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i remember the uproar when you hid mtp
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usumgalluJun 20, 2025
wait i’ve got an idea
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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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willow
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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willow
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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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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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.

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