ritchie

@ritchie

Recovering academic. I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)

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ritchie@ritchie· 18d

Taps the sign

The basic problem is that so much discussion of the so-called 'energy transition' treats the problem as a technical challenge of substituting one set of energy inputs with another. This ignores the deeper social and economic logics of capitalism, in which the drive to accumulate is tied to a persistent expansion of energy throughput. More energy is drawn into production, circulation and consumption, even when the amount of energy used per unit of output declines. Efficiency gains do not automatically reduce total energy use. Instead, they support even greater levels of absolute production and consumption.
This is the techno-fetishism at the heart of the "green transition" narrative. By focusing on the changing relative shares of energy supply, it evades the central question of absolute production. It is perfectly plausible for fossil fuels to fall as a share of the energy mix while the absolute quantity of coal, oil and gas consumed continues to rise. This is exactly what is
happening. But the climate does not care whether fossil fuels occupy a slightly smaller percentage of a larger energy system, while the total volume of carbon being extracted and released is increasing. A world in which renewables rise rapidly while fossil fuel use also grows is not a world in transition.

ritchie@ritchie· 25d

wow it's @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social

ritchie@ritchie· 28d

His mind… is so beautiful

ritchie@ritchie· 29d

I got an audible ad for this but I feel like it would be really really really hard to get through this as an audiobook

ritchie@ritchie· 29d

“I challenged one student about why he always wore headphones in class. He replied that it didn’t matter, because he wasn’t actually playing any music. In another lesson, he was playing music at very low volume through the headphones, without wearing them. When I asked him to switch it off, he replied that even he couldn’t hear it. Why wear the headphones without playing music or play music without wearing the headphones? Because the presence of the phones on the ears or the knowledge that the music is playing (even if he couldn’t hear it) was a reassurance that the matrix was still there, within reach.

Besides, in a classic example of interpassivity, if the music was still playing, even if he couldn’t hear it, then the player could still enjoy it on his behalf. The use of headphones is significant here – pop is experienced not as something which could have impacts upon public space, but as a retreat into private ‘OedIpod’ consumer bliss, a walling up against the social.

The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus. Students’ incapacity to connect current lack of focus with future failure, their inability to synthesize time into any coherent narrative, is symptomatic of more than mere demotivation.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 10

And the one their brother made of them

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 10

My partner made a mood board of me in case you were wondering how I look and act IRL

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 9

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 3

And from the appendix: Men do not increase their partnership rates, but if they’re in relationships they leave their partners instead!

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 3

Phoebe Bridgers does not appear to suffer any physical injury when she hits an obstacle in the Phoebe Bridgers subway surfer clone. Instead, the loss of hearts represents the moral injury she suffers when her boyfriend runs over a goblin with his motorcycle.

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 2

was having fun until

ritchie@ritchie· Jul 1

Did Skrag The Slaughterer write this headline

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 30

I find this offensive and what’s worse is that I’m right over the decision boundary from the cluster that I actually do identify strongly with - proving again that machine learning is bad

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 30

This is embarrassing

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 29

trump should have tried plopping this shit in the reflecting pool.

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 29

From midwestern anons to Berlin galleries and thence to the rest of Europe - US cultural dominance is truly unmatched, regardless of everything that’s happened

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 18

Tabletop Tavern is good. So impressive a single dev can create such a nice take on the Total War formula! It's very charming and fun and I can't wait for more. I think the Slay The Spire style campaign works better for me - fun but less chance of gaming all night 🤣 @tabletoptavern.bsky.social

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 12

Thinking about this again today after TSR settings being brought up because it’s specifically about a memory I have of going to Red Lobster with my family and reading this book there (which still represents, 20 years later the complete extent of my interaction with Spelljammer, Darksun, etc.)

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 11

Are the vagueposting memes an import from 4chan? Or has X degenerated into its new cesspool state so much that it’s actually producing good new organic memes now.

ritchie@ritchie· Jun 3

literally why did no one tell me that LaKeith Stanfield played L in the Netflix live action Death Note, that's actually mental

ritchie@ritchie· May 31

I do think “conservatives can never think or write or make interesting art” is a trap / lazy pattern of thought that a lot of people fall into. The danger is that once you push past that you very quickly risk falling victim to the other trap, canonically described in pic related