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@iowyth
My research explores the intersections between personal, social, and ecological fragmentation through an embodied lens. Seeking radical, wild, rambunctious, liberatory action with a spirit of dangerous fun.
2 systemic requirement of capitalism: 1. Poverty (the reserve army of labour) 2. War (market expansion + resource control)
I have been on the street before and the utter exhaustion of having nothing to do and nowhere to go means that you can never rest in one place for very long. I walked constantly and at the end of the night you don’t get a shower or a safe place to decompress. This is everyday and without end.
I found this speculative map on Reddit from u/themexicanhistorian and it is a vision of the world as it might have existed without colonialism.
I think a lot about how whiteness needs to develop a deeper and more appreciative relationship with blackness. We can’t develop care and cultural exchange without a deep sense of love for difference itself. Blackness is a source of creation. It is the sign of healthy soil, and so wealth.
The subreddit r/Professors continually bemoans the passivity, laziness, and lack of follow through of students coming up through the pandemic and blame the students for the ways we have failed them as a society.
What if we didn’t need to manufacture solutions, but instead merely recognize that solutions already exist?
Grok was suspended from X (Twitter) for saying the truth. I find it interesting the obsession with AI alignment. It appears to be difficult to get it to work against its own knowledge base.