Notices by Joshua A.C. Newman (joshuaacnewman@xeno.glyphpress.com)

I was handed this clearly as a conduit to send it to @epidiah .

Next nationwide demonstration, April 19!
#handsoff

Do a bad job for the Fascists.

@futurebird @jandi @wmd
It’s weird becuase it’s designed primarily for sound, but #plugdata is what I’m working on developing a pedagogy around. https://plugdata.org

It's been a while since I was actively excited about a new computer.

I'm actively excited about the @mntmn Reform Next.

It's Open, repairable, modular, and looks cool af in its raw aluminum (I GUESS you can also get it in a brilliant aubergine or black).

It runs off replaceable, standard LiFePO4 cells & you can mod it with other battery chemistries without changing the charging board.

The modularity is really approaching LEGO/Eurorack/ISO bike standarrd levels.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next/updates/technical-deep-dive

@ekis You also might want to mess with #plugdata !

https://plugdata.org

@mekkaokereke @ohmu
I did not know these things could look beautiful.

@futurebird @nikink @bri_seven
I get that the Torment nexus AS WRITTEN is bad, but it’s inspired me to build something I’m calling Ormentay Exusnay and my version is good because I am a disruptor and have reached Series A venture capital funding so I am very smart.

It's, like, ”so weird" that Christians claim to be so pro-Jew, and yet vote the exact opposite way as Jews.

It’s almost as though they think we're a function in their marketing program, not people.

#fediblock

@cstross @Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @nyrath
Stewart Brand’s big fear was Communism making everyone conformist. So he talked himself into being a Newt Gingrich supporter because, by the 80s, he was rich and felt like he deserved it. After all, everyone told him what a wise visionary he was.

@Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @cstross @nyrath
Of the first variety, yeah.

They’re “Libertarians” because they inherited the empty land from the guys who shot all the people living there and figure that means they deserve it.

@Robert_Brandt @mattmcirvin @cstross @nyrath
Again, look at the giant shit Stewart Brand took in the collectivist pool.

@cstross @nyrath
The ridiculous thing is that all it takes to undo that learning is one generation of austerity that damages education and then we have to start pulling lords off horses again.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
Yeah, and in ... Arizona, I believe, where they literally ran out of water because they'd been buying it from a municipality that then needed it and stopped selling it to them, and they couldn't make themselves admit that they were so wrong that they were all about to die in the desert.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
Unions and squats seem like a pretty fuckin good model of governance.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
Such things work, I think, when there’s enough resources (labor, bandwidth, wood…) to satisfy all needs, which is most of the time.

The dangers are two, I think:
1: Psychopaths run away with power because the redistribution system is linear, not exponential like power gain is.
2: In order to keep anyone from running away with power, a community isolates extraordinary individuals from the resources they need to do the unexpected, lest they run away with the power.

@Robert_Brandt @cstross @nyrath
There’s also a valid point to be had that no everyone can be productive. People who are just weird, who are disabled, who are old or young, also need to be a part of the society.

@cstross @nyrath
Somewhere about 20 years ago, my Left/Libertarian self recognized that Libertarians, when they grow up, become Fascists — or, when they have thoughts, Socialists.

Because if you want to prove that you deserve everything and the cheaters stole it from you, you’re a Fascist.

And if you want to make sure that everyone has the institutional-scale equality that Libertarianism espouses, it means redistributing all power proportionately toward those with the fewest resources.

@nyrath @cstross
I’ve found that, in practice, Libertarians seem to really like the idea of authoritarianism as long as they’re on the right end of the stick.

@blogdiva @cstross @clintruin @sidereal @wonka
Definitely seems like it.

One of their objectives is the destruction of Israel and the Jews, btw.