Notices by Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es), page 2

@iraantlers fairphone with one of the degoogled OS is probably my preferred option. although to be fair I only got a smartphone in 2021 to play pokémon go: I'm always weighing a possible future in which I don't have one.

@dymaxion

nice. yeah, that combo is one of the options on my list. the fairphone scores well for repairability though, which as far as I know pixel isn't that great for?

@iraantlers

being tied into US digital infrastructure increasingly feels like a liability.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/

the images of mangione are astonishing, like some sort of staged, mythopoietic photoshoot.

caravaggio, the taking of christ (c. 1602).

there's a quote that lives rent free in my head these days—nazi Reichsminister Martin Bormann, on suppressing education in the conquered eastern territories: "Jeder Gebildete ist ein künftiger Feind."

"every educated person is a future enemy."

just, astonishing.

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences

job klaxon:

we have five fully salaried PhD researcher positions available at my institute, at the University of Oslo.

projects are individual, topic and discipline(s) open but they must connect to research we're already doing at the institute (and we do quite a lot of cool stuff).

apply with a short proposal (3-5 pages), deadline Feb 24, 2025.

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271145/five-doctoral-research-fellowships

earlier this year I went for an MRI and two CT scans at a clinic in central Oslo. a doctor ordered them, just to be on the safe side.

I walked in and for all three, in total, I paid approximately 25 USD. as would anyone else who walked in with a referral.

no qualifications, no negotiation over "coverage," nothing.

I think for me as for many others, the full horror of what life must be like living under the US "health insurance" system is something inaccessible, beyond imagination.

@mcc

I've often wondered about this and that makes a world of sense, yes. thank you.

for real though, 1933 vibes. they're so much better prepared this time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/19/trump-transition-fbi-state-gsa/

thinking about gloria wekker, for no particular reason.*

* not true, it's because of all the white americans I see desperate to assert they are "one of the good ones."

https://www.dukeupress.edu/white-innocence

the white hunger for personal absolution in the face of structural violence, it really is something.

gotta say, life these days feels a lot better off social media, without the continuous barrage.

all these things I know, but that I am (almost without exception) powerless to affect.

one must imagine cassandra resigned, feeding birds and making sourdough pancakes while troy falls.

"green transition". you bike to work while the destroyer class evaporates the oceans to run chatbots.

what the fuck kind of sick joke bullshit future timeline even is this. fuck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/20/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-constellation/

like, this place has a hard-coded post status for bullying people in ways that others can't see. it's fucked up.