Notices by Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs: (carcosa@emacs.ch)

@AnarchoNinaWrites The thoughtful part of the bourgeoisie knows, intellectually, that their best hope for survival is the use of the state as an instrument of class reconciliation — i.e., social democracy. But the actual mechanics of capitalism make that solution unsustainable (it will be worn down over time because the class conflict between the owners and workers is an unavoidable part of capitalism). So they are forced to return to the core function of the state as the instrument of class oppression; some more eagerly, some less eagerly. Fascism and police states are simply a return to the norm of class society, with the use of hard power rather than soft to maintain the rule of one class.

@cwebber I opened up the PBS app on my TV box, and it was listed in "featured" at the top of the page, so good on you!

“If Nixon wins again, we’re in real trouble.” He picked up his drink, then saw it was empty and put it down again. “That’s the real issue this time,” he said. “Beating Nixon. It’s hard to even guess how much damage those bastards will do if they get in for another four years.”

I nodded. The argument was familiar. I had even made it myself, here and there, but I was beginning to sense something very depressing about it. How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame but “regrettably necessary” holding actions? And how many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

– Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

@AnarchoNinaWrites @maggiejk Even if I had the spoons and desire I couldn't read the thread; Nitter is dead and Twitter doesn't show threads to people not logged in.

@lain Before, they were afraid he would let the Warner siblings out.

@blogdiva @jackmjenkins

The South is very much at odds and is even the enemy of Appalachia.

One hundred percent. Most people know that West Virginia is a separate state because it seceded from Virginia in order to stay in the Union. But despite growing up in East Tennessee, I didn't learn until very recently that East Tennessee tried to secede from Tennessee in the same way, and was only stopped by Nashville sending troops to occupy Knoxville. Why wasn't I taught this?

@powersoffour @kyonshi And then I wasn't sure whether you meant the Star Trek cartoon or the defunct online service.

@vagina_museum "Could you imagine a seahorse seeing another seahorse and then making it work?" - Peter B. Parker

@thomasfuchs It's the same paper. 20 years ago they were selling the Iraq war to the public.

@th @thomasfuchs The ratio of case size to monitor size on that Sun is perfect, and never again to be matched.

@fraggle @jd @mcc

@nixCraft #ed is the standard.

The reason #Emacs is doing poorly in this poll is that Emacs users know ed is the standard text editor.

@ryanhoulihan There's a name I've not heard in quite some time.

@mathowie each day we fall further from the presence of God.

@agger @naomiaklein @pluralistic

I think a big part of how centrist delusions promote conspiratorial thinking is that hard centrist refuse to admit that there is anything wrong in our society, except for the set of problems specifically caused by their oppenents being in power. So the economy is always good, Obamacare solved the healthcare crisis, the environmental crisis will be solved by green capitalism, etc. To everyone else, both the left and the right, these things are so obviously false that both the phenomena themselves, and the centrists' bizarre statements demand explanation. Leftists generally reach the conclusions that are both correct and unacceptable, while rightists, lacking theory, come up with explanations that are emotionally compelling but absolutely batshit.

@dgold It seems like the liberals have been getting scratched a lot lately.

@feld @enkiv2 As far as you know.

@technomancy I think they are either sheltered or pulling your leg. My teenager and my younger child both know what rickrolling is. I don't think that first came from me, though if it did, I think the younger one would still recognize it as a "meme song".

@Angle Oh, right before the Civil War. That's surely not relevant to the current situation in any way, and no cause for concern.

@yeti I've got a "DEC Terminal Modern" font that was converted to TrueType from bitmaps read from a VT220 ROM and adjusted to mimic the "dot stretching" the terminals used. It does not, however, fake the scanlines like this one does.