Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone), page 2

@jarkman I get what you mean but also I’ve been reading Graeber’s “Debt” and it seems like maybe property rights and buying/selling things are pretty inevitably linked to slavery so I think we’ll need to go further than that

@QuietMisdreavus thanks I read the wikipedia page for Abundance and achieved enlightenment

if we rebranded communism as “prosperity economics” and “seizing the means of production” as “supply-side democracy” I think we could make some serious inroads with working-class liberals. words don’t mean anything so why not weaponize that.

@freya thanks!

@freya because it’s also my gaming PC (used infrequently) and when I first set it up linux gaming support wasn’t at where it is today. Probably will make the leap to linux this year tho

@freya That makes sense. I run my plex server on windows and it will randomly restart for updates and break my server, so I have to remote desktop in to restart all the backgrounds tasks. And inevitably it pops up some screen blocking "let's finish setting up your PC" nonsense that tries to shill some AI feature or microsoft office or whatever.

really astounding just how unusable windows has become over the years

@impactology handmade hero is famous for having done this

@impactology aw, thanks ❤️

@catilac aw, yes definitely!!

@dante yeah with you on this. something about it.

@impactology it’s mostly just a pulpy detective novella that just happens to be set in a utopia but I find that to be kind of charming in and of itself

@impactology feels worth reading The Dispossessed if you haven’t already. Or Fugitive Telemetry in the murderbot series. Both describe anarchist societies that fit at least some of these properties

@davidcelis ty!

@dymaxion oh you work in security. that seems like a domain where you maybe can’t get away with being full of shit

@dymaxion I think knowing this disqualifies you from being the kind of bootlicker that most companies hire as eng managers

@jovialthunder wow that’s wild

I played a bit of Kenshi today for research and like — it presents a world of total depravity with bandits and slavers and little apparent reigning order or authority. and yet it also has a stable accepted currency? irl this sort of world would be a “heroic” society and the bandit kings would compete with each other by hosting generous feasts and exchanging gifts.

just want a simulation-y game that isn’t deeply Hobbesian… excited to build a gift economy into my roguelike if I ever get to that point

Anyway people always ask me "clarity how do you know so much" and this is the answer. It basically amounts to "take the stairs instead of the elevator when you can"