It truly is! I’m seeing some politicians move away from X, gamers away from Windows, now the TikTok exodus. A ray of hope in these troubled times.

Finished: The Hour of the Predator by Giuliano da Empoli. Very underwhelming after having made great promises. The book draws parallels between modern “leaders” and Cesare Borgia, but due to the tight structure (1 leader per chapter) and the many irrelevant anecdotes of the author’s time among “important” people, the parallels never get examined closely or even in an interesting manner.

Currently reading: thanks to this Lemmy post I discovered the Garth Marenghi books. I’m now 20 pages into the first one, TerrorTome, and I like it a lot. The typical Garth voice, serious and funny at the same time, setting up another silly story. I can’t wait to pick it back up.

In the past gods absolved kings. Nowadays money absolves capitalists. Very convenient indeed.

hey now, not so cynical. They launch a probe, money transfers hands, THEN nothing will be done.

They have 20~25% in Belgium so far. Let’s hope Trump sufficiently shows these voters that fascism isn’t all that great.

“I think what the [Venezuelan] government is really negotiating is how to save its own skin,” said López Maya.

Seems spot on. Politicians never change.

Loved the bands on there!

They just follow their masters, not their voters.

I always felt Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace deserves more recognition.

A book I’m currently reading seems to agree:

Obama began his re-election year with the certainty that he knew the name of all 69,456,897 Americans whose votes had carried him to the White House. Of course, these votes had been cast secretly, but Narwhal’s data was so detailed that the analysts were able to identify the Obama supporters in every district. Each elector was given a probability rating between zero and a hundred. Zero meant they would vote for Romney. A hundred meant they were a guaranteed Obama supporter. The trick was to ignore those voters and focus all the campaign’s resources on voters in swing states with scores between forty-five and fifty-five.

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True, but history has some examples of how to possibly deal with this e.g. Makhno’s defence of the free territory, or the Zapatistas making use of the isolation of the jungle.

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Not very well. At least not for large communities, or ones that want to live modern lives in the developed world.

Yes it’s quite possible to have small communities where everyone knows each other, then you can enforce rules through consensus and social pressure.

Wouldn’t viewing a large community as a federation of small ones solve the problem? Federations pop up when needed. When they don’t reach consensus, they break up into smaller parts, some of which give the idea a try?

Seems very natural to me, similar to how open source repositories interconnect. People collaborating, differing of opinion, forking or restarting.

wowww that flow!!

This is my favourite Romanian hip-hop song.

EDIT: come to think of it, I’m also much into Kalash Criminel, the only french hip-hop I can play endlessly next to Shuriken’s Samurai, Bouga’s Belsunce Breakdown and DJ Cutkiller’s Nique La Police.

The “we’re all animals in a pit” version? :)

The first seed of the realization of the opposite of that came with Kropotkin, but Graeber backing that up scientifically with this was very exciting at the time. Still is, but I sure wish I could read this book for the first time again.

I only had to reinstall my desktop once due to hard drive failure. My laptop’s main use is testing out other distros, so I frequently put nixOS back on there when I need the laptop for a weekend away.

I’d imagine it also being great for servers, but due to proxmox templates and snapshots, I’ve never needed to reinstall there.

Started The Hour Of The Predator by Da Empoli. He has so far described MBS’ rise to power in the kindom of Saud, and drawing parallels to Cesare Borgia. A bit too much sideroads into the author’s official work with politicians, mainly to establish his authority on the subject, but that seems to dissipate after a while.

This is such a great book, I don’t remember a single page being boring or uninteresting. RIP David!

Time consuming at first, but reinstalling a system is a breeze after that. I reckon nixOS has saved me so much more time than all the config tweaks put together.