A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Er…
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
Conceptual models of space colonization - Charlie's Diary
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Being in a crowd doesn’t make you part of a mindless mob | Psyche Ideas
It’s often assumed people lose their minds in a crowd. Research on riots, festivals and sports tells a more uplifting story
It’s time for movements to rethink social media
Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and that's the part we keep skipping.
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
Huey Newton introduces Revolutionary Intercommunalism, Boston College, November 18 1970
In 1970 Huey Newton gave a speech at Boston college outlining a new ideological direction for the Black Panther Party, Revolutionary Intercommunalism. Newton described his rejection of the idea of black people being an internal colony in the US, that class struggle rather than national liberation was the only route to a communist society (describing the failure of liberation movements in Africa as 'neo-colonialism'), concerns around automation and the working class, and the impossibility of a socialist state in the US (against the position of the Progressive Labor Party), although he still described Vietnam and China as partially liberated.
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THRONG — a crowd made of bluesky
Walk around in first person while the Bluesky firehose spawns people who follow you, read their post out loud, and wander off.
Tend the System. Know the System.
They didn't wander. That's the first thing to understand. The popular image of the hunter-gatherer is someone moving through an indifferent landscape, taking what they find. It's not wrong about the movement. It's wrong about the indifference — theirs and the land's. What the archaeological and ecological record increasingly shows is
Read The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis
Curtis Yarvin: An Extremist Walks into a Sauna
Curtis Yarvin is the court philosopher for the reactionary right in the US. He recently met with leading intellectuals at a luxury hotel in the Alps. How did he fare?
npmx: converging communities
The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together
