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Austin, Tejas
Joined April 2009
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We'll see if i ever use it, but I've just created an account on the fediverse (what a horrendous name): @counterapparatu[email protected]
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I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
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Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a pause last month, according to an analysis of public records released Monday by
@FracTracker & @PublicCitizenTX
insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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among the more hyperbolic headlines i've seen in this research -- is it truly "devastating" for industry...that they can't directly pump toxic waste into groundwater sources that travel into surface water
news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…
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"As the post-'08 Left inches closer to a long-dreamed-of accession to state power, the shadow of state repression, even state terror, looms. Yet these parallel developments feel somehow distant from one another, rarely mentioned in the same conversations." versobooks.com/blogs/news/be…
Everything to live a dignified life is more expensive now because human needs now have to compete with hyperscale compute demands.
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“If ICE is going to act with criminal impunity, why should we cooperate with them at all?” texasobserver.org/wilber-gar…
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I decided to record myself doing a reading of an article by the Bundist leader Victor Alter entitled "Jewish Blood", published September 27th 1929. Palestine will be free.
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Please don’t buy our books on Amazon. If you can’t afford to buy them from a real bookstore or from us directly, pirate them from Anna’s Archive like God intended.
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Ten largest one-off donations to Bo French this cycle. Does not include his mother, Marcia French, who previously was his largest individual donor.
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This is the doom I predicted a few days ago, coming for Photoshop. A clean-room open-source reimplementation.
No prizes for guessing that they decompiled Photoshop to source code, processed that to some kind of non-code specification language, then fed the spec to an LLM with an instruction to generate Rust.
Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead.
github.com/storytold/photocr…
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Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling
Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Save Our Springs seeks unredacted records related to water service requests related to a Tesla data center. statesman.com/business/techn…
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Some of us are still ultras, you know brooklynrail.org/2026/10/fie…
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The last uncolonized places: Antarctica, the deep ocean, space, the interior of your skull. Defend them to the death, before they are extracted of all value, turned into commodities. A line must be drawn, or there will be nowhere left that isn't a broken husk of what it once was
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This is - and I mean this - indistinguishable from schizophrenia for me
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As an eviction is blocked in Madrid: “To destitute power is to take away its legitimacy, compel it to recognize its arbitrariness ... to turn it into a temporary configuration of things which, like so many others, have to fight and scheme in order to survive.” IC, To Our Friends