McKenzie Warks' A Hacker Manifesto is so bergizi (trans from indonesian: nutrient-stuffed) so I skipped to the end notes. Reading ass backwards might be the trick here. (Or spin the bottle to choose an entry point.) Then reprint and scatter the individuated sections affixed to posts on …
Being around people Benching just outside the coffee shop Heads pointing down Talking Tap clink Passersby entering and exiting Entering and exiting is the point
Machinery.
The room was cold. The light a little caustic. Acoustics wan. From the back row I had to squirm to the side to see Kurzweil’s full face. Like 17 people there, maybe? Intimate, secret, and in on it. Rugged cool! “Paper is pleasurable.” “My life for a while was in pages.” …
The bartender at Berreta is asking if I like bitterness and I answer yes. At this point I’m open to interpretation and open to interpretations. I get Cynar, a hefty portmanteau that smoothes out my technologies of resistance across the bar plane. An incubation space for monsters. To the right …
Saying no to Lucy Ives everywhere and hitchhiking Leather Blvd. sipping cool aid Kita anak-anak keren
Can you eat here Can you get food here I can get food here I will get food here This place is too expensive for you I will eat at this place There is another food for you over there
“I didn’t realize what we had.” He couldn’t see from the view within his stomach. Nerves are too high. Well, you work full-time, overtime frequently because it’s only a five-day work week. Your hands are full cutting a path through what the racists made today. Your …
“Racism is a visceral experience” - Coates && “Including the body…towards social justice…is the primary path forward” - Blackwell && “We focused our efforts in the wrong direction…white supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking …
In 2015 I bought this book. 7, or 8 years ago. Year one into my software career. This book is canon. I've had little use for its studies of algorithms. # thus far, see below I don't think Bentley would be offended. First sentence: "Computer programming has many faces." I’m sure …
What are probably appropriate attacks on assigning calamity to the hand-wavy concept of “human error”. Lorin strengthens his theory that human error probably doesn’t exist by considering complex, fault-tolerant systems like Amazon S3 incapable of receiving “human error” …
Over morning coffee, mixed with used iron goddess king tea leaves. Questions about things in paper. kopi pagi tambah daun teh raja dewi besi Why ya why ya why ya why ya why ya wanna why ya wanna Some people just have acres of arable land lying around to play with Why didn’t Lauren work with …
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Aaron Straup Cope’s talk notes for Wishful Thinking VIBES. I read this post a few days ago and have since wandered through the hyperlinks to his other stuff. It’s clear that for some time Cope has been baking thoughts about the cultural heritage sector and its responsibility - …
Originally posted as a micro website at https://ross-rutabagas.neocities.org/. Rutabagas are now sprouting here when the time is right. Volume 1 includes “found dates” – but later volumes will be less temporally registered (I think). (Why “Rutabagas”? This was …
But night software is not like that. It’s not written for the day job. It’s not written to see the light of day at all. It’s not written to be looked at and scrutinized by anybody. It’s intimate and personal, it’s messy and buggy. To take a look is to transgress. Boundary cross. Sex. From a small …
IYKYK DEI in tech is all but dead. If you’re an outsider, it’s important to understand that employee-led efforts to make workplaces less racist – which began in earnest at the onset of the Obama years – have been steadily blotted out since Trump. The Tech aristocracy has …
From the hunter to the tactical tornado. Man and his-story!
I’m not sure how far Gladman’s fantastic Ravickian worlding has spread betond smaller literary, artistic, critical conclaves. She reached me by way of Lucy Ives' article on the “weak novel” (after listening to Ives on a BISR’s podcast paneling the same topic). …
Bax evades a typically satisfying narrative arc for recondite reprints of medical texts and war-time dispatches/memoir peppered among a minor smatter of pro forma obligations to a novel about people surviving large-scale tragedy. But readers should consider this as a book at play with the …
“wish embroidering” - Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs “the air quicken before rain” - Robert Glück, Margery Kempe “His ears and tongue felt carbonated” - Samuel Delaney, Troble on Triton
I watched Eastern Promises last night and this morning And Donnie Brasco And The Departed Before