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Not here much. Endurance athlete, heavy-music fan, compulsive greeter of cats. My next book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire,” coming from Verso July 9th. #syndicateofinitiative

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Howdy! Just a brief reminder, for folks who are interested in issues around , , and self-organized strategies for persevering against the array of ecosystemic threats now bearing down on us, that my new book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World On Fire,” can now be pre-ordered directly from Verso. Order now and it’ll ship when it launches in two weeks – you’ll be among the very first to get your hands on it. Thanks for your support! https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse

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Just popping up to share that we now have confirmed dates for the West Coast leg of my Lifehouse tour! It would make me beyond happy to see you on August 1st at Elliott Bay in Seattle (w/Dean Spade!), August 3rd at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, August 6th at Green Apple’s 9th Ave store in San Francisco, or August 8 at Powell's in Portland – and hopefully break bread with you afterward. Feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested!
#mutualaid #climate #anarchism #books

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Oh, and a very important follow-up request for folks in #Seattle, #Portland, the #BayArea and the #LA basin: if you work with or know of any #mutualaid efforts that would like to present themselves to my audience, set out literature, etc., please let me know as soon as possible. It’s my great hope to use each one of these book talks to share a little bit of shine with local organizers in every city I’ll be visiting. 👊

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Sunday! And that means it’s time for this week’s #Lifehouse thread. Last week we talked about the #pragma; this week I want to cover something that I see as at least as important to the idea of a functioning Lifehouse network or federation, which is the distinction between formal openness and a quality I think of as “invitationality.”

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For me, the distinction arises out of my very first moments of involvement with the Occupy Sandy #mutualaid effort, in the last days of October 2012. My partner & I – wanting to volunteer to do recovery work in some capacity, having been outright rejected by the Red Cross, & having rocked up at the 520 Clinton distribution hub with little more than desire & energy – were immediately greeted & welcomed as we approached, in a way that would put most customer service-oriented businesses to shame.

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It was made clear to us very quickly that, if we could but agree to a few basic principles of mutual respect, our efforts would be welcome in Occupy Sandy, and more than welcome. Whatever it was that we might have to offer would be put to use. We would be able to “plug in” to what was already an impressively large and sophisticated effort, but as whole human beings as much as people with an inventory of skills and capacities. It was electrifying.

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It’s worth articulating as a general principle that just about any legitimate end one might serve by developing autonomous vehicles you could address far more readily by simply investing in free, accessible public transportation, and getting cars off the road.

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Oh! Dudes. Last week I had to write to SPIN to demand attribution for my 1988 William Gibson interview, which they’d credited to “SPIN Staff.” I’ve always been proud of the piece, despite its manifest amateurism, because I pitched it to my editors & believe it is the first-ever interview with Gibson in a mainstream, national outlet. (Quotes from it have been used as blurbs!) Credit where due: SPIN got back to me within minutes, and actually fixed the attribution! https://www.spin.com/2019/08/william-gibson-mona-lisa-overdrive-neuromancer-december-1988-interview-new-romancer/

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I just did a "Moebius" search in Google images. Nonsensical AI badly imitating the style is all over the place, what a disaster.

We urgently need an "exclude generated content" in any search tool!

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@Ailantd Now imagine that garbage folded into the learning corpus from which all future generative work derives.

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Sure, this wannabe-Gilead stuff sounds goofy AF, but fortune favors the prepared mind. These troglodytes have an existing network. They have capital. They have a more or less clear sense of what they want to do, and the order they want to do it in. And you better believe they will have a sufficiency of people willing to do the foot-soldiering. We mock them at our peril. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-a-secret-society-of-prominent-right-wing-christian-men-prepping-for-a-national-divorce

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absolutely unhinged

look how quickly this can happen, we're all just one ruling-class vibe-check away from full "papers please" mode

adamgreenfield ,
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@saddestrobots I can never look at Nasty Guard personnel without undergoing a deep and involuntary physical cringe.

adamgreenfield ,
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@saddestrobots 👆It’s even worse, they’re turned out in full battle rattle. American policing has the most grotesque and unseemly operator fetish – who bootlicks the bootlickers, you know?

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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/05/republicans-far-right-extremists-augusto-pinochet-helicopters

Ailantd , (edited ) to random
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Dune ornithopter collection!
What's your fav?

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@Ailantd Oh I see the Kaman Huskie is strong here!

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