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Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

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jonny , to random
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Huh its been really vindicating recently to be a lifelong pirate as a new wave of intellectual property violence washes over the world

jonny OP ,
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Almost like its not just stealing movies but a belief system centered on mutual empowerment and making sure we're all still a little free

jonny OP ,
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Steal shit because the rich own it

jonny OP ,
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The rich own the means of ownership. They own the means of owning the means of ownership. Piracy is about preserving and growing something else aside from ownership as a means of having a human culture.

jonny OP ,
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If anyone thought for one second that the property owning class was being "contradictory" in how they flopped from "stealing is illegal" to "stealing is how we make humanity immortal in a cryogenic goo uploaded to the cloud," thats because you dont talk to enough pirates!

jonny OP ,
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If you thought there was any moral equivalence between the gigantic haunted piles of money insisting they should have unfettered access to all human culture and a bunch of random anonymous motherfuckers insisting human culture should still survive despite the entirety of the international legal apparatus trying to quench the life from it, that's because you don't talk to enough pirates!

jonny , to random
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making propaganda for a thing that is legal to do in itself, but illegal to do in a concerted or organized way, is hard. like "here is this concept, we're not saying to do it, but this is what it is, weird huh!?"

anyway some draft images, since instagram remains the way to distribute this stuff i guess.

Work to rule: Doing exactly what’s in your contract (and no more) “Almost every job is covered by a maze of rules, regulations, standing orders, and so on, many of them completely unworkable and generally ignored. Workers often violate orders, resort to their own techniques of doing things, and disregard lines of authority simply to meet the goals of the company... But what would happen if each of these rules and regulations were followed to the letter?” -IWW “A Worker’s Guide to Direct Action” [the flower border from previous image is now only along the bottom]
![A red bear (the UCLA bruin bear, as drawn by UAW 4811 rank and file members and used as their de facto logo) snarling against a black background. it is ringed by concentric red outlines that are first the shape of the bear outline, tight and close together, but as they radiate out from the bear become more and more circular. In the outer rings, text is fit between each of the outlines, following their curvature. Text reads: "If only there was some way to avoid needing to follow all these rules (like amnesty, disclosure, divestment, not undermining labor law)" printed over the body of the bear: "Oh well, guess i'll just regrade this paper again"

Title: "What is Work To Rule?" Subtitle: A guide for the scrupulous worker the text is an old raggedy ass typewriter font, i was trying to mimic an IWW pamphlet. The text is bordered by a black and white linocut-looking ornamental border of roses on vines all twisting around one another. think art deco may day
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    • jonny , to random
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    what are these guys up to
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stygiomedusa

    an undersea photo of a jellyfish. it has a smooth, relatively narrow cap that has a shape and aspect ratio similar to a bowler cap, and long, wide, flowing tentacles that look like they are flapping in the ocean like fabric. the color and texture is hypnotic, dark, and brooding, an undertone of deep purple-red beneath speckled charcoal-gray patches on the crown, and smoky gray through the tentacles. it is positioned in the center of the frame as if it is looking firectly into the camera.
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    futurebird , to random
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    The time genie will bring back one (1) extinct animal from any time in all of earth's history. The animal will be integrated into an ecosystem seamlessly with no major negative consequences. You get to pick the creature.

    Do you feel obligated to pick something like a sauropod just so people can experience the awe?

    Do you bring back something more recent to correct the crimes of mankind?

    Or are you selfish and you ask for hell ants so you can finally see how their mandibles work?

    jonny ,
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    @futurebird do u know what happen to them? the wikipedia page is short :(

    jonny , to random
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    I just attended a graduation ceremony for all the students who weren't able to attend theirs because they were abandoned by their institution for the crime of fighting for justice, and there is nothing that gives me hope like this generation of revolutionaries

    jonny , to random
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    Third encampment is up at . Cops already on the scene.

    jonny OP ,
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    They have said they are not leaving until they have read the names of the 46,000 martyrs in Palestine

    jonny OP ,
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    People are relaxing on the lawn around the tongva steps and taking graduation photos in the Royce walkway as the names are read. The capacity for cognitive dissonance and maintenance of normalcy is truly something

    jonny OP ,
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    The camp got a 10m dispersal order from Royce quad, everyone packed everything up in 5, fucked off to kerchoff. They just got another and are headed to third location. Been waiting for this tactic.

    I am headed out bc I have no id protection and the cops will certainly not issue another dispersal order.

    jonny OP ,
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    I am fucking shook hearing the endless list of names while the militarized police and private paramilitaries mass all around. These intergenerational actions, small groups and spontaneous order feel like the best hope for a free future I know. I fear how dark it will get in the next few years, and practicing and growing these bonds now feels vitally important

    jonny OP ,
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    I went back and the cops are kettling between Dodd and the law school. Hats, bats, pepper balls, rubber bullets.

    jonny OP ,
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    Just helped transport someone shot in the chest point blank with a rubber bullet. They're fucking doing it again.

    jonny , to random
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    Yall as someone who is striking and generally existing on a campus that is crawling with roughly one security guard per picketer from no fewer than 5 private security companies, if they even slightly change the laws so that private security get some form of qualified immunity or ability to use any amount of force we are totally fucked.

    jonny , to random
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    Good morning. Today wakes up to an amended request for injunctive relief where UC has described how an action by SJP, an entirely unaffiliated group, and picketers forcing trucks to "weave through" us have resulted in significant disruptions.

    https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/UCSupplEvidISORequestforIR.pdf

    And with that im off to cause further disruption, as that is the purpose of a strike.

    Edit: apparently this was on the 29th but we were too busy to notice lol

    jonny , to random
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    Root post for #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    so how come only one research team is responsible for making the entire world capable of growing crops and stuff and why do they have to do it on this island

    jonny ,
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    i'm getting big "exiled with an impossible mission to keep these guys from getting in the way" vibes.

    jonny ,
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    hey look don't just release the solar iodine like that you need an environmental impact statement

    jonny ,
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    yes yes yes big mantis go go go

    jonny ,
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    what is the like air-blast guero instrument doing the sort of sliding cha-cha rhythm during the giant mantis theme i can't figure it out

    jonny ,
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    ok what is the name for "giant praying mantis" in the subbed version because we have been calling it "giant praying mantis" in the dub the whole time so saying that was a new name is not really making sense

    jonny ,
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    baby godzilla is the baby of the GIANT MANTISES???? what a TWIST

    jonny ,
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    as usual you built your research station in the traditional spawning trails of the godzilla. it is not destroying your buildings to be evil, it is trying to tend to the patterns of life on the island

    jonny ,
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    the behavior of the giant mantises w.r.t this tiny potato baby is making me seriously question my affiliation with team praying mantis

    jonny ,
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    completely bewildered by the emotional tone of everything happening in this whole movie.

    jonny ,
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    i'm goro. i'm a boy

    jonny ,
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    the researchers in the english dub have spontaneously developed the name "gimantis" for the giant mantis and that is phonetic elision in real time

    jonny ,
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    i think i am doing dating all wrong because i rarely if ever playfully chase my dates around trying to capture them

    jonny ,
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    the tucked in red floral shirt and headband look slaps

    jonny ,
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    godzillas reproduce asexually by a process involving that red pool in some way that we are only beginning to understand

    jonny ,
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    dude do not just feed me a shell full of red lake when i am sick

    jonny ,
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    "we might as well just give up the experiment" and that is just fine because we in the audience have completely forgotten about it due to the presence of the baby potato and how it is doing things

    jonny ,
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    one of the main characters is grievously wounded and in mortal peril by the giant mantis.

    music: "doo da doo da doo da doot doot doot!"

    jonny ,
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    what is the amount of time that has elapsed in this movie because the baby godzilla went from being like 3 feet long to now being like 15 ft. like if it's been months then that really strengthens the case that these researchers aren't actually researchers but are in exile on the island and the "research project" is just to keep them thinking like they're doing something important #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    i think the complete absence of a plot is totally excusable because of that red flower shirt tucked into white pants look, it saves every scene #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    the spider's language consists of "choo choo" laser noises because it is a steam-powered pneumatic lifeform, those sounds are sort of like the gas release in 18-wheeler brakes #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    what's big godzilla been up to #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    godzilla usually like meditates on the bottom of the ocean right, so it's primarily an aquatic reptile, but it seems to come to the surface to reproduce by fucking the red lake in some way, truly a marvel of evolution #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    baby godzilla going down from the spider silk like an WWE bit #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    are they TRYING TO STILL DO THE EXPERIMENT #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    me breaking out a fucking abacus and drafting pad to try and figure out how to fit the ecological metaphor of godzilla into whatever the fuck is going on here #monsterdon

    jonny ,
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    WHAT WAS THAT "ACHOO" #monsterdon

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    It finally stopped raining, so I took my dog for a walk and encountered some of our neighborhood’s larger feathered friends…

    #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon

    Two sandhill cranes walking on a residential street with lush, green trees and grass.
    Two sandhill cranes standing on a residential sidewalk and grassy area near a tree-lined street.

    jonny ,
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    @Tim_Eagon it would be extremely hard for me to not try and win their affection by offering them a bunch of treats, in some way screwing up their ability to live in the wild but also in the process gaining two large bird friends

    maegul , to AcademicChatter group
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    So I just learnt that J Physiol requires figures to be made with Biorender (https://www.biorender.com/), a VC backed subscription SaaS extend and extinguish of scientists drawing pictures!

    Is this a thing now!? Complete privatisation of the publication workflow!?

    Am I the only one enraged by this!? Pictures? We could have just made our own shared repository of useful graphics. Our own open source software. Uggghhh!

    jonny ,
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    @maegul
    @NicoleCRust @academicchatter
    I find all the bad PowerPoint illustrations in biology charming, but I personally take great pride in my illustrations in my work (probably wont be doing biology for the forseeable future) and it makes me sad when people dont, whether that be because they are pressed for time or bc they dont see communicating ideas visually as part of the task of science.

    I have tried to introduce diagramming markup like mermaid or graphviz/dot ti my lab to limited success, they are just used to PowerPoint I guess. My cracked copy of illustrator 2019 is basically always open. Turning figure design into some drag and drop biorender task (in addition to the platform capture element as u say) is sad to me bc it feels like the final flattening of illustration as a proud tradition in biology.

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