izzzzi really has become a sort of daily collaborative zine, an anticipated morning ritual, prompting little flurries of emails or texts-- today was particularly wonderful
so often we can imagine a thing, but then seeing it enter reality can still be a total surprise
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how wonderful is it that you can unwind an old discarded sweater. to easily become a precious raw material that can be imagined and worked into a new thing.
i wish more things in life were so elegantly reversible.
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system update killed izzzzi server for a short while but we're back
recreational sysadmin sunday night!
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@debcha moments ago your book helped de-escalate a father-son debate which was happening in our art store (which also sells anticapitalist books).
son was passionate about how to blow up a pipeline and father was concerned with people freezing without heat. after about ten minutes i gently interceded with a sort of "both things can be true" and conveyed some of the premise of your book and let them know about your talk online.
perhaps, some great ideas about infrastructure saved someone's family holiday.
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izzzzi has zero js btw for those who care
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describing modern computer interaction as "grunt and point" is hilarious, even more so coming from christina engelbart.
this 99pi is from 2015:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/
the podcast is different than the web page (it's not a transcript), i'd recommend listening (for the hot takes like above. there are more.)
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"Illich believed that the transformation of the commons into a resource, regardless of who profited, was itself a great loss. By accepting the logic of resources, extraction, and value, we had surrendered the ground on which an entirely different mode of life could be built."
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"When we use any given technology, we tend to be most interested in what we will be able to do with that technology. We want to know how a tool will empower us. But we should be at least as concerned with how any tool we use shapes our perception and our experience."
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche
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ok here's 35 more
https://nnnnnnnn.co/2411.html
now back to music (arpeggios, uhm) and code (forth, uhoh)
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an old mentor and friend once told me (warning, it was art school) that if you make 100 of anything it becomes interesting. controversy ensued. but over the last month i somehow made about 100 drawings like this one below and sortof can't stop?
hid the plotter and ruler, like playing arpeggios instead of using a sequencer or code.
also i can't believe our friend skunk didn't ransack that compost bowl last night.
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measuring kilowatts like we live on a tiny boat
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journeyed to the town where there is power, inexplicably.
if you're near delhi NY and need internet, charging, water, head over to luck dragon. we're here.
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had to cancel our meetup to set up our meshtastic group due to the incoming storm.... which promptly knocked out power and we don't have cell coverage so it's back to living like the old times with our shovels and woodstove and ferments
(which is also wonderful, but it will feel better when we can text around to make sure everyone is ok)
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