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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-24 at 19:11

Y'all I'm going to be honest. The noise is getting to me. I'm really discouraged and having trouble working.

I'm just going to note that this is the point. It is the affect of capitalism and fascism to make one feel hopeless.

I'll get around it. But I'll level with you, right now it's working on me at the moment.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-23 at 18:59

This bit from this wapo story is the perfect summation of social media these days.

9,000 connections.

50 you want to stay in touch with.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/23/meta-potus-instagram-facebook-tiktok-users/

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-22 at 22:43

Slack once again doing its Navi the Fairy impression on me.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-22 at 18:04

Today's project is another example of why "lines of code" is a terrible metric for developer productivity.

I just spent 8-10 hours of time reading, evaluating, thinking out alternatives, and looking up stuff.

The code I wrote is about 6 lines long and is deadly simple looking.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-22 at 17:34

I have reached the "fuck it, give me the source code" stage of debugging this problem.

Probably should have gotten here sooner TBH.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-21 at 15:01

I caught myself today spinning on what exactly the next moves of 45/47 are going to be, and what his motivations are and . . .

Let's just stop there because that's what I needed to do. I have no leverage over him. Trying to predict him is folly.

All that mental space I could be using to think about people in my communities who need help and whom I can work with.

Evict that mfer from your idle thoughts.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-20 at 21:41

Holy shit Leonard Peltier is going home.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-20 at 17:26

I don't mean that I'm some kind of fragile soul who can't take it straight. But these creeps thrive on our mindshare. I want to give that to the people and institutions that are doing the responding.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-20 at 17:24

A few quick words in the incipient shitshow.

One of the rules of 45/47 is that most people who get close to him have their wealth, power, and dignity drained and then dumped. May it be so with all the plutocrats kissing his ring today.

Also, one of the effects of the old birdsite was that I'd first see terrible things only in the reaction to them. That was nice. Don't tell me about the badness. Tell me about how someone is responding to the badness.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-18 at 20:01

Okay kid’s picture book author your book is good but what are you doing putting “indefatigable” in your book…

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-17 at 19:46

Y'all I hate to tell you but the Cybertruck discontinued story appears to be fake. Absolutely no outlet other than "Ecoportal" is reporting it that I can find, which is a very strange set of occurrences if it's true.

I would absolutely love it if it were true, but it appears that the most that's happening is that Tesla is scaling down production.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-17 at 15:02

(For those who saw this earlier, no, you're not having deja vu. I wanted to fix the hashtags and ended up doing a "delete and re-draft.")

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-17 at 15:02

I remain a believer in state-based interventions. In many ways they're indispensable.

However, when the state gets captured by nefarious interests, it is important to remember that non-state organizing remains real and powerful throughout history.

Community ownership is a great example. And community land is enormously important.

https://placesjournal.org/article/community-land-trusts-and-civic-empowerment/

[#]CLTs #CommunityLandTrusts #CommunityOwnership #Geography #UrbanGeography #Planning

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-17 at 14:58

In my "catch up on years of my articles-to-read pile" effort, I'm not giving this one the time it deserves but "climate Huassmannization" isn't very easy to say but it's a pretty good way to think about it.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08854122221108142?journalCode=jplb

[#]geography #planning #housing #haussmann

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-17 at 14:12

The article quotes Rev. Sherrod saying, "All power comes from land."

Let's put that together with IAF's "Power is organized people and organized money" with some Karl Polanyi glue and say, "All power comes from organized land, organized people, and organized capital."

That'll take you a long way.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-16 at 22:19

Okay so all caveats about Bezosville aside is anyone else playing Wridges on the WaPo site? I'm becoming a little obsessed...

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-16 at 18:35

Don't yuck other people's yum. As such I will withhold my comments on David Lynch's films because I'm sure some on here were fans.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-15 at 22:07

Re: last boost about archaeology and people and empires

Reading that article combined with an email for the big national Climate Justice March has me musing on the relationship between modernist ideas of progress and the effectiveness of big, national protests.

Those modernist ideals are declining—it also brings to mind how Star Trek's high-minded modernist future seems nostalgic and quaint now, with a tinge of creepiness.

Newer modes of progress are going to be different. Protests too.

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-15 at 18:30

"Subsistence entrepreneurs" is a really good term TBH.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democrats-and-the-gig-economy/sharetoken/48d031e8-2129-479c-82d3-f34a8543fde7

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Written by Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on 2025-01-15 at 18:05

Epic "the Dude abides" energy here.

Volkswagen van that survived Palisades fire in Los Angeles is a ‘beacon of hope’

‘There is magic in that van,’ former owner Preston Martin tells AP. ‘It should have been toasted, but here we are’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/volkswagen-van-palisades-fire

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