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Tzalal

@zl__al

1 year

Taubstummenanstalt b/w KBK WZ.88 - two new tracks, available on 7” at the link below ⏬⏬⏬

Taubstummenanstalt, by Predation

2 track album

syntheticpleasures.bandcamp.com

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Tzalal

@zl__al

5 years

Re: ask a punk - I lived in a warehouse that did most of the shows in Richmond for a few years. People couldn’t / didn’t keep the address out of the public sphere and I ended up evicted, arrested, and on probation for two years. If you don’t get it fuck off elsewhere.

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Division of Never Ending Gridiron

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I hope that everyone (rightfully) tweeting about how powerful this story is understand that gestures of obedience don’t get you here. A police force that fears entering zones in which they are not welcome (+ a lot of work, solidarity, and vision) is what gets you here.

Wendy Liu

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4 years

a hotel in minneapolis was taken over by the community and turned into housing for unhoused people😭 > “George Floyd has given us power,” Fister said. “And we have the power to take care of each other … that’s what we’re doing right now by housing people.”

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4 years

Richmond (+ Henrico / Chesterfield / Hanover / VA State / Capitol / etc.) Police are now walking around residential neighborhoods smashing out unoccupied car windows. Last night they were firing tear gas into second story apartments of people filming or yelling at them.

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9 months

thank you all

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@zl__al

2 years

@alyvore The most ghoulish aspect of this particular retcon is its propagation’s contingency upon the near population-level annihilation of its scapegoat.

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@zl__al

4 years

Richmond police are brutalizing random people, snatching drivers out of their cars, slashing tires, towing without reason. They know none of these curfew charges will stick so they are trying to do as much punitive damage as they can to bodies and wallets.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

5 years

This kind of thing is (obviously) far from the most pressing problem at hand re: policing but if you can’t understand people strategizing to avoid ending up in contact with law enforcement you should probably find other avenues for entertainment.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

5 years

Also - we had already tried to do things on the up and up. The city makes code impossible to fully comply with in order to selectively police specific communities. Maybe other cities’ cops aren’t interested in digging in to subculture but ours were.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

1 year

We aren’t getting back together. There will be a *couple* shows, cos we miss it - details will come when they come. Lace em up.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

10 months

FYA was brilliant. Final roster for Richmond now featuring Ideation coming up from FL. See you soon - bless.

Tzalal

@zl__al

10 months

Jan 20 2024 w/ ⁦ @Gagguysnw ⁩, No Values, Cicada, & Ivy Creep

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7 months

DOM World Tour April 2024 4/7 w/ Killing Pace + Final Resting Place Richmond, VA USA 4/11 w/ Diztort + Collateral Richmond VA USA 4/12 w/ Nickelus F + Backlash Richmond VA USA 4/28 w/ Whispers + Big Cheese + DOP + Existence + Fate + more Glasgow, Scotland UK

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Tzalal

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5 years

There’s a certain demographic that loves talking about Bernie’s “cult of personality” while yearning for the days of Obama, who sold a nation on ramping up deportations, drone strikes, black sites, propping up finance vampires, and foreverwar by, um, speaking congenially.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

1 year

My PhD supervisor and, much more importantly, my friend David Golumbia passed this morning. I don’t really know what to say beyond echoing others’ remarks on his kindness, his intellect, and his commitment to criticality in spaces deeply hostile to thinking against the grain.

George Justice

@TulsaProvost

1 year

I am very sad to inform this place, which he pretty much hated, that @dgolumbia died this morning. Any of his friends can contact me for further information. The love he shared with his friends and his brilliant research and writing are his legacy.

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2 years

One good thing

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new 🔈/ nick F / three points

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

What went down at the Lee monument tonight was deeply sus. Why was an unconfirmed threat of police with gas en route deliveredto the march on mic? Hundreds of people left. It decapitated the action with the best energy since last weekend. #richmondprotest who is vetting speakers?

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the DOM test press drawing - by the time it was finished, @RVABailFund did not need more $. In consultation with them, we’ve sent $800 to @RVANewSouth , who have been fighting on all fronts for Richmond’s under-supported neighborhoods and

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Tzalal

@zl__al

1 year

Born too early to effectively use social media, born too late to play saxophone in a goth band and be happy.

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10 months

Jan 20 2024 w/ ⁦ @Gagguysnw ⁩, No Values, Cicada, & Ivy Creep

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Tzalal

@zl__al

2 years

And for everyone else, here and elsewhere, when organizers putting the work into DIY culture spaces + avenues ask you to follow simple rules and protocols for sustainability and safety, you really should just fucking listen to them.

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1 year

a few things to pass along 🕯️

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

There are LOTS of teenagers in the streets. The police are cementing generations of hatred and they seem to understand it. They’re laughing watching kids collapsing, choking, getting kicked and beaten.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

5 years

Are you fucking kidding me hahahaha

FBI

@FBI

5 years

#MondayMotivation Are you looking for tips for indoor workouts? Download the #FBI ’s Physical Fitness Test app to learn proper form for exercises you can do at home like pushups and situps.

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Tzalal

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4 years

The hatefulness, the sadism, the cowardly giddiness at any opportunity to asymmetrically deal violence to a population who _cannot_ answer in kind - none of this can be reformed away. Where are all the “good cops” everyone keeps talking about because I’ve never fucking met one.

Richmond Community Bail Fund

@RVABailFund

4 years

Cops on scene loudly yelling “justice and peace” to drown out arrested protestors’ attempts to yell their name to jail support #RVA #RVAProtests

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Tzalal

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9 months

The silence of academic labor unions - mine included - in the US regarding the absolute destruction of our Palestinian colleagues’ livelihoods and lives is an indictment of the deeply impoverished concept of ‘solidarity’ that pervades US labor politics. Demoralizing and shameful.

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

9 months

The Israeli army detonates the last university it hadn't destroyed yet. A scene from the explosion of the Palestine University with 315 bombs. The university is owned by businessmen and is not affiliated with any political agenda. Israel has destroyed all universities and about

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1 year

coming at ya

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Tzalal

@zl__al

7 months

Pre-defense dissertation draft due April 1. Laptop logic board bites it Feb 20. Desktop in my campus office lost two semesters back to budget cuts. Final edits happening on my studio desktop one thin wall from the room where four raves and eight shows happen this month. We move.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

The police continued to riot today in Richmond.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

2 years

Yikes @ twitter today. All I can say is; A. For the love of god keep the Warehouse out of the Discourse. B. If someone with the tenure of @jpetaNY in our weird little world dropping a little wisdom and experience constitutes gatekeeping to you, HC just might not be your thing.

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Tzalal

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1 year

The Warehouse is not does aspire to be the be-all-end-all of DIY in Richmond but it’s worth noting that I - amongst others - notice the characters who want to enjoy the benefits of its existence while actively contributing to efforts to sabotage that very existence.

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Surveying the responses to decades of apartheid conditions in Palestine and taking note of when and how ‘innocent civilian’ tropes are deployed make it painfully clear how many westerners accept the premise that every Palestinian is a legitimate target for violence and terror.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

Police murder with impunity because it is important to the powerful to demonstrate that they can and will. It’s not new and it’s no abberation. It may seem novel, but what is growing is the availability of documentary technology. You should consider what has shielded you from it.

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3 years

DOM DBD

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after hours

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4 years

I try to keep this twitter somewhat professional but FUCK THE POLICE FOREVER.

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4 years

I’m not a very sentimental person and I try not to live in the past but I would give just about anything to have one more conversation or evening together. I’ll miss you forever.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

5 years

Cool that the coffee shop went cashless which requires every customer to ... use .. the ... same ... touch screen....

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@zl__al

4 years

The police are continuing to riot in Richmond.

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4 years

RIP Riley Gale. Hold on to your friends.

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4 years

Vote Murder Hornets 2020

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4 years

The police are attacking a group who were sitting, talking, reading, eating together, and preparing to watch a film.

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2 years

NYC

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4 years

“De toute façon il me faut pas se demander si on croit en Dieu, mais si Dieu croit en nous.”

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@zl__al

2 years

in your city

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Tzalal

@zl__al

3 years

Forgive the futile & miserable gesture but the world is so brazenly killing off everybody that it no longer has room for and I don’t even know how to make room for the information, let alone what to do with it. Overdose, suicide, airstrike, virus. Good fucking god. Useless words.

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Tzalal

@zl__al

4 years

EVERYONE in the streets has one another’s back. Lots of impromptu aid and education going down. If you have been sitting at home it is a GREAT time to keep your assumptive commentary on the tone, tactics, and composition of these actions to yourself.

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3 years

IIIKDOM

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Tzalal

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5 years

Pardon the overshare: living in the US with a chron illness req very expensive meds for the past 10 yrs has been a nightmare. Debt, unstable access, weighing debilitating pain vs. the risk of accruing costs of more than I make in a year. list goes on. 🖤 to 🇬🇧 friends.

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6 months

DOM GHC

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Tzalal

@zl__al

9 months

Tracked this a few months ago and it turned out a monster. Members of all your Richmond favorites. FFO Hellbastard, Sacrilege, Concrete Sox, ENT, etc.

Sacricide, by Sacricide

4 track album

crypticscieldvault.bandcamp.com

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Tzalal

@zl__al

3 years

A few friends and I have organized a fundraiser to help one of the most important people in my life cover transition related healthcare costs. This is a pivotal moment for someone very dear to me & I appreciate anyone reading + sharing.

Help Marie Get Bottom Surgery, organized by Zachary Acosta-Lewis

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read this. My name is Zachary Acosta-Le… Zachary Acosta-Lewis needs your support for Help Marie Get Bottom Surgery

www.gofundme.com

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1 year

Last night was brilliant. Thanks to all who played and all who joined and all who danced and all who worked. We were able to pass on some $ to the PCRF - give them a look if you aren’t familiar. Richmond, always. Free Palestine.

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4 years

It’s taken me a year to notice but lockdown’s expansive “free” time has obliterated my ability to finish anything.

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Hostile architecture (modernist)

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1 year

Surveillance need not be top-down to inform the behavior of the surveilled. Hyper-documentation and the expectations that come with it have fundamentally changed the dynamics within every subcultural space I’ve ever known.

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5 years

Hollywood Babylon

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@zl__al

4 years

When Stripes played NDY however many years ago I was almost done with my MA thesis. Of course - while in Canada - I lost my laptop with all of my research and ~ 100 pages of completed work on it, foolishly not backed up anywhere. I was in despair, just kind of fatalistically ...

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4 years

To clarify - any organizer working with or sharing information with the RPD or city officials is endangering lives and should be considered compromised. Any organizer or speaker forcefully delivering unverified info that causes mass dispersal is suspect. Full stop.

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1 year

been looking forward to announcing this one for a minute

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@zl__al

3 years

The classroom in which I teach my 9:30 section has a giant wall of eastward facing windows and some sadist keeps leaving the blinds open. It was 85°F in there this morning. I’m spray painting the windows black.

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@zl__al

9 months

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

BEN BRODIE

@benxbrodie

9 months

Presenting Northern Unfest 24. Thank you everyone who helped piece it together. Tickets on sale Friday 12PM GMT. See you there…

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Little Rock, AR is still haunted by an honest to god independent video rental - seemingly kept on life support by adult novelty and vape accessory sales.

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@zl__al

9 months

Re: pitchfork - this isn’t a rupture, it is a continuation of its role in optimizing music (and other spheres of cultural production) for the machinations of market exchange. The fantasy of a rarefied enclave exempt from this process is precisely a fantasy.

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@zl__al

4 years

Sanctimonious white liberals and assorted bullshit artists pushing the good, noble black protestor / bad, opportunistic white rioter narrative - you might as well just shoot the gas and use the batons yourself. You are doing cop work. It is primarily POC who are suffering for it.

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@zl__al

5 years

My students are all, more or less, on the other side of the “always had the internet” divide and it’s surprising how much that impacts their read on essentially everything I want to screen for them. Today it’s ‘12 Monkeys.’

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Tzalal

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4 years

to make me feel better. I remember the smile on his face when they played their first note and I would always remind him of that night when he was worn thin from tour or depressed for one of the million reasons this miserable world hangs on our shoulders ...

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4 years

The tone of the first three nights forced the city to listen - the tone of the last two will quickly embolden them to stop listening.

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4 years

City gov is attempting to pacify by pulling down monuments while simultaneously beating, gassing, and arresting anti-eviction protestors at the courthouse. Symbolic gestures are not victories and Stoney + co. are emphatically demonstrating just how empty those gestures are.

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6 months

A few days ago I defended my dissertation via Zoom from Glasgow after health issues and work commitments made an in-person defense unfeasible. The variety of academic adjacent developments in the current conflict have really amplified the difficulty I feel immersed in the /3

stuart hall & oates

@riseandgrindcor

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This guy is defending his MA thesis in fucking refugee camp tent because Israel blew up every university in Gaza, along with 5500 students and 100 professors, and we have to waste precious energy hearing the US press talk about aggrieved zionists who “don’t feel safe on campus.”

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1 year

Maybe there’s not much to this observation, but it’s clear that the speed of spread on the burning man ebola rumors meme is due at least in part to the fact that a lot of people desperately want it to be true.

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4 years

moping in our hotel room. I was convinced I was going to have to ask for an extension, start my work over, etc etc. Riley convinced me to walk down the street and at least catch the Marked Men set - he told me that being around a bunch of Texans while they played was guaranteed

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4 years

Division of Mind is raffling two test presses to fund resources for the protests against the brutal, racist, and dehumanizing police culture in our city and country. Thanks in advance for spreading + contributing. Keep fighting.

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@zl__al

11 months

♾️

XXL Magazine

@XXL

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⬇️ TODAY IN HIP-HOP ⬇️ 2000: DJ Screw passes away. Rest In Peace🕊

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GHC >

BEN BRODIE

@benxbrodie

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Northern Unfest 2024 done. Seen some of my favourite sets ever this weekend. Thank you for supporting another year…

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Biden kicking Weinstein’s PR firm $800k to kill his accusation story and his staff, likely at Anita Dunn’s behest, mass deleting their Kavanaugh tweets should tell one everything one needs to know about how full of shit the Dem party is, but here we are...

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see you in TX

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9 months

Bless the legends.

‘We’re All Family Here’

Co-owner and host Denzel Lewis is a friendly force at Pho Tay Do.

richmondmagazine.com

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1 year

The most mind-melting quality of the recent developments in Palestine is the collapse of “state aims-boast-deny-obfuscate-minimize-deflect” into a zone of incoherence where it all happens simultaneously, obliterating any ability to even adequately communicate the horror.

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A lot of white liberals admonishing _everyone_ to their left for not listening to a caricature of “black leadership” that is - curiously - monolithic, hegemonic, and always seems to echo the positions of cops, corporate PR, and white liberals.

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4 years

Unpopular opinion: guillotine memes and appeals to “just vote” are precisely the same variety of anti thought.

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London in NOV

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that’s a wrap

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internationalist labor solidarity was the bare minimum that we owed our 🇵🇸 colleagues. Feels pointless to say, and is far from the most pertinent issue but I feel utterly adrift. Anyways, I’m a Doctor now. Solidarity with this man and all across the world facing the unimaginable.

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All the careerist academics (particularly those w/ tenure) who have equivocated and kept silent these past months won’t be held responsible for their role in facilitating the current wave of police violence and repression, but they should.

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6 years

I don’t think that @seaofsinxxx and I have ever looked less alike than we currently do. Still doesn’t stop the “good set man” comments he gets whenever D.O.M. plays out of town and he is there.

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@Chicken_Face1 So much here is predicated on maintaining the fiction that the post WWII opportunities for attaining a measure economic security are still in place. Our whole culture unravels once one starts pulling on those threads.

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@Bob_WilsonGEO @NorthS2021 @freganmitts They don’t often bother to prompt in a way that to minimize the rigid syntactic style and awkward use of near-synonyms in contexts that don’t make sense endemic to LLMs. Also, when multiple students simply input the question into GPT the results are often structurally identical.

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Almost everyone I know is self-flagellating over lack of productivity while trying not to die and the DNC, yesterday, sentenced an unknown number to death to try and hedge against Biden having to speak in public again. America is a sociopathic hell.

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There is a crude, approach to decolonial ‘thought’ that looks to quantify when the blood + soil relationship ‘begins’ in order to formulate a property based regime of ownership (of land, culture, etc.) Israel has seized on this to obscure the very real colonial _process_ /1

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If one is invested in these spaces it should go without saying that the perspectives of those who have experienced both sides of that historical/technical juncture are valuable. Accessibility is not neutral, uniform, nor intrinsically good; to whom, how, and to what ends?

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