emet-selch 🍁
@chaimagicks.bsky.social
↙️↙️↙️ | critic of American cultural hegemony | anti-monopoly | pro-markets & universal programs | liberal | critic of central planning (public or private) | software engineer | 🏗️🌐🧦🇨🇦 🕉️ interests: tech, urbanism, econ, YIMBY, meditation, philosophy, occult
Staying on the ball with my work as a software engineer/architect (in spite of having my own business) requires yes: talking about AI. Talking about The Good and The Bad. Being rational about it. But marketing my work means inviting in the culture war commentary layer over AI...
emet-selch 🍁@chaimagicks.bsky.social · 2d agoi'm tired boss
The underlying point: from bridges to defence pacts to ceasefires the word of the United States government counts for nothing. You cannot bargain with these people except through corruption
Chad Leddy@chadleddy.bsky.social · 4w agoThey may well be lying about the terms of this new unfair deal, but either way the fact they coerced us to renegotiate a deal where we already paid 100% of the bridge costs shows that we cannot expect any good faith dealing with these people
Left wing and progressive notions of solidarity doesn’t actually include Indians. We are too complicated as a people. No easy narrative of oppressor <> oppressed categories to filter through.
emet-selch 🍁@chaimagicks.bsky.social · 4w agoI have engaged in running defense for all sorts of groups who needed defending, but I hear the silence loud and clear when it’s Indians on the chopping block.
I have engaged in running defense for all sorts of groups who needed defending, but I hear the silence loud and clear when it’s Indians on the chopping block.
In this piece I explain how we smuggle infinite loops into the way we think about problems, and how that breaks things.
Infinities Hidden in Finite Systems
The Trickster Gods We Don't Know We Worship
open.substack.com
> working on a new unified theory of Ford Nation i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
Don’t worry there’s more to come - you cal follow me on Substack for free.
Keith Egli@kegli.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just finished this book by @bobbyrae48.bsky.social . It was written a few years ago which is a pity because I would have loved to read what he thinks of the world currently and the various new players since he wrote this fine book. Interested in politics read this book . It is a must.
The Purpose of the System is to Destroy Sneaky Dee’s: venat.substack.com/p/the-purpos...
The Purpose of the System is to Destroy Sneaky Dee’s
Toronto's Anti-Punk Land Use Planning System
venat.substack.com
A data center is fundamentally a parking lot for data. Land value tax fixes this.
WE ARE REPEATING SHIT WE ALREADY KNOW, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND
Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Public meetings frequently attract only a narrow group of participants—typically residents who have the time, resources, and political motivation to attend—rather than reflecting the full community affected by transportation projects."
The Canadian govt should start figuring out alternatives to Palantir
You expect anti-Indian racism from the right. It’s in their nature to be racist. What’s funny is how the left actually doesn’t care about it. They’re just silent. Do a search on BlueSky about Indians or South Asian and it’s only Desis speaking up about it. We have no “allies”
What I find fascinating about racism against Indians is how it persists all sorts of colonial humiliation rituals left or right. The right will say we worship demons, but the left will consistently bring up “caste system“, for example, while ignoring the role of the British in ossifying it.
Crazy how given the uptick in anti-Indian racism, there isn’t an army of progressives lining up to defend us and give their lip service about how racism is bad (it’s still bad, fyi). Their silence is deafening.
![URBANIST: [taking a selfie video] Hey folks! I'm here at the now-CAR FREE Pike Place Market
-I'm walking around this iconic local spot without having to worry about BEING MURDERED BY A CAR
-Notice how peaceful and calm everyth--ope! [they bump into another person taking a selfie video)
URBANIST 2: Sorry! I'm just documenting how nice it is here without cars, for my urbanism blog!
URBANIST 1: So am I!
URBANIST 1: I have 2 words for you: retractable bollards
URBANIST 2: Oh god yes
[They make out in the middle of the road as people continue to walk by]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreifvyz2vguza3q3jgq4tbjdpkzkb3czvpsbs5p7q2l5q7fzceokdpa)
