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Hi, I am A, lives in Sweden. English/swedish. Low frequency. Quantum physics PhD and BFA (fine arts). Critical engineer/artist looking for friends and […] [bridged from https://assemblag.es/@planomenon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Reading Josephine Quinn's "How the world made the west" I found that the written language as well as a lot of bronze casting and other things which were at the time really advanced technology, were mostly used for the advantage of the rich. After the Bronze age collapse, even written language […]
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I really miss a ridiculously large sound system!
When art and "theory" mystifies instead of revealing the process of social production, it is doing the work of reproducing #capitalism. No wonder it's funded! This happens a lot in science art and especially with #AI. Prime example of this mess: the #antikythera project […]
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Just a tip: this makes transition from Spotify to 320 kbps (yes that is my politics!) mp3 effortless: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl
GitHub - fiso64/slsk-batchdl: Advanced download tool for Soulseek.
Advanced download tool for Soulseek. Contribute to fiso64/slsk-batchdl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Finally took the step to blu-ray, such an awesome format. Durable a couple of hundred years and really cool math behind it!
Bidrar med en text ("Tankar från en socialistisk ingenjör") i ett nytt riktigt bra zine https://wiki.konstellationen.org/kamratdata-zinet-2025-1.pdf från @konstellationen
Not sure if I agree but a nice idea still: "queering is the act of being unaddressable to apparatuses which are defined by the dimensional reduction of life" (by Austin Wade Smith)
https://mfj.se/articles/2025/07/dvem-vardesatter-egentligen-sveriges-soner
Debatt: Vem värdesätter egentligen Sveriges söner?
Ebba Busch skriver i Dagens Nyheter att Sverige behöver en ny sorts manlighet – disciplinerad och redo att gå ut i krig. Det beskrivs som ett sätt att visa omsorg om pojkar. Men vad säger det egentligen om hur vi värderar mäns liv, när manlighet definieras som viljan att dö? Det skriver vår ordförande i en ...
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Nytt blogginlägg! https://autonomin.fritext.org/ett-friare-och-roligare-satt-att-lyssna-pa-musik/
Ett friare och roligare sätt att lyssna på musik
Jag har lyckats lämna ännu en tjänst som fram tills helt nyligen kändes helt oumbärlig i mitt liv och som jag hade mycket svårt att se hur jag skulle kunna lämna – Spotify. Här kommer jag att gå igenom lite vad jag tänkte innan, under och efter att jag bytte till ett bättre alternativ.
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"Vi behöver inte förstå varandra [...], inte ge varandra villkorslös kärlek. Vi behöver bara förpliktiga oss till villkorslös omsorg. Det innebär att vi erkänner varandras rätt oavsett om vi känner empati eller inte, en hållning långt svårare än kärlek." […]
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Rovelli: relative information ie correlation is a physical and relational definition. Evolution/self-org defines meaningful information and the next step from Shannon info up to human meaning: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1_3 (Put that into Sci-hub!) Also […]
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Så bra om vänstern och strategi för demokratisk socialism som borde vara självklar: https://www.arbetaren.se/2025/07/25/replik-v-och-s-bar-ansvar-for-reaktionar-arbetarklass/
Replik: V och S bär ansvar för reaktionär arbetarklass
Svar på texten "Vem ska göra revolution?" • Sarah Philipson: Marx teori om klasskamp fortsatt aktuell – revolutionen måste vara arbetardriven
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These helped me grasp a little more of the current solar boom and its geopolitics: https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics-in-2025/ https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-386-how-chinas-powerslide
https://www.quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments-test-hidden-assumptions-about-reality-20240730/ Experimental metaphysics, Bell's theorem and the legacy of #Mach - apart from technology, I think such constraints are probably the most important consequence of #quantum physics
‘Metaphysical Experiments’ Test Hidden Assumptions About Reality | Quanta Magazine
Experiments that test physics and philosophy “as a single whole” may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.
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Progressives waste time pretending our salvation is “messaging.” Our problem is that we have no way to distribute messages that can be heard above the near-ubiquity of MAGA media. 100,000 Substacks and TikToks are not a message delivery system. They’re a message diffusion system.
https://www.industriall-union.org/india-millions-of-workers-go-on-strike-to-defend-workers-rights
India: millions of workers go on strike to defend workers’ rights
Today, millions of workers across India—from both formal and informal sectors and from rural and urban areas—went on strike and took to the streets to defend their rights, which have been severely undermined under the current right-wing government.The countrywide general strike was called by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions in India, along with sectoral and independent federations and farmers’ organizations to intensify the fight against the government’s anti-labour policies.
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Of course, modelling (more is different) and not "exact simulation" is the paradigm. However just accurate simulation of neurons or the nematode worm as a complex system, shows the difficulties for those wanting unified/exhaustive models of complexity. Especially cognition (see earlier posts).
It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )
"'[U]nsung heroes' called zooplankton gorge themselves and grow fat in spring before sinking hundreds of metres into the deep ocean in Antarctica where they burn the fat. "This locks away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars, stopping it from […]
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This is why we can't rely on Bluesky and it's your problem even if you don't think you are a "tech person" […]
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Capital: extensive infrastructure for funding capital extraction in risky/noisy situations, repression and campaigns. The left anticolonial resistance are stuck w donations, unpaid labor. Ideas for infrastructure: https://thequestionoffunding.com […]
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About #complexity, #modelling and their relationship to "postmodern" and plural perspectives in science. Applies heavily to the simplistic data-driven #AI approach as well as physics mathematization and reductionism: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1790555/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Nunes however would never rule out these tactics in themselves but rather propose we think about an "ecology of political practices" of technopolitics. Eg. how could Luddite sabotage or perma-computing work side by side with parties and governance building parallell tech stacks?
Ricardo Nunes "horizontalism vs verticalism" holds for technopolitics too? Feral/perma-computing, artisanal unbloated and prefigurative software, luddist sabotage. Vs tech-keynesian fully automated AI positive stack geopolitics. Both fetishize org. form and are reactive melancholic towards other?
I'm constantly questioning my own judgement which limits my confidence. These stats are a great way to convince us (our enemies don't care about facts anyway) that we are right and they are wrong: https://globalinequality.org/global-income-inequality/
Global Income Inequality - Global Inequality
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Det här vill jag se mer av - använda AI för att granska och föra statistik över nyhetsbevakningen. Borde göras för att granska politiska beslut också. Inte för att det övertygar motståndare utan för att vi behöver egen säkerhet. 8 palestinier är värd 1 israel tydligen […]
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