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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

After seeing a bunch of eco-extremist memes lately, I gave the intro of Atassa 1 a look. I'm surprised how bad the arguments seem to be. In particular, around "indiscriminate attack" as one of their characteristics, including a section on indiscriminate attack in the text which I also looked at.

So far as I can tell, their characterisation of it is misleading and their list of cases making up evidence that "these sorts of acts were what constituted anarchist praxis in the past" reflect that the attacks are not indiscriminate at all, just that anarchists were trying to kill some specific people discriminately and that there were fuckups (like they threw the bomb badly, or the bomb detonated with the wrong people nearby despite it being where the right people usually are), or that they were still discriminate but willing to accept collateral damage, with few exceptions - I noticed one or two among a long list, but there's also little reason to think that those were indiscriminate rather than to assume there were reasons those bombings happened for which we are unaware.

The kind of justification, that wild nature is indiscriminate, using for for example their example of the tsunami, leaves me wanting.

This element of indiscriminate attack seems to be the only substantive difference between a nihilist anti-civ position and an eco-extremist position, just based on this reading, and it doesn't convince me at all.

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shanc wrote

I was never convinced by their mental gymnastics either. Maybe some of it is lost in translation, or maybe their ideas just don't make sense in any language. Either way - not a fan myself. Interesting read though.

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shanc wrote

Personally, I try to engage with the arguments put forward rather than reduce everything to ad hominem.

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shanc wrote

Well that escalated quickly.

To avoid further angeriness, could you please send me a Court of WhateverYoureCallingYourselfToday list of approved authors that I'm allowed to engage with?

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shanc wrote (edited )

'real anarchists'

That's for the courts to decide.

I was planning to read 'Ishi and the War Against Civilization' this afternoon, but I might finally get round to having a look at Atassa 2 instead, if there are no objections?

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debored wrote (edited )

Looking forward to binging The Outer Worlds all weekend.

Got my marks for my midterm exams & I killed them all, A+ across the board. Very happy about it since I've always been a really terrible student.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

Whoever thought that 2 hour lectures should be a thing can go fuck themselves.

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emma wrote

When I went to uni, we always had 10 minute breaks during lectures that long. Still tended to be unbearable.

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ziq wrote

I hated breaks because you still sit on the same desk looking at the same wall but now people try to make small talk with you.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

We don't get breaks. We get quizzes every 2 weeks, which cuts the class short by around 15 minutes if I work through it quickly. Doesn't help that it's my last class and I only have about an hour between my most hated class and it.

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yaaqov wrote

This is pretty freaking niche, but I devised a set of tiles (like jigsaw puzzle pieces, basically) that can encode the rules of any elementary 1D cellular automaton (most famously, for instance, rule 110). In these cellular automata, any cell in the grid can be one of two states, “alive” or “dead”, determined by simple, local rules based off the states of neighboring cells; for one of my tiles, little notches on all four sides transfer and store the information about the state of that tile and its neighbors’, and likewise determine the state of its descendent in the time direction.

I’m also working on, but haven’t quite completed, a set of 3D blocks that encode Conway’s game of life, and other totalistic 2D cellular automata: basically the higher-dimensional analog of the above.

One reason I did this and think it’s cool is because these cellular automata are known to be Turing Complete, capable of universal computation and thus “running” any program that any other computer can run, theoretically. In the case of Game of Life, people routinely make beautiful and complex machines and computers in it. By representing these CA as tilings, I’ve sort of proven to myself that a static tiling is capable of computation, just by virtue of its structure, which I just think is a cool thought. Hell, maybe our own universe is an aperiodic tiling! Anyway, I can also draw up a picture to show y’all if anyone wants.

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Bezotcovschina wrote

Anyway, I can also draw up a picture to show y’all if anyone wants.

Please, do. I'm fascinated by cellular automata.

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El_Sabate wrote

During the 30 mins I had between my night job and my day job, two of my little kiddos drew tattoos on my arms in purple marker. Usually I use that time to sleep so that I can work an 8 hour shift right after an all night 8 hour shift, but I'm super energized by getting to look down and see their drawings on my arms and thinking of them. I wish I could spend more time with them, but this is definitely nice :)

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gRODES wrote

statement of self-ownership, where the modern man preserves and protects his own sovereignty above all else. It is the manifestation of one word: "No". Ejecting silly preconceptions and cultural definitions of what a "man" is. Looking to no one else for social cues. Refusing to bow, serve and kneel for the opportunity to be treated like a disposable utility. And, living according to his own best interests in a world which would rather he didn't.

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gRODES wrote

Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
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gRODES wrote

For an ever-growing number of people, it’s enough to just watch others give their lives for meaningless reasons, and give the labor of their lives for a greater good that simply does not exist.

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gRODES wrote

When a cost-benefit analysis shows that there is no gain, genius is not required to remove oneself from the equation. In such an environment, an intelligent person cannot effectively show his worth by giving more or working harder. He shows his worth by removing himself completely. It does not take effort to have the same effect.

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anonymous07 wrote

You are not anonymous, do not relax too much.

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