https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Aqneq5J_s&list=RDp5Aqneq5J_s
Oh man. My brother had this album on vinyl. Listened to it all the time in my teens. Math rock at its noisiest and finest.
Month: October 2017
Locked grooves, who remembers those? Good times.
Wow, I never played Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, but I wish I had. It sounds absolutely epic.
Each faction excels at one or two important aspects of the game and follows a distinct philosophical belief, such as technological utopianism, Conclave Christianity, “free-market” capitalism, militarist survivalism, Chinese Legalism, U.N. Charter humanitarianism, or Environmentalist Gaia philosophy.
My website fully migrated now to the new server at @mayel’s cloudvault hosting. Whoop! Been working on a few of the indieweb elements of it today, and giving it a bit of a lick of paint. Still a ways to go, but progress is good.
Didn’t know much about this, but there’s a pretty dark history to the origins of policing – intertwined with colonialism, slavery, and industrial capitalism. And plenty of present issues, like the militarisation of the police force. Like, for example, does the local police really need grenade launchers?
https://vimeo.com/223045230
Experimental electronic. Algorithmically-assisted music. Livecoded in TidalCycles. I always like a bit of scattered percussion. Here it goes well with the ominous, brooding bass.
Summary
- Our consumption patterns have huge environmental, social and health impacts.
- Consumption is a corporate strategy.
- We need a systemic change, not just tweaks to consumerism.
Thoughts
Good article, backed up by plenty of stats. But it’s stronger on the “our consumption model is broken” part, a bit weak on “here’s how to build a new one.” The plan for system change doesn’t feel very fleshed out, with some loose suggestions, and not much as to how we actually achieve the suggestions. Maybe that’s explored further elsewhere.
Continue reading “Read: Our Consumption Model Is Broken. Here’s How To Build A New One.”
Popped into the local electronics shop for a battery, caught a successful fix in action. Old radio with a very simple fix, and a very happy punter. If I heard right, he said the radio was about 20 years old. Good #repairday vibes!
Kids: `sudo netstat -ntupl | grep :443` is your friend.
Wow. That killed me. Struggling to get letsencrypt set up. Was getting ‘Error getting validation data’. Quite a bit of wild goose chasing, but eventually turns out it was because OpenVPN was listening on port 443, not Apache.