Month: November 2018

Brilliant episode of Rev Left Radio. Pretty theory-heavy, I have little background knowledge of the topics (post-structuralism, postmodernism and post-postmodernism(!?)) but they hit some great talking points – horizontal vs vertical organising, is the personal political, are meta-narratives useful, and the need for more sincerity and less irony on the left.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/post-structuralism-postmodernism-and-metamodernism

TIL that ActivityPub has a client-to-server part to it, but that Mastodon doesn’t implement it. Mastodon has its own API which clients use.

Some discussion on it here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1557

Micropub is a client-to-server protocol used mostly in #indieweb.

scaling out vs scaling up

the municipality is becoming a strategically crucial site for the organization of transformative social change.

https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-movement-internationalism-solidarity/

Kicking off in London today. Extinction Rebellion shut down the bridges with non-violent civil disobedience. I caught some of it on Westminster Bridge. Then around the corner to Whitehall where the anti-racism/anti-fascism march finished. There was a handful of fascists there who were shouted down and escorted away by the police. To round it off I saw Peterloo in Kilburn. The state brutally suppressing a peaceful protest in Manchester asking for suffrage at a time when only 3% had the vote.

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"the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and human inability to find any due to actual lack of any meaning or value.

Albert Camus stated that individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence while also defiantly continuing to explore and search for meaning.

I’m OK with this.

Really want to see Peterloo. Important piece of political history from the area where I grew up. It’s Mike Leigh, it’s got great reviews.

But: it’s produced by Amazon Studios. Fuck’s sake.