Night run photo. 🏃♂️
Getting close to that full Moon and the end of spring 🌱💐
2024
Recognize the ills, let's do better — Short summary of
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short) by Ruha Benjamin 📚 In order to flourish as individuals and a society we must free ourselves from the strictures of standardized testing, industrialized education, “accelerated learning”, technocratic utopianism, solutionism, longtermism, white supremacy and eugenic thinking, the carceral state, credit scoring and the “ordinal society” (See Fourcade and Healy), and more! It is hard to be imaginative when we are oppressed… but we have to be imaginative to overthrow the oppressors.Warming up to listen to the whole new Evgeny Morozov podcast series with an excellent interview by @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social and @jathan.bsky.social from This Machine Kills
I am in the middle of two book series right now: Joe Abercrombie’s (@joeabercrombie.bsky.social) “The First Law” and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s (@aptshadow.bsky.social) “The Final Architecture”. In the middle I tells ya!
A handmade #FathersDay card from my smart A 12 year old daughter. Pretty great despite the commentary track. 🧝♀️💍⚔️(Both my kids spitefully refuse to watch the films or read the books because I have been trying to get them to since they were little)
Oh I am so happy this out! Just dropped and can’t wait to listen. Thank you @tatsushu@historians.social
#ikijima #壱岐島
Packing, packing, packing… 📦 📦 📦
11th move in 4 years, 3 of which were international moves under pandemic conditions. We are getting good at this, but tbh I don’t want to do it anymore 😭
Whoa! New Evgeny Morozov podcast just dropped! (With music by Brian Eno!)
Various hydrangea #bloomscrolling #japan
Rokuharamitsuji. See how colourful Japanese temples used to be before all the wabi-sabi? Finally got to see the Kūya statue. He’s said to have introduced the nenbutsu to Japan. The figures coming out his mouth represent the syllables NA-MO-A-MI-DA-BUTSU #kyoto #Japan #Buddhism
At Sanjusangendo, the EXTRA WIDE temple built to accomodate 1000 life-sized 1000-armed Kannon. Inside is ASTOUNDING (no pics 😞). My 1st time after 25 yrs in Kyoto! This is the backside where they have an annual archery competition where young women wear their best kimono and shoot for New Years
Apparently my Gr9 daughter’s friend group says that I am “basically three teenage girls in a trenchcoat” 🤷♂️💅
During my run tonight I was encouraged by this banger: “Run towards your future!”
spamrisk.bandcamp.com/track/goo…
#anarchism #punk #bookchin #MutualAid #utopia
Post-run cooldown under the train bridge 🏃♂️🚈
After sharing this on MAE, our tech policy community, I continue to share this link to others. The report shows how Big Tech controls AI through corporate VC, share structure, cloud credits, control of infra, dual affiliation research positions, open source, and more: lemmy.ml/post/1630…
I finished Ursula Le Guin’s book “The Lathe of Heaven” yesterday and one of the quotes I still have in my mind (especially as I listen to this old interview of David Graeber this morning) is “All we have is means.” #utilitarianism #anarchism
Finished The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚
She was the master. I need to read more of her books. What a great tackling of Utilitarianism… and in 1971!
CURRENT STATUS: Night run along the river 🏃♂️
Happy Monday #bloomScrolling
Squeezing onto the crowded train. Hair coiffed. Long dark slacks. Shirt tucked in. Hip hop in the earbuds. Monday morning rush hour. Been a long time for this remote worker!
(It’s just for a meeting at the kids’ school. I am just having fun salaryman cosplaying 😇)
🤔 Thought provoking: 🖌️ Creative > Productive ⚙️
From a Sari Azout presentation about how she uses Sublime.app
Started the audiobook of The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 📚
Started listening to: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz 📚
(Abandoned at 25%. Just not enjoying it enough to continue… so many other books out there that need reading!)
Very interesting map. Iraq and Syria have started shutting down again during May, and apparently have been doing so to prevent cheating on exams for the last several years 🤨
pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns
<img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/107532/2024/global-internet-shutdowns-map.png" width=“600” height=“334” alt=“Map titled “Global Internet Shutdowns” highlighting regions where internet disruptions have occurred. “>
Current Status: Night run 🏃
Watched The Beautiful Game which wasn’t the greatest movie but I had to because 1) it was football, and 2) I love seeing things like the Homeless World Cup and CONIFA World Cup in popular media (look ‘em up!) ⚽️ #football #footie
Gorgeous day. Went with my wife up to Minoh Falls. Took photos of falls, the river, leaves, the city view, and all the insect illustrations on the public toilets 🐝🪲🚽🤔
Current status: Minooo Falls
#Osaka #Japan
Read in 2024: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 📚
… this wore me out. Emotionally… wrung out. Each chapter he just squeezes, squeezes, squeezes. The characters are so real. Lynch’s writing is very poetic. He uses denominalization heavily. The writing makes everything feel alive, even the dead.
Jiufen
Monday, June 3, 2024
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → (see the whole album in full screen on Flickr here) The gold rush at the turn of the 1900s caused a boom in the small mountain town of Jiufen, with its sweeping views of the sea towards both the northwest and northeast. The narrow road switches back upon itself numerous times as you climb up the rugged mountainside.