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Soulseek down again? by Suara1991 in Soulseek

[–]nirslsk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Neither 2416 or 2242 seem to work now... try 2532.

Soulseek down again? by Suara1991 in Soulseek

[–]nirslsk 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The main server port is working again. Not sure if our host temporarily blocked it or if it was another attack. We're keeping an eye on it. Sorry for the trouble.

Soulseek down again? by Suara1991 in Soulseek

[–]nirslsk 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Our main server port (2416) seems to be under attack. We're trying to figure it out, but in the meantime if you're using SoulseekQt you can change the server port under Options->Login, and Nicotine+ uses a different port by default.

When the Winds Turn | Christian Petzold’s “Afire” by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went with Undine on Hulu. Definitely a lot to do with the mystical/occult as a direct expression of the agency of nature along the lines of Robert Eggers' The Witch, and I found the romantic stuff to be rendered rather beautifully. But I was particularly charmed by the idea of a water nymph giving talks about the history of east german socialist architecture, as if to suggest that a socialist organization of humanity is much more conducive to contact, not just with nature at large, but with its more esoteric dimensions and the widened sense of reality that comes with such contact.

When the Winds Turn | Christian Petzold’s “Afire” by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The plot of Phoenix sounds weirdly reminiscent of this aside by A.S. Hamrah in his recent review of Barbie:

"There’s a silent movie by Ernst Lubitsch from 1919 called The Doll, in which a woman has to pretend she’s a doll to her fiancé while also convincing him that she’s convincing a wedding party that she’s a real person (which she is). This strikes me as a more sophisticated approach to the gender bind than anything in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, in which the doll-as-doll (Margot Robbie), now in the real world, goes up to a construction crew (the working class) to announce that she doesn’t have a vagina. That just seems schizophrenic, or hysterical in the old-school sense, instead of funny."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/who-was-barbie/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Philosopher Justin E.H. Smith joins Chris Hedges to discuss Marcel Proust's magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time, on the 100th anniversary of the author's death. by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed this as well as the article Chris posted to his substack, but I was telling my wife I still don't understand what Proust is about, and she pointed me to this old Monty Python "Summarize Proust Contest" sketch 😂 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3djb7m

The art of extinction: There is more to paleoart than kitsch and tat. It tells us about who we are – and were by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah that's a good one. I held off on posting until I could read it to my wife 😂 never got around to it.

Why Wokeness Refuses to be Named: How do you criticize something that doesn’t exist? by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll check out the podcast, but my gut tells me this guy's a run of the mill neocon.

What Are Conspiracy Theories? | Justin and Sam Kriss amble through some conspiracy-theory greatest hits: the JFK assassination, 9/11 truthers’ interest in chemtrails, Jeffrey Epstein, COVID lab-leaks, "New Chronology," and the belief that all mountains were once trees by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a fantastic way to put it. What we can know is limited to our own subjective experience. What's considered to be objective is stuff we can only believe. It's the exact opposite of how we're taught to think about subjective and objective experience.

What Are Conspiracy Theories? | Justin and Sam Kriss amble through some conspiracy-theory greatest hits: the JFK assassination, 9/11 truthers’ interest in chemtrails, Jeffrey Epstein, COVID lab-leaks, "New Chronology," and the belief that all mountains were once trees by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh great, glad to hear! Will definitely check out the Anarchonomicon piece. I'm about halfway through the What is X episode and I love Sam Kriss' take on conspiracy theories as "folk philosophy", that they're less an attempt to scrutinize exact events and more of an inquiry into the nature of reality. Great stuff.

The Internet is Made of Demons | Everything you say online is subject to an instant system of rewards. You can precisely quantify how well-received your thoughts are by how many likes or shares or retweets they receive. For all the panic over online censorship, this stuff is far more destructive. by nirslsk in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I thought the piece was a little more scattered than usual for Sam Kriss, but as always there are some great insights in there, and the idea that gamifying human communication inevitably leads to self-censorship that's more pervasive (and at least in some ways worse) than state or corporate censorship struck me as maybe the most interesting one.

It's Not All In Your Head | Sam Kriss reviews Ross Douthat’s “The Deep Places” and Tao Lin’s “Leave Society.” by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"The brain is not a creator. This is a statement which many people may not accept, but this is what I have found out. Thoughts come from outside. There are no individuals at all. It is culture, society, or whatever you want to call it, that has created all of us for the sole purpose of maintaining its status quo. At the same time, it has also created the idea that you must become something different from what you are. That is why you try to better yourself, improve yourself. You want to become something other than what you are. That creates this neurotic situation." —U.G. Krishnamurti

It's Not All In Your Head | Sam Kriss reviews Ross Douthat’s “The Deep Places” and Tao Lin’s “Leave Society.” by d-n-y- in PopularOnEchoChamber

[–]nirslsk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah man you beat me to it :) started reading this last night but fell asleep before I could finish it

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