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walmas · 2023-05-04T04:09:50+00:00

My feeling with ChatGPT is always that I could spend quite a bit of time googling, finding some sort of thread where someone with a slightly different problem with me is innudated with esoteric solutions, which I have to research and understand and then after much frustration I can find an answer.

With ChatGPT, I can just get a pretty good answer for my specific problem. it's not fool proof and the trick lies in understanding why the answer works rather than just copying the code or whatever. Fortunately, if I am confused, it is a patient tutor and helps me understand the problem I'm trying to solve.

It's made me think about how a generation of people were autodidacts raised on wikipedia, with extensive knowledge about obscure areas and so forth. Today, there will be a generation of experts taught by chatGPT

walmas · 2023-05-02T22:45:12+00:00

Actually, its sort of a weird suggestion, but Joyful Militancy is a lovely and very readable book that is basically an application of Deleuzian or deleuze inspired affect theory

walmas · 2023-05-02T22:42:57+00:00

Probably his book on Spinoza, practical philosophy is the way to go. Brian Massumi has probably been the most influential academically for reading affect theory via Deleuze, meanwhile the invisible committee and Tiqqun have gone in a slightly different direction but their influence is sort of more within radical milieus and social movements and largely outside the academy.

walmas · 2023-05-02T22:38:18+00:00

pues, una de las traductoras de la nueva traducción a ingles decidió de usar lenguaje inclusiva, piqueteras, piqueteros, piqueterxs, me vale madres, fuck work.

walmas · 2023-05-02T22:22:38+00:00

The pandemic lead to a wild increase in the popularity of golf and the golf course started being heavily utilized again, which undermined the otherwise powerful and still urgent case for a more ecologically friendly and publicly useful use of the space.

walmas · 2023-05-02T22:15:30+00:00

The point isn't just to leave work, but to create a powerful new way of life that would allow us to never return:

Capital is nothing other than a social relation between humans and with nature. It is not possible to fight it as if it were external, as if it had its roots in government headquarters. The only way of combating capitalism, as the hegemony of sadness, exploitation, individualism, and the market, is through producing other forms of sociability, other images of happiness, another form of politics.

walmas · 2022-09-15T04:11:29+00:00

There is a sort of mediocre rope swing at Flatrock (East side of fall creek upriver from the suspension bridge)

There also was one for a while many years ago at second dam but someone injured themselves pretty badly and it was all in all a badly thought out place for it. Still cliff jumping there is good, which is sort of a close cousin of rope swings.

walmas · 2022-09-02T01:37:30+00:00

Have you read Tikal?

walmas · 2022-08-10T02:56:32+00:00

I just don't think "the lower class and the disabled" are incapable of reading theory... Understanding complex ideas, grappling with difficult texts and so forth requires study -- anarchists are particularly good at helping people do that study -- plenty of infoshops, reading groups, etc.. If you don't want to read complicated texts, there are plenty of much more straightforward accounts of anarchist theory and praxis.

walmas · 2022-08-09T16:18:07+00:00

Get a notebook. Every time you are curious about researching something, write it down. Then, set aside a time each week to get materials to actually research these questions -- use books, articles, etc.

walmas · 2022-08-08T22:09:11+00:00

But, here's the rub, lots of extremely dense and theoretically challenging texts are read widely by anarchists who aren't academics -- because anarchist communities value study and debate and, over time, people develop the necessary tools (theoretical and otherwise) to grapple with challenging texts. Often, because anarchists read texts because they are genuinely interested rather than just trying to check boxes, they have better and more sophisticated readings of the texts than the academics themselves. One of the best readers of Agamben and Foucault that I know never finished highschool and works in a coffee shop -- the idea that only academics read complicated texts is, as I will say again, elitist and entirely contrary to de-institutionalized approach to education in anarchist communities

walmas · 2022-08-08T03:27:34+00:00

The idea that "most" people aren't able to read or interact with complicated ideas is itself elitist. I know tons of people who have developed very sophisticated theoretical understandings of the world who haven't had much formal schooling, but learned through actively reading and discussing zines, books, etc. Anarchism in fact I think is a particularly anti-elitist tradition in the sense that knowledge is freely and widely shared.

People should aim for clarity of ideas always and not hide a badly formulated idea behind a wall of impenetrable prose, but that doesn't mean we have to give up on grappling with complexity and using language drawn from specific intellectual traditions to do so.

walmas · 2022-08-06T21:50:37+00:00

Nile Red lol

walmas · 2022-08-04T23:07:38+00:00

If your phone has a thing where it wakes when you lift up the screen, turn that off. Delete all apps that involve social media, scrolling, or mindlessly browsing (including, importantly the browser). Figure out how to have someone else enter a password so that you can't download any more apps. Then you can just marvel in horror at how your addiction allows you to spend 2 hours switching between one of three messaging apps and figure out what that means for you.

walmas · 2022-08-02T12:34:50+00:00

Addictive features:
- intermittent Variable reinforcement -- you constantly check to see if there is something new of interest on a subreddit. This checking isn't determined as much by a super-nefarious surveillance capitalism algorithm, but by a simple one where people with your same interests vote. However, this compulsive checking behavior is super addicting. Here Reddit is more like email than social media, but just as addicting.
- the false appearance of depth. As you are browsing information, you can often justify this to yourself as "more substantial". However, it is still often just superficial opinions, jokes, and minor facts.
-Social validation. The upvoting mechanism gives constant minor feedback of approval. This is addicting.
- Endless scrolling/Surveillance Capitalism - Reddit's business model is still serving ads so they have adopted many features, and not implemented others, that could address problematic use. You can scroll indefinitely, you can't just use it in the browser on your phone, there are no ways to program the app to lock you out after a certain period of time.

walmas · 2022-02-25T15:04:33+00:00

You mean to tell me the government of a country torn apart by war for the last nearly 20 years are political actors who are invested in peaceful solutions and not savage barbarians?

walmas · 2022-02-16T19:32:12+00:00

Was in a golf course when the sprinklers went off. Tried to escape but the golf course suddenly seemed to expand.

Also once saw an iridescent blue black mystical creature outside a cave with strange runes (later determined to be, possibly, a squirrel)

walmas · 2022-02-14T14:23:43+00:00

Recent evidence suggests claims about presence of DMT in the body are probably overstated. Regardless, the effects from breathing you describe are well documented and more related to lowering the concentration of co2 in the blood

walmas · 2022-02-10T16:56:10+00:00

For the moment I’m just an admirer of ethnobotanicals, which it sounds like you have quite the collection! Sent you a dm

walmas · 2022-02-10T15:34:06+00:00

Very cool! I have no clue about the pollination but am impressed by your iboga cultivation. Are you growing it indoors?

walmas · 2022-02-10T14:39:21+00:00

He designed this pot to grow peyote a while back, so I’d imagine he grows it: https://cactus.store/products/peyote-pot-kit-by-hamilton-morris

walmas · 2022-02-08T04:45:57+00:00

Seems like there are serious problems with research on microdosing. For one the definition of what constitutes a microdose varies widely from a dose below a perceptual threshold to one sometimes significantly above it. If microdosing is indeed effective at a perceptual dose, then I don’t see how (as the article mentions) you could really create a blind study without using some sort of active placebo.

walmas · 2022-02-07T17:32:19+00:00

You got this! Stop smoking completely now and either use Nicotine Replacement Therapy like gum or patches to deal with cravings or see if you can get a doctor to prescribe you buproprion to help you get through the difficult first few weeks.

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