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screenshots from the smart phone archives, 2019-2021

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found on fb marketplace

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the children yearn for subculture

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Alejandra Bogue por Joel-Peter Witkin

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The Power and Limits of the Archive - Achille Mbembe (conclusion)

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The Power of the Archive and Its Limits - Achille Mbembe

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"On a more basic level, the archive imposes a qualitative difference between co-ownership of dead time (the past) and living time, that is, the immediate present. That part of its status falling under the order of the imaginary arises from the fact that it is rooted in death as an architectural event. A death has to occur to give rise to a time characterised by not belonging to a private individual, precisely because this time, from that moment on, founds or institutes something"

THE POWER OF THE ARCHIVE AND ITS LIMITS, ACHILLE MBEMBE 21 - 22

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it's good, it's just that it feels completely agonizing that in the 14 months a court case to revoke the lease on the forest has been brewing, the atl cop city was just...fully constructed. so much despair.

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a few years ago I described crypto as the dumbest reason we are all going to die to someone and I think that's true, except now we also have LLM's and really, implemented unwarranted AIs are potentially the dumbest reason this planet will get so hot we all die. but! I will admit the technology is slightly less dumb than NFTs.

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from "Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention" Straus, Ch. 3

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anarchism still deeply needs lesbian feminism tbh. consensus bros have nothing on dyke decision-making.

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who wrote the paper on why dykes love puns so much

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My mom's AA boyfriend sent me this today: a picture of a small rowboat boat on the edge of a lake with the words "Become the one calm person on the boat who shows the way for all" and below it a caption saying" Thich Nhat Hanh told of the crowded refugee boats. "If even one person on the boat stayed calm, it was enough. It showed the way for everyone to survive." can't think of a more absolutely insane pull to send to me this month.

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The law is frequently weird and poetic. You often encounter gorgeous metaphors that denote legal doctrines piercing the corporate veil, the penumbra of the constitution, the nerve centers of entities. I thought this was both because it is rather old and because lawmakers like things to be obtuse and grand, but a great deal of the poetics of law in the US is because we have primarily a common law system that is conventionally considered derived from the English common law system in which judges make the law by writing opinions and setting precedents and so depending on the character and proclivities of the judge, the writing is more or less metaphorical or flowery - much different than dry, statutory Roman law. but also, reading the chapters of Dawn of Everything on Kondiaronk and legal traditions of rational oration + persuasion present in many Native societies of Turtle Island, one can really imagine how much this cultural contact crept in (frequently unnamed) into settler societies and sensibilities here. I think this is true with a lot of things - much of what is thought of as 'uniquely American' culturally that is associated with the imperial US nation, if accurately traced, would root itself in the lifeways and political sensibilities of Native people here. because we retain a common law style of judicial law-making, but also much of the legal system was derived from native law-making (literally the constitution of the Iroquois confederacy was maybe the single heaviest influence on the US Constitution), persuasive oration is still like, a huge part of our (extremely adversarial) legal system. D, who is a high school history teacher, and I have been chatting about what shifts in academia and primary education we might see as AI dominates intellectual technology. She predicted we might move away from written papers and back towards debate and presentation - and already this semester I have a graduate class where the professor nixed a final paper, favoring a voice recorded presentation. She said she was tired of reading chatGPT's paragraphs on student essays. Part of me is despairing - the combination of relatively abysmal public education around media literacy doesn't NOT feel relevant to why Trump is considered such a persuasive speaker even as he spouts random lies and babble and anti-intellectual crusading. The absolutely overt microscopic navel-gazing of written academia is...delightful, to me, but completely larkish. The obscure technologies of statute are much less democratic because they do not require public persuasion nor do they accept public grief. This Monday I was in my class on Atrocity Law - the professor asked "what does genocide mean to you?" (dark, I know), and also a very odd question after reading the lengthy legal definition of genocide. But what a question! What if, instead of South Africa pouring through each count of Israel's genocidal acts + totting up the total to see if it matches enough counts of intent to exterminate a national, racial, religious or ethnic group to convict a national entity, each member of the court were asked "What does atrocity mean to you?" and Netanyahu himself had to eloquently defend his politics of slaughter rather than send a lawyer to argue how unintentional the extermination is.

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i rlly enjoy reading all ur little diaries on here i hope u all have a nice life