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beadsland

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Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.

Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.

#CovidCautious
#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄

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Frankly, surprised it took as long as it did.

Expected mask ban hammer to come down in 2022.

Here's the thing about Democrats in North Carolina's senate trying to amend the law to make it only a pretext for arresting protestors…

To wear a mask is to protest.

Hell, no, I will not willfully participate in the preventable harm of myself and others!

Hell, no, we won't go quietly into the pandemic night!

The idea that one can separate medical masking from protest masking is height of privilege.

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"I'm one of the good maskers," says a Democrat seeking to amend a mask ban, "I'm only wearing a mask because my family has access to cancer treatment."

"Don't lump me and mine in with those seditious, insubordinate protesters!" they plaintively continue, "My family loves police! We want to help police! We'd never be seen dead at a die-in! We know better than to stand in opposition to government power! We deserve a carve-out! Let us wear masks. Just drag those other people to jail for doing so!"

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Anyone who has seen a cancer ward waiting room, full of unmasked cancer patients and unmasked cancer care professionals…

Can tell you that wearing a respirator during an ongoing pandemic is a choice.

A choice that many immunocompromised folk consistently do not make.

There may be many reasons for this choice. We are not going to arbitrate those circumstances here.

So it is with any mode of oppression: there will always be those who do and do not choose to resist.

Wearing a mask is protest.

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"[Democrats] Batch and Grafstein each proposed amending the bill in ways they said would still give police the power that Republicans have said they want, to crack down on masked protesters, but to add back in legal protections for people who wear masks for public health reasons."

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-senate-votes-to-ban-people-from-wearing-masks-in-public-for-health-reasons/21433199/

Ya'll convinced yet?

Policing, the fifth estate, is why we can't have safe things.

They ain't want you protest safely. Ain't want protest.

electoralism ain't gonna fix this.

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If they don't want you masked.

They don't want you safe.

From them.

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The urge to destroy food is the urge to go maskless during ongoing .

The urge to reject grief. The urge to refuse trauma. The urge to render one's pain as someone else's problem.

The urge to be right, true, and good, and damn anyone who would suffer as a consequence.

The urge of the electoralist; the urge of the moralist.

Not a matter of kind, nor even of degree, but of .

We destroy food every day. Not children, but adults. Not in name of conflict, but in name of commerce.

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A reminder, as always, that fascism ain't about hate.

Fascism is about control.

Hate is just an inescapably powerful means of control.

Thus fascists leverage hate to its utmost. It is a means.

This is how people who have been the targets of fascism can nonetheless, themselves, be fascist.

This is how institutions ostensibly aimed at checking fascism, can nonetheless, operationally, be fascist.

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Proposal to refer to solar arrays as amp farms.

beadsland ,
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@TechConnectify

cc @futurebird

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Today's random wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

stemming from recent thoughts I've had wondering what makes a programming language more "internationalizable". I consider myself very grateful that English is my first language and thus the barrier to entry and progression is much lower, but what about the rest of the world?

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@andrew_chou Am thinking of BASIC on 8-bit machines. The keywords were entered and displayed as words, but stored as interpreter bytecode. This made efficient use of limited RAM.

There's no reason a modern interpreted bytecode language couldn't use keyword localization tables. The challenge would be variable and function names. There'd have to be introspection within the language for mapping new localizations, on an ad hoc basis, to code snippets used in instruction & libraries for development.

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OH from a breadtuber just now:

"But the general thing I'm trying to say is, if a person knows what's good for them, they will accept liberation, they will want to be on the path of liberating themselves and other people. I kinda think that that's non-negotiable as an idea, if we're trying to do this work."

The irony here is that "knows what's good for them" is in the context of reading Freire, yet contrary to speaker's take on same, the sentiment expressed by these words is painfully liberal.

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Tangentially, having to stop and sit with how humanist, all too humanist, was Pedagogy.

The notion of humanity as something lost, as something to be regained, thus to be made full…

Rendering humanity as an object or substance, distinct from self, in the service of overcoming the oppression borne of one's objectification, was… a choice.

The inescapable undercurrent that folk are walking around who are not fully human…

As if becoming a Platonically ideal human is the aspiration of liberation.

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Sitting with the liberal tendency to deem those who do not share our episteme to be unreliable narrators of their own lived experience.

The urge to deduce and explain what their lived experiences are and must be, on the authority of our correct and accurate knowledge of what they do not know nor believe rightly.

Because, heavens forbid, they could not possibly be aware and cognizant of their own lives, in their own terms, if they do not know as we know, do not assert the truths that we assert.

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Is one thing to say that my lived experience representative of others who testify to similar lived experience.

Something else entirely to say that my lived experience explains true lived experience of those in denial of their own lived experience.

From Protestant discourses on one's relationship to God to socialist refrains of false consciousness to nativist moral panic about secret morons to covid-cautious narratives of dangerously chronically ill masses.

We know others better than they do.

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Because theology, because theory, because science, because pathology.

We know, they don't, and the world sucks—people suffer and society is in crisis—because of that epistemological chasm.

Again and again, this is the liberal refrain.

People do suffer. Society is most certainly fucked.

But it ain't because people don't know themselves as well as we know them on their behalf.

Their lived experience is one of coping—as is ours.

Knowledge? Just a tool for coping. We need new tools for coping.

beadsland OP ,
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That NPR article?

Yeah, just another example of someone confident that others are unreliable narrators.

Another liberal voice expounding understandingly how they know for sure what is reasonable and necessary; thus the lived experience of another is nothing more than fear and anxiety.

Knowledge is a tool for coping.

One way we cope is to tell ourselves stories of how other people are too ignorant to think for themselves—that we know the truths that they do not.

We need new tools for coping.

beadsland OP ,
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Because here's the thing, folks:

If this comes down to a battle of who knows the lived experience of the other better than the other knows themselves, then it won't, ultimately, be about knowledge or even about confidence or certainty.

It will be—as it always is—about numbers.

Those with the greater numbers will always win in a I-know-you-better-than-you-do-off.

Not because they do know us better than we know ourselves.

But because they know more folk will back them up than will back us up.

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A guide to Covid aware internet shows that aren’t all about Covid!

It’s time to enjoy watching and listening to shows on topics that interest you that won’t slap you hard in the face with Covid denial when you least expect it.

So here’s a list of podcasts and YouTubers that I can assure you are Covid cautious based on experience, even when that’s not the main topic of their programs.

Special thanks to @anarchodelphis

https://buttondown.email/Crowgirl/archive/a-guide-to-covid-aware-internet-shows-that-arent/

beadsland ,
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@crowgirl @anarchodelphis Oh, wow.

Used to maintain a classic iPod for podcast listening... until 2020. The idea of being able to resume such without being pulled up short on the regular.

Thank you for this.

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Estimated 28.5 million dead thus far during our ongoing pandemic (per Economist models)—including the near three quarter million dead in just the last 3 months—places it third among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:

⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million

⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)

⒊ Covid-19: 28.5 million to date (over 4+ years)

⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)

⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million

⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million

⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million

beadsland OP ,
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Estimated 28.5 million dead during our ongoing pandemic—incl. near three quarter million dead in just last 3 months—places it 3rd among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:

⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million

⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)

  1. Covid-19: 28.5 million* to date (over 4+ years)

⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)

⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million

⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million

⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million

*Of these, 21 million acute covid, per WHO.

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Are you or and wanting to find folk to connect with?

is a voice-oriented / Discord server for those who are still looking to protect one another from airborne infections.

https://discord.gg/eGyvxqYC

Join us for chore hangs, parallel play, and otherwise keeping one another company hands-free while engaged in daily activities.

Planting a seed. With hope, it grows.

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is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
Climate would've killed it—if hadn't.

Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many .

We can bury ourselves or bury the dead.
We only got so many spoons.

Use them wisely.

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Previously: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057

(Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)

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Razorcake Webcomic by Silas Haglund

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Illustration of two figures clasping hands in solidarity. On the left, a blonde white man with yellow-dyed mohawk and earring, wearing blue jeans, studded black leather jacket, and matching studded black earloop face mask. On the right, a bald Black man, in blue jeans and short-sleeve orange polo shirt with white stripes and oversize Fred Perry-esque wings on breast, wearing a white head-strap mask. Text at top an bottom in all-caps block lettering, variously skewed on the z-axis, reads: LOUD AND FAST PUNKS WEAR MASK
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