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Blog Archive These are all the blog posts that I still have copies of that I don’t think are good enough to prominently display anymore.

Tofu Firm Tofu Preparations Freezing Freezing is a great technique for firm tofu as the ice will break the cell walls of the tofu and melt out.

Chickpeas Chickpeas are a staple protein for my household because they are super versatile and really delicious.

Carbon Steel I recently purchased 3 $10 choice carbon steel pans from an online restaurant supply store (using their free trial of their subscription to get free shipping), and have been attempting to learn the ropes into turning it into a daily driver.

Fix Skia Shader Compilation Error This seems to persist across a lot of electron applications (?)

Spleeter spleeter is a great commandline tool for splitting a song into it’s vocals and accompaniment. install with pipx install spleeter and try it with spleeter separate -p spleeter:2stems -o output input_song.mp3 spleeter will create the files accompan…

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The Deboard-Buendia Program this is a transcription from an old episode of haha yeah, I am attempting to put parts of this program into my year of Embracing the Magic things to do to escape the mundane and model the transcendental in your day to day life…

Set Your Default File Browser From the Commandline using xdg-mime default [.DESKTOP NAME] inode/directory will quickly ensure all applications are using the correct file manager as their backend (some apps were opening folders in vscodium for me).

Bespoke Synth note: I have not really touched the scriptmodule, & didn’t realize until I opened it the other day that there are several code examples provided that you can and should check out I recommend using the nightly build as it’s about as stable as…

Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco Foucault’s Pendulum is an esoteric satirical novel centering academic laborers in the Bohemian streets of 1960s Milan who create and become obsessed with their own invented conspiracy theory.

The Dialectics of Art John Molyneux highlights Dialectics of art attempts to look at art through a marxist lens to define and understand how art functions and clashes with capitalist hegemony.

Dialectics of Art Highlights Page 25 @ 28 May 2023 Secondarily, my aim is to define art for what I will call the capitalist or bourgeois era: that is, roughly from the beginning of the Renaissance (in Europe) through to the global present.

The Dawn of Everything David Graber and David Wengrow highlights The dawn of everything is a tough book to pin down ranging in topics from sociology, political philosophy, history, and evolutionary psychology.

Dawn of Everything Highlights 3 Unfreezing the Ice Age: In and out of Chains: the Protean Possibilities of Human Politics Page 118 @ 01 April 2023 In some ways, accounts of ‘human origins’ play a similar role for us today as myth did for ancient Greeks or…

The China Model The “China Model” is another word for socialism with Chinese characteristics, but seeks to elaborate on the ideological desires of contemporary China with regards to other nations from a more abstract perspective.

In Dialogue with Marxism Boer spends a significant portion of the introduction discussing the origin of the term “socialism with Chinese characteristics” from a philosophical perspective.

Observing China with Western Eyes Boer contends that a large contributing factor to the misunderstanding of China as a socialist project lies in interpreting Chinese practices, culture, and history through the current dominant neoliberal ideology.

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics A Guide for Foreigners Roland Boer Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing.

Historical Nihilism Historical nihilism is the favored tool of those hostile to the communist project, those who seek to vilify and slander China and its path Historical nihilism is a denial of proletarian revolution, negating the leadership of the CPC (or

Differences in Theory Between Contemporary Leftists and Chinese Communists These observations come from a 2012 conference on Lenin held in Wuhan in 2012 that had a large number of Western delegates.

China’s Relationship with Philosophy China has spent a great deal of time enumerating the practices and philosophies of both Marxism and the Chinese Characteristics that define their unique approach.

Atrocity Propaganda Atrocity propaganda is a tool used by imperialist countries to discredit a growing counter-narrative to western hegemony.

Salt Fat Acid Heat Samin Nosrat Salt this section had a good breakdown of the functions of salt as aids in osmosis and diffusion.

Partitioning from general_principles this is another subject that is pretty abstract, it relies on having a style guide that allows you to define the space that a note occupies or appears.

Page Layout from general_principles the book claims that each piece of information will have the following Content Date Title Page ID/Number Sequence Identification Archival Mark Content, Date, and Title are pretty self-explanatory, but the final three wo…

Information Density from general_principles Information density is not just how much information you should cram on one page, though at times that is helpful.

How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think Lion Kimbro This is a book that is pretty well explained by it’s title, here are my notes on all that I read with the exception of the “materials section”, which I skipped as that part isn’t relevant to

General Principals from index The General principles section steps away from the granular materials and floaty goals, and focuses on the physical ways your information should be presented, collected, and organized.

How to Do Nothing Resiting The Attention Economy Jenny Odell highlights see also this book report from cjthex‘s community “How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” is an extended version of a talk of the same name by Jenny Odell.

How to Do Nothing Highlights Chapter 1: The Case for Nothing Page 21 @ 02 July 2023 12:34:04 AM *passage from Gilles Deleuze in Negotiations: We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images.

Finite and Infinite Games James P.

Debt: The First 5000 Years David Graeber The Myth of Barter from chapter 2 of Debt: The First 5000 Years For every subtle and complicated question there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer… which is wrong — H.L Minken The chapter begins by ex…

Critical Landscapes highlights the discussion of tours reminds me of the experimental shows mentioned in How to Do Nothing, specifically the one where guests watch a sunset in silence for 45 minutes.

Critical Landscapes Highlights Art, Space, Politics 2015 Introduction: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Land Use Page 15 Certain artists negotiate the legacy of 1960s and 1970s Land art or the conditions of the global art world, while others actively…

Collapse of Complex Societies highlights Signs of Collapse large amounts of leaders that do not last long. loss of complexity in governance (especially in outer territories).

Collapse of Complex Civilizations Highlights Joseph A.

Chalk the Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly Joshua Rivkin Chalk is equal parts a biography of the incredible Cy Twombly, but also a personal story of Rivkin’s fascination with the mythos and mystery surrounding the man.

Abolish Silicon Valley How To Liberate Technology from Capitalism Wendy Liu A memoir by Wendy Liu about her experience in the silicon valley side of the tech bubble, and her failed startup, followed by general critiques of capitalism both in the tech indu…

Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold was a New York born multimedia artist, inventor of the story quilt, and children’s book author.

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Excuse Me but why Are You Eating so Many Frogs Adam Mastroianni source Adam Mastroianni has experienced first and secondhand people’s relationships with productivity eroding their personhood.

What We Keep Getting Wrong About Burnout Eve Ettinger source Burnout is typically seen as something related to work, and is viewed as a sort of rock bottom position, what it actually is, is a response to complex and lengthy distress Interesting points bur…

What Do We Mean by Public Luxury Pat Kane source The article is a simple outline of why public spaces not only produce less waste, but also can provide more luxury for the people in a society.

Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show Xeni Jardin source This is an article that I actually have a lot of problems with.

Understanding the Barriers Facing Games Students And How To Remove Them Marie Dealessandri source Overviewing a study that is following game development student post-graduation.

Things Could Be Better Adam Mastroianni source Adam Mastroianni outlines some experiments that he conducted to try and figure out why some things seem good and other things seem bad.

The Situationist City: New Babylon and Virtual Urbanism JR source The article discusses the formation of the situationist international through the various avant-guarde and marxist groups that coalesced under Guy Debord’s idea of the spectacle.

The Ocean Cleanup Story This is a section from scooping_plastic_out_of_the_ocean_is_a_losing_game The Ocean Cleanup is a project founded in 2013 by 18yo Boyan Slat, and has raised more than $35 million to clean up the five gyres.

The Lucas Plan source The Lucas Plan was an organizational structure proposed by Lucas Aerospace in 1976.