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Axiomagic

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I've never made an anonymous account to scream into the void with before so we're gonna try this form of masking and see if it summons a persona or a stand or whatever he/him/they/whatever I'm not fussy

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Feb 3

"Nature abhors abhors a vacuum" this and "Nature doesn't create straight lines" that, well nature made me and I like vacuums and straight lines so maybe nature does, indeed like that shit just in the most roundabout possible way.

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 3d

To truly, deeply feel the weight of how dangerous it is to go alone

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 3d

Mentioned to my students in lab yesterday "this is why crypto bad, what if this happens and someone needs their groceries"

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 10d

It did however make me laugh till it hurt when they said "it seems like some sort of... animal burial ground?"

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 10d

"Your paper's great! But..."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 15d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 18d

Unfortunately for people in those crystals, "others" won't stop existing no matter what they do. The argument will always hang over their head like a dangling sword, so instead of just stepping out from under it, they'll simply build scaffolds of our bones such that the sword will never reach them

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 18d

This creates an argument. An argument is seen as anathema to the ataraxia of the machine that is an "office".

Because of this, biases get refined into cold steel that then become the norm. When something is the norm, the bias becomes invisible.

Invisible biases crystallize into bigotry /

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 18d

But oh no, look at that, our society has made honesty a negative thing to display in work environments because that "wouldn't be polite" to say "hey, maybe don't say that thing about disabled people" or "hey that's a slur, please don't use that."

"I didn't mean anything by it"

"Well you said it" /

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 18d

The most frustrating part is that the only thing needed in order to cut through the knot is honesty. Nothing more. Just be honest about where you're coming from. Be honest about what you're aware of, what you think you may not be aware of. Be upfront about your biases. That's literally all it is /

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · 18d

The gordian logic knot of wanting to be "free of bias" is a lie, it always has been, and it's one of the most pervasive ideas in American "intellectual" circles. To believe that one can have no biases is to argue that you have no perspective. No human is truly neutral, that's the fucking point. /

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jul 7

Me when I'm too young to remember Beanie Babies

Or Precious Moments

Or Fine China collections

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jul 4

It is infinitely infuriating that everything that is occurring is in large part due to feedback loops that come from the interaction of introducing general currency into a society and then giving control of that currency to whoever has the most of it

Just such an obviously shitty design

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jul 4

Like that was the entire point of the first season, he's not different, he's lucky he's in the position he's in but he's not fucking different.

Now here we are in this whole weird season story where he's "playing hero" in a curated role by the game itself

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jul 4

I was so frustrated at the end of the first episode. Where Gi-hun is playing russian roulette with the initial recruiter and the guy gives the whole spiel about how "You'll have to admit you're just like all of them"

And then he... doesn't just shoot the asshole in the face. He plays the game

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jul 3

There are people who, somehow, simultaneously believe that we're going to terraform mars in the next 25 years or whatever AND that humans don't cause climate change.

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 26

Forgot alt text, but it's a picture of a character from One Piece telling an enemy who expressed frustration about worrying about the future that "Worries are also a part of life"

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 26

I've heard people argue that the impulse to consolidate wealth and power is survival instinct

Maybe it was at one point, but now it's an equation of discomfort with death. A belief that elimination of discomfort = progress

You cannot eliminate discomfort from the world. Trying to only brings death

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 26

The modern impetus of consolidation of power is in equating of "I'm uncomfortable" with "I am dying"

The displacement of *worries* onto others is the point. When those worries multiply into violence through that displacement, it cycles and feeds back into post hoc justification of said displacement

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jun 26

this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

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No, Mamdani won't enact a single anti-Jewish measure. I don't even know what those would be. But that's not the point. The point is that 400K of my neighbors don't care that he makes Jews feel unsafe. That's the real tragedy here.
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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 21

I understand you work to build affordable housing, that's great! But arguing that people don't know what they're talking about when they say "Hey maybe we should treat housing as a human right" does not help people who do not have houses.

Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 21

I have similar and no one gives a shit

But since you seem to care because you're trying to pull rank without talking about what the degrees are even in, I have an MS in Economics, you do not know what you're talking about.

Das Kapital is literally just an econ textbook. Christ dude.

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Axiomagic @axiomagic.bsky.social · Jun 18