Post B1eWd0ruBRTybNcABE by kissane@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #B1eWd0ruBRTybNcABE by kissane@mas.to
       2025-12-23T22:23:39Z
       
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       Happy holidays, fediverse! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/
       
 (DIR) Post #B1eWd2ANMFqqcxGQbo by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-12-26T21:19:09Z
       
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       @kissane I read the whole thing, carefully and slowly. It is dense, but not overly so. There's a lot to it. The metaphor is pretty damn apt. And the/a "solution" (there isn't one, I know, but us humans can only Do Things) is kinda one me and my punk friends have revived from a long sleep: culture making on the ground, person to person, and making those threads that matter between us.  Thanks for that!
       
 (DIR) Post #B1eWd6y9V82pWUaEka by kissane@mas.to
       2025-12-23T22:23:48Z
       
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       It is roughly 5k words long and some of the densest abstract thinking I've tried to do in years and I started drafting it while still in the last huge year-end push at Unbreaking.org and finished this morning. I am toast. See you in January!
       
 (DIR) Post #B1edrw3z1y1dioKJhA by kissane@mas.to
       2025-12-26T22:40:16Z
       
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       @tomjennings I think that has to be part of it—we stabilize against erosion by building up root networks and I think about that all the time.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1fJft0WlJz0qPeBhQ by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-12-27T06:28:44Z
       
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       @kissane Localized islands of culture. That's how a lot of punk stuff was made in the first place, out of necessity. It's also why this modern idea of constantly holding some big picture up as a goal is often bullshit. Internet culture promoted it. Life is lived here and now.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1fU3zHe4vlAnimjbs by srtcd424@mas.to
       2025-12-27T08:25:07Z
       
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       @tomjennings @kissane in science and nature stuff often "nucleates" anyway. Focusing on changing the stuff one can "reach" is probably much more productive than lofty big-picture theorizing :)