I no longer want notifications, thanks

Truly a universal experience. Even the teams don’t take themselves as seriously as the fans do

Fun stuff unless played in a colosseum

Conditions are ripe for radicalising football fans, I’d say. I think anyone can see the sport being killed this time, and this is a frontier that I think is both old and new at the same time. There is a lot of theory about media and consumption, but sports gets viewed as apolitical when it’s just not.

Even the rules have become technicalised. Football managers are probably going to incentivise players to play lifelessly even more than before. Nevertheless, I live in a country where there is a lot of love for foreign teams and that provides leeway for some political support. Considering this, I’m supporting Iran, hoping that I can reverse some of that internal bias towards popular teams.

yes

1. Word Sound Power - I often think about how music stopped being brave gradually - whereas this album names actual Indian politicians as corrupt, names atrocities by the Indian state, and spreads the message of communism with a hell of a bop.

2. Angine de Poitrine because it suddenly came over my feed, apparently it’s a meme? It’s alright - just a lot of chromatic riffing that sounds especially good if you’re into guitar music

Been giving a listen to one of my favourite artists from Kashmir - some very evocative vocal melodies with Rock and folk influences. https://alisaffudin.bandcamp.com/album/wolivo-2

I believe it can be used as a tool for good. But, bear with me here - GenAI for the public good requires a good enough understanding of the forces of production. The way all AI, including Open Source AI functions benefits companies with a large stake already - due to compute requirements, data availability and a host of other resource constraints. We also simultaneously risk losing capabilities and knowledge across traditional tool uses to a mirage of capabilities embedded in our very own individually purchased softwares - capabilities built on language models behind subscription tiers.

I know it might sound like a stretch, but there are possibilities/situations where the third solution you opted for becomes oppressive. As there is no way for the person to move out of that house in a capitalist society, they end up working there as bonded labour. I’m sure there are ways out of it through some sort of communitarian model which guarantees equality

YouTube has always been arbitrary about its copyright strikes, but platform capitalism has a unique way of lending itself to enshittification on every front. Now it is a result of Big Tech backing Big AI. First we were onboarded and now we are being forced to lend our personalities to AI and its “agents”.

My app, “Voyager” keeps going down momentarily too, but so do a bunch of other social media websites. Don’t know if it’s the fascist government or my ISP playing tricks

I don’t think individual action can amount to much. Hence now I am seriously considering working with an organisation that works on ground in the environmental sector.

Organic farms, communitarian organisations, animal rescue centres, citizens’ fora all seem to be places where you can make a genuine organised effort, while feeling more connected to nature. Bonus points if they are socialist. In fact, I’d only go if they were at least socialistic about their praxis.

During COVID, I learnt by observation that such on ground organisations are the ones that determine a neighbourhood’s resilience to a natural disaster. Hence volunteering to socialistic organisations made me feel less like I am sitting by watching the climate crisis unfold.