Gramsci revisited.
One of Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’.
This has traditionally been taken to refer to the emergence of fascism against a background of capitalist crisis and failure of anti-capitalist forces. However, a closer examination of the textual and historical context of that sentence indicates that Gramsci was more likely to have been referring to the pci’s ultraleft turn in conjunction with the Comintern’s Third Period.
Relevant: The original author of the phrase “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” is Romain Rolland*, not Gramsci who “expanded and developed the initial phrase, according to his technique of adopting a previously existing category and giving it a new and richer meaning”.
* Or maybe his spouse or sister who was then left forgotten as the patriarchy tends to do.
$HOME sweet $HOME.
xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.
When xdg-ninja encounters a file or directory it knows about, it will tell you whether it's possible to move it to the appropriate location, and how to do it.
The CSS is not what they seem…
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying.
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.
Kiki Kogelnik (1935 – 1997) was an Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker. She lived in New York City for many years.
Kogelnik is considered an important pop artist, despite having been known to take issue with being considered part of the pop art movement
Maybe the patronizing patriarchy should just stop calling her a pop artist, then 🤷
A bagel without a queue.
Veahavta bagels beat the Budapest bagels. So good!
Learned two new words: Squeegee, which is the German “Wischer” and already one of my favorite onomatopoetic words.
Another German translation can be “Rakel” which I did not know either and which is used for screen printing. Of course there is a Rakelratgeber, it would not be Germany without such a thing.
What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers.
Dyne.org is a digital community and free software foundry. We share tools, practices and narratives that empower artists, creatives and citizens in the digital age.
We focus on developing software that benefits society, rather than generate profits and profits. It's about developing technology that people can understand and control, rather than having people being controlled by machines. Building communities is valuable in the long term, with other types of benefits that are not monetary, because there are other ways to prosper and earn. Software not just about money, it's about participation, ideas, people and a sense of community.
Rising like an iron phoenix from the ashes on Marco Rubio’s forehead…
Relevant: Three Arrows.
Interestingly, while during the Weimar republic the targets of the arrows were monarchy, nazism and communism, nowadays they represent opposition against fascism, capitalism and clericalism for the Austrian social democracts (the symbol is in their official flag). Not surprisingly, the US faction calls for the fight against fascism and racism but – at least as I am aware of – not against capitalism.
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Better a Living Mess Than a Dead Masterpiece.
Your codebase is decaying right now. Will you spend today polishing abstractions… or building something that matters despite the mess?