Ever since I started really collecting and listening to CDs, my perspective on music has been shifting. I was born during the decline of the CD and the rise of the MP3 player, and as of late, the extreme success of the streaming service. As such, my perception of music has been shifted by those conditions, which manifests into how I have interacted with and experienced music (wow, a Marxist doing ... » Continue Reading
Thanks to LuciLucilia for the idea, and further to the people on Afterlife who made the format (honestly, just check Lucy's post, I just thought the idea was cool) But I assume most of the people who follow me first saw the music displayed on my profile (and certain fandom things), so it might be obvious that most of my day-to-day revolves around music. It's probably the most important thing in my... » Continue Reading
As was requested, and in the interests of keeping a friend’s computer from imploding, I thought a post about getting started with Linux was overdue! I can’t really say this is a step-by-step guide on how to install and use a given distribution, but rather I hope that this serves to demystify a seemingly elusive operating system; one that is ever present around us, but hidden and out of sight. » Continue Reading
The recent plans for Palestine made by Trump and Netanyahu are not “plans for peace,” they are a mandate for colonialism veiled unde » Continue Reading
I’ve made a couple bulletins about this topic, but I thought a full post detailing my experiences would be interesting. As a bit of context, Before mid-July, I have had very little experience with any UNIX-based systems; when I was 12, I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop to use as a webserver when me and a friend made an amateur home network together. And at a couple other points, I had messed wit... » Continue Reading
Over the last couple years, I've been collecting CDs of albums that I like here and there (more there than here), and one of my biggest pet peeves when it came to displaying all of them was the awful inconsistency and quality of the paper/cardboard sleeves (not to be confused with digipaks). They accumulate damage so easily, get squished by the Jewel standard cases, and are usually a pain to actua... » Continue Reading
It seems like there has been a rise in what I’m going to call “Anything But Communist” socialists on the American “Left” lately. This isn’t about liberals claiming to be “on the left” as my “Nothingness of ‘Leftism’” post was about, rather these are so-called socialists who have no basis in existing theory and practice and are rather reinventing socialism from the ground up under a misguided conce... » Continue Reading
In light of the coming TikTok ban, it's been really funny to see other Americans flood the 小红书 servers and make it the #1 app on the Apple app store 😭 Not to be one of those damn academics, but I think it does represent some kind of shift in the paradigm of the US' public perception towards China. Since 2019, there's been a campaign of heightened anti-China propaganda spearheaded by the Trump admi... » Continue Reading
ChatGPT was down for a while today, which coincided with many people's finals week. The response? Mass panic about "not being able to study or write their papers." The amount of people who are unable to write their own papers or study in college is concerning from more than just a statistical standpoint, but also in the light of the rise of anti-intellectualism in common discourse. Every generatio... » Continue Reading
First off, the assassin was lucky that he chose who he chose. While "terrorist" is a subjective word, and he should not be labeled as such, "individual acts of terror" rarely unite people the way that the assassination did, and the fact that it united left and right is an anomaly, not a formula. What the response to his assassination tells us, through the positive reactions to the emergence of the... » Continue Reading
By request of Vostok, here's an essay I just wrote recently on the topic of women's emancipation movements in the period of 20th century revolutions! I only had 2 weeks to get this paper done, so given that limitation, I'm pretty happy with the results! This time period is fascinating to me, and I would have loved to study other cases, such as that of the GDR or the USSR in-depth, but I definitel... » Continue Reading
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