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“It’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”

- Gilles Deleuze

..."Still, the reasoning goes, the simulation hypothesis might be true. It’s possible enough that we have to take it seriously. Bostrom estimates a 1-in-3 chance that we are sims. Chalmers estimates about 25%."
...
"But before we adopt too relaxed an attitude, consider who has the God-like power to create and destroy worlds in a simulated universe. Not a benevolent deity. Not timeless, stable laws of physics. Instead, basically gamers."...

read more,
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/

"In the early days of pellet production, lumber waste was indeed the principal raw material, but Conservation North, which keeps tabs on local producers, has found that whole trees increasingly feed this growing industry."

Currently, about 90 percent of the wood pellets produced in Canada are used to power electricity plants overseas.

thewalrus.ca/wood-pellets/?utm

very cool, 'SmartKnob' an open-source input device with software-configurable endstops, virtual detents, haptic touch feedback, and a round LCD.

youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4p

github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

New episode of Artists and Hackers podcast is a mini episode on Winterbloom's open source music hardware for Eurorack modular synthesizers.

artistsandhackers.org/winterbl

We talk with Thea Flowers of Winterbloom and get into hacking the Big Honking Button with CircuitPython, a fork of MicroPython.

=== Techno ===

A QUEER FEMMECENTRIC (TRANS)CENDENTAL RAVE EXPERIENCE

APRIL 16

DANCEFLOOR FACILITATED BY
. EMERENCZ RA | SOL
. DJ DENISE
. NANCY DRU

$15/PYWC NOTAFLOF

DRAG PERFORMANCE/HOSTED BY EROTIK CLOWN

11PM TIL LATE LATE

1965 MAIN STREET

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE INCLUSIVE SPACE

#604 #778 xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh () Sel̓íl̓witulh ()

== active/passive vol. 4 ==

Out now, the call to participate in this beautiful Galiano Island based chill electronic sound event, now in it 4th year. Apply by April 17th.

Highly recommended.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

I'm reading the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Guide, and it's altogether an amazing work, but this is my absolute favorite part:

"Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows."

p.hagelb.org/sabotage.pdf

When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.

— Why the Lucky Stiff

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