Phones these days are seemingly optimized exclusively for playing games and literally nothing else, and the way they chose to do that apparently is removing object permanence from the OS entirely. It's ridiculous that the average 100-bucks device has enough resources to sent a dozen Apollo 11s to the moon, and yet the OS rations hardware resources like bread during a famine. The existence of dontkillmyapp.com is a testament to the fact that there's something seriously wrong with OS development these days.
Yeah I'm kinda expecting that from a book about this topic. That's actually good advertising for the book if it gives you the full scale of the facts, but given that I'm already constantly angry at the world this is probably masochism for my mental health...
Alright when I manage to read a few chapters I'll let you know my feelings about it. Idk, Gladio was something that I've been vaguely aware of for quite a while, but I realized I've never properly informed myself about it beside the stuff I picked up from podcasts, video essays, etc.
have been doing a lot better overall, but it never feels like enough and each falter feels worse when I've trying to be committed to being sober
This one hits particularly close to home. What you realize after a while is that getting better is a tiring full time job, and you don't get to take a break from it cause that's called a relapse. It's like the IRA's "we only need to get lucky once, you need to get lucky every time" and you're Margaret Thatcher. It's hard. You need to stay strong in your weakest moments which... uh... they're called weak for a reason???
Idk, all I can say is don't let the guilt take over, comrade. You had a moment of weakness today, tomorrow you keep fighting like you were two days ago. A couple of fuckups don't define your overall trajectory, you're still getting better and that's what matters.
And you're definitely not alone in feeling lonely, comrade. It's not exactly an uplifting thought but it's something I guess...
Oh yeah no worries I got which book you were talking about. And ok gotcha, that seems fair enough. It's often difficult to tie all the threads together when you're talking about covert operations with a bunch of different actors collaborating for different interests. It still sounds like it's worth a try.
Damn ok this is a big one, both in scope and just number of pages... I'll definitely add it to my reading list, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not a bit intimidated by it.
Neptune Frost is a one-of-a-kind movie. It's weird, cryptic, experimental, beautiful, and honestly just a unique experience. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea but it's a movie I won't easily forget.
Oh, it's also about being trans hackers. And about dying in the cobalt mines.
Thanks to you for reminding me about MCR! I've been binging their music for the past few days. Even with their latest album all about people dying in the Mediterranean, they just. don't. miss.
And yeah Inside Man isn't particularly deep or political, it's just the kind of movie that's fun on every rewatch for me.
I'm afraid I don't have much I can recommend, I had pretty much the same reaction as you with the writing I found both by and about him. Most of what I know about his philosophy is from either school or or other media that references him. I remember reading a good essay by the Wu Ming collective that talked about Gramsci, but I can't find it right now and idk if it there was a translation. If I manage to find it I'll let you know.
Unrelated to Gramsci, but Wu Ming wrote some great historical novels with an impressive amount of research behind them and an explicitly leftist perspective. Some good non-fiction commentary about Italian/European recent history as well. It's not all good, they have some bad takes here and there (don't read Clockwork Orange Duck), but I like most of their stuff. I'm reading Proletkult right now and even though I have mixed feelings about it it's still an interesting book. Most of their best work is translated.
Resetting the "days since being told to read theory" counter back to 0 once again...
Jk, I read your old thread on Lucio that you linked, was that the one you're referring to or is there another? And if you have other resources on it beside the ones in the thread please do share!
About Money Heist, oof. I only watched the first season and a while ago too. I remember being kinda unimpressed because I felt like a lot of the plot conceits were pretty directly lifted from Inside Man, one of my favorite movies. The political content seemed pretty surface level to me back then, at least that's what I remember, but I might have missed stuff. Definitely interested in the documentary about it's impact though, that stuff is right up my alley as you can tell.
The idea of capital acknowledgements is gonna haunt my dreams