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tcpipBrought almost everything related to the cluster back online this week, hitting 90% utilisation by Friday, with reviving a downed node saved for other's use. Also this week have dropped into ResBaz. There was a couple of hundred people involved, so it's been quite a show, and ran into Yaokang W., who is interested in the fascinating field of using the Natural Language Tookit in case law. In a couple of weeks I'll be travelling to Wellington to present and MC at Multicore World. My paper has puns in the title; A Laconic HPC with an Orgone Accumulator.
The Isocracy Network has a new article by William Hathaway on a Long Term Strategy for the Left, but also a timely new national policy for asylum seekers developed by Damien Kingsbury, myself, and other troublemakers. 'Timely' is used in the disturbing context of the High Court deciding that the children of asylum seekers born in Australia could still be sent to offshore detention. Attended the large (and mainly unreported) snap protest at the State Library for those of us still opposed to the torture of babies (has it really come to this?).
Three other events attended this week; GURPS Middle Earth and Laundry Files games on last Sunday and Thursday respectively, the latter quite notable for using characters and setting from The Man Who Would Be King. Went to Robina C's et. als, exhibition on Friday at The Food Court; an interesting space and indicitive of an area that has been over-developed - nows the artists are moving in.
The Isocracy Network has a new article by William Hathaway on a Long Term Strategy for the Left, but also a timely new national policy for asylum seekers developed by Damien Kingsbury, myself, and other troublemakers. 'Timely' is used in the disturbing context of the High Court deciding that the children of asylum seekers born in Australia could still be sent to offshore detention. Attended the large (and mainly unreported) snap protest at the State Library for those of us still opposed to the torture of babies (has it really come to this?).
Three other events attended this week; GURPS Middle Earth and Laundry Files games on last Sunday and Thursday respectively, the latter quite notable for using characters and setting from The Man Who Would Be King. Went to Robina C's et. als, exhibition on Friday at The Food Court; an interesting space and indicitive of an area that has been over-developed - nows the artists are moving in.
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Date: 2016-02-06 05:59 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I would make a good revolutionary, since I would be the one insisting that we decide what we are going to create before we tear down the existing structures. It's like literary or film criticism: it's easy to lambaste an author or director; it's difficult to write a book or direct a movie.
Hathaway's assumptions about what led to the current situation seem so tied to a not-fact-checked tradition that the read to me as laughable, and if you don't know where the problems lie, you aren't going to be doing anyone any favors attacking the wrong ones.
Sad.
I won't comment on his piece, since I doubt he is open to criticism without branding criticizers as pawns of the puppet masters or some such rot.
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Date: 2016-02-06 09:33 pm (UTC)I think you should, if only to have your views (btw, which I agree with) on the record.
In many ways I think he's a bit stuck in a paramilitary mode of non-violent direct action, as contradictory as that phrase seems. As much as it has its place, it's turning a tactic into a principle.