repairman, writing about Material Culture https://xitter.cf/t.co/XyfKl4XKzg

in loco harmonium
Joined January 2022
Replying to @Rusty_Swarf
We're all surrounded by clutter, and it's not particularly our fault, it's a historical phenomenon, downstream of the Industrial Revolution and the Consumer Value System. Nevertheless it is our problem.
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crises of imitation are created by misunderstanding context
language is a field of monuments (names, landmarks, ceremonies, holidays, idioms, etc) that commemorate moments when the crisis of imitation was resolved by someone reversing and converting the cataclysmic mimetic trajectory of everyone wanting the same thing into everyone saying the same thing which was done , first of all, by treating it as something said rather than an appropriation of something
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the potemkin village architect understands this but cannot escape his fate.
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hasn't writing always done this?
we are designing a new style of writing that attracts potential successors and repels pretenders
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I love the idea of "setpoints" to describe the behavior of complex systems. The "bodyfat setpoint" theory of obesity was probably the first time I heard it. But the class is broad. What are some other social instances?
autism is absolutely a spectrum. for every normie, there is a level of hypocrisy in their social mileu beyond which they will effectively become autistic
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You can mentally reset your trashcan setpoint. xitter.cf/EedenEnne/status/21073…
I've been watching this japanese minimalist youtube channel and absorbing tacit knowledge. It's bizarre to have done what felt a merciless and thorough decluttering and still suddenly find more items out on the open that make me go "??? Why do I even have this??"
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Serious Profanity Setpoint xitter.cf/dissproportion/status/…
I have a theory that there’s a more or less fixed quantity of linguistic taboos and so once people started swearing all the time and in front of my kids they had to come down hard on “retarded” and “master bedroom” etc. to maintain the balance.
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smartest guy in the room? or most dumbness-intolerant guy in the room?
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avoid complex webs of secrets in general ...
Here’s the hard-won survival advice: - keep bathing regularly - use a mirror before leaving the house - dress simpler than you think - use short words and bulletpoints when communicating with normal people, and get someone else to read over important stuff - do your loving in the present not the sentimental past - abstain from plotting revenge - if you cannot forgive, forget - you may have noticed something hidden but its probably not all about you - that person was already annoyed before you got there - avoid making complex webs of secrets - try starting sentences with close people with “the thing i really am avoiding to tell you, is….”
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This is a design criticism tweet.
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I'm embarrassed to call myself a half-assed organization guru because I am not actually good at this. Throwing things away is hard. Today I'm trying to envision the end goal which is to have SPACE. Clear space is a valuable thing.
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Tools reshape our character. What does using tools we don't understand do to us? Does it teach us to trust, or teach us to flail?
flipped through tools of conviviality and many words in order to say that 1) limitless expansion of machine type tools actively destroys virtuous human inclinations & our ability to exercise them 2) we need new tools that encourage these inclinations i.e reformed institutions
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silly project, I made yoga blocks from figured cottonwood
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based yankee doodle
Colorful covers of today’s Saturday magazines:
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1/ This morning I revisited Venkat's "On the Unraveling of Scripts" (2013)
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We the people don't need new tools, we don't need procedures, we don't even need security and prosperity. What we need is catharsis.
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This is a job for fiction.
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