Ulixes-core Posts Compilation

He's so freaking cool..

i think im still kind of lost on what kind of things constitute "genre" as opposed to scene or style. like the best ive come up with is that "tracks are in the same genre if their authors considered the same stylistic elements important to play around with and were in communication with each other either personally or through a shared canon of previous work" but i dont even know if i have it right i like the similarity webs because they capture that this is about this sort of interrelatedness and not just stylistic features, though, so in this sense i understand

music companies like genres for marketing i like genres for sociomusical understanding and exploration. we are not the same. do you understand

once again going mad with envy that the G-Star E Para line is out of production. That shit all goes so immensely hard and my grubby little hands will never be allowed to touch it.

whuuuuuuoahahahahahaha

no this rules. RIP

abandoned space elevator

let us hypothesize a trans woman who possesses every cool property. as it is known, for every possible trans woman, there is one that is even cooler. the only way to be cooler than the possible trans woman that has every cool property is to also have the property of existence. therefore, she must exist.

there are more cool trans women than you will ever be able to conceptualize

my first newsletter entry is about the work I did this year on my longform comic project, strike the spark! it's about a group of friends in a socialist study club who are trying their best to support their school's union and their impending strike! I hope to finish the book next year. you can read the newsletter here! 🍀

to be honest, to me starting at the top seemed easy. the way i learned was basically a sequence of "this is how x really works under the hood"-type revelations, which suited my learning style reasonably well. im sure i could have gone the other way around too, though i feel like you might have lost me starting at assembly because a high level language was relevant to my other interests then in a way assembly wouldnt be

half of the mystique around "tech stuff" that most people experience is mostly just because they don't know the difference between a "tech enthusiast" as constructed by Apple et al's marketing team and "people who know computers work" and how there's very little actual overlap between these two categories. the only actually good programmers are the ones who want to fuck the computers or perchance have undergone some other technopsychosocial adaptation, which does not correlate with knowing how many dozen cameras the latest iphone has or being able to get along well with the business major interviewer at a startup called Zyergote who drives a tesla

"Would you rather use the app? :)" I cannot begin to describe how much I wouldn't

Evgeny Sedukhin - “Symphony of the sixth blast furnace” (1979)