The cosmonaut cowpoke who's overly online. Infatuated with speculation (hella lying), fabulation (kinda lying), and communization (stealing). Classified as a level ∞ black-quantum enby, by way of (trans)feminist pan-african(arch)ism.
Essay
The air in waiting rooms always has that distinctive scent. To mix metaphors, waiting rooms are in the freshly sterile genre: Fabuloso, wax, ozone. I can hear the aches from those creaky plastic chairs, a gaudy mold made for the “average,” which is everyone ever (and no one in particular)
News
Dip returns to the Sahrawi struggle against Moroccan occupation and calls for internationalist solidarity.
Essay
Embody your egos, communally.
Organizing 100
TLDR: Understanding social movements primarily as an ecology of organizations allows us to (1) model organizations using a system that is living, complex, and adaptive, and (2) analyze the relationships between them for the sake of creating anarchic social change. With this knowledge in tow, we can become strategic, orienting
Essay
Cyberdecks are having a moment with the socially-conscious, aesthetically-driven folks on social media. What does that say about politics and culture?
News
Thinking through compounding crises of climate shock, supply-chain blockade, and (the afterlives of) slaveholding settler colonialism.
News
Dip discusses a recent Economist article and thinks through the implications of the Continent being seen as a “model” for elsewhere.
Arts & Culture
Dip discusses the ways that Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings exemplify resistance to domination so well that it turns the canvas into a refusal–while grappling with the impotence of such a “powerful” move.
Organizing 100
Dip discusses ways in which organizations of activists can think about their activities.
News
Dip talks about how AI sucks again. This time, they focus on how data centers are encroaching on tribal lands.
News
Dip discusses the intertwining of the space economy with the AI economy. They think both are shit.
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt "artificial development," what it means for our