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A lot of people will call shunning Amazon, Meta, etc "purity politics". According to them, since no company is perfect, we should just give up having lines, since there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Alternatively, it can be seen as exercising whatever little direct power we have, as individuals, to stop funding the machines that are killing us and making us poorer. It's not enough, but it's certainly a start.

Waaah.
https://oilwell.app/
(Das ist sehr gut gemacht. Sehr, sehr gut.)

Oilwell - Meditate through the meltdown
A wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos, created by Edelman, Oil and Gas PR. From Smog Breathing Exercises, to Lifeless Rock Visualizations, to Wildfire ASMR.

Physio signed me off since I told her that the wrist is more or less back to normal now.
She still wants me to keep doing the exercises for some undefined amount of time. Will into the new year be enough? Dunno. Will do that at least.
Need to get more exercise in general once this bedroom is finished building and I get the flat back to myself most days. Will have the fabled Tredmil Desk in the bedroom then so that'll help.

US Rep. Jamie Raskin demands CBS explain how it edited a recent Trump interview, saying Trump seems to be exercising "direct control" over editorial choices (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5631560-…

On a day full of conversations about big AI tech and the decisions museum, libraries and archives have to make at the intersection of licensing data for AI and their values, the AI Afterlives workbook seems like a thought-provoking exercise #FF2025

Neuerscheinungen 4. Quartal 2025
Neue Bücher, CDs, DVDs von Markus Barth, Matthias Egersdörfer, Maxi Gstettenbauer, Oliver Kalkofe, Carolin Kebekus, Marc-Uwe Kling, Sulaiman Masomi, Piero Masztalerz, Dieter Nuhr, Aljoscha Pause, Andreas Rebers, Christoph Reuter, Science Busters, Bodo Wartke.
Vorschau 2026:
Neues von Bülent Ceylan, Martin Frank und Marc-Uwe Kling.

I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry

Ways of Seeing: Following the Brush - Zuihitsu as Attention
Zuihitsu, a Japanese literary genre between prose and poetry, is a unique form of attention. Sei Shonagōn and Kimiko Hahn inspire exercises in looking.

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain,
saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried
or gave birth into cell toilets
or on filthy jail floors.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregn

Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail: ‘Her voice was not heard’
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

BREAKING:
Reverend Bizarre – They Used Dark Forces/Teutonic Witch
is truly awesome. Like, 29 minutes of solid riffs, bass and percussion, repeated beyond any reason, yet miraculously not boring at all.
Oh, that's just one song. The rest of the album is pretty good too.
Unfortunately, it's not on bandcamp and I don't know of any good music service these days, so I guess finding it is left as an exercise for the reader.
#MusicRecommendation #DoomMetal