spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
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I was also brought to tears (literally, I sniffled in the locker room) by the moving banner that the British Library have put up in the foyer.
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good morning, lovely friends
the wealthiest are stealing the product of our labor, and we know their names, and we know where they live
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like Rosa Luxemburg basically predicted the 2008 100 years before it happened using Marxian Economics. Wild yeah? Marxists from Marx through Rosa through Lenin knew Capitalism is unsustainable without even getting into the fact that the Earth has finite resources to exploit and without the scientific knowledge to predict climate change which will inevitably reduce Capitalism back to some sort of neofeudalism unless we can bring about socialism (this is what Rosa means by "Socialism or Barbarism")
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Rosa Luxemburg, in "Reform of Revolution", highlights that while Capitalism can keep itself afloat by continuously growing into new markets, new geographies, etc. in order to delay the busts and crises built into Capitalism; there is still only finite markets, finite geographies. A crisis will come
Late Stage Capitalism is where we are now where Capitalism is struggling to squeeze itself into the few remaining markets the few remaining geographies, and especially in Very Developed countries it looks absurd
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from me bro
Meta-post: I think this is the third time I've made an account and tried to commit to mastodon. The others times lasted for about as long as it took for the novelty of tooting about mastodon to wear off: once we all got that point, it turned out that nobody really had much in common and engagement slowly dropped to zero.
This time around, I'm actually genuinely enjoying being here. There's a lot more activity, and a far smaller proportion of it seems to be of the boring "mastodon is good and better than twitter" ilk. Maybe the critical mass to keep people around has finally arrived?
A Python question regarding large file transfers over HTTP
Here's a cleaned version of what I currently have: https://pastebin.com/Tpgqrvdi
A Python question regarding large file transfers over HTTP
I'm working on a project that involves retrieving large (~2-8 GB) .zip files through HTTP and storing them for later processing. I've written a script that uses an API to lookup and generate URLs for a series of needed files, and then attempts to stream each file to storage using requests.get().iter_content.
The problem is, my connection isn't perfectly stable (and I'm running this on a laptop which sometimes goes to sleep). When the connection is interrupted, the transfer dies and I need to restart it.
What would be the best way to add a resume capacity to my file transfer? So that if the script stalls or the connection drops, it would be possible to resume the download from where it failed?
@Send_Lwyds I'm so glad to see you here! Your name/pic combo has been the best thing to see on twitter for like the last year
@freemo looks like there's a guy trying to advertise some sort of reactionary radio show: romegeorgiaman (lots of toots in the federated TL). Is advertising of that sort allowed here?
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@spinflip Solarpunk is largely a reaction to dystopian visions of the future. Instead of a Bladerunner-esque world of pollution and corporate greed, solarpunk envisions a sustainable non-exploitative future.
Broadly, I'd say the largest underlying theme is a desire for harmony and unity – between technology and nature, and between different people.
There still isn't much literature yet, but a story anthology called Sunvault was recently published... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35235851-sunvault
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PSA: you should install uBlock Origin on all your browsers if you haven't, to accelerate the collapse of the adtech surveillance economy. The Power Is Yours ™
@InvaderXan after your thread on art nouveau last night: what *is* solarpunk? The concept seems to make sense intuitively, but does it actually exist? Are there any archetypical solarpunk works you can recommend?
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enjoy this Russian meme that I think basically translates to “sight of cat, grace of potat”, every time I look at it it gets a bit funnier
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Solarpunk and Art Nouveau – short thread
Art Nouveau found its roots in the Arts and Crafts movement in late 19th century England, when the industrial revolution was in full swing.
Artisans rejected the things which Victorian capitalism was all about. Things like mass production, profit over quality, and the dehumanisation that factory workers suffered.
Instead, their goal was to emphasise the human side of things. The attention to fine detail which capitalist factories would never bother with.
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Solarpunk and Art Nouveau – short thread
It makes me sad when people dismiss Art Nouveau as being "for the rich" while acting as if things aren't really Solarpunk unless they're gritty or recycled looking. People act as if pretty things are only for the wealthy – which is just what the wealthy want you to believe.
Art Nouveau is perfect for the Solarpunk movement, and not just because of the plant-based themes. It's deeper than that.
Art Nouveau was an inherently anti-capitalist movement.
Idk. I feel bad for my grandparents spending a lot of time sitting around at home drinking tea, doing sudoku, and watching the BBC in the evenings. They have friends in the village so aren't hugely isolated, but living with such a low level of information flow feels like it would drive me insane (of course, Being Online is hardly a good thing for sanity either).
I can't help but wonder if that's a result of one-time c20th cultural change, or if I'll be just as relatively isolated in my old age.
So much of my life experience comes from being Extremely Online: dumb memes, weird communities that fit into too narrow a niche to ever self-assemble offline in a single location, a faith in my ability to access almost all human knowledge from the device in my pocket. It's genuinely fucking weird to spend time with a guy who sees all that shit as inscrutably alien, but who can talk about the time a V1 flew over his head while he was cycling home and took out the row of houses opposite.
Spent today hanging with relatives, and ended up going to a German beer festival with my 93yo grandfather. I honestly find it hard to deal with the idea of how old he is: he's healthy (if a very slow walker), pretty sharp mentally, and full of stories like going to French Algeria before shit got wild or wandering around a stable, unified Yugoslavia. I really enjoy talking to him, but there's such a gulf between our life experiences that it can feel like hard work to find common ground
PhD student working with visible-light photoswitches, supramolecular chemistry, NMR spectroscopy. Musician. Some politics.
Joined Aug 2018
