Tekno Nomicon @teknonomicon@qoto.org

I have always loved dissonance in art. Especially music, but also other media and experiences.

My love for chaos comes from early punk years and rebelling any chance I had. Anarchy and activism, piercings and hair glue, finding stupid reasons to run from authority in a small college town. I held on to these internal desires to thrash, rebel, destroy, and rebuild.

While I'm often much more reserved, soft, and easy going than that past life, I like to think I find my own ways to rebel.

One thing that many people don't see from the outside about the punk community is kindness. That kindness is something I carry with me more than my desire to destroy. I know friends I haven't spoken to in 20 years that I could call up for a couch to surf tonight - the same guys that I slept 6 to a bedroom with (not because we had to as much as we said we did, but because of the camaraderie.) A few I helped through tough spots, and a few that helped me as well. I think that kindness that I received and still carry is my own kind of rebellion. In an ugly and angry world, kindness is the rebellious act.

I guess I eventually meant to say that kindness is sometimes dissonant, and that's it my favorite kind of dissonant experience.

Beware any free-flowing thought passages. May contain irrelevant personal experiences or nonsensical equivalences.

BTW, it's wicked hard to get a beautiful but passing thought down before it becomes a twisted and tangential mess.

Consider yourself warned.

@design_RG only this particular joyful display. I have kitties and a doggo. All animals warm my heart, though.

A quick observation/thought:

It seems that some people cling to law as though it were scripture/morality code. In some cases, I think people can conflate the two. Do you care about a piece of legislature because it's a good idea, positive social contribution, etc..., or simply because it's an existing law?

#socialchange #society #policyforthepeople #socialnorms #morality

An animal's joy is overly contagious. They make me feel like a boy again. 🐶🐾

@design_RG @rgx@wordsmith.social @rgx@write.tedomum.net

I really like this content! Thanks for sharing.

Freedom of speech ≠ Right to force others to listen

@design_RG some of the thoughts that lead me to jot down the post. I have hope that privacy will become a feature in a certain niche of the market. Removable batteries, hardware switches for radios. I think it's happening (albeit not smoothly) with the new Librem 5 from purism. I also have hope that developments continue with RISC-V to have the chance to shut down some of those backdoors that manufacturers and state actors can/may manipulate.

Sure, physical switches is the economical design decision, and closed source software switches is the shitty design decision most people actually get. It's nice to dream!

I think the current and growing interests in privacy and security as we delve deeper into the modern age would lend well to a project like Google's project Ara. Having a phone that you could remove the networking hardware and be truly airgapped would be excellent. Maybe a removable camera/microphone array to go silent when desired? Remove the processor and memory to power off. --

He knows proper password etiquette. Encrypted_🧶🐁🐦-CatZrool5

@design_RG adding to the reading list. Thanks for the recommendation!

Also, post apocalypse - everyone is super fit because there are no screens left to look at? Feed shmood.

Based on my travels today through Indiana and Ohio I can say that our power infrastructure needs some heavy duty work. I counted over 6 small towns with no power.

On the other hand, I saw a heck of a lot more people outside walking around in these areas despite the intense winds. I guess when you lose power you've got to do something to entertain yourself.

Coffee. Coffee coffee coffee. Bean juice.

My inate sense of mechanics and physics is immediately countered by my clumsiness.