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The Amazing Digital Circus: errantpixel.micro.blog

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2026 is around the corner, and one of my resolutions to see through is to embrace the Fediverse! I deleted my Twitter account a couple days ago, and I’m doing my final goodbye tour on Facebook now. I don’t know where this road leads, but I suppose it’ll be as good as we make it.

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Landry, a former state attorney general who took office as Louisiana governor in January 2024, thanked Trump, saying it was “an honour to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US”.

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Via The Guardian

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It really feels increasingly like the US is willing to commit to this post-international rules-based order mode, full time. What do we do in response?

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Finished reading: Zone One by Colson Whitehead 📚

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Finished reading: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle 📚

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The transition of human activities on to surveillance platforms means that truth and falsehood, fact and rumour, become mere data points of equal value.\n…\nIn a fully platform-based world, everything shrinks to the status of behaviours and patterns; meaning, intention and explanation become irrelevant.

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The Guardian

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I might be feeling some… professional regrets?

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When I became enamoured with the idea of a career in “Interaction Design,” I assumed that a commitment to critical discourse came with the territory. I realize now that was always a reach, but it feels ever more alien to my field today.

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“Conspiracy theory is a love affair with power that poses as its critique”.

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Robyn Marasco, via this essay on Trumpism

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We are all little ladybugs, burrowed deep amongst the branches, seeking shelter in a world that is so far beyond our ken

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I’m reflecting on this piece from Dan Moynihan on the concerted, ideological assault on free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing

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Canada recognizes the State of Palestine: errantpixel.micro.blog

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Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, described Gaza as a “real estate bonanza” on Wednesday, Hebrew media reported.

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Speaking a property development conference in Tel Aviv, Smotrich said he was talking to “the Americans” and that “the demolition, the first stage in the city’s renewal, we have already done. Now we just need to build.”

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via The Guardian

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What can be said about such naked, reckless hatred?

\n","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2025/09/18/bezalel-smotrich-israels-farright-finance.html","date_published":"2025-09-18T13:46:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-18 13:46","date_timestamp":1758203185,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"73499225","content_html":"Watching the far-right, as embodied by the Republican Party under Donald Trump, redefine who is a legitimate subject and object of violence… it’s something. It seems increasingly trite and naive, but I can’t stop thinking about my internal “kindergarten book” rubric for social values. Is anything coming ou... errantpixel.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2025/09/13/watching-the-farright-as-embodied.html","date_published":"2025-09-13T22:28:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-13 22:28","date_timestamp":1757802520,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"73498806","content_html":"Finished reading: Kraken by China Miéville 📚\n\nBelated review of this one from the spring:\n\nOnce it got its hooks/tentacles into me, I found it a pretty heady, exhilarating, and entertaining ride. Miéville really delights in getting a whole bunch of plots and arcs going spinning at once, and I shared the de... errantpixel.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2025/09/13/finished-reading-kraken-by-china.html","date_published":"2025-09-13T22:12:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-09-13 22:12","date_timestamp":1757801528,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"71164208","content_html":"

When the 2010–2015 era music streaming service Rdio shut down, I exported my library as a Spotify playlist. I put a needle on that 7,849 song-long record this morning, for the first time in a very long time. So far it’s been a strangely moving time capsule experience.

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Currently reading: Kraken by China Miéville 📚

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I have officially submitted my data-extraction requests to Msrs. Musk and Zuckerberg. Once I’ve received my severance packages, I’ll cut the cords. Time to say my final farewells to that chapter of the internet—we sure had some fun, but if we had only been more honest about what we were doing.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2025/04/19/i-have-officially-submitted-my.html","date_published":"2025-04-19T22:28:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-19 22:28","date_timestamp":1745101690,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"60992774","content_html":"

Working on a homebrew setup for a TTRPG next Saturday—Orc Borg for the setting, vibes, and zany tables, and Grimwild for the cinematic, narrative-driven mechanics.

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Currently reading: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben 📚

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Currently reading: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov 📚

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Rosy-fingered dawn at Dundas West station. Bound for Vancouver today.

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2024/11/27/rosyfingered-dawn-at.html","date_published":"2024-11-27T12:33:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-27 12:33","date_timestamp":1732710792,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"49787571","content_html":"Currently reading: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock 📚\n\nMy introduction to Moorcock was stumbling over the Corum books; there’s something about his writing I find a little chimerical and hard to pin down, and I think that’s what I find compelling about it. There’s a lot of pulpy touches, and it move... errantpixel.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/2024/11/16/currently-reading-the.html","date_published":"2024-11-16T15:26:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Michael Liston","url":"https://errantpixel.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F51%2F1633131.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"errantpixel"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-16 15:26","date_timestamp":1731770766,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}