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Author: truant

  • Any Old Iron?

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    Believe me, I am deliberately not writing about WW3 which is much more interesting. The fascists are rising, the socialists will be forced to fight, and we will win because we actually believe in the working class and we can’t dodge it when the war appears, so we will have to be socialists and fight,…

  • MAGA

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    Donald Trump woke up. It was all too much. He forgot that his phone had run out of battery last night and he had fallen asleep He had forgotten to plug it in, it still didn’t work, there would be hundreds of notifications, probably almost 1000. He didn’t know what time it was. He had…

  • I’m not here, this isn’t happening

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    Ok so this is a completely freeform post where I try to explain Mark Fisher. Mark Fisher was a writer who got very famous on the left for an essay called Vampire Castle about how canibalistic the left was. He was a philosophy geek and wrote about how growing up as a working class guy…

  • Dubstar: Disgraceful

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    Ok, I’ll be honest, I’m drunk. I’m going to do a listen through of this album Prelude, I love this album so much. They are from Newastle in the 1990s and underrated. That would be enough even if they were rubbish, but they were a legit pop band and that thing where a bunch of…

  • Constantly Lowered Great Expectations

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    Just read it, not as good as I thought it would be To be honest I just haven’t had any cool ideas to write about, but I promised that I would churn out some shite once a week and I think I’m about 10 days late. I am studying as well as teaching and the…

  • Truant – Just Do Anything

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    Latest release from me. It’s what I made in October. To be honest I had a bit of a break from music making in October, I just got bored of it and never finished anything, hence it being late. These are bits and pieces that I did finish off to put something out. I made…

  • Day drinking and smoking in a public park

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    Very weird and strangely wholesome video of a quite nice young American man day drinking and smoking in a public park Certainly no complaints on my behalf, that’s for sure!

  • GTA Paisley

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    This is very on brand. Definitely worth clicking on and watching. A visual artist has made a very realistic version of the Scottish town of Paisley and for me this is mana. I saw a quote by the artist how he felt he was cheating making it dark and rainy because that makes everything look…

  • Universal Paperclips

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    This is a very fun game based on the Paperclip Maximiser concept. If you like that sort of thing… https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html It’s based on the Nick Bostrom thought experiment to terrify yourself about AI. So briefly the story is that humans design an AI to make paperclips as efficiently as possible, but accidentally make it a…

  • Truant : Our Sun is Dying

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    Our sun is dying. The sky is hidden. Stashed awayIn the air an emptiness. Dust settles. Neither cold or warmA grey blur, shapeless. Manifested from all of us. Just out of sightDrifting off to sleep. Don’t fight it. There’s nothing left in this world for us.When it gets cold. The cold gets inside of you.…