Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • If Nature Is Unjust: Xenofeminism, Blacceleration, and the Margins of Acceleration

    In 2015 a manifesto appeared under the name Laboria Cuboniks, who is nobody. The name anagrams Nicolas Bourbaki, a fake mathematician invented by French academics in the 1930s so a group could publish as one mind. Behind the second fake name sat six women on three continents, and their closing line is a demand, not a complaint: "If nature is unjust, change nature!" I argue that the sharpest accelerationist thinking of the last decade comes from the tradition's margins rather than its center, by reading xenofeminism and blacceleration as two answers to the question the center keeps declining to ask: whose body absorbs the speed.

  • Your Gym Membership and the Grafton Line: Writing Groups as Method, Not Morale

    Let us be honest with one another. Doctoral writing is hard to sustain alone, and it is exhausting in a way that no one warns you about because everyone assumes you already know. I will argue that writing groups belong to method rather than to morale. I will describe two models I still write inside, Eileen Campbell Reed's writing table and the Grafton Line challenge, and name the three things a group does that solitary discipline cannot do for you.

  • The Company You Keep: Writing Support Resources for the Long Project

    Most advice about doctoral writing addresses the writer alone at a desk, which is precisely the condition that produces unfinished dissertations. I will argue that the writing process needs support outside the writer's own willpower, and I will show it through three kinds: a community that expects you, a reference bank for the language itself, and the institutional tools you have already purchased without noticing.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Rose Bowl

      OK, I am at the Rose Bowl today. Just had a brefix sammich and now I am setting on a wall in the shade watching exercise people do their laps and golfers golfing.

      I am testing out this Banana Split app I found on F-droid. It will split this text into 5 shard with 3 required shards to restore the text. These show up as QR codes. Thought it would fun to try. I think I am limited to 1024 characters. Hopefully dis will b a success.

    • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Sunland Park

      I am in the Great OutDoors, but in a park that is pretty urban. There is that urban element here so I am being m0ar vigilant. Not too concerned, but being aware. I don't usually go to this park, but it seems to have cleaned up some since the last time. Not as much presence of the unhoused, but there are stil some.

      There was a lady at a picnic table with her stuff and plastic bottles on the table. She was barefoot sitting at the table wearing a sleeping bag. Not sure if she was wearing anything else. I think one of the park people gave her some food since she yelled out a thank you..