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| schestowitz[TR2] | Passing thoughts | Sep 13 17:21 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | An Adam Curtis Party | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | This event was fun. I heard about it with no time to spare, so just turned up at 10 O'clock of the first day to find about 40 very interesting people including writers, politicians, psychologists, journalists, artists, activists and at least one fellow computer scientist already deep in conference. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The mini-con was a celebration of Adam Curtis' work, and a space to acknowledge his influence on all our thinking. It was a stroke of genius by organisers (Brian Jenner and others) to pick a body of work, not so much the figure of Adam Curtis himself (who did not attend, eschewing the prospect of becoming "a talisman"), as a neutral focal point around which to build a highly political but non-partisan buzz. Indeed the ideas and sty | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | le of pieces like Hyernormalisation Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Century of the self and so on, were a constantly nourishing buffet that kept conversation flowing. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Party" was an ambition that did not quite flower. During the one day I attended there was only moment or two of dancing and music, though I got separated from rest at a nearby bar and probably missed some DJs bringing musical entertaiment. The problem with mini-cons is that by the time everyone gets to know each other the event is done. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | So, themes I noted and lessons I learned were around how we break out of stuck thinking. Though psychoanalysis did not explicitly surface (except as an implied counter to medicalisation of mental health) the conference held the very challenging idea of how we are addicted to unproductive patterns of thought, sense of forshortened future, groundhog-days, loops, false dichotomies. These appeared as enrest conversation and some lively | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | spats; one between an ex defence minister and a social democrat responsible for social security policy as "Warfare versus Welfare" (What should one do with a limited budget and the choice between feeding a starving population and repelling enemies at the gate?). Another over the fundamental unfalsifiability of anecdotal evidence. Yet another about Art History. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yet all of these tensions (which remained mostly positive and civilised) pointed toward the bigger issue, the philosophical problem that all present were in the process of recognising and challenging - and one that is central to Curtis' question; It is that our traditional intellectual apparatus for doing politics, for formulating narratives, and for solving problems are inadequate, damaged by too much historical trauma, too stuck | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | and unsophisticated for the complexities we face. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Disappointingly for me, almost no mentions of our technological enemies were made. Concepts like technofascism, software freedom, digital sovereignty were quite absent from the group vocabulary. Tobias Elwood touched on a few, but only through a negative lens as threats. Important technical ideas were conflated with other areas of discourse like energy security or the hate-triangle of "immigration, identity and surveillance", which | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I found frustrating. Many ideas we've named and formulated as hackers/system-people still seem muddy within a wider arts and humanities political framework. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The mini-con continues today <2026-09-13 Sun> but I was needed at church, which gave me a moment to reflect on the spiritual themes we shared yesterday, especially of forgiveness as a pre-requisite to moving forward. | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Mr Jenner opened the proceedings with a keynote on Bournemouth as an historical health resort, a place for healing and recovery. The themes of trauma recovery, addiction and healing of division were ever present in the background; | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | how do we forgive ourselves for the extraordinary mistakes we've made with capitalism, colonialism and industrialisation? | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | how do we stop blaming each other and become coordinated in the shared interest of recovery and healing? | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | how do we repair curtailed futures and put aside apocalyptic visions of the future? | Sep 13 17:21 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | A most enjoyable and inspirational day and I hope there will be another in times to come. | Sep 13 17:21 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Terence is a dickhead. | Sep 13 17:43 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He is associated with people who attack me. | Sep 13 17:43 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2dsy4pc#replies | Sep 13 23:32 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | "The stupid manager called, few months later, asking if I would consider working for IBM again. No thanks .... | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 3 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ag+1m2dsy4pc | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @aa Revenge of the PIPed! | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @ac+1m2dsy4pc | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @a9 hey man good to hear and congratulations and fu-k your manager. I would keep and eye out and see where his career takes him. Doesn’t hurt to drop that place an anonymous “manager employee review” because fu-k it -he earned it. His bad acts should be forgotten and reputation should follow him where ever he goes | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @aa+1m2dsy4pc | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I did, fought it because of illness in my family, got laid off soon after with a bunch of other people and received severance. I had never been so insulted in my professional life by the outrageous lies of my boss, it was an abusive period, and I will never forget it. However, I am now happily employed elsewhere, and my loving wife is healthy. Good luck to you, stay strong, quit or fight if it makes sense. | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 4 hours ago by Anonymous | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @a9+1m2dsy4pc | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +1 | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Keep all your documents and ratings from past. Save them somewhere safe and you can access after you are let go. Also ask for everything you can in writing and also secretly covertly record your meetings with managers on your phone. | Sep 13 23:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There are many lawsuits getting settled over IBM’s misuse and we-ponizing of the PIP system. Google it | Sep 13 23:33 |
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