[new draft post] Overall but not bilateral balance https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/30/overall-but-not-bilateral-balance/index.html

i bought a new mac laptop, my first apple silicon computer.

i'm finding when it sleeps, or when i've just left it overnight, i login and all my apps restart (and struggle to restore state), as though it's crashed or kernel panicked.

but there's no message like "Your Mac restarted due to a problem" or request to send a report to Apple or anything. like it's all fine, except it demands a password (no touch id) and i have to start stuff over.

anyone experienced anything like this?

@Harald_Korneliussen citation needed. citation hallucinated!

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @light right. but also the recasting of the outgroup into an enemy or burden, a threat whose defeat or elimination would finally make the ingroup great again.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org likewise! but i feel like i’m offering a rather dark perspective! i’m grateful you think it makes your life better. we do have to understand what we are up against, i think.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @light not working extra hard because of hate. falling into line, obeying the leader unconditionally, because of love of ones community in the face of an insidious enemy that existentially threatens it.

see https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/05/what-is-fascism/index.html

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @light i certainly agree, but the counterclaim would be that sufficiently demonizing a minority outgroup unlocks a kind and quality of coordination (i think a horrible, ugly kind and quality) worth the cost in conflict and the sacrifice of potential collaborators.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org just give it a few minutes to recover itself.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org just an idea!

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org necromangly

@chrisp (i’m glad! i’m hoping i can help more people make sense of the idea…)

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org you just treat every press organ that is not absolutely fawning of you as different faces of the same enemy, one blob emitting “fake news” whenever it is news you find unhelpful.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org as steve jobs would say, stay tuned.

maybe the answer is your faction should always loudly accuse the press as being and enemy and out to get you. it seems to work. they go every extra mile to prove they are evenhanded and unfairly maligned.

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@artcollisions maybe an iPad.

@artcollisions you might consider replacing them with your phone!

our phones are trying to make themselves our spouses, completing our sentences for us when we are half way through them.

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