Matt Crawford
@matt-crawford.bsky.social
Retired physicist, Kerberos hacker, project manager, ...
If a time machine is invented in act 2, it must be used in act 1.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If a time machine is invented in act 2, it must be used in act 1.
Reposted by Matt Crawford
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
I mounted my salad spinner at a slight angle to the gravitational field. Now I have a food precessor.
November 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I mounted my salad spinner at a slight angle to the gravitational field. Now I have a food precessor.
Did anyone catch the sequel to The Polar Express? A young boy philosophically doubts his own existence until he takes a ride on The Cartesian Express.
November 25, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Did anyone catch the sequel to The Polar Express? A young boy philosophically doubts his own existence until he takes a ride on The Cartesian Express.
Beware of the trojan .ics file attachment that invites you to an event on 1 Jan 4713 BCE. That's right, it's a zero-day exploit.
November 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Beware of the trojan .ics file attachment that invites you to an event on 1 Jan 4713 BCE. That's right, it's a zero-day exploit.
I just deleted my Twitter account — I had to dig into saved passwords for twitter because apparently I had never logged into "X" on my desktop. And to be precise, I "deactivated" it. The account will be deleted 30 days from now.
November 13, 2024 at 4:08 AM
I just deleted my Twitter account — I had to dig into saved passwords for twitter because apparently I had never logged into "X" on my desktop. And to be precise, I "deactivated" it. The account will be deleted 30 days from now.
What do you call a billionaire musician who tours once every 133 years?
Taylor-Swift-Tuttle.
Taylor-Swift-Tuttle.
February 6, 2024 at 2:52 PM
What do you call a billionaire musician who tours once every 133 years?
Taylor-Swift-Tuttle.
Taylor-Swift-Tuttle.