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17
Oct

erasure poetry with Amiri Baraka and Ron DeSantis

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The work in question.

Code lives here.

Reading about detournement this week has me thinking of this meme by Trevor Allen.

o, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!

If, for Debord, detournement is about creating new webs of meaning, and robbing existing signs of their own meaning, then erasure seems like a powerful method of reframing recognizable corpuses (corpi?). I'm especially interested in his point that a detournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply. Rather than trying to "embrace debate" or critique our political enemies directly, the goal

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13
Oct

Combining Keycloak, LDAP, and Nextcloud (With Discord SSO!)

For most of the past couple months my energies at Eyebeam have been focused on helping move Undersco.re to a more scalable user management and authentication model. Previously, we'd just been using Keycloak with a Discord identity provider. This provided a relatively seamless single sign-on experience, but had a number of drawbacks, most importantly:

  • Running through the Discord IDP, without being able to synchronize with guilds, meant all users had to be a member of Underscore's Discord to use SSO.
  • This process didn't allow for real one-to-one account syncing across different apps, particularly NextCloud, which serves as the core
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11
Oct

100 Days, Day 30: Month 1 Reflections

This is the part where it gets hard. One aspect of daily practice that I'm discovering, especially when I set a broader goal for myself than "make a sketch every day", is that I'm constantly running up against my own boundaries and limits. I guess the key is, once I hit them, to run through instead of away. I'm not sure if I'm succeeding at that right now.

I haven't done a reflection for the last two weeks, partly because I was out of town for one of them and very busy the other. To be completely honest, though, I've

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10
Oct

An URGENTCRAFT discussion question generator + some of my own thoughts

Some sample output.

Since I'm helping lead discussion in Scrapism this week, I made a little cut-up question generator for URGENTCRAFT, figuring I'd kill two birds with one stone. This is somewhat inspired by Kate Compton's Tracery. Any suggestions for tweaks to the sentence generation are welcome, I got pretty caught up trying to make the bash script perfect and didn't spend as much time on parts of speech as I'd like. Its output may not be the best way to start a discussion, so I've added some of my own thoughts and questions below.

Code:


#remove all html tags,
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26
Sep

100 Days, Day 15: Week 2 Reflections

I am very tired. I did a lot this past week, but at the cost of a fair amount of sleep and falling into some bad habits.

The Good

In the interest of giving myself credit, the two big things I did last week are set up a notes page and set up a hot-reloading dev server for threejs sketches, which I'm currently just running manually on days that I use it until I come up with a satisfying way to host "complete" sketches. Using the latter, I set up a draft of a jitsi meet to three.js "3D

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