Cymru immigrant, dysgu Cymraeg. Previously big tech, now small sheep. Somewhere near Machynlleth. #Annibyniaeth #LandBack #Pastoralism #Archaeology #EnvironmentalJustice #DecolonizeConservation #CofiwchDryweryn #Farming #Sheep #Wool #AgroEcology #Cynefin #Cymraeg #KeepItInTheGround #NeverCrossAPicketLine
You know, when I were a wee lass in the depths of the Cotswolds, 'The AI man' was a totally different sort of gig.
Although it does help to think that the current crop of same would be far more use to the planet if they put on heavy rubber aprons and whacked off livestock for money.
Back right in time for another great Aeon mag essay by David Wengrow on how present utopias have influenced our understanding of past societies - and how this too often stands in the way of imagining different social futures:
https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms 
And so it begins. #Defaidodon
What an amazing essay this is.
"This is not about appropriation: this is about the problems of setting in fiction that trouble us all because we live in the same empire-haunted world, ruined by colony and postcolony alike, this tainted, unstable ground. There is no true and authentic fixed thing, and no one can, or should wish to, lay claim to it."
https://vajra.me/2022/03/17/the-extractivism-of-setting-and-the-traitors-text/
"A Conservative councillor from Sunderland with no apparent links to Wales is running multiple Facebook groups opposing the 20mph limit here despite apparently supporting the limit in his hometown."
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/english-tory-politicians-running-facebook-28449407
Amtrack has no fucks left to give.
https://www.tumblr.com/assumptionprime/738628025019777024
Edit: No it’s not actually an official amtrack account, it was comedy. This post is a year and a half old, stop showing your ignorance in the replies.
Back to digging my way through lists of names for potential inclusion in the #Bywgraffiadur list as part of the Diversity Project.
Today, I'm looking at #WelshItalians and there is a decided bias in the historical record. It's all about 
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and 
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Hit me up with your suggestions: which historical Welsh Italians should we add and why? 
My current list includes:
- the Berni brothers of Berni Inn
- Joe Cascarini and Enrico Cascarini of Joe's Ice Cream fame
- Arthur Giardelli (painter)
- Andrew Vicari (painter)
- Ernest Zobole (painter)
- Tony Bianchi (author)
- Adelina Patti (opera star)
- Paul Sartori (priest)
- Howard Passadoro (footballer)
- Guido Roffi (footballer)
- Victor Spinetti (actor)
A lot of guys suddenly pretending to care about "academic plagiarism" like they cared about "ethics in gaming journalism."
Feeling festive, made a Welsh snowman today.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who's read, signed, shared or sent messages. The #Stonehenge letter *is* having an impact.
300+ signatures now: well done all!
If you haven't signed yet 
(do check your spam for the verification email!)
normalize long blinking at friendly humans
New from 404 Media: you may have seen that a group of Polish hackers repaired trains the manufacturers had bricked (hackers were successful and helped). Now the train company is threatening to sue them. We spoke to the hackers.
"Truck" is really not an accurate descriptor for the Cyber-thing. What should we all call it instead?
Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light.
So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.
This isn't photoshop... it's real sea urchins wearing hats.
The conjunction of Jupiter, the moon and the street lamp 
Just read something discussing what the writer hoped for from a Denis Villeneuve adaptation of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer,' and in it the writer discusses the core premise of the text as being about the dangers of escaping into virtuality, saying they feel that Villeneuve would be best able to communicate that in film. Thing is, I think that reading misses something crucial, and i think what exactly it misses is really quite telling.
Neuromancer as a book and cyberpunk as a genre aren't (just) analyses and critiques of digital escapism, they're analyses and critiques of the material conditions which LEAD to that escapism. And unfortunately people lost hold of THAT understanding long before they lost hold of the "Do Not Uncritically Fetishize These Aesthetics" part; in fact, they lost the latter SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE they lost the former. It has "punk" in the name for a very specific and conscious reason.
The continued lack of critique of capitalist and hegemonic structures, here, is part of why C2077 and even the most recent GitS series just didn't work for so many people: Netrunners, Street Samurai, Console Cowboys, and Cyborg Mercenaries are all vocations of desperation, not pure choice. If you need to be those things, it's because the world has foreclosed itself to you and disenfranchised you in a crucial, fundamental way.
This is also why analyses of cyberpunk as a genre and aesthetic which don't include race, gender, and disability are inherently facile, to me.
Cyberpunk asks, "What if we take all the social structures of the 1970s and '80s, all the burgeoning technologies, and like… hyperrealized them?" And the answer is something that is dazzling, awe-inducing, brutal, heartbreaking, and even potentially a little comforting in its reappropriation of agency from the jaws of alienation.
It is also increasingly, starkly familiar to anyone looking outside their window, or existing aware in the world, right this moment, today.
But you already knew that; I'm just talking it out.
(Also, as a sidebar: the idea that millennials aren't familiar with Neuromancer is Weird™, to me, to say the least.)
I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/
Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. For recent projects, I've undertaken some #PublicHistory work and community outreach about #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
Seen in Llwyngwril, Draig coch. #knitted #Cymru #Llwyngwril #Eryri #Wales #Draig #Dragon #mastodon #fediverse
A magical sunset over #Machynlleth this evening.
#Wales #photography
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