Are taught they need to be helped by apps that spoon feed/filter experience of existence for them. They are taught to substitute these parasitic app mediated views for agency, competency, fluency. Humans allow the parasitic apps to displace them from leadership roles in their own existence.
I don’t agree with Vonnegut’s suggestion that music offers “proof” of the existence of “god”, which Vonnegut seems to negate, in the same recording, by admitting “whatever this is” (referring to existence). We don’t know what this is. No one ever does, perhaps no one ever will know what this is.
Live, and/or recorded music sometimes allows us intense emotional connections, that also exist independent of the time, and at some distance to the space they are first occupying.
Your touch down in football doesn’t prove “God” exists either.
One can be so moved by music that one is intensely connected to the simulated person(s) sounds via the recorded voice/instruments.
I literally fall in love with people, hearing their music.
Vonnegut falls in love with the idea that perhaps god exists?
Why does he need god to exist? What does he think he gets from that? He thinks god leaves a recording?
Dry. I am near an incandescent light bulb and I can feel the heat on my face. There is a smell of airbourne particulate. I can feel the heat coming through the bottoms of my shoes. The sweat evaporates, I don’t realize I am dehydrating. But it is the 1990s, and there is still an ozone layer. Not Portland, OR.
We are sitting at a table at Cafe Copioh (Las Vegas, NV) as Mike does the closing routine. Orit is showing me a card trick.
I can’t know if upon seeing Laszlo Kiss (architect) in the street if I would punch him in the face, or invite him for drinks. What do you do to a person who fucked your chances at grad school? I mean in a way it opened up other routes for me. Stubbins for sure, I would not have been at Stubbins if I went to grad school in 1990-ish. But he (Laszlo) fucked me pretty good with that one bad grade. And then they (Ohio State) didn’t ask him back to teach again. Or maybe he chose not to come back to Ohio. People do that. Choose not to go back to Ohio. He did invite me to see his Soho studio (when I contacted him in NYC) and to guest crit at Parsons. So Karma speaking, I think we are golden/even. I would probably still ask him to drink with me. He taught me high modernism in like 5 minutes. That is not nothing.
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Hello (user name redacted) followed by some random numbers.
12:27 PM Sorry, I don’t quite understand what you mean. 12:55 PM
“(redacted) ” is a long name
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1:31 PM This is the same as your @dc_us lol 3:27 PM I currently live in (redacted) but my hometown is (redacted). By the way, where is your hometown? 3:28 PM
I live in Portland but am house shopping in Europe.
4:40 PM Oh, it’s interesting. Portland is a beautiful and vibrant city. Why do you think about buying a house in Europe? There are still many beautiful and developed cities in our country.😀 4:55 PM
Americans are too dumb.
6:30 PM Aren’t you American? 6:31 PM
I broke up with America.
I am a free agent.
6:32 PM Oh it sounds like you must have been through some bad things, my father is from (redacted) and my mother is (redacted) so I am mixed race, but I grew up in (redacted) 6:34 PM
Ive had a good life. But I am tired of America.
7:01 PM Everyone has their own preferred lifestyle, so I respect you. Are you planning to go to Europe soon? 7:06 PM
I am there now. (in my mind) lol
10:07 PM
In my mind I live with Aldous Harding. I go where she goes. People say one should not marry a musician. So I have an imaginary marriage. lol
I know the real marriage will be a struggle. I have been in that marriage.
A panel discussion at the 43rd Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
video by Pi-Des
“Wolves in the western U.S. are subject to a patchwork of protections based on arbitrary political boundaries – not science – because of congressional actions and legal decisions. While California’s population is increasing at an encouraging rate, Oregon’s wolf population has entirely stagnated and Washington’s report of an annual increase is suspect. Poaching is an increasingly serious problem in western states, and the odd split of federal and state authority complicates investigations and enforcement of anti-poaching laws. We’ll discuss the legal status of wolves in Oregon, Washinton, and California, the state of the science on coexistence between wolves, humans abd their livestock, and the challenges of confronting agency decisions not grounded in the best available science.
1 Thing about Aldous Harding, ( ) she writes for me specifically. Perhaps her fans feel this way. I suspect we all think she is writing for each of us specifically. So great.
(I don’t know who writes this song, I assume it is Perfume Genius but I honestly have not heard of that band name before this week.)
I cannot love more than this. This is the maximum love setting without distortion.
I don’t even like waffles. But I totally eat the waffles. You can’t stop me.
…an unseen someone before him drops/throws something on the ice, a purple hair scrunchie, that perhaps becomes an obstacle to his routine. He is on his back, on the ice.(No visible injuries.)
Actual questions I am asked this 24 hours (by both anon internet somethings and live in person person): 1. Are you married? 2. Do you have a girlfriend?
What should I tell people? What is the correct response in this instance?
Yes, I am married. Yes?
I am asked (by a someone/thing on a social media group) if I even know who (Perfume Genius) is, and I write: “I trust her judgement.” (her = Aldous)
Story line: So, one of the imaginary friends, pretends to kill another imaginary friend, then she makes out with them. Various imaginary friends make out and or watch others make out. Got it. This is like university, but inside her head. There is a sexual university inside her head. She saves the imaginary friends from various pauses in imaginary existence, yet this all seems real, and relatable.
Who are these people? Why does he/she see them?
Who is he/she/they when alone? Is ( ) alone? Can ( ) be alone?
From the view of the (fallen) skater: What makes a partner/other? Is ( ) a rescuer, a mother, a chef, a confidant, a tattooed love boy, an abuser, a lover? What changes? Is self merely response, feeling? Is he/she/they a verb?
He sees them having sex after he had pretended to leave.
The reading changes if from the view of the skater or from the view of the fire fighter. The two see each other even if maybe they are not in the same room.
Alternate Story Line: Gay rescued skater/son brings tattooed love boy to service fire fighter/mom, trans abusive lover arrives on site with a gun ready to abuse various persons. Fire fighter winds up “back” with abusive trans person so much so they begin to merge into one another. Final answer.
Merging: This happens in David Lynch films. People become occupied by someone/something else. The character sometimes is suddenly played by someone else.
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I want to crawl into (innocent protected) and morph into her and just be inside of her bouncing along as she walks with that strange sort of pissed off look on her face.
Speaking from direct experience, one can be in love with someone who is not in the same room at the moment. It can be a durational love that consumes all while disembodied. I know the body exists. I have seen it. It is always here with me.
It occurs to me that this work can be seen as a follow up to the video for Imagining My Man.
The visuals in No Front Teeth are so powerful I notice that I need to close my eyes in order to really hear the song.
Thinking of others who are not present, can/does this life end? Will death be better than this?
The thinking becoming all, so that no present remains.
The sex scene allows fans to experience what being with the fire fighter (rescue person) might be like. We all got to sleep with the fire fighter/mom just then. Got it out of our collective system. Whomever thought of that is literally a genius, or a shrink. Either way I owe that person a drink and maybe a (redacted).
She/they changes into something else at times.
“It’s on the camera Thrown to the floor And I grin just a little It’s in the palm of my hand I feel something My entire life…”
No being in the present exists. (Cliche: It will be hard for you to say that with) No Front Teeth.
“I love everybody you don’t understand!!” -Perfume Genius
I grew up in Las Vegas, NV in the 1970s and 1980s. Stores always open, 24/7. It is better then. You need a tire at 3am, you go to see the Mexican guys on Charleston, no fucking problem. The present is weak as fuck. dc
I try to hire people but they don’t work out. I think Covid made many people less functional…
10:16 AM
What areas is your design company mainly responsible for?
10:16 AM
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I try to hire people but they don’t work out. I think Covid made many people less functional…
How is your design company going now? Is everything going well?
10:17 AM
This is America. America is not well. I am good. America, not so good. lol
My last person literally has a poltergeist…lol
10:20 AM
I don’t understand you
10:21 AM
I hired someone but they had a lot of problems.
11:34 AM
lol
11:38 AM
I invested in (redacted). I own 30% of the shares, but I don’t participate in management
11:39 AM
Cool. I am management. lol
actually I don’t believe in management
11:43 AM
You only believe in yourself lol
11:44 AM
I plan to retire early at age 45. In my spare time I invest in stocks, short-term gold trading, and real estate to increase my passive income and get my retirement plan ahead
11:46 AM
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You only believe in yourself lol
True. People can be disappointing. Perhaps you have noticed?
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I plan to retire early at age 45. In my spare time I invest in stocks, short-term gold trading, and real estate to increase my passive income and get my retirement plan ahead
I have a life of a mind. I will not retire. It is fun for me.
12:14 PM
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True. People can be disappointing. Perhaps you have noticed?
No one is 100% perfect, everyone has advantages and disadvantages
12:16 PM
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No one is 100% perfect, everyone has advantages and disadvantages
sure
12:16 PM
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I have a life of a mind. I will not retire. It is fun for me.
I retire to enjoy life, how long do you think the income from my investment portfolio will take to fulfill my plan?
12:18 PM
Ideas and culture bearing is fun for me. I don’t want to retire. Laying around is boring.
$ is not real.
The culture you make during your short life is more important than the $
12:21 PM
So why did you start your own design company?
12:22 PM
So I am the one who enters into the agreements…
Other peoples agreements are their problems.
I am 50% art 50% science. It is what I do.
12:42 PM
The United States is a financial powerhouse, and most people have their own investment portfolios to increase extra income and reduce the stress of life. How about you?
12:43 PM
I broke up with them.
12:47 PM
I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, your language is amazing, good luck lol
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My life today ( ) pictures (and sounds), pictures of models, and sketches that ( ) start several years ago but happen all the way up to now.
Life ( ) not one picture. Pictures, and sounds, constantly emerge, project.
Light carries life.
We ( ) reflect light, and are audience for it. We make pictures, we see pictures, we are pictures. ( ) remind you.
Perhaps you are hiding.
It ( ) ok, ( ) am one of the unbroken humans. There are some left.
( ) want to assume this.
You can show ( )? Your pictures are safe with ( ). Are ( ) pictures safe with you? It is a two way projection, you should know.
( ) sometimes “run in” to each other, out on zombie attack shopping missions, ( ) bounce off surfaces, fall into pot holes, sometimes maybe even a rabbit hole, but this is a worm hole.
( ) leave notes for ( ) another in the media. Hire consultants. Incur debt. Try to project the light and sound we think will accomplish some…goal. Culture bearing, social status, political change.
Discreet, sometimes less discreet, markings, on digital surfaces.
( ) pictures and sounds are sometimes ten years before this.
Sorry. ( ) am of another time. ( ) live in another time. It is ok. ( ) have come to terms with it. ( ) like a unicorn. The unicorn Kurt wrote about.
( ) come out (some) way, and then ( ) make this way.
But for sure, ( ) at ten, ( ) know.
My life today, ( ) see in 1974.
B tells me: “We trust your judgement, you are making better decisions than we do.” ( ) believe her, she is right. ( ) understand it is not a bad thing to be smarter than most of the people around ( ), in Las Vegas, NV, in 1974…
( ) am often ten years early for people.
( ) spend time making pictures and sounds, and then wait for you to see them.
( ) wait for the IT people CEOs pay to create the gates, to LET you see our pictures…if only you download another app.
The CEOs want us to pay them, for everything.
CEOs and IT people, in various hotel rooms, attending conferences on Zoom, to be replaced by little robots, in arrays of vented, sheet metal boxes, eating EMF and data all day, every day.
The robots also “want” us to pay them…
…make their own currency.
A currency of nothing. EMF and data.
( ) and ( ) nothing robot currency. The (color name) puppet approves.
( ) admit ( ) still hold a design license, am a registrant. ( ) am required by law to point out: “…threats to life, and property.”
But understand this: ( ) do not need the robots, ( ) have the ability to remove all of them. ( ) am a one you need to be worried about, if you insist to charge us to exist.
( ) am a one.
( ) have a patent pending on the off switch for robots.
It ( ) my gift to us.
( ) am death.
It ( ) the best switch to have…( ) have it.
Lucky for you. Lucky for me.
( ) come out (some) way, and then ( ) make this way.
1964.
If I am a weapon, I am my weapon. If you use me for some purpose, it is still just your purpose. I am not your purpose. I am a weapon.
David Curtis will be leading a Winter studio based in the Mojave, the focus will be scaling demountables/deployables. It will review his approach during the last 6 years and apply that to current projects. The critical posture will be quality based, in art criticism, and design theory/practice. If you, or someone you know, would like to participate in the studio, either remotely or in person, please send an email to: dcpides@gmail.com (plz include relevant academic or professional work you may have completed to date, if any. Beginners are also welcome.
With the Musk Foundation’s help we will put a Triage Field into literally every person’s hands. Triage Field will replace ALL forms of autonomous vehicular travel. dc
Pi-Des welcomes NB1 to the practice as a collaborator.
NB1 is a mother, artist, and activist, born and raised off-grid outside Las Vegas, NV. Passionate about environmental activism and homeless outreach, NB1 dedicates her time to making a positive impact in her community. A talented singer-songwriter, sound engineer, and filmmaker, she blends her creative skills with her commitment to social causes, using her art to raise awareness and inspire change.
Attendee, Bruce Delgado, Mayor of Marina, California (frozen video, audio only) has been a registered GRN since he was 18 yrs old. Was elected to city council in 2000. Advocated for an Urban Growth Boundary. It was unpopular but was able to win by a slight majority. One of the boundaries was a former military base that needed to be cleaned up before it could be developed. The mayoral term has been expanded to 4yrs now when it was previously 2 years. Marina is a small town, its people speak 52 languages. It has 64% people of color. GRN values really come in to play. There has been an emphasis on finding space for gardens, clean up of litter, clean up of graffiti. On the ground issues. Respect, basics.
There is an airport left over from the Army. There is a company developing an unmanned air taxi. It means 450 jobs in manufacturing and engineering. Water is a big issue. There is litigation (with) American Water Works (confirm name), fighting them from taking/polluting ground water.
We lack funds for public amenities.
Rent control is at 3% per year. 552 units have been purchased by the city for rent control units. Redevelopment of leftover Army buildings.
Delgado was a botanist by trade, recently retired. Being elected official means meeting people from all walks of life.
David Doonan, small city in NY, City has a program where it buys 3 abandoned houses and rehabs them then sells them at fair market rate or lower.
Josiah Dean, Dufar, OR. In the hospitality industry, bought a hotel in Dufar, rural community 100 miles from Portland. Red town. Al Gore in 2000 caused him to find the GRN party. Trying to do good governance. Finding funding for a sewer project. Everyone wants to have a good community. Water bills are paid, pot holes are filled. It is a volunteer position, 600 people in this town. Earn trust by doing good deeds.
Gloria Caballero-Roca, School Committee (Ward 4), Holyoke, Massachusetts Has lived in community since 1999. It is mostly Hispanic. Corporations own most of the housing. Focus is on living conditions of students and their families. The Holyoke School System has been under receivership since 2015. 1st Hispanic Mayor in history. Root cause inequality. 7 wards, poorer wards lack services.
Students are struggling with standardized tests. 89-90% are low income Hispanic. There is a lack of infrastructure. A lack of ADA access. It affects quality of life. Air quality alerts are occurring from the burnings in Canada. High rate of asthma.
Since Holyoke School System has been in receivership, they are working to build a solid plan. They have many Spanish speakers. Need more teachers of ESL.
Post industrial city, Dams, Solar, Coal used to affect the area. Find ways to not feel like victims.
Stephen Zollman, Sebastopol City Council, California, army vet, was with SF Public Defenders office. Social Justice equal opportunity advocates. Veterans for Peace organization. Ran to oppose a potential conservative majority council. Board member of Sonoma Clean Power. Geo thermal. Animal rights issues related to factory farming. There has been prosecution of people defending animal rights. Work on a proclamation to protect animal rights. Fiscal crisis. Wants to “smartly” employ police for serious crimes only. Mental health funding. Fully out gay man. No one is doing well with mental health issues. Police are spending a lot of time on mental health issues.
Gloria Caballero-Roca, we are a city that is under funded. System puts obstacles. We need support. Fight the system that is oppressing us. Would love to see more programs, students need to do things matter to them. At 5pm it is a ghost town. Neighbor to neighbor. We have shortened the period families can stay in shelters. Many students still live in shelters. We are violating human rights to shelter. Where are the families going to be? International affairs are generating this problem. Why are they leaving their countries? The policies are being designed. Shelters are being cleared to make room. Robbing John to pay Peter. We are going to be run down by waves of migration.
Samuel Pfeifle, School Board member, Maine School Administrative District 15, Gray/New Gloucester, Maine, Rural community have exact opposite problem. 10 places in Maine are least effected by climate change. Wealthy people coming to Maine, people being taxed out of their homes. They want different things from the government. GRNs and conservatives are asking are there ways to conserve? Keep life simple? In rural Maine we do not have infrastructure to support climate refuges. Affluent refuges are a harder problem, it’s money we cannot generate. Plan to adjust to refugees.
David Doonan: Too many properties are being turned into Airbnb.
Young people, find a meaningful issue, or help others in community. You don’t want to be a leader before you are ready.
John Q: What helped you prepare to serve?
Gloria: The system helped prepare me. Please run for any position. I creid a lot. People opened up. Get involved. Talk with your neighbor. We talk. We door knock. Agora. We talk, we do politics. You are important. You know what your problems are. Let someone know. Don’t be intimated. Language has kept Hispanic/English population separated.
I have two doctorates. As a mom. I did it. I stay on those young people. It is up to me to educate them.
Press Conference 2, Green Party Congressional candidates.
David Curtis, Pi-Des reporting
In attendance, Beau Forte, running in NJ CD5. Spoke on expanding the number of seats in Congress, to make it more difficult to gerrymander districts. Special interests would have to “buy” more candidates. His opponent takes support from AIPAC.
Justin Filip, OR discussed the need for public financing of elections. It (running for office) being a rich man’s game. Housing issue and foreign policy are not inseparable. 62% of the budget is spent on war. Less is left for schools, housing, there is inadequate money for the unhoused.
Michael Dublin, working man in a rich man’s game. Help people down on ground level, we have enough lawyers in DC. Lawyers are good at deflecting. Cut military spending. Help Palestinians, address what is happening in the Congo, Sudan genocide. US is complicit. Increase min. wage, the amount of affordable housing we are losing. Developers are only concerned about profit.
Question from John Q, KEPW 97.3: Is attracting young voters an explicit goal of the Green Party?
Justin Filip: We need to be in the community, be allies, walk the walk. I wasn’t really emphasizing the Green party, (at the protests) the focus was the students. (It is hard to) get 5 students to start a chapter. DSA is having more success, students are drawn to socialism, it seems to resonate. Messaging, students gravitate to more socialist groups.
Beau: Progressive, young people push people to the left. If we don’t get young people we won’t grow.
Michael: We are driven to include young people, events on college campuses. NC State. Some people are concerned about entities losing their non-profit status by hosting political parties/events.
DC, Pi-Des: I have heard the fundraising climate is difficult this cycle. Voters are disgusted and at the local level in OR, I am adjacent to a local campaign for Portland City Council where due to restructuring, it expanded the seats and there are many candidates running. Are you finding the fundraising climate to be difficult?
Justin: 1/2 time is spent fundraising. we have some support, we cannot compete on the same level as corporate candidates.
Michael: My DEM opponent takes AIPAC money. It costs $2-4K/month for a billboard. It would help if people share website links on social media. And also word of mouth.
Beau: Fundraising is the least fun part, most challenging. Don’t want to see people throw money away. Have to go gorilla warfare politics. Shake hands with people at the bus tops. 60-65% of the time Reps are doing fundraising.
Question from John Q, KEPW 97.3: Will you be in debates with the other candidates?
Michael: I am scheduled to do a forum w/ GOP opponent and the incumbent DEM. The forums are not Green party events.
Joining late is Kymore Freeman, DC. We need to lead with the platform. In DC we pay $ but we don’t have representation in Congress. There is hoopla surrounding VP Harris. These are exciting times. He recalled the 1968 speach of MLK regarding remaining awake during a revolution, don’t end up sleeping through a revolution. Stay woke. GP opportunity to right this ship. Imagining a better world for our children going forward. Getting people to vote outside of their political party. Freeman is with the DC Statehood party.
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Press Conference 1 happened just now via a Zoom meeting.
Stay tuned here for updates. DC
One of the key goals for the Green Party is to obtain Minor Party status on the National level. To do that, they need to achieve 5% of the vote at national level, running a presidential candidate. This is perhaps one thing critics of the Green Party do not understand when they accuse them of trying to “spoil” elections at the national level.
The PNC received 3 proposals for the national convention. Potential host cities included Seattle, WA, and Las Cruces, NM, and virtual.
I asked if the party was collaborating with the candidate’s campaign to strategize for security given the environment currently.
The co-chair said the party is supportive of Stein’s campaign request for Secret Service protection should she become the nominee. It is likely she will be the nominee.
There was some discussion about a candidate (Cornel West) departing the Green Party nominating process to run an independent campaign. Stein had advocated for West seeking the nomination, but West decided to instead pursue a run as an independent.
The Green Party suggests a virtual conference allows for greater accessibility in that participates do not need to travel to attend.
Scott McLarty emphasized a virtual convention has a very low carbon footprint.
Greens distinguish themselves as an anti-war party.
“If killing children isn’t your redline, there is something wrong, you need to fix your heart.” Margaret Elisabeth, PNC Honoray Co-Chair
(Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party nominee, has been running as the only candidate meaningfully opposing the ethnic cleansing that Israel has been conducting in Gaza.)
Craig Cayetano, co-chair, said the party is out in the streets, New Jersey Jewish population wanting a free Palestine, the Green Party has been bringing the issue to the forefront.
Other issues include Medicare for all.
Green Party anticipates a migration from the DEM resulting from their stance on Gaza and anticipates a rude awakening in the final vote totals. BDS has been on the Green Party platform for several years.
On the VP selection, Co Chair Margaret Elisabeth said the party doesn’t offer input, but has been made aware of the VP short list.
The Green Party US meets next week (Aug 14-18 online) to nominate their candidate in the US Presidential race.
The nominee, likely to be Jill Stein, has won the majority of votes in Green Party state primaries.
This would be Stein’s third time running as the Green Party nominee for president.
In this election cycle she previously advocated for Cornel West to be the nominee, but after initial steps towards that end West broke from the process to run as an Independent candidate.
Stein has announced she plans to introduce her VP running mate at a virtual rally on Aug 16th.
Margaret Kimberly will be the Green Party’s keynote speaker on Saturday, August 17 at the Green Party 2024 virtual Annual National Meeting and Presidential Nominating Convention.
I’m writing to you today from my home in Portland, Oregon. I was born in Las Vegas, NV and lived there most of my life.
I learned that the Nevada Democratic party is perhaps suing the Nevada SOS and the Nevada Green party in an attempt to get the Nevada Green party removed from the ballot.
Let me assure you, this is not going to gain you support, rather it will turn even more people away from the democratic party. I understand it is an attempt to aid a vulnerable president, but it creates the appearance that the democratic party has no interest in actual democracy, and instead chooses force to remove alternate candidates. It creates the reality that voters are given less choice, less agency.
I hope you will convince your colleagues to drop this suit.
The Greens collected over three times the required signatures for ballot access. They have not been allowed ballot access since 2010 when I ran for Governor.
If you are not defending democracy, what is it that you are doing?
Personally, if Jill Stein was not on the ballot, I would not have a candidate to support in the upcoming election.
I cannot support Biden because he is sadly complicit to a genocide in Gaza. And Trump is the type of person no sane person would support.
Kicking Stein off the ballot is petty, and unnecessary. Her voters would not be supporting Biden or Trump anyway.
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Chad Miller, AIA, NCARB, Colorado, telephonically harasses (user accounts with various names) from approximately 6/18/2022-6/20/2022 on the forum of the social networking site Archinect.
Mr. Miller falsely accuses an anonymous user account, aka: X, of being someone named “Alexander Watanabe”, in multiple posts, over several hours. Mr. Miller repeatedly makes belligerent, demeaning comments on anything X writes on the site.
Mr. Miller then falsely accuses X of making a “homophobic joke”. Mr. Miller offered that he is a “girl next door sort” to which X replies that the girls next door to X, one just had hip surgery, and the other is recently divorced.
Mr. Miller then proceedes down some rabbit hole.
Mr. Miller and/or others, including an anonymous user account allegedly belonging to (name redacted), Astoria, OR, attempt to de-anonymize another user. (Name redacted) is de-platformed previously from Archinect, but then returns under various other user names. Some of the users have multiple accounts with different user names.
Mr. Miller repeatedly demands X reveal the identity of the person controlling the user account.
(Control of a user account is not a fixed position. Sometimes accounts can, in theory, be hacked, or have unauthorized users. Content can be manipulated or removed by moderators.)
Archinect allows users to be anonymous, the vast majority of the forum users are anonymous.
Archinect has a history of enabling telephonic harassment, and of de-platforming users. Some users engage in gaslighting sorts of posts that they obviously do not want traced to their real names.
X then shares (an) identity, a link to a website, implying the site is related to X, perhaps hoping it would get Mr. Miller to change his behavior, but Mr. Miller continues the telephonic harassment of X and others.
Watching this from a screen (the author sometimes reads the forum posts, even though said author is not a registered user there) the author decides to do a keyword search for “Chad Miller, AIA”.
Author learns the name of his alleged employer, the Blythe Group, an architecture firm in Grand Junction, CO, to let them know that one of their employees is engaging in telephonic harassment, and defamation.
Author suggests to the Blythe Group via their website form that if author was a potential client, author would not hire them based on the posts being made by their employee, Mr. Miller.
(Author frequently collaborates with architects and engineers on design work)
The next day Peter T. Icenogle phoned author.
Mr. Icenogle seems unaware of Archinect, or that Mr. Miller is posting there.
Author suggests to Mr. Icenogle that Mr. Miller’s posts could negatively impact the firm, given they would likely show up high in internet search results of his name.
X commented on Archinect to Mr. Miller: “You know your posts here reflect back on your firm, you know this, right?”
Archinect’s response to this is to de-platform (a user account Mr. Miller is harassing) and delete several related posts.
In doing so, Archinect is protecting the abuser, Mr. Miller, and giving him a platform.
The de-platforming of X seems to be discriminatory and/or retaliatory in nature. Archinect de-platformed X and deletes the posts. Archinect does this numerous times, to numerous people, over a several year span.
Author calls the police department in Grand Junction, CO, where the Blythe Group is based, to ask about filing a police report of Mr. Miller’s online harassment. The dispatcher suggests author file the report in Portland, OR, where author lives.
Author files the report with the Portland police today.
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Sasha Grey, Neu Sex book signing at Martha Otero 5 May 2011. It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate, or intimate setting for this signing: Correct neighborhood, residential scale, eye-level hedges, the serious door man… Inside, three smallish white rooms, share a continuous gabled ceiling. A small, crooked line of interested humans, wait for autographed copies from the author, Sasha Grey. I glance around the room, but the queuing for the signing takes precedence, I get in line. My peripheral vision and hearing realize it is her, or something like her, in a black, full length dress.
I’m having difficulty focusing due to the heat and humidity, compounded by the gallery lights. It’s 90 degrees F. in West Hollywood today.
Then I actually look at her.
Until now she ( ) a series of virtual images, so it is a bit odd to compare both printed photos with a live human, without really getting a good look at either. But this is a book signing. I wait my turn.
Nearer the table I blurt: “Do you take plastic? Checks?” Agent: “No, cash only.” DC: “How much are the books?” Agent: “$40” DC: (to guard) “Is there an ATM nearby?” Guard: “I don’t know, around the corner, at the gas station, down Melrose, there’s a (bank name) across the street” (I leave for 15 minutes then return) DC: “I would like to buy one book, please.” Agent: (takes cash, slides book to SG) SG: “Hello, what is your name?” DC: “Hello…David…I am envious of your book.”
SG: “Oh, (writing) I think I messed up your name.” DC: “That’s OK, I need a new name anyway.” SG: (laughs) DC: “Are you happy with how the book turned out? (I haven’t seen it yet)” SG: “Yes” DC: “Is this wall (painted wall behind SG) part of the show?” SG: “Yes, it’s by the artist James Jean” DC: “Jeans?” SG: “Jean, he did the paintings of me in the other room.” DC: “Are you still looking to hire a photo assistant?” SG: “Eventually.” DC: “I’m from LV, I’m sharing some space in Holsum with some people, an architect, an art director and some artists/representatives. Las Vegas has about 25% vacancy now in commercial so there are some deals.” (DC hands SG a card) “Well, thank you. Congratulations on the show.” SG: “Thank you.”
I should perhaps discuss the actual work being shown at some point.
The photographs are self-described obsessive documentation of the artist during her porn mode. She documents behind the scenes, intimate moments, existing separate from the scenes viewers are likely to consume in the porn films…cleaning up what looks to be vomit off the floor… a funny face in between shots. In her book she observes that “men are incredibly insecure when it comes to their sexuality”. There is a central piece on the main gallery wall, milky white with grayish impressionist solo figure. I keep revisiting it for some reason. To the left, a multi-colored work with a carnival theme insists repeated views. I’m glad to see the works on walls, but perhaps happier they exist now, also, in a book to be revisited. I am glad to have visual confirmation that the artist is flesh and blood.
The house I was using part of as a studio has plastic supply lines and the previous owner had a contractor that was not so great. Whomever cut through the wall structure to route the main line that was mysteriously bending at a 90 degree angle right at that same place. Total dick move. So jump to now-ish and current designer (me) is making the crawlspace hole larger to be nice to the sad humans who have to crawl in there every 6 mos to change an air filter because some design bitch thought it makes sense to tuck the hvac in a crawl space rather than putting it somewhere where a grownup who knows what they are doing can change the air filter…fucking designer…so naturally I cut the main line by accident because why would the main line be a: plastic and b: buried right at the face of the god damn framing? Then I went to buy the emergency coupling to fix it and the sales guy decides to play: Lets be an obstructionist douchebag. So I ask him “Who owns this place, can I speak with him?” And he asks me “Why?” and I say “Because you are a fucking problem.” Then the owner invites me over and gets me the part. I love house shit.
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