Dmytri Kleiner

Ok, I get the whole lumpenproletariat thing, but don't sleep on the revolutionary potential of organ grinders.

https://ghost.org/6/

Ghost makes biggest update ever, at perfect time when many want to leave Substack.

90s incidentalist era, maybe 93

"Use Art To Advertise An Improbable Future" is written in bold lettering, words alternating red and black, a collage including some art works that in some way advertised an improbable future. .\ asym.me/tric

From critique to construction, the point is to change the relations of production.

They consider my work as fundamental to there practice, so would be likely to want to

Yeah, but what if doomscrolling *is* a meditation practice?

Thankfully, I think my worst work is still ahead of me

whatever is taken from you will come back in the form of your own oppression "Improbablism" written over top of an overlapping blueish circle, red triangle triangle and translucent greenish square .\ asym.me/tric

Secrets, Data, Value, Everything

So, how do you spell your name?

"Another Wold is Improbable" written on bold text "Improbablism Now!" in pixalated text. ".\ asym.me/tric" using a monospace font text appears featuring bold geometric layout

To achieve the improbable we need to overlap the unexpected, intersect the unaligned, depart from the predictable

You know, the cool thing about the internet is that you don't have to lock yourself into propriety platforms. Free software and open standards like GraphQL make it possible to own the whole stack.

DisCO Ball Wiki

I guess some of that will end up on ball.disco.coop

Oh nice, not unrelated, but the main idea here is that in the post gen ai age, we need to create art that is improbable, that can not be extrapolated from existing data sets :)

Position your product in a market category that puts your offering’s strengths in their best context, and then look for relevant trends in your industry that can help customers understand why they should consider this product right now. - April Dunford

Gen AI is clearly a relevant trend, and this is for sure a reason that people are considering Saleor.

Open Source and GraphQL improve the effectiveness of AI Agents

You can use a simple MCP server to help agents to write queries for our API

docs.saleor.io/devel...

Improbablism is rooted in erratic sociological velocity.

Biography and history plotted as vector, with unpredictable speed and direction, escaping interception.

Improbablism depends on the collapse of joint probability.

Improbable elements montaged with other improbable elements.

So as I approach what's next, I try to overcome unrealistic expectations, and become satisfied with being somehow marginal and central at the same time, always around, often even there first, but limited in what impact I can have. Becoming ok with simply being improbable.

Most of the sites are unreachable. Only archive.org keeps the record alive. Stammtisch is hanging on by a thread, with many Tuesdays being just me and Jeff, like it was almost two decades ago.

My critique and analysis of technology is not as an outside researcher, but as someone whose work has always been rooted within the industry.

Yet, even knowing all this, it still feels like I have underperformed.

The Telekommunisten network has more or less drifted apart.

still managed to have several significant publications, presentations, and exhibitions.

My professional work is not exactly insignificant, with important roles at SoundCloud, ThoughtWorks, Contentful, Red Hat, among others, and now Saleor.

So what's improbable is not so much that I developed multiple ideas before others made them more popular, but that I managed to have any influence at all, given my class, cultural background, my neurodivergence, and despite the fact that I had work and family responsibilities the whole time, I

I needed to find a way to earn a living that I could do with my neurological makeups, and like many others, I became a tech worker.

I'm not an academic, nor have I ever sought to make a living as an artist. Without family wealth or academic accomplishments, these never seemed like viable paths to me.

I was born in the Ukrainian SSR, emigrated to Canada as a child, grew up in a multiracial working-class household. As a hyperlexic child with significant schizoid and executive function issues, I never managed to finish any level of school past primary.

Why didn't my ideas become the ones that got recognition? Am I an imposter?

The fact is that which ideas become well known and influential is not entirely a function of the merit of the ideas or even the person. So much of it has to do with class, culture, and neurotype.

... and there was Telekommunisten

The ideas I develop very frequently are similar to more influential ideas developed later by others, sometimes influenced by my work, often without any knowledge of my work.

This is another source of shame.

Why are my ideas not good enough?

Before there was Technofeudalism, there was Infoenclosure 2.0
Before there was Surveillance Capitalism, there was P2P Communism vs Client-Server Capitalism
Before there was Enshitification, there was Counterantidisintermediation

... and there was Transvestment
... and there was Commie Curious

I am improbable.

Before there was Tactical Media, there was Idiosyntactix
Before there were Podcasts, there were the IDIO-AUDIO files
Before there was The Pirate Party, there was Plunderpalooza
Before there was Platform Cooperativism, there was Venture Communism

Improbablist montage, combining geometric shapes in red and black, an AI generated non-object image in mondrian's style, with a small photograph of artists of De Stijl obscured by a partially transparent red rectangle. The image has the text "Artists have only contributed to production in various ways; the point, however, is to change its relations." with Counterproductivism written in all capital letters underneath. .\ asym.me/tric

My social posts will be a theory dream journal of counterproductivist advertising and improbablist stream of consciousness writing. Tech, econ, art, personal reflections, material ambitions, social commitments, insecurities, creative impulses, blended in a jarring authentic rush