Messer zwischen den Zähnen

United State 2010

vale + sun 4 by ugo rondinone

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

hmmmm this one is tough. off the top of my head:

nonfiction

the works of wilfred owen & siegfried sassoon

war primer by bertolt brecht

coercion, capital & european state by charles tilly (if you want a shorter version of this thesis, read: war making & state making as organized crime also by charles tilly)

the liberal defence of murder by richard seymour

kill chain by andrew cockburn

nothing ever dies: vietnam & the memory of war by viet thanh nguyen

the shadow world: inside the global arms trade by andrew feinstein

savage ecology: war & geopolitics at the end of the world by jairus victor grove

fiction

eyeless in gaza by aldous huxley (this was my introduction in college to what principled, personal pacifism might look like)

mother courage & her children by bertolt brecht

catch 22 by joseph heller

zone rouge by michael jerome plunkett

on the beach by nevil shute

ya got

gochujang butter noodles

peanut butter noodles

chili crisp fettuccine alfredo

miso butter noodles