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Idler Magazine

32 points by tomjakubowski 4mo ago

dickiedyce 4mo ago
Cracking magazine, and the frequent Idler online interviews generally thought provoking. Excellent cast of occasional contributors too.
onion2k 4mo ago
My partner has been a subscriber for years. It's great. Stewart Lee's music reviews have been a highlight, but there's great long form content in most editions.
mellosouls 4mo ago
From Wikipedia, a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic: On the practice of idling, [founder] Tom Hodgkinson writes: A characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)
- sph 4mo ago
  > a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic Are we reading the same forum? I have noticed that my anti-work (or anti-AI, or left-leaning) comments tend to do better when EU and East Coast are awake, and get downvoted when West Coast is most active.
  - mellosouls 4mo ago
    I meant the quote is anti-grind-culture rather than HN, though I wouldn't ascribe a solid view to the latter, just the startup culture it is based in can often be very grind-nonsense.
sph 4mo ago
They are so idle, I wrote them to say their RSS is not working, and they never got back to me. I cancelled my subscription because I am too lazy to go on their website to read their articles. - Here’s some propaganda for the prospective idlers among us: https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.html https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.ht... https://libcom.org/article/praise-idleness-bertrand-russell https://libcom.org/article/praise-idleness-bertrand-russell
graemep 4mo ago
I used to be a subscriber. It is good but I have more than enough to read without it. Also one of the few places that has published a letter from me :) For tech people its had some interesting articles promoting retro-computing and FOSS as more "idle" alternatives.

32 points by tomjakubowski 4mo ago

Cracking magazine, and the frequent Idler online interviews generally thought provoking. Excellent cast of occasional contributors too.

onion2k 4mo ago

My partner has been a subscriber for years. It's great. Stewart Lee's music reviews have been a highlight, but there's great long form content in most editions.

mellosouls 4mo ago

From Wikipedia, a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic: On the practice of idling, [founder] Tom Hodgkinson writes: A characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler feel uncomfortable. Victims of the Protestant work ethic would like all work to be unpleasant. They feel that work is a curse, that we must suffer on this earth to earn our place in the next. The idler, on the other hand, sees no reason not to use his brain to organise a life for himself where his play is his work, and so attempt to create his own little paradise in the here and now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)

sph 4mo ago
> a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic Are we reading the same forum? I have noticed that my anti-work (or anti-AI, or left-leaning) comments tend to do better when EU and East Coast are awake, and get downvoted when West Coast is most active.
- mellosouls 4mo ago
  I meant the quote is anti-grind-culture rather than HN, though I wouldn't ascribe a solid view to the latter, just the startup culture it is based in can often be very grind-nonsense.

sph 4mo ago

They are so idle, I wrote them to say their RSS is not working, and they never got back to me. I cancelled my subscription because I am too lazy to go on their website to read their articles. - Here’s some propaganda for the prospective idlers among us: https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.html https://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.ht... https://libcom.org/article/praise-idleness-bertrand-russell https://libcom.org/article/praise-idleness-bertrand-russell

graemep 4mo ago

I used to be a subscriber. It is good but I have more than enough to read without it. Also one of the few places that has published a letter from me :) For tech people its had some interesting articles promoting retro-computing and FOSS as more "idle" alternatives.