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Kate Haskell

Kate Haskell

Gainesville, FL •
193 posts •

Not Exactly Seeing Eye-To-Eye

I feel awkward writing about autism. In an article from the past year, I summed it up nicely with the following footnote:Because I’ve never been diagnosed as being on the autism

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
6 min read
Politics

Can I Talk To A Manager?

“Speaking to the manager” is a sort of tyrannical helplessness; it is the haughty demand for intercession on one’s behalf by an array of greater forces you assume are servile. It is

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Politics

Nothing to Syndicate

It should be clear what all these changes in the nature of work mean for syndicalism: It is difficult to organize the workplace if there is no workplace. It is even harder if

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
2 min read
Mythologizing Me Like I Do You
Religion/Spirituality

Mythologizing Me Like I Do You

Until I got my turntable last year, I had forgotten how satisfying it is to slide a record out of a paper sleeve, put the needle down, and listen to a whole album from start to finish. There’s an element of ritual that feels not unlike the start of a prayer or a religious observance.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
3 min read
Programming

On Composition as the Guiding Principle of Functional Programming

One of the most important concepts in functional programming is composition. If you’ve ever used Unix command line activities to pipe commands together, you have used a form of composition.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
14 min read

Insert Pithy Quote Here

When an author litters their text with quotes from others, it always reads to me as very amateur writing. It feels like a kid writing a term paper who needs just x more

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Slacking Off as a Revolutionary Act
Politics

Slacking Off as a Revolutionary Act

The worker becomes a revolutionary not by becoming more of a worker but by undoing his “workerness.” And in this he is not alone; the same applies to the farmer, the student, the

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
3 min read
Politics

On Silent Pogroms

If a Jew and a Gentile happened to be arrested on the same charge, it was certain that the Gentile would go free while the Jew would be sent to prison and sometimes

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Politics

On the Commodification of Everything Beautiful

After my first medical appointments of the day, I find myself hanging out at a Panera and dreaming of a world there were public spaces I could sit on a democratically controlled Internet,

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Politics

What “The Economy” Means

…“the economy,” which was a short-hand term for corporate profit… (A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn) This is a very useful thought technology. We should all implement a

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
On Meritocracy and the Role of Capitalist Inoculation
Politics

On Meritocracy and the Role of Capitalist Inoculation

Undoubtedly, ordinary people benefited to some extent from these changes. The system was rich, productive, complex; it could give enough of a share of its riches to enough of the working class to

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
3 min read
What I Like About Haskell: Data Structures As Control Flow
Programming

What I Like About Haskell: Data Structures As Control Flow

When you first encounter Haskell-inspired structures like Maybe, Either, or Reader, they might seem needlessly complicated. I myself was guilty of thinking that these abstractions only served to obfuscate control flow that would

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
7 min read
Politics

On Revolution, Reform, and Capitalism’s Terrifying Escape Room

The problem of democracy in the post-Revolutionary society was not, however, the Constitutional limitations on voting. It lay deeper, beyond the Constitution, in the division of society into rich and poor. For if

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
2 min read
On Ineffectiveness
Politics

On Ineffectiveness

When I walked into Starbucks this morning, I ran into a guy with a shirt not unlike this one. Maybe he hasn't been keeping up with his daily pledges?

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Politics

On Disruption and Underpaid Labor

MoviePass says its model can realize a healthy profit margin, provided it can monetize its user data and sign up enough casual moviegoers. This one sentence says so much about what's wrong with

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
The Intersection of Exploitation and Privilege
Politics

The Intersection of Exploitation and Privilege

During the Cold War, defense companies like Lockheed in the Santa Clara Valley drew scores of ambitious scientists; these workers seemed to share certain personality traits, including social awkwardness, emotional detachment, and, namely,

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
3 min read
Dandelions
Gardening

Dandelions

“About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-” “Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Lawn to Meadow Progress Pic
Nature

Lawn to Meadow Progress Pic

When I look over my back garden, I really think this meadow thing is starting to happen. This is definitely a project that will evolve over the years rather than mere months.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
In Full Bloom
Nature

In Full Bloom

The black-eyed susans at the front of the garden are thriving. More blooms appear every day.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Programming

A Balm For Gaslighting Myself

I know it's a stupid and rather meaningless indicator, but when I have moments where I doubt that I'm a “real” developer, my GitHub activity chart helps reassure me that I'm a real

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
A Passion for Things
Politics

A Passion for Things

At IKEA, I found possibly the best short description of capitalism ever.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Link Article

Apologies as Commodities

A huge multi-national company like Starbucks is inextricably plugged into the system of global capitalism and, as such, is complicit in all the forms of oppression that this system engenders or heightens. But

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Religion/Spirituality

Genuine Discourse vs. Attempted Conversion

Is genuine dialogue possible if I (as one partner in the dialogue) am already convinced that I possess the fullness of truth, and so the other does not have something to tell me

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Gaming

Without Going Over

The "highest-bid-without-going-over" mechanic in The Price Is Right is ultimately a way to turn a lower variance game of skill into a higher variance game of chance. FIGHT ME.

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
1 min read
Of Witchers and Child Soldiers
Gaming

Of Witchers and Child Soldiers

Throughout the Witcher series, especially in the earlier anthologies and the video games, Geralt makes the claim that he no longer has proper emotional responses because of the mutagens and potions the witchers

  • Kate Haskell
    Kate Haskell
4 min read
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