Field Notes

rants - 003

2026-08-23 23:59 · Addis Ababa · limping through the አፈሳ
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things that I have been thinking about

Everyday it is proving harder to write በአማርኛ ለስሙ እኮ its my mother tongue writing this part in english cause for the life of me I cannot figure out how the fuck to type “ሴ” I just copyied this from an online amharic keyboard, the keyboard is painful needs time to get used to, the thoughts are not forming and its just a pain, talked to my friend about this earlier today and he said I need to consume more amharic books and he is right, everything I know and have compiled now is western, western education is forbidden አለ billy woods, ለዚ ችህግር መፍትሄ ካላበጀሁለት አዕምሮዬ እየተናጋ ነው ሚቀጥለው for the life of me couldn’t even type “ዬ” it took me ages to get through that …


I was thinking about autonomous war, accelerating further into the future that was looses its meaning since its just a bunch of metal pieces firing and blowing each other up and there are no human lives to be lost, but I have a lot questions about that ethical, philosophical and technological too, what does even war mean, where do you begin to define violence, I need to read up more on hannah arendt and what not, but this thought reminds me of that bertrand russel short story …


I have so many things I want to do yet so little time, I feel confined to being, being mortal is nice but at times its existential … quiet the irony


I really feel like neuromancer will turn out to be a bad read and the movie will be great, or maybe I just have comprhension issues, I guess I will never know what is what, I mean in reality I do but sure why not…


I have to go through my african reading but I have so little time and life is getting real … what even is real, questions only the bourgeoisie have answers too …


fuck the microsoft amharic keyboard, I need to find a layout guide or something cause WHAT THE FUCK

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