16249 pts ยท February 1, 2012
parenting is like gardening, and as a dad the sad and scary part isn't that AI will snake into my garden and poison my seedlings. it's that AI is making the world a garden-less place, and that there will be nowhere for them to be planted when my job is done.
this game is so good though https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
it's crazy how much girls are pretty
renowned classicist Mary Beard contends that as moderns, every history we have of Alexander is anecdote. Roman anecdote, to be specific
they used sex, drugs, and a half-naked babe to hook the customer, then they wrote the article demonizing all those things to dupe the censor. an old formula, good for a buck every time in those days.
>> while powerful new media technologies offer us low-hanging, personalized, emotionally satisfying narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete. this is a global economic paradigm shift, the dawning of a new feudalism as the middle classes are re-enserfed, one young adult at a time, into a fixed caste system - and nobody can see it happening. we're too zoomed in on trump, race, gender, sex, religion and everything else besides our own enslavement.
the children of the world's middle classes are inheriting adulthoods of serf-like non-ownership as capital approaches its long-predicted shift away from the mass production, mass market, and mass participation models which defined its industrial era and which underwrote the explosive growth and social mobility of the third estate over the preceding centuries.the large-scale historic and economic forces behind this process exist at the periphery of our suburban comprehension >>
people aren't weighing any evidence. people aren't interested in truth. the vast majority of them use one simple question to understand the world: "what's everybody else think?"for intellectuals this has always been a blind spot. we prefer to see the rest of humanity as fellow citizen-scientists, logically deducing known from unknown, making objective comparisons and coming to independent conclusions - though sometimes with faulty evidence or equipment!wrong. they don't do that.
the cool thing is this Culture War is being fought exclusively over YA content because that's the only thing low-hanging enough to be consumed en masse, so if you have anything over a high school reading level congratulations you get cheap, easy, and unbothered access to all the most dangerous and derisive literature ever written. shit that used to make the censors quake now flies over their radar because its simply too highbrow to do any damage.
why even call it "socialism"?is there any more loaded, poisoned, and propagandized word in all of politics?it's also nonsensically vague: "social" - having to do with human society, and "ism" - a doctrine or ideology. not exactly a brilliant descriptor, unless you're referring specifically to the industrial era labor movement, which the working classes have utterly disowned.
it's gotta be the aww yeah from Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing" you guys do know there was music was made before the 1970s, right?
honestly a genius compromise to keep national parks and monuments funded during the age of kleptocracy: lease them to theme park developers. dont get me wrong i mean i'd personally think it was sacrilege, but i'm old and the world doesn't even seem like its for people like me. within a generation nobody would care that there was a waterslide going down El Capitan. they'd think it was rad.
former child star. found unresponsive in her apartment. declared 'cardiac arrest'. public history of substance abuse and addiction. only 36. pretty good odds of an OD, but i like to give the benefit of the doubt, especially bc she seemed like a sweet person.
when viewed through the materialist lens, the political spectrum shrinks to a tiny far-right binary of trillionairism and monopoly. this is root of the problem, the twin-cylinder engine of destabilization which is enserfing the middle class and driving its disenfranchised refugees into the arms of reactionaries and fascists using powerful new personalized media technology to offer seductive false narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete.
Shout Out to all the Nickelodeon kids and summer mornings spent soldiering through Nick Jr (though Franklin was okay and Little Bear was sometimes watchable) and its cringey host Face (lower), to finally get to 2pm when Stick Stickly (upper) would kick off the proper Nickelodeon programming block and the big kid shows would start. TV would still be on when Block Party Summer on Nick at Nite started - Monkee Mondays, Bewitched Be-wednesdays. good times.
how pissed would you be if the town over got a communal fuck-bot and yours didn't because the ballot proposal lost and now you gotta drive to fuckin Roseville to go to the dispensary AND the fuck-bot station?
not that these things aren't important - but if you strip away the guns, pride flags, megachurches, Manospheres, diversity quotas, science denials, safe spaces, abortion clinics and every other issue that doesn't directly pertain to the material reality of the +95% of Americans who work for a living, you'll find the two sides converging around a right-economic platform of billionairism and monopoly. you'll find no political spectrum at all.
its when you say "REGISTERED NURSE" really hard
#3 even among intellectuals, nerds, and the naturally curious - the appetite for knowledge is being fed by increasingly shorter and lower-hanging content formats.
Randian Objectivists and Libertarians tend to sycophanticly ascribe civilization itself, or at least its highest trappings - architecture, medicine, technology - to these Shrugging Atlases. maybe there was a stronger case to be made for it 100 years ago, but in that time all of their economic predictions have proven embarrassingly wrong, and new generations of Atlases have done much to disprove any theory of their utilitarian omniscience.
>> scratching the itch of their curiosities with ever shorter and more accessible forms, letting algorithms decide for them what they see (and dont see) next. how many a well-meaning friend has sent you a youtube link that's basically a ten minute summary of a ten hour subject? it's entertaining, but so out of context as to actually be a distortion. those same friends, when lent a book on the subject, always describe the same response: "I just couldnt really get into it."
this is important. it used to be that people with innate curiosities and instincts to learn inevitably found themselves hovering for many a silent hour over the longest-form academic content ever produced: books. sure there'd be the odd TV special on a favorite subject, but otherwise the only way to scratch the itch was through the patience and diligence of reading.now i find that even among the intellectually curious there is an attention span deficit. context is missing. people are >>
if you gave demons incapable of love, art, beauty, grace, or empathy human bodies and set them loose on this earth, it's hard to imagine that they would behave any differently than these billionaires
so, that's why volunteers in every voting district painstakingly hand-count ballots in such large sample sizes - if there was a discrepancy between the physical ballots and the machines/software that register them, the hand-count would flag it and that district would be audited in full. there it is. one long sentence is all you need to read to know how technology cant mysteriously rig an election, for either side.
its the kind of time span where, when you first learn about it, you kind of have to break your brain a little bit just to fathom it, you have to chew on the magnitudes for a while in order to incorporate them into your worldview. how many people are even capable of this? how many are capable, but would rather be seduced by easier, more personally satisfying conclusions? how can we expect the uninitiated or incapable to respond with anything besides overwhelming cognitive dissonance?
LOTS of outspoken reactions and mainstream media hit pieces for a little old midterm party primary. that's how you know theyre scared.
throughout the ages, and especially during the French and Russian revolutions, great minds exhausted their pens trying to explain and caution against this insidious phenomenon, if not for their contemporaries then perhaps for posterity, for us. yet here we sit, in the umpteenth rerun of the same stupid saga, as if it were happening for the first time.
the subordination and conversion of Leftism (public / working class progressivism) into Liberalism (aristocratic / bourgeois progressivism) has been an unfortunate mainstay of representative government since antiquity, and in many ways can be seen as the central catalyst of the cycle of Democracy > Oligarchy > Dictatorship which has so viciously subsumed many of history's most noble political experiments - Athens, Rome, Paris, Moscow, and others - often repeatedly.
would you rather be a serf in a trillionaire monopolist neo-feudalistic dystopia that has Pride Month and Happy Holidays, or a serf in a trillionaire monopolist neo-feudalistic dystopia that has Trump Month and Merry Christmases?both sides are NOT the same.
parenting is like gardening, and as a dad the sad and scary part isn't that AI will snake into my garden and poison my seedlings. it's that AI is making the world a garden-less place, and that there will be nowhere for them to be planted when my job is done.
this game is so good though
https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
it's crazy how much girls are pretty
renowned classicist Mary Beard contends that as moderns, every history we have of Alexander is anecdote. Roman anecdote, to be specific
they used sex, drugs, and a half-naked babe to hook the customer, then they wrote the article demonizing all those things to dupe the censor. an old formula, good for a buck every time in those days.
>> while powerful new media technologies offer us low-hanging, personalized, emotionally satisfying narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete.
this is a global economic paradigm shift, the dawning of a new feudalism as the middle classes are re-enserfed, one young adult at a time, into a fixed caste system - and nobody can see it happening. we're too zoomed in on trump, race, gender, sex, religion and everything else besides our own enslavement.
the children of the world's middle classes are inheriting adulthoods of serf-like non-ownership as capital
approaches its long-predicted shift away from the mass production, mass market, and mass participation
models which defined its industrial era and which underwrote the explosive growth and social mobility
of the third estate over the preceding centuries.
the large-scale historic and economic forces behind this process exist at the periphery of our suburban comprehension >>
people aren't weighing any evidence. people aren't interested in truth. the vast majority of them use one simple question to understand the world: "what's everybody else think?"
for intellectuals this has always been a blind spot. we prefer to see the rest of humanity as fellow citizen-scientists, logically deducing known from unknown, making objective comparisons and coming to independent conclusions - though sometimes with faulty evidence or equipment!
wrong. they don't do that.
the cool thing is this Culture War is being fought exclusively over YA content because that's the only thing low-hanging enough to be consumed en masse, so if you have anything over a high school reading level congratulations you get cheap, easy, and unbothered access to all the most dangerous and derisive literature ever written. shit that used to make the censors quake now flies over their radar because its simply too highbrow to do any damage.
why even call it "socialism"?
is there any more loaded, poisoned, and propagandized word in all of politics?
it's also nonsensically vague: "social" - having to do with human society, and "ism" - a doctrine or ideology. not exactly a brilliant descriptor, unless you're referring specifically to the industrial era labor movement, which the working classes have utterly disowned.
it's gotta be the aww yeah from Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing"
you guys do know there was music was made before the 1970s, right?
honestly a genius compromise to keep national parks and monuments funded during the age of kleptocracy: lease them to theme park developers.
dont get me wrong i mean i'd personally think it was sacrilege, but i'm old and the world doesn't even seem like its for people like me. within a generation nobody would care that there was a waterslide going down El Capitan. they'd think it was rad.
former child star. found unresponsive in her apartment. declared 'cardiac arrest'. public history of substance abuse and addiction. only 36. pretty good odds of an OD, but i like to give the benefit of the doubt, especially bc she seemed like a sweet person.
when viewed through the materialist lens, the political spectrum shrinks to a tiny far-right binary of trillionairism and monopoly. this is root of the problem, the twin-cylinder engine of destabilization which is enserfing the middle class and driving its disenfranchised refugees into the arms of reactionaries and fascists using powerful new personalized media technology to offer seductive false narratives with which the sober disciplines of material analysis cannot hope to compete.
Shout Out to all the Nickelodeon kids and summer mornings spent soldiering through Nick Jr (though Franklin was okay and Little Bear was sometimes watchable) and its cringey host Face (lower), to finally get to 2pm when Stick Stickly (upper) would kick off the proper Nickelodeon programming block and the big kid shows would start. TV would still be on when Block Party Summer on Nick at Nite started - Monkee Mondays, Bewitched Be-wednesdays. good times.
how pissed would you be if the town over got a communal fuck-bot and yours didn't because the ballot proposal lost and now you gotta drive to fuckin Roseville to go to the dispensary AND the fuck-bot station?
not that these things aren't important - but if you strip away the guns, pride flags, megachurches, Manospheres, diversity quotas, science denials, safe spaces, abortion clinics and every other issue that doesn't directly pertain to the material reality of the +95% of Americans who work for a living, you'll find the two sides converging around a right-economic platform of billionairism and monopoly. you'll find no political spectrum at all.
its when you say "REGISTERED NURSE" really hard
#3 even among intellectuals, nerds, and the naturally curious - the appetite for knowledge is being fed by increasingly shorter and lower-hanging content formats.
Randian Objectivists and Libertarians tend to sycophanticly ascribe civilization itself, or at least its highest trappings - architecture, medicine, technology - to these Shrugging Atlases. maybe there was a stronger case to be made for it 100 years ago, but in that time all of their economic predictions have proven embarrassingly wrong, and new generations of Atlases have done much to disprove any theory of their utilitarian omniscience.
>> scratching the itch of their curiosities with ever shorter and more accessible forms, letting algorithms decide for them what they see (and dont see) next. how many a well-meaning friend has sent you a youtube link that's basically a ten minute summary of a ten hour subject? it's entertaining, but so out of context as to actually be a distortion. those same friends, when lent a book on the subject, always describe the same response: "I just couldnt really get into it."
this is important. it used to be that people with innate curiosities and instincts to learn inevitably found themselves hovering for many a silent hour over the longest-form academic content ever produced: books.
sure there'd be the odd TV special on a favorite subject, but otherwise the only way to scratch the itch was through the patience and diligence of reading.
now i find that even among the intellectually curious there is an attention span deficit. context is missing. people are >>
if you gave demons incapable of love, art, beauty, grace, or empathy human bodies and set them loose on this earth, it's hard to imagine that they would behave any differently than these billionaires
so, that's why volunteers in every voting district painstakingly hand-count ballots in such large sample sizes - if there was a discrepancy between the physical ballots and the machines/software that register them, the hand-count would flag it and that district would be audited in full.
there it is. one long sentence is all you need to read to know how technology cant mysteriously rig an election, for either side.
its the kind of time span where, when you first learn about it, you kind of have to break your brain a little bit just to fathom it, you have to chew on the magnitudes for a while in order to incorporate them into your worldview.
how many people are even capable of this? how many are capable, but would rather be seduced by easier, more personally satisfying conclusions? how can we expect the uninitiated or incapable to respond with anything besides overwhelming cognitive dissonance?
LOTS of outspoken reactions and mainstream media hit pieces for a little old midterm party primary. that's how you know theyre scared.
throughout the ages, and especially during the French and Russian revolutions, great minds exhausted their pens trying to explain and caution against this insidious phenomenon, if not for their contemporaries then perhaps for posterity, for us. yet here we sit, in the umpteenth rerun of the same stupid saga, as if it were happening for the first time.
the subordination and conversion of Leftism (public / working class progressivism) into Liberalism (aristocratic / bourgeois progressivism) has been an unfortunate mainstay of representative government since antiquity, and in many ways can be seen as the central catalyst of the cycle of Democracy > Oligarchy > Dictatorship which has so viciously subsumed many of history's most noble political experiments - Athens, Rome, Paris, Moscow, and others - often repeatedly.
would you rather be a serf in a trillionaire monopolist neo-feudalistic dystopia that has Pride Month and Happy Holidays, or a serf in a trillionaire monopolist neo-feudalistic dystopia that has Trump Month and Merry Christmases?
both sides are NOT the same.