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What would it cost to bootstrap an art movement? There were unique conditions in place that allowed post-punk to manifest itself in the late 70s. This video essay on the fortuitous overlap of free education, social democracy and punk rock sensibilities calls the resulting attitude and period “popular modernism”, a term coined by the late…
Culture is set at the top… The situation is extraordinary because asking for consent, getting a firm “no,” and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry. https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson CNC: Consensual Non-consent
And you can’t run industrial policy or a war economy if you want fake profits based on not actually producing good new goods at cheap prices. It can’t be done. If an entire society is based around “give me money for the least possible effort”, you’re cooked China’s government, while not without serious flaws, works,…
Never in my 20+ years as a practicing Catholic had I seen the Rosary framed as a meditation of confession as a unblocking mechanism. It makes perfect sense. Like a lot of religious practices, the eye of someone familiar with actual spiritual cultivation practices can see what they were intended to do. Rosary practice and…
… we need to recognize that the Human Tenure Trap is not a personal failing, but a systemic challenge. It’s a reflection of our human limitations and the way we’ve structured our organizations and institutions. It’s only by understanding the trap that we can hope to escape it. Otherwise, we risk winning limited battles and…
He’s only in it for the Twitter engagement and trying to create class division. We’ve got actual problems to solve and all he can do is culture war grandstanding. He is a criminally unserious man hell bent of divisiveness. He tried it with the Treaty and he’s trying it all over again with school lunches.…
It has been a long time since I’ve seen a company shit all over their core brand proposition so utterly. It’s like Tim Cook is pissing on the street sign at the corner of Liberal Arts and Technology… What. The. Actual. Fuck. Apple? It, honestly, hurts to watch that “Crush!” video… For the last year…
… because of progress like this:
“When I was a teenager, I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly and nasty. We look back on that, 30 years later, and those people are clearly on the wrong side of history,” [David Tennant] said. “Now, there is a similar weaponisation of these topics being taken by mostly the right…
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