You can beat us with wires
You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can't outrun the history train
I've seen a glorious day
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I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it's alright, it's alright
For we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the
Road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
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“Who can by stillness, little by little make what is troubled grow clear? Who can by movement, little by little make what is still grow quick?”
-- Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K Le Guin
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“The séance happens first, then comes the engraving of the text. The text is the cherry on top, a means of setting the events in stone, a kind of chronicle. So went divination in the Shang dynasty.”
-- Silvia Ferrara, The Greatest Invention
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I wonder if Jack Smith ever has nightmares about showing up just too late for his college final exams https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/justice-department-firings-trump-jack-smith.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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“Rather than an atavistic aversion to technology, ‘Algorithmic Sabotage’ can be read as a form of counter-power that emerges from the strength of the community that wields it… The first step of techno-politics is not technological but political.” ht @leeceedee.bsky.social
https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/manifesto-on-algorithmic_sabotage/
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This offers a more serious treatment: https://xrds.acm.org/article.cfm?aid=3665594&t
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I like the political vibe and overall energy of this, but don't buy the "we can replace the government with this one app" naïveté. https://hooshmand.net/ai-anarchist-manifesto/?t
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I'd love to read a book (or a blog) that would be something like the AI Anarchist Cookbook. Poison the corporate data sets! Open-source everything! Death to copyright! Train on your own data! Eliminate all rent-seekers! Disrupt every attempt by Big Tech to seek returns on capital or extract surplus value! Every computer, every community, every sentient being is sovereign!
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There are only two passable arguments for wanting the Commanders to win vs. our Eagles today:
I don’t want to hear anything else!
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43538463/snyder-hates-commanders-success
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Couldn’t stay asleep. Had to wake up and say GO BIRDS
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It’s been longer since Pavement broke up than it was between The Beatles’ breakup and the appearance of The Beatles Anthology albums and documentaries
So I guess I’m asking:
Pavement Anthology when
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“Game designer Marc LeBlanc has defined eight types of fun: sense-pleasure, make-believe, drama, obstacle, social framework, discovery, self-discovery and expression, and surrender.”
-- Raph Koster, Theory of Fun for Game Design
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“People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.”
-- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Long before DEI became a “thing,” Black women flocked to federal civil service jobs in DC and elsewhere because the government didn’t discriminate against them. There’s really no such thing as the “deep state” conservative fantasy, but there is a class of civil service workers who make things work.
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The so-called destruction of DEI programs is really just an attack on the idea that anybody can work for the government who isn’t a cis, straight white man. It’s an attempt not just to change hiring practices but push current civil servants out of the federal government.
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Without these people (again, overwhelmingly Black women who’ve navigated the Byzantine application requirements for federal jobs, who’ve bought in to the meritocratic dream of credentials and government work), everything grinds to a halt. Good luck getting anything done without them.
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You know how Star Wars has the fan-made Despecialized Editions? Yeah, I need that but for copies of Biggie albums with Sean Combs digitally erased out of them
Yes I know Biggie is also problematic but there’s levels to this and Puffy was always annoying
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“He who dwells in the wide house of the world, stands in the correct station of the world, walks in the great path of the world; one who practices virtues along with the people when he is successful, and practices the Way alone when he is disappointed; one whose heart cannot be dissipated by the power of wealth and honors, who cannot be influenced by poverty or humble stations, who cannot be subdued by force and might—such a person is a great man.”
-- Lao Tse (I think)
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“It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not. But we come to Roman history with different priorities – from gender identity to food supply – that make the ancient past speak to us in a new idiom.” -- Mary Beard, SPQR
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