maleno

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by maleno 7mo ago
I'm an Irish artist, living in Ireland. I'm very far from a rich kid. Like most Irish artists, I make some of my living from my "artistic" work, and some from what others here might call "real work". Sometimes
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by maleno 7mo ago
Just to answer the question in this specific case: yes, a working class guy can decide he wants to pursue art (in quite a broad range of forms), and he can apply for the basic income once he can show that he is working as an artist. The art
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by maleno 11mo ago
Maybe I'm missing some sarcasm here, but it would be worth asking what the consequences of this situation are for the people who actually make all the music/books/films you get to consume for a "comically small amount of
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by maleno 1y ago
I think it's interesting that practically every time this point is made (and it is made so very often), the examples that are used to prove the point are objective and easy to measure. A 100m sprint time or a calculation of Pi is not t
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by maleno 2y ago
Why would anyone care what, say, Charles Babbage was trying to do, when he didn't actually do it in any sort of useful way? Surely this is largely how knowledge is produced—over time, with lots of false starts, and language and techniq
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by maleno 2y ago
> Is there any argument here other than "Adorno is an old git who hates change, young people, and popular entertainment"? I think there is a very serious argument going on here. The nub of it is in this paragraph: > I don’t
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My Conversation with Chat-GPT about Proust(eliflife.substack.com)
1 points by maleno 3y ago|0 comments
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by maleno 3y ago
They don't have everything when it comes to tech or more niche material, but Kenny's ( https://www.kennys.ie/ ) is very good and offers free (and often fast) shipping.
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by maleno 4y ago
The same Nobel prize that was given to Peter Handke in 2019? I like Handke's work an awful lot, as I do Tokarczuk's, but he's certainly not someone who furthers any "progressive-left agenda".
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by maleno 4y ago
It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text. [1] https://web.dev/text-fragments/
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EU to ban cryptocurrency anonymity in anti-money laundering plan(irishtimes.com)
24 points by maleno 5y ago|7 comments
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by maleno 5y ago
You can just use a VPN to sign up. Works perfectly (with no VPN) after that.
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by maleno 6y ago
As a counterweight to the other opinions here, I'll just say that I think these chairs, particularly when grouped together, are immensely beautiful. I understand they are not intended as chairs one sits in for eight hours a day, but as
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Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (2018)(stingingfly.org)
105 points by maleno 6y ago|79 comments
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by maleno 7y ago
'Dialectic of Enlightenment' might be a good place to start when it comes to thinking about thinking. If you want something a bit more fragmented/playful/debatable, then 'Minima Moralia' would be interesting. &
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by maleno 7y ago
Don't want to open up a whole other can of worms but this is very clearly the role of a union in quite a number of industries. Such a body would offer both legal and financial support in a situation where an engineer was being asked to
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by maleno 7y ago
My favourite Shepard Tone example is Stephin Merritt's 'Project Song' video for NPR [1]. It's also way more playful than most. https://youtu.be/OfFtEfxhMEQ
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by maleno 7y ago
Not OP but this is a wonderful essay by Mary Gaitskill, one of the most interesting writers at work today. This is probably my favourite Gaitskill essay, but I am a cat person so I'm biased.
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Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smaltalk(youtube.com)
3 points by maleno 8y ago|0 comments
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by maleno 8y ago
There is no way a landlord in Dublin can get stuck with a tenant for 30 years. Rent increases are capped/set at 4% a year. The length of a lease is meant to be six years, but a landlord can terminate a tenancy at practically any time u
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by maleno 8y ago
There's nothing at all stopping Dublin from being much more dense than it is, and there's no need whatsoever to build high to do it. Huge gains could be made by bringing more 'above the shop' units into use. Vacancy and
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by maleno 8y ago
'Duty Free Art' by Hito Steyerl might be of interest to you. It's largely about how artworks are used by the rich to store wealth in tax-free locations, and how that affects and distorts the art market more generally. Steyerl
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by maleno 8y ago
This was really bugging me until I realised that sorting the people I follow into lists basically reverts my feeds into a standard chronological timeline again. Minus Twitter's "screwing around", the site is actually useable.
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by maleno 9y ago
Just last night I found myself watching some Wordpress-related videos on the Chrome Developers Youtube channel [0], building on a talk given at the Chrome Dev Summit last year [1]. The Docker implementation is something I'd been consid
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by maleno 9y ago
Just in case anyone wants to read more on the subject, a friend of mine wrote a similar essay last year.[1] Just today I was re-reading a Susan Sontag essay[2] and came across what I think is the most succinct description of boredom: “There
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Coders Need to Learn More Than Just How to Code(wired.com)
2 points by maleno 9y ago|0 comments
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by maleno 10y ago
I'm not sure that's right. I mean, if we replace the word "power" with the word "agency", then maybe it's clearer. The goal isn't so much a world without power, but a world where agency is more evenly