samuelizdat

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by samuelizdat 4y ago
I think a young Harvard math professor wrote about this in the 90's.
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by samuelizdat 4y ago
The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.
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by samuelizdat 4y ago
Is it true that they got people to show up to the union meetings by offering baked ziti and weed? Is it that easy? What other collective goals can be accomplished this way?
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Coroners bow to Bogdanoffs, in contact with morticians, possess cadaver-like abilities...
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
What kind of a Grinch would write such a hideous song. I'm willing to bet they weren't Christian.
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
"The specific distinction to which actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy."
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Will this drive an increase traffic to things like the fediverse? If it drives people away, is this not good? If hegemonic tech-giants wish to over bureaucratize everything, is the ethical response to decentralize?
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
I remember when Bush started all this and it was called "No child left behind" and all my teachers were calling it "No child left intact". Weird how that changed. Why is that?
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Freedom is the degree to which you are able to navigate the power process. The power process is the ability to identify and change something within a system. For example, if there is a vending machine with coke and you want pepsi. Is there
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Consider the same theory applied to video game modding tools. In the 90s and early 2000's the freedom to work outside the scope of the authorized system created plenty of low quality maps and mods, but it also created things like Count
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Less activist, more puritan priest trained as a new institutional clergy.
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
"Okay google, show me graphs on SSRI prescriptions since 2008." "Siri, show me fastest growing cause of death among women ages 30+ who are unmarried without children." "Alexa, show me how ACT scores are weighted by
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Remember when a guy "Hacked" AT&T when the new iPad came out in 2010? I wonder what happened to that guy? lol
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
"The supreme luxury of the society of technical necessity will be to grant the bonus of Useless Revolt and of an acquiescent smile." - Jacques Ellul
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
I'd be more interested in calculating bias based on what they DO or DON'T report entirely. It's one thing to report on something with bias, it is more telling to note what they selectively ignore.
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
And? U.S. and key allies install backdoors in device firmware and imbedded chips from manufacturers to spy on their own citizens. Why should we care at this point? We've had over 20 years to have this conversation, too late now. lol
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
This article is funny because the author comes from a place that has no problem with identity when it comes to Palestinians. Curious!
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
You WILL live in the pod
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Wouldn't the solution be jamming or EMP related? Of course, because the technological system must propagate itself at any cost this idea is counter-intuitive. Technological progress is seen as bending towards an inherent good. People n
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
You guys really think people would do that? Lie about a crisis to consolidate power? Those WMDs were real, they HAVE to be! People with power over me wouldn't lie because that's wrong!
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Ukraine struggles with a sense of national identity because for the most of history it was a buffer region of roving cossack bands up until the 18th century. The concept of Ukraine as a national entity is still very new. Ukrainians in Azov
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
It's not likes giving people anxiety, it's the gaze of the panopticon.
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Jeremy Bentham and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all." https://ww
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
LiveLeak was the only place I know where I could find footage of warcrimes in Ukraine that will more than likely never be "a part of our national conversation". Does the media tell you who Azov battalion or right-sector is? That w
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by samuelizdat 5y ago
That depends, would Google let us know?
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by samuelizdat 6y ago
Baudrillard would have more parallels to what they are trying to convey than Foucault if they want to pick French Post-modernists. The author is just a member of clergy upset that uneducated barbarians and peasants have unorthodox beliefs.
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by samuelizdat 6y ago
"Infinite growth is the ideology of a cancer cell" was written by Edward Abbey a ecologist and author of the book Desert Solitaire. Might be worth looking into.
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by samuelizdat 6y ago
Not a serious country
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by samuelizdat 6y ago
A set of security bits, a spare compact flash card and a couple minutes alone. Don't tell me it's not impossible.

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