sewercake

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Smells, Spanners, and Switches (2016)(inference-review.com)
6 points by sewercake 4y ago|1 comments
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by sewercake 5y ago
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by sewercake 5y ago
Patricio Guzman's 'Nostalgia for the Light' is a wonderful documentary 'about' Atacama. It cuts between the scientists using the telescopes and a collection of women who have been scouring the desert for fragments o
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by sewercake 5y ago
depends. I get used to things. I have spent hundreds of hours using modern laptop computers to develop software, read articles, mindlessly consume social media content, watch porn. Because of these hundreds of hours, when I come to interact
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by sewercake 5y ago
There's a lot of 'political' content on instagram. do a quick google search for 'politigram' and you'll see what I'm talking about. That being said, there are definitely per-platform affordances that may c
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by sewercake 5y ago
While I'm not sure where I stand on this ruling, there's a flaw in this form of reasoning. Namely, I don't think this is merely (or at least usefully) reducible to 'efficiently editing a series of frames'. The abili
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by sewercake 6y ago
It's interesting, many people in this comment section are pointing out other places, like greece, the caspian sea, the black sea, where cats are found all over the urban environment. What all of these places share (including istanbul)
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by sewercake 7y ago
Better Place was an early attempt at this strategy that ended in disaster, though I don't think you can attribute it to the underlying strategy. Here's a post-mortem on the company https://www.fastcompany.com/30281
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by sewercake 7y ago
Are you thinking of guifi?
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by sewercake 7y ago
Btr
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Mark Fisher and the War on Time (2012)(gonzocircus.com)
2 points by sewercake 7y ago|0 comments
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by sewercake 7y ago
Could it be that people aren't _just_ becoming more sensitive, but that aspects of modern society are _causing_ mental health issues to appear at higher rates? I won't say 'capitalism is making everyone mentally ill', bu
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by sewercake 7y ago
'nothing to do with profit' is a pretty strong claim. I think Marxists (and others) would argue that the two are stochastically linked. Decreases in the value of a good (the amount of labour-time used to generate it) roughly track
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by sewercake 7y ago
While there might be some puritanism in there, I think the implication is these theoretical errors lead to erroneous conclusions. I.e: Bastani is using certain conclusions from Marx, while changing certain premises, and not doing the work t
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by sewercake 7y ago
Haven't read the book, but here are two (notably harsh) reviews: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17006_fully-automat... - Bastani claims scarcity is the central question in economic thought. This is a neo
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by sewercake 7y ago
Looks cool, but I can't seem to find anything referencing 'embodied cognition'. I'm not expert, but that still seems to be a ripe area of research.
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by sewercake 7y ago
I didn't take OPs comment as a 'snipe' -- America has a relatively weak left wing political base / history. Most of the canonical left wing thinkers, events, and successes have occurred outside of America, so it's a
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by sewercake 7y ago
I think you're equating 'society' with 'the market' here.
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by sewercake 8y ago
As another reply mentioned, it seems like hand-written notes are good because the limitations on writing speed force you to synthesize information as it is relayed to you. Outside of mathematical lectures, I find writing notes in something
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by sewercake 8y ago
The critiques are similar insofar as they are both critiques, but differ vastly in their content. Mark Fisher, and the 'traditional left's' critique of neoliberal identity politics calls for a centering of class -- that is th
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by sewercake 8y ago
what split keyboard are you using? Do you recommend it? Currently in the market for one.
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by sewercake 8y ago
The progression from technocracy to technopoly (and beyond?) reminds me of Forster's famous short story The Machine Stops .
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by sewercake 8y ago
they begin the article by saying pasture raised, organic meat is better for the environment than single-crop, fertilizer grown crops, through a reduction in emissions and and increase in biodiversity and health of the soil. It does not comp
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by sewercake 8y ago
Much like the author, I am skeptical of the role that 'fake news' has in the current political crisis in the united states (and, I would argue, globally). There's something about that critique that seems to a)lack a broader h
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by sewercake 8y ago
well, for one, it provides a common api across a host of different cloud providers (aws, azure, google cloud)
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by sewercake 8y ago
probably referring to the large amounts of capital put into real-estate etcetera starting in the 80's
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by sewercake 8y ago
re Aqueous' reply: We know that America has a very bad track record when it comes to intervention in the democratic processes of other states. We also know that Russia is a cynical, kleptocratic regime that has its fair share of moral
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by sewercake 8y ago
A relatively new podcast has a really enlightening episode on the bail system [1]. Episode two. Highly recommended. The big takeaways for me: - the process for setting bail prices is very opaque, with little accountability. Many districts h
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by sewercake 8y ago
I love reading about Systems Theory. It's exciting, and, as other commenter's have mentioned, full of 'aha' moments. But, concretely, what has it done? Where has it gone? I am not being facetious, I'm genuinely curi
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by sewercake 8y ago
All of those things would be even easier if the system was rehabilitative!

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