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In which I fail not to respond to Ran Prieur's thoughts on freedom: excessecology.blogspot.com/2025/04/got-...

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garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of...

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livingtogethersomehow.substack.com/p/hegemonic-...

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Weblog excessecology.blogspot.com/2025/03/gett...

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Onion magazine article nailing zeitgeist meet oblique Severance reference meet old T-shirt slogan: THINK before it becomes illegal.

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Musk can no more than Carroll's Humpty Dumpty be absolute master of the meanings of his messages. He may have meant to mean "my heart goes out to you like a rocket", but the semantic field into which he launched that gesture was not terra nullis.

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How many times have I heard that these LLMs are the worst they are ever going to be? But google got worse -- on the user end. My only methodology here is that I get annoyed, rather than comforted, hearing the same thing over and over again.

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One of the better takes about 2025 so far is that politics news, gurusphere news and tech news have completely collapsed into each other. 90% of my podcast feed, and 80% of my newsletter feed, consists of discussions of the latest emanations from the two big platform bros.

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Finished reading Lewis Mumford's *The Myth of the Machine* (of the monotechnic, the megatechnic). Above all the myth of the machine is that there is no escape from in, that There Is No Alternative.

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I slotted laptop power adaptor into Poppa's old Sony portable radio. It worked, but instantly burst into smoking. 45V > 4.5V. Remarkably still works on battery. FM radio a marvel,MJ sounding incredible even in mono. Mass broadcast ironically more democratic that 'personalised' streaming mix.

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Stepping from the hifalutin back to lower levels of the perceptual control hierarchy - acting so as to make things the way I want in the environment (mostly my room), manipulating objects not just symbols. Facing the conflicts arising as I go.

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Previous was Hegel; so's this: "...it is the nature of humanity to press onward to agreement with others; human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds".

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Argumentation is not the way to truth - even less so is the conceit that refuses to argue.

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