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✨i'm in my pop front era ✨ i write things to change minds. anarcho-spreadsheetist. learning the hard way, but at least im learning. https://wedontagree.net/ 📍 AUS
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joseph weizenbaum on why computer scientists and programmers need to learn the humanities to stop them doing bad things in... 1976 (computer power and human reason)

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

the silver lining is that last time this caused scientists of a specific age to flip from being apolitical to being as a group the most dedicated antifascist intellectuals for a decade until they were brought to heel by the state when the cold war started

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

yeah this is a basic incoherence at the heart of american conservatism, the ongoing decay of the fusionist project and a turn to more european-style reaction is a working out of the ideological contradictions

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

it is not at all a remotely pressing issue but someone needs to write a modest LWMA defense of neoclassical econ to throw out at marxists who want to claim that LTV means markets are inherently exploitative

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

musk is actually a social experiment to definitively disprove the hippy "what if we just got everyone in power to do drugs man?" theory of change

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

one of the hottest takes im cooking up is that the novel What Is To Be Done was the HPMOR for the revolutionary russian underground. fight me

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"one weird trick to defeat counterinsurgency, US military planners HATE THEM"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

> get back on after a week and all the nerds are talking about ethics hell yeah

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

the funniest thing about the STEM / humanities culture war conflict is that for all the talk from the humanities about how the unenlightened STEM barbarians need to read Shakespeare or whatever, few are actually willing to meet STEM people on their own terms and seriously engage with the sciences

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

It's STILL NOT A MEDICAL PRACTICE the fact that medicines and surgeries help but it has no medical indicators and is in fact purely a fact of self- knowledge and desire is precisely why doctors use us as the fucking test and limit case of their power

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Using Signal is bad because it makes the Left paranoid and not in sync with the working class" is some classic tankie-brained nonsense. True 1990s vibes. Go on a rant about how antifa are the real fascists. Tell me that the black bloc is COINTELPRO. Try to sell me a newspaper. Complain about gays.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

"you have budget constraints and that influences your decision set" is not a world-shattering insight into the human psyche in this century

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

ok one of the funniest things about The Californian Ideology is that one of the critiques it levies is about a potential apartheid between the rich and poor in terms of access to information technology when the demand for data harvesting help give access to tech to basically everyone

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment