It's true the Myth of Progress fails us as we face anthropocene, and christian eschatology won't help us either. We need a myth that helps us navigate it.
Anna Tsing suggests Precarity.
Gone is Progress, with Individuals operating under Hierarchy
Welcome to Precarity, with Cyborgs operating under Assemblages
Below are some quotes from the book 'The Mushroom at the End of the World'. https://lazy8.social/media/QlbOWKkw9JBKbSG-Q7Y https://lazy8.social/media/FkSEAQy-2uGqikavjuE https://lazy8.social/media/XEBKg82FBqnV_NTZA_Q https://lazy8.social/media/DI9qdOslVlGVKVtwDr4
How do we retain agency in a world heavily mediated by corporations?
How do we know our cognitive resources (attention, trust, hopes) are not being allocated to the highest bidder in the marketplace, in units too subtle for us to perceive?
A future of hive-mind slavery at least provides for basic needs. We'd be free agents, alienated and alienating others.
We must devote our minds to it.
On latent commons https://lazy8.social/#mushroom #nomadism media/bPo1EnmjZ5BBiYq_TzU
On anarchism, millennialism and Christian eschatology
great #ethereum talk by @rahulrumalla at #vuejsnyc, last night. Diff stacks explained logically (from back- to front-end to client) and demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hfNnf1zBY&feature=youtu.be&t=36m35s … takeaways: "smart contract is neither smart nor a contract (it's not binding)"
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My soundcloud is doing fine, thank you.
https://soundcloud.com/nicholasfrota
(I don’t do music, I just repost the good stuff I find) #music #techno
'Tourists go home, refugees welcome': why Barcelona chose migrants over visitors
Some real talk on open source culture, currently.
Vector paths of meaning between words and phrases
http://flowingdata.com/2018/06/15/vector-paths-of-meaning-between-words-and-phrases/
1. Take any two words
2. Find a word that is, in cosine distance, between the two words
3. Continue subdividing each path until no more intermediaries exist
Listening to Optimistic Decay by Kerri LeBon
https://soundcloud.com/kerrilebon/optimistic-decay-nts-5-june-2018
Isola, Black Crown Quarterly, Prism Stalker, The Highest House. #comics https://lazy8.social/media/6NNlsVhk6wBSCaW6Dd0 https://lazy8.social/media/TcnTsSth7Vx_0GQ3dys https://lazy8.social/media/4-pS8NRNKXWMZr_7Els https://lazy8.social/media/nXB6mCpHs4yUAwE37xE
This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no
so `vuepress eject` spits the `.vuepress/theme/` folder, so you can edit style.
I'm a `.sass|scss` person, so I need to learn `.sty`, tho it seems pretty similar.
How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff and used it to create freedom for companies, not people https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html/amp
An incel is someone who believes everyone else is an NPC.
noir is a conservative genre that thinks that corruption can not be changed, only the heroes values can be conserved. But cyberpunk is a noir that believes that the corruption can be outwitted and undercut: by saving the self and the people you love, you are forcing the algorithms of your oppression to recognise your humanity. This is very unrealistic, but it is a hopeful genre of outsiders supplying change
I gotta tell you, mastodon is fast to help answering really obscure questions.
Twitter is only blazing fast for finger pointing.
There are other deep criticisms of a view of #cyberpunk that insists that unaltered bodies are the only true humanity, too. E.g.: authors with this view tend to conflate increasing augmentation with a decrease in emotion, as though expressive emotion were innately human–never mind autistic people, people with flat affects, etc.
But I like the idea that the criticism offers - that augmentation allows a person to uncover their true self, rather than being limited by the body they were born with.
In no small part this is on us -- the #InfoSec community.
We need to keep calling three-letter-agencies out on their bullshit.
I appreciate Defensive Security very much, it's a great podcast.
But I find it at least a bit disturbing that EternalBlue and NSA were not mentioned at all whide discussing WannaCry, and that the perverse way three-letter-agencies are set-up in relation to #InfoSec was not pointed out as an important part of the problem.
/rant