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by bshepard 4y ago
This wrong is subsidiary on the the prior moral wrong of kidnapping and caging humans. This practice will look very bad from the perspective of any desirable future. But many futures await with even more cages.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Another passage that really sizzles: "The world of modern management is a world of continual surveillance and goal-oriented process. It is fundamentally harmonious, and offenses against its harmony are taken with great seriousness. It
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by bshepard 4y ago
There's seems like the key to the argument: "But managerworld is predictable, if nothing else, because it is processual, it relies on a heuristic to determine success and failure, to determine what needs iteration and what does no
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Political Fairytales for Managerworld's Failchildren(deepsocks.substack.com)
3 points by bshepard 4y ago|3 comments
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Nomophobia and the Future of Social Cryptolotteries(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 4y ago
One more passage to quote: "This is the core contingent of the incipient fourth industrial revolution. It is built on a society that surveils. The surveillance of everyone, at all times, for increasingly petty reasons. User experience
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by bshepard 4y ago
This feels like the key passage right here: "The rise of the gig economy post 2008 is not just the sign of the times, it is the sign of the increasing automation of management processes that are relatively simple. Without it, the scale
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by bshepard 4y ago
A previous posting of this got flagged, but as a co-author, I want to stress the sincerity of the proposal. Outclowning Trump seems to be the only way forward.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Part of what is "cool" about managerial society is how it captures other forms of economy, so that the economies of firms, states, universities and so many other institutions all become subject to rationalization.
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by bshepard 4y ago
Favorite line: "The carrot stays a carrot. The carrot, if anything, gets tastier. And the stick becomes a security camera."
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by bshepard 4y ago
On Bookchin and Kurdish revolutionary movements: https://internationalistcommune.com/bookchin-kurdish-resista...
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by bshepard 4y ago
The pattern of splitting within the revolutionary left is notable, and perhaps similar to similar patterns within protestant christianity. And perhaps just as various protestant consciousness patterns became universalized, so too are the wa
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by bshepard 4y ago
Here's another way to consider the very deep question: bayesian inference applies to judgments of efficient causation, that is, a relationship between antecedents and consequents. This kind of judgement is very common, and very useful
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by bshepard 4y ago
But it does involve fields of sense that are bayesian, and perhaps bayesian inference patterns will always obtain in any judgment?
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by bshepard 4y ago
Perhaps not, because you need to have a qualitative sense of context variation, and some contexts/fields of sense are not Bayesian in form - historical understand, for instance, depends on amassed narrative/empirical ...so that, f
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by bshepard 4y ago
Good question. Here's the fable, retold by Wikipedia: "A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises
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World War 3 and the Unknowability of Elon Musk’s Drug Habits(deepsocks.substack.com)
3 points by bshepard 4y ago|7 comments
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Clocking IN: The Prehistory of Effective Management(deepsocks.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 4y ago|0 comments
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The Manager Fractal(deepsocks.substack.com)
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A simple but deep theory about drugs and postmodernity(deepsocks.substack.com)
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The Last Rock Star: Materials for a Film By, and With, Johnny Depp(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by bshepard 4y ago|1 comments
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Galtzerdiak’bolo: a straightforward path to optional communism(deepsocks.substack.com)
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by bshepard 4y ago
Surely, yes, but the whole social metasystem does a lot of damage to the planet for the benefit of the few, so why scapegoat one part of the system?
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Why Not Just Take the Microchips? Pressures Against the Triangular Silicon Trade(deepsocks.substack.com)
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by bshepard 4y ago
Very deep passage here, thank you: "I asked the other day on Twitter if anyone could come up with a comparable financial asset whose demand is completely artificially generated by narrative. Derivative contracts don’t qualify because I
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by bshepard 5y ago
"In other words, if superintelligent machines prove capable of everything except consciousness in this enlarged sense, could our descendents become endosymbionts, or sentient organelles, in our technology? Might future humans find that
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Alienated Sentience and Endosymbiosis in the World of H.R. Giger(thenightshirt.com)
1 points by bshepard 5y ago|1 comments
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by bshepard 5y ago
Perhaps someone reading this might be interested in developing a joint national branding strategy and national development strategy for Thailand. More details here and here: https://infinitethailand.substack.com/p/the-v
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by bshepard 5y ago
"Arsenals radiate lines of communication vertically, horizontally, and diagonally. In addition, transmission relays propagate any line of communication aimed at them. All units must remain in direct connection with their own lines of c
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The Game of War: Chess with Networks (2008)(cabinetmagazine.org)
26 points by bshepard 5y ago|2 comments

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