j_schmuck

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by j_schmuck 4y ago
This one was pretty fun to write, just to consider why a company would want to transcend the boundary separating the comparatively simple, obviously motivated and bounded world of business for the much more difficult, risky, and obtuse worl
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
In what context? I think the quantization of politics is ultimately to its detriment, at least as far as theory goes. The spatial relationships and affinities between political systems seem to confuse the matter almost. I struggle to think
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
The political coordinate plane is an interesting one, because it's often presented in an implied context of "what would I choose as my government, were I to decide its nature and orientation," which is a strangely liberal min
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
I think this is generally true, but do you think that fascism might be a historically contingent politics, as dead as Stalinism in a practical sense, and equally unrevivable? Fascism proved to be quite politically sterile in the nations tha
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
I do think that's central to it, the managerworld is not profit driven necessarily, but it is quite focused on success, failure, and iteration driven by these heuristics. The focus on management prevents the creation of a central legit
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
I mean this is just the natural order of industry and governance, they will be closely linked to the point of obvious corruption and oligarchy. Oligarchy is the natural form of government. I still don't really understand how Oliver fee
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Clocking Out: The Ill-Starred Birth of Digitalism(deepsocks.substack.com)
2 points by j_schmuck 4y ago|3 comments
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
While politics may become absurd, it is my position that it is not fixable, nor is fixing it a sincere desire of the current political class. From the perspective of the Biden family becoming a political dynasty, and from the perspective of
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
I'd figured watching the Canadian feds almost without effort seize crypto assets of their political undesirables made it clear that there was no layer of anonymity or security to cryptocurrency, and that they could easily be made as re
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
Why are megaprojects so reliably running into these protracted fucked launches? What are the actual managerial processes like? How are basic failures of planning and scope and quality so constant for the biggest players in the industry? Wha
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
Any challenge to the existing financial architecture of the world is right wing extremism now, huh?
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
What do you think is the actual future of the managerial society? Do you think it forms a separate and distinct political economy from liberal capitalism?
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
Glad you liked it!
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Lunch Break, a Brief History of the Third Industrial Revolution(deepsocks.substack.com)
3 points by j_schmuck 4y ago|4 comments
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
You ever wonder what the hell disinformation actually is? I'm starting to wonder if perhaps it's just a smokescreen used to obscure the fact that conventional propaganda techniques are being outpaced by competing ones.
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
you really think twitter has a chance to help make people smarter? like the parable of the scorpion of the frog lol, said the scorpion lmao
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
Two ways the deep center can help you live your life slightly better
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by j_schmuck 4y ago
so it's a movie about johnny going stephen paddock? Mel Gibson as anne frank? jesus man what the hell are you on about i'm not gonna lie i kinda wanna see where this is going