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by m_fayer 1y ago
“Burn After Reading”: only adjacent to the halls of power, but a great portrayal of a majority of morons trying to impose themselves into a mostly-offscreen world of aghast professionals. It’s a harbinger.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Glossy magazines, handy-dandy mobbing tools, porn, a kiddie slot machine, a big stack of totally random niche zines that include yes the icky ones, a kiddie panopticon, their anxious parents, a gaggle of marketers and influencers grooming t
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by m_fayer 1y ago
I would just like to appreciate your imagery and wordplay here, it’s spot on and I think should be our standard for conceptualizing this corporate behavior.
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by m_fayer 1y ago
"Extraordinary danger"? "Fighting the oligarchy"? Those can certainly pull tens of thousands of people to the street. But I'm not so sure it's enough to win. See what I said above - materialistic, amoral. I&#x2
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by m_fayer 1y ago
Agreed, this word needs to be claimed and defended. We need a sane politics that can win and for that we need to start with a rallying cry, in a nation where the median is poor, materialistic, and amoral. Obviously, rallying around “diversi
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Is casually conflating allied nations with “subordinates” some sort of signal of political orientation now?
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Quantity has a quality all it’s own. That is to say, as we strive for better and better tools along a single axis, at some point the social dynamics shift markedly, even though it’s just “more of the same”. Digital distribution was just bet
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by m_fayer 2y ago
This is exactly what I meant, thank you. I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I thought that a reasonably free, vital, innovative, and prosperous society was compatible with a fundamental respect for human dignity. That's why I moved to Europe. Now it seems I was overoptimistic, but that doesn't mean we sho
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I think the grass roots of the tech world has some portion of the blame here. The introduction of hoodies, flip-flops, open drama and bickering, and kicker into the office environment is not unrelated. And it’s not just CEOs, we’ve now got
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I really like “absurdist oligarch”. “Rich awkward joker” also comes to mind.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I don’t get why our profession is so prone to this. From what I’ve seen, actual engineers and people working in the trades have a “pick the right tool for the job” approach. At least the ones that haven’t been co-opted into becoming vendors
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by m_fayer 2y ago
This is a wonderful list and I’m going to hold onto it, thank you. I love the concept of a “switched on” person and I’ve been struggling to define and name this myself. They’re all across the political spectrum and often outside its binarie
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I was always receptive to those arguments, but I think even the people making them only felt them conceptually. The thick layer of civilization and “end of history” vibes just felt impenetrable. Then around brexit times it started to feel a
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by m_fayer 2y ago
The EU suddenly feels flimsy and badly defended. I hope that negative motivation puts the fear into people and motivates action faster than this reality can be exploited by bad actors, who seem to be ready and waiting.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
While he’s very much unique, the one writer he brings to my mind is Borges, just a bit more humane and steeped in real technology and theory.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
This borderline bricked my partner’s phone. We’re in Berlin. The “walk in centers” here are a few random sleepy repair shops barely aware of what’s happening who might be able to help you in a few weeks, maybe. She bought an iPhone.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
A younger me would see this as too radical. After seeing some of this up close, now I tend to support this course of action. It would be a shame, but I think we’ve all collectively proven ourselves to be shortsighted and cheap with the grea
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Strongly agreed. When I think of the best Nintendo products the words “fun” and “play” spring to mind. AAA gaming on the other hand, either resembles sports, shallow short-form media, or Oscar-bait melodrama. Very little fun to be had. What
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by m_fayer 2y ago
> The costs of housing, healthcare, and education This is the “list of modern miseries,” and needs child care and eldercare on it to be complete. This is the list of those things that, for all our prowess, we’ve broken and just can’t see
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Inheritance is diminishing, boomers are living longer and elder care is hugely expensive, chances are that’s where the inheritance will go.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
And this is the structural dynamic that degrades doctor’s bedside manner and makes them appear nonchalant in the face of suffering.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Of all the different sci-fi futures I’ve encountered, I never thought we’d end up in the Phillip k Dick one.
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LINQPad 8 for macOS(linqpad.net)
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Don’t know why this is being voted down, I’ve seen some of this with my own eyes as well. They even had an in-house “startup incubator” some years ago that was straight out of German-Silicon-Valley.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Isn’t lidar how you avoid driving into the side of a white truck on a bright day when the sun is positioned just so?
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by m_fayer 2y ago
Apologies, that was meant as a joke but I can see how it was way too vague in this context. It was intended as a rueful "I concede that guy has/had a point, should've listened more and judged less." I think what you&#x27
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by m_fayer 2y ago
I vaguely hear a lefty in a leather jacket whispering sly warnings about neoliberalism. I may have even heard a hint of “I told you so” but maybe that’s just my imagination.
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by m_fayer 2y ago
https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly
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by m_fayer 2y ago
It’s been consistently one of my favorite tools for a good decade. I don’t know how much Microsoft is paying them to keep it Windows-only because that’s the only reason I keep windows around, and I’m sure that goes for a number of important

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