Category: SYSTEMS IN PHASE SPACE
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Scaling Is a Problem. Downscaling Is a Wicked Problem.
Scaling is easy. Just throw more hardware at it, more bodies, more capital, more hype. Pump it up, stack it high, run the numbers until they glow. A startup becomes a unicorn, a unicorn becomes a monopoly, and suddenly the market’s a game of Monopoly where one guy owns all the hotels and everyone else…
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Bill Joy’s Principle
In the grand theater of human folly, where ideologies are the gaudy costumes we wear to the masquerade of life, there’s a cruel little joke that most of us haven’t quite gotten. It’s the Culture War version of Bill Joy’s principle, and it goes something like this: no matter what your banner says, no matter…
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Tech Ouroboros
Step 1: “We’re Revolutionizing the World” A startup manifesto scribbled in the blood of corporate messiahs. Disrupt! Innovate! The pitch deck glows with the radioactive sheen of venture capital seraphim. The vision? A frictionless utopia, baby—or at least a tax haven. The founders wear black turtlenecks like armor. They haven’t slept since Web 1.0.…
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Change the past tomorrow while living the future today
Change the past tomorrow while living the future today, a glitched mantra scribbled across the collapsing realities of a fractured timeline. The future is a relentless data stream, pulsing with the potential of what could be, while the past is an overwritten database, its files eroded by the relentless reprogramming of memory and circumstance. It’s…
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Unresolved After 45,000 Years
Here’s a cosmic joke for the ages, a riddle wrapped in the absurdity of technological evolution: it’s nearly impossible to solve a need while constructing the very technology meant to fulfill it. We’re talking about a grand, sprawling farce that’s played out over the millennia—a never-ending cycle of futility where the answers always elude us.…
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Data
Data. A scabrous flesh-puppet twitching on cold metal slabs. You feed it your sins, your failings, and it bulges, engorged with your psychic sewage. A monstrous server-god, howling for more, hungering for the offal of your humanity. Data. Daemons of transgression amassed. A digital confessional where sins are not forgiven, but merely stored, archived for…
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HYPOSUBJECTS
https://medium.com/@ramurrio/hyposubjects-212efd7633f9 EPISODE 52 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE The time of hypersubjects is ending. Their desert-apocalypse-fire-and-death cults aren’t going to save them this time. Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer talk about how the time of hyposubjects is just beginning. https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&schema=twitter&url=https%3A//twitter.com/bravojohnson5/status/1373156431889788931&image=https%3A//i.embed.ly/1/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07 https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&schema=twitter&url=https%3A//twitter.com/the_eco_thought/status/1373277927907950592&image=https%3A//i.embed.ly/1/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07 1 hyperobjects, narcissism, white boys, looping, teenagers, toys, games, squats, gut bacteria. We live in…
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Hyperbolic Discount
Far out, man, the whole avoiding-hell racket is a cosmic con job! Sure, dodging the fiery furnace down the line might seem like the ultimate score, but zoom in, baby, zoom in. We’re talking about living, breathing, now, and the now is a cracked mirror reflecting a reality gone batshit. We’re strung out on this…
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Adam Curtis’ “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
Unraveling the Metaphysical Indeterminacy Adam Curtis, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, has carved a niche for himself with his thought-provoking and visually stunning works that dissect the complexities of power, politics, and society. In his latest series, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” Curtis once again delves deep into the labyrinth of human history, weaving…
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Failure Mode
Failure mode is a term that is commonly used to describe the state of an object or system when it is no longer able to perform its intended function. This can occur in a variety of contexts, from the failure of a mechanical system to the failure of a relationship. Understanding failure mode is crucial…