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SV as Runaway System
Silicon Valley is renowned as the hub of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, where some of the world’s most successful companies have been founded. Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and many others have revolutionized the way we live, work, and interact with one another. However, it is also true that Silicon Valley was built on the…
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Weimar Germany
https://t.co/7HrDK8Onxc… Reading this now. See how it goes “Excellent and splendidly illustrated. . . . [A] superb introduction. . . . probably the best available." –Eric Hobsbawm pic.twitter.com/PM6qGiUIZH — Bravo Johnson (@BravoJohnson5) July 13, 2020 Reading this now. See how it goes “Excellent and splendidly illustrated. . . . [A] superb introduction. . . .…
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1% Mortality
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Rupert Murdoch Accelerationist
Accelerationism is a term used to describe the idea that speeding up the collapse of the existing political and economic systems is necessary in order to bring about a more just and equitable society. This philosophy has gained traction in recent years, particularly among the political left. However, some have argued that accelerationists owe a…
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We Could Be Talking about…
We could be talking about 1-Capital punishment 2-Global Warming 3-Right to be Forgotten 4-Net neutrality 5-Immigration Reform 6-Dietary supplements 7-contraceptive mandate 8-Incarcerations 9-Nuclear weapons 10-Native advertising 11-Payday loans 12-Defund the police 13-student debt 14-Cuban embargo 15-Drones 16-Civil asset forfeiture 17-Sugar 18-Pharma 19-cigarettes 20-Judicial elections 21-Infrastructure 22-Goverment surveillance’s 23-corporate surveillance 24-Patent trolls 25-Bail 26-Torture 27-Parental leave…
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How To Photograph Stenciling On The Casing Of An Atomic Bomb: Medium Overheating
MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 48 “Amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a vacuum of accountability, into which assets human and financial begin to vanish. Back in the days of hippie simplicity, people liked to blame ‘the CIA’ or ‘a secret rogue operation.’ But this is a…
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Addicted To Plot
The famous quote by Anais Nin, “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are,” speaks volumes about the way humans perceive the world around them. Every individual’s perception is influenced by their unique experiences, emotions, and beliefs. This subjectivity in perception makes it difficult to determine a definitive objective reality,…
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Understanding Media: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
Episode 48 “A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.” Marshal Mcluhan An immortal lightbulb named Byron runs afoul of a secret international industrial alliance known as the Phoebus cartel in Thomas Pynchon’s cult classic Gravity’s Rainbow. When the cartel detects that Byron has exceeded his programmed life span, the Incandescent Anomalies Committee…
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Eureka Moments
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher and communication theorist, introduced the concept of media ecology, which examines the relationship between media, technology, and society. He proposed that the media through which people communicate have a significant impact on the way they perceive and understand the world around them. McLuhan identified three significant revolutions or eureka moments…
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Media as Extensions of Our Central Nervous System: Ratios of sensation
MEDIUM CHANGES YOUR RELATION TO SOCIETY “The electric light is pure information” Though Mcluhan books are written in a difficult style — at once enigmatic, epigrammatic and overgrown with arcane literary, historic allusions and flamboyantly undecipherable aphorisms he put out a few concepts that I find useful for our purposes. McLuhan suggests that the world…