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Jay Alt@jalt· May 20

Mental gymnastics meme template

Jay Alt@jalt· May 9

Ralph Wiggum, dissolving into air: (chuckles) I'm in danger.

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 29

Langer 1953

In Feeling and Form Susanne Langer defines poetry as an art by its primary illusion of experience and claims all successful literature creates a semblance of mental process

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 24

The Architect from whichever matrix sequel

Jay Alt@jalt· Feb 23

Free banner image for brain patriots

Jay Alt@jalt· Feb 16

Bak'tun 13 progress: 3.3%

AI-gen tech style mayan calendrics dashboard

Jay Alt@jalt· Jan 2

Valve

Jay Alt@jalt· Dec 31

"agency" replacing "responsibility" wow interesting hm

“My POV on hard subjects is not that we shouldn’t talk about them,” Kwon wrote on Slack. “Rather, because we are not just a research institution, but also an actor in the world (the leading actor in fact) that puts the subject of inquiry (AI) into the world, we are expected to take agency for the outcomes.”

Jay Alt@jalt· Dec 13

Read theory

The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell

Jay Alt@jalt· Dec 12

Ran into this old saw

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Jay Alt@jalt· May 29

You find discussions of this consumer group in old futures studies stuff

Cover of "Visions of Desirable Socities" edited by Eleonora Masini

Beginning of a list of seven values defining the "leitmotif" of an envisioned first-world frugality society:
1. Material simplicity
2. Ascetism combined with aesthetism

List continues
3. Human scale
4. Solidarity at a local, national, regional and global level
5. Self-determination
6. Ecological awareness
7. Personal growth

Another page describing the contemporary (late 70s) polling on questions of post-material lifestyle, showing large majorities in support but noting the empirical support is "rather weak"

Jay Alt@jalt· May 23

Teach the science

Cover of The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell

Jay Alt@jalt· May 13

Woo => Anti-woo => Rationalism => Post-rationalism => Woo

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 11

Fateful moments in Silicon Valley futurism (Systems Analysis, Planning and Decision Models by Brauers)

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 10

The empire never ended

Description of the EMISARI teleconferencing system created in the Nixon White House to manage implementation of the 1970 wage and price freeze. "...what OEP thought of as a computerized version of a telephone conference call"

Continued description of the EMISARI software which was eventually "made available at nominal cost in August 1973 from the National Technical Information Service". Mention of an earlier network called PARTY LINE which was used for Delphi method conferencing.

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 10

The Matrix by John S. Quarterman

Short description of the SFMT (San Francisco / Moscow Teleport) network which (at unclear date) connected the PeaceNet machine in SF to a machine called uniipas in Moscow, with a dialup modem accessible to about a dozen people. "Some of these people are prominent critics of the Soviet government".

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 5

It's one of these deals

Mental gymnastics meme template

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 5

I dreamed of Jon Postel last night, alive as you and me

Jay Alt@jalt· Apr 4

He kind of phoned this chapter in, it's like 4.5 pages and almost all block quotations. It's all real though

First paragraphs of "End of the Macrocosm" in Hero With a Thousand Faces, describing the Mayan doomsday cycle

Last paragraph of "End of the Macrocosm" quoting the Gospel of Matthew.

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 22

Passage in Progress and Poverty (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308.html.images) beginning "In theory we are intense democrats" and running through "seem to sweep us back again"

Passage continues from "to the old conditions from which we dreamed" to "back again toward barbarism"

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 22

Gilded age "abundance"

Passage of Progress and Poverty (searchable at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55308/pg55308-images.html) running from "The type of modern growth is the great city" to "the confidence of their fellow-"

Passage continues from "citizens by the purity of their lives" to "would be an insuperablr disqualification"

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 21

This really looks like something that has to change after the epic wonk policy fixes everything, not before

Partial correlation plot using world values survey data showing zero sum thinking is left wing worldwide

Graph showing rise of zero sum thinking as a lagged effect of the decline in economic growth at time of cohort birth since 1940, using World Inequality Database

Graph showing linear relation between gdp growth in childhood and zero sum thinking (less growth, more zero-sumness). World values survey and world bank data

Title and abstract of Chinoy et al, "zero-sum thinking and the roots of US political divides"

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 19

Last book of Progress and Poverty really makes you appreciate how little thinkpieces on Progress, Innovation and Civilization have changed

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 15

Trust the Wissenschaft™️

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 15

Kulturwissenschaft a hard science

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 15

Jay Alt@jalt· Mar 9

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