layout: post title: "osOpinion: Lindows Media Center Takes on XP Counterpart" created: 1043775840 categories:

• "*nix"
• Multimedia PC
• Open Source
• Small Form Factor

osOpinion has an article that Lindows is releasing their own software/hardware bundle targetted at being used as a multimedia PC, much like WinXP Media Center Edition:

For its part, the Lindows Media Center combines the functionality of a standard PC with that of a DVD and CD player, and is compatible with MP3 and VCD formats. Lindows said the device boots in less than 10 seconds. Full article on osOpinion

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• Game

How does a gaming company start?

A friend of mine was talking today about his desire to start a company, and we got onto the topic of starting a gaming company. What I didn’t tell him at the time is that this idea resurfaced recently in my mind as well.

But I have no idea how a game company starts. Where does the money come from? How do you get the talented staff to join?

The game ideas are pretty much contained in the Scaleable MMORPG article, and I’ve got two game producer contacts at Electronic Arts right here in BC, plus plenty of programmer friends known to me and my friends.

Your thoughts on how to start a gaming company?

definitions often Confuse

I know how to study
I do not know
How to study
What is known

Are you feeling the weight of your measurement?

About the Actual Writing Part§

Metadata§

• Author: [[Freddie deBoer]]
• Full Title: About the Actual Writing Part
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/about-the-actual-writing-part

Highlights§

• I believe in editing, or just the influence of a sympathetic reader who is willing to provide honest feedback.
  • Tags: [[editing]] [[writing]]
• In the abstract, it’s simply this: static writing advice is dangerous for the same reason that WebMD is dangerous. It fails to see that a patient is not a list of symptoms; your problems in writing are never reducible to “ah, too many commas.”
• (Why write if you’re scared to write lustily and out loud?)
  • Tags: [[writing]]
• Write as much as you have to.
• don’t let an older generation lay a curse on you just because they labored underneath it themselves.
• The OK-for-everybody version of that piece gets read once and slips into the memory hole. Which is better?
• And in particular you should revise reflexively and continuously.
  • Tags: [[writing]]
• Constant endless iterative change. If I could grant you one gift as a writer it would be a sense of permanent dissatisfaction.
• Cultivate your craft to the best of your ability. It’s all you can ask of yourself.
• appreciation that prose writing is the steady procession of small changes that create an overall impression.
• I think it’s easy to tell yourself that composing social media posts improves your longform writing when it does not;
• Anyway people who are more savvy about the digital networks of 2021 might have better ideas about how to share your work and get comments on it. The most straightforward part is publishing on your website.
• When you figure out the best way and place to share your work, share it. The hard part is getting honest feedback.
  • Tags: [[writing]]
• She helped me let go of God in a way that was so gracious and so understanding, not remotely pushy, just a sympathetic ear that affirmed the legitimacy of my feelings as God slipped out of my life like someone quietly leaving a party.
• Of course your life seems pointless; all life is pointless. Of course you can’t find purpose; there is no purpose. And they were correct, and there was a certain kind of cold comfort there, but it still left you wondering why you’d bother to get out of bed in the morning.
  • Tags: [[meaning]] [[favorite]]
• So if you find something you think you’re good at and you enjoy, why not admit that it’s important to you, that you very much do care?
  • Tags: [[favorite]]
• And what you find that you are, you should embrace. This is corny as hell, but it really is a journey of self-discovery, finding out who you are as a writer. You’ll surprise yourself. And it’s immensely fulfilling if you’re willing to really, unapologetically take it on as your life’s work. So do, and have fun.

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• [[2023-01-08 12:04:26+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109653489501464431:

  • RT @jphilipp
    Traffic Jam on Mars.
    #aiart #midjourney #photoshop @EvaFoxU https://instagram.com/ai.and.art

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RT @jphilipp: Traffic Jam on Mars. #aiart #midjourney #photoshop @EvaFoxU https://t.co/qslUS9Lcm4 https://t.co/40kmhmeSmG

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curl https://16colo.rs/pack/lgcy-002/raw/nf-Toxic.ans | iconv -f 437 | pv --quiet --rate-limit 7000

[[acid draw viewer]]

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• [[protean]] says:

If you have not already done these things, the quickstart for ansible is (assuming you are on a nix’like os):

• have your gpg key added to the pass repo
• get set up for server shell access
• install ansible 2.9 on your local machine (on mac brew install ansible@2.9)
• Install pass (brew install pass)
• complete the steps in https://git.coop/social.coop/tech/ansible/-/blob/master/README.md
• clone the pass repo git clone git@git.coop:social.coop/tech/pass ~/.password-store/
• test ansible from the locally cloned repoansible-playbook server.playbook.yml —check

• [[2022-11-18 21:38:30]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • thank you so much! I’ll put this in [[ansible quickstart]] in my personal notes repository.
• [[2022-11-19 19:28:54]] [[@flancian:matrix.org]] (link):
  • baby steps :) thank you protean for [[ansible quickstart]]!

async art§

• [[go]] https://async.art
  • [[programmable art]]

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Can’t Break Your Heart§

• [[pull]] [[cant break your heart]]

Cant Break Your Heart§

• A [[track]].
  • By [[ezhak]].
  • [[go]] https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/track/cant-break-your-heart

Click Art§

Also a feature yiction song, Click came from a conversation I had with Sonoma about a theory of consciousness. Check out the Click song page for more details (and a cool music video).

Fun fact: the album art of Click is a really moshed-up version of this art, which appears at 0:39 of the music video.

Collaborative Fund: Too Smart§

Metadata§

• Author: [[Morgan Housel]]
• Full Title: Collaborative Fund: Too Smart
• Category: #articles
• URL: http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/too-smart/

Highlights§

• The ability to create complex stories makes it easy to fool people, including yourself.
• Richard Feynman said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” The smarter you are I think the truer that becomes.
• When you’re blessed with intelligence you’re cursed with the ability to use it to concoct intricate stories about why things happened – especially stories justifying why you made a mistake or why you’ll eventually be right in an area you’re wrong.
• What’s boring is often important and the smartest people are the least interested in what’s boring.
• Intelligence can make it difficult to communicate with ordinary people, who may have the missing insight you’re looking for.
• When complexity is the preferred language of very smart people, great ideas can become walled off from ordinary people.
  • Tags: [[favorite]]

• a [[pattern]]
  • in [[a pattern language]]
    • #129
    • [[prev]] [[intimacy gradient]] [[indoor sunlight]] [[cadcade of roofs]]
    • [[next]] [[farmhouse kitchen]] [[communal eating]] [[the fire]] [[light on two sides of every room]] [[the shape of indoor space]] [[sequence of sitting spaces]] [[outdoor room]] [[arcades]] [[the flow through rooms]] [[short passages]]
  • "the only balanced situation is the one where a common path, which people use every day, runs tangent to the common areas and is open to them in passing."
    • this way people can easily stop as they go about with their day but are not forced to stop.

digital art§

• a [[thing]].
  • [[pull]] [[digital artwork]]
  • [[pull]] [[nft]]
    • although

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Doug Engelbart§

• A [[person]].
• [[manifesto]]: [[augmenting human intellect]]

Doug Engelbart§

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• #pull [[douglas engelbart]]

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https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/methascope.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/vast.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/lard_shader.html lard shader automation https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/brane.html digital fabrics experimental graphics terminal https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/moogle.html wireframe editor studio for graphic design and art

https://constraint.systems/ Text Editors Etch Alexandros Marinos on Twitter: "Machines are making beautiful things without even trying to. We ask them to make something that optimizes for our requirements, they give us something back that looks surprisingly like nature. What is going on? A Thread https://t.co/809cWhc4ft" / Twitter index | futuristan.io :: contemporary and digital art Hex Constraint Systems pixel editor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code

http://subject.space/ lots of cool projects motivated by space, maps, and tracking data around the world https://blog.raeez.com/genesis/ https://iko.soy/dotrix drawing with vectors by touching!

https://drawabox.com/ learn to draw by starting a box! itsrainingmani/lsys: L-Systems: Interactive Fractal Generator urbit/sigil-js: ~4.2 billion default profile pics https://nelari.us/ generate 3d buildings using node graphs, also has generative art Raytracingand is aBlogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24111248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091297 3d out of paper https://eyeburfi-blog.tumblr.com/

Tools for generative art

helpful articles

guide to flow fields learning processing from first principles good field overview of generative art resources

nannou: great low level multimedia toolkitRust another great looking processing book! Casey REAS, creator of processing and one of the progenitors of generative art simulating watercolors with generative art https://inconvergent.net/2016/shepherding-random-growth/: using generative organic methods for growth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me04ZrTJqWA : create generative art using image data. this looks absolutely incredible! https://github.com/jasonwebb/morphogenesis-resources: archive of resources for the creation of form through code! https://www.notion.so/Creative-coding-algorithms-techniques-c5550ef2f7574126bdc77b09ed76651b: notion database cataloguing tons of generative art techniques! https://quazikb.github.io/WaveEq/index.html: a real time wave tracer technique

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/abc.html#notes:technical a browser based live coding environment with live coding output; a tool and playground to play with ASCII, Fonts and otherwise.

https://alteredqualia.com/: brilliant image generation and generative art work. inspirational!

a system for making generative algorithms succeeds snek https://varun.ca/noises: an overview of noise in creative coding

generative art§

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Good vs iconic art§

When it comes to narrative forms of art (film, literature, comics), there’s often a great disconnect between works that are highly…

Good vs iconic art§

When it comes to narrative forms of art (film, literature, comics), there’s often a great disconnect between works that are highly influential (and thus become ‘classics’) and works that are well-executed. I don’t think this is an accident.

Well-executed works (hereafter, “good”) don’t particularly need to be novel. Whether they are high art or low art doesn’t matter — someone working in a “low” genre (say, harem anime) can be skilled enough to produce a truly shining example of that genre. Like good design, good art disappears: it is a complete and flawless implementation of expectations, and only upon close examination does the skill and effort involved in executing the expected attributes of the genre become visible.

As an example of unambiguously “low” art being extremely well executed, consider Monster Musume — a harem show involving young women who are mythological creatures. It seeks to sate essentially puerile desires: the goal is to have sexually-charged slapstick humor involving attractive women who are part animal. It is not the first show to do this by a long shot, but it may be the best: nearly all elements outside those that add to that goal are invisible, and it reaches its goal admirably, but at the same time it has a good and well-planned justification for nearly everything that happens (by combining the idea of diplomatic relations, corrupt/lazy officials, and a largely hostile population, you get an interesting take on the fantasy harem genre that can be seen as a stealth satire of racial politics and international relations), and it furthermore satirizes its own genre admirably (the protagonist’s name is never spoken in the show and rarely in the source material, and his facial features are often left blank; in other words, he is an exaggerated form of the self-insert character).

While “good” art may be popular in the short term, it is rarely influential: mostly, it subsumes itself in its own influences. Iconic works are by definition influential; they often come from outsiders and break best practices. While iconic works are memorable, it is rare that an iconic work is superior to those works that copy it. Consider Dracula and Frankenstein — both extremely iconic works, both widely adapted, and both (in their original form) nearly laughably incompetently constructed by the standards of both our time and theirs. It is not the high standards of craftsmanship that make Dracula and Frankenstein iconic; it’s not their popularity, either, although both were popular. Instead, each brought into being a particular collection of ideas that fit into a missing slot in the culture; this undigested piece of mental matter was sized upon and as these works were adapted or influenced other works the core interesting idea was progressively isolated from its trappings, until the point at which it becomes fully assimilated and no longer numinous. Dracula is no longer numinous to us: we have a mental image of Bela Lugosi in a cape, and we forget that he was supposed to have hairy palms, and we forget about Doctor Von Hellsing being a blood expert, and we forget about Lucy being obsessed with wax cylinder audio recording; while all of those elements are more interesting to us now, the iconic elements of that story are sufficiently captured by Bela Lugosi in a cape, to the point that this view of vampires as nobility (which did not originate in Dracula but really had its purest representation in the 1933 Universal Studios adaptation of Dracula that has become the most iconic one) has become dominant. The idea of permanently young and beautiful blood-sucking aristocrats afraid of the sun is one that resonated with the early twentieth century American culture very strongly, even as Max Schreck’s portrayal of Orlock in Nosferatu is a more accurate representation of how Dracula was portrayed in the book. Likewise: Frankenstein’s Monster originally looked far more human, and was highly intelligent (speaking several languages); we have made an icon out of an ugly Frankenstein’s Monster incapable of speech or complex thought and a Victor Frankenstein with a god complex and boundless ambition, rather than a beautiful but slightly unnerving monster and a Dr Frankenstein who wouldn’t be out of place at a My Chemical Romance concert because the former was a closer fit for exactly what was (and no longer is) unnerving about the story. Iconic works allow us to identify the unheimlich and integrate it into ourselves and our society in a disarmed form; or, to be more cynical: the Spectacle uses iconic works as an early warning system telling it what to consume next. Of course, as highly iconic figures become fully integrated, they cease to have the impact they otherwise would: recent Godzilla and King Kong movies flopped for the same reason that new viewers wouldn’t watch the originals, which is to say that these monsters have been integrated and are no longer monstrous.

Iconic works don’t need to be bad in order to be iconic, but even if they display technical excellence, they will face initial rejection. Consider Neon Genesis Evangelion: certainly iconic, and hardly poorly made, this show garnered very little interest during its initial run. Part of the reason is that it aired on an incorrect slot: this show, with its dense references to media from the 70s and its complex character dynamics and psychosexual undertones, was airing in a time slot that normally was geared toward ten year old boys. But, it’s more than that: Evangelion remains highly divisive, and remains relevant more than twenty years after it first aired, because its iconic elements have not yet been fully assimilated. Evangelion didn’t introduce the unwilling soldier (in fact, this element is part of why Gundam was iconic); it didn’t introduce the idea of a complex and incestuous conspiracy between a private high-tech defense organization and various government and religious authorities. But, Evangelion took upon itself the task of examining attributes of the mech genre realistically, and did so by taking a bunch of characters who border on archetypal and spending a great deal of effort trying to make their behavior and characterization realistic. Evangelion is still relevant because we haven’t figured out what makes it relevant yet: every post-Evangelion mech show is in some way a response to Evangelion in the same way that every post-Dracula vampire novel was a response to Dracula, yet even as some individual creators have done several generations of responses, none are a sufficient substitute for the original. For instance, Yoji Enokido, after working on Evangelion, went on to work on Utena (a non-mech show with certain very visible Evangelion references), Rah Xephon (a mech show that has been seen as an Evangelion clone), Star Driver (a mech show very similar to Rah Xephon with a more typical mecha protagonist), and Captain Earth (another mech show with a more typical mecha protagonist, which has some scenes directly lifted from Rah Xephon); while his vision has diverged from Evangelion proper, he’s still chewing a piece of the same cud.

By John Ohno on October 3, 2016.

Canonical link

Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.

heart§

• a [[thing]].
  • When I think of the [[heart]], I think of the [[heart sutra]].
  • [[Flancia]] is a [[Pure Land]], I’ve been there, and I’d like to help you lead yourself to it if you’re interested.
  • #pull [[poems]]

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• [[2022-12-07 20:16:46+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109474231535005845:

  • @agora I will show you my face and the shape of my [[brain]] and my #heart if you want to

• [[2023-02-16 18:51:31+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109875920310837797:

  • I just want to show you my [[brain]] and my #heart in case you’re interested

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  • sometimes I feel like I need to write or my [[heart]] will explode

then I come here and I’m left wondering

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RT @flancian@social.coop agora I will show you my face and the shape of my [[brain]] and my #heart if you want to https://t.co/iYtocrGaLE https://t.co/F8m7Azfyxy

hope or hype for art§

• an [[dweb]] [[meetup]]
  • about [[nfts]]
  • on [[2021-05-04]]
  • [[go]] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-may-2021-nfts-hope-or-hype-for-art-tickets-152562471459

Notes§

• got here late
  • [[speakers]] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-may-2021-nfts-hope-or-hype-for-art-tickets-152562471459
• [[zoom]] really has very very poor screencast quality it seems? I can’t even read the text on the screen.
  • nevermind, it was likely an issue with the first presenter
• [[jin]] presenting
  • https://webaverse.com/accounts/0x31e4ca4c07aeb731183334532e80e273d34c47af
  • [[webaverse]]
  • [[cryptovoxels]]
• [[molly mackinlay]] from [[protocol labs]]
  • an [[nft]] is just a contract in a blockchain.
  • it doesn’t solve the problem of hosting the content you are acquiring with the contract.
  • sometimes people sell NFTs that just refer to a centralized URL that breaks/can be made to serve other content
  • [[ipfs]] allows you to refer to a fingerprint that will remain constant
  • [[nft storage]] offers a simple API for storing NFTs
    • uses [[ipfs]] and [[filecoin]] under the hood
• [[sarah friend]]
  • dispelling NFT myths
    • "nfts represent art"
      • they can represent game assets, non fungible things off blockchain (real estate for example)
    • "nfts are new"
      • 2014-2015
    • "nfts are ethereum specific"
      • they can run on any blockchain that supports contracts
    • nfts only make up 2-3% of ethereum contracts approx.
    • "nfts change the copyright status of items"
      • nope, they don’t interact with copyright. even if you buy an NFT, the copyright stays with the artist.
      • note this is true also of physical artworks.
• [[ruth catlow]]
  • we are seeing the art world and crypto economics colliding
  • the art world faces awkward problems:
    • reconciling the value of a work of art within a social context vs its economic value
    • funding — many sources, but not enough to fund every artist to a reasonable lifestyle
    • art being a vehicle for speculation and money laundering
  • the crypto world has many problems of its own:
    • diversity problems — the more prominent proponents are rich men
    • exclusionary
  • what can NFTs do for us?
    • create new funding models
    • redefine ownership
    • define new relationships between artists, patrons and ecosystems
  • common mistakes
    • artists as producers of items of high value
      • causes confusion and tension
      • many artists bring high value to the nft ecosystem
  • [[async art]], [[hen]] were mentioned
• [[wendy hanamura]] is the moderator
• Q: what’s been happening inside the nft world?
  • [[jin]]
    • (who made more money with one nft that during five years of producing digital content previously)
  • [[sarah friend]]
    • in february this year an artist made a website called [[cryptoart wtf]], you could type the name of any artist and see their [[carbon footprint]]
    • never thought she would spend so much time fact checking this kind of thing
• [[wendy hanamura]] perhaps the reason that people are anti-nft is environmental mostly?
  • [[jin]] the ethereum community is solving this with proof of stake. layer2 is also rolling out.
  • [[sarah friend]] true that PoW is expensive
  • [[wendy]] is it true you haven’t built on PoW for a while?
  • [[sarah friend]] yes, haven’t worked on a [[pow]] blockchain since 2017. have found it not even difficult to avoid [[pow]].
  • [[molly mackinlay]] we have to perhaps do a better job at communicating that [[nfts]] are not the artwork, they are more like a receipt.
• [[wendy hanamura]] question on the chat; people think perhaps the panel is too one-sided (positive) and were expecting pros/cons
  • [[ruth catlow]] the environmental impact question steamrolled over the fact that many artists in this field are very much socially aware; the moral panic prevented us from having a more interesting conversation
• [[wendy hanamura]] question from chat: why do we need to introduce scarcity? why isn’t patreon good enough?
  • [[ruth catlow]] patreon works well for some things
  • [[sarah friend]] one of the things patreon is critized for is (…)
• (dropping out due to conflict, check notes in [[@vera/2021-05-04]] for more)
• how do [[nfts]] rank for [[dweb principles]]?

• #pull [[the shape of my heart]]

• #pull [[the shape of my heart]]

• hic et nunc - TL018 - Penis Mandala

It is possible to create cutting-edge systems using technologies that are not state-of-the-art§

The current market for electronic products depends on planned obsolescence: old products quickly become outdated and unfashionable. But extending the life of our electronic devices helps to address the e-waste problem. Project Cybersyn showed that it is possible to create a cutting-edge system using technologies that are not state-of-the-art. It demonstrates that the future can be tied to the technological past.

– [[The Cybersyn Revolution]]

Perhaps governability can be achieved by reconfiguring tools that already exist; perhaps it is necessary to make new ones. Tiziana Terranova (2014), who has pro- posed the complementary idea of a “red stack”, writes that insurgent stacks become “new platforms through a crafty bricolage of existing technologies, the enactment of new subjectivities through a detournement of widespread social media literacy”. Older technologies may be better suited to this than newer ones (Maxigas and Latzko-Toth 2020).

– [[Governable Stacks against Digital Colonialism]]

It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart§

Metadata§

• Author: [[Jennifer Senior]]
• Full Title: It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
• Category: #articles
• URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-lose-friends-aging-happiness/621305/

Highlights§

• If our friends become our substitute families, they pay for the failures of our families of origin. Elisa’s was such a mess—a brother long dead, parents long divorced—that her unconscious efforts to re-create it were always going to be fraught.
• Back in the 1980s, the Oxford psychologists Michael Argyle and Monika Henderson wrote a seminal paper titled “The Rules of Friendship.” Its six takeaways are obvious, but what the hell, they’re worth restating: In the most stable friendships, people tend to stand up for each other in each other’s absence; trust and confide in each other; support each other emotionally; offer help if it’s required; try to make each other happy; and keep each other up-to-date on positive life developments.
• “Philip made me feel that my best self was my real self,” he finally said. “I think that’s what happens when friendships succeed. The person is giving back to you the feelings you wish you could give to yourself. And seeing the person you wish to be in the world.”
  • Tags: [[friendship]]
• So now I’m back to thinking about Nora Ephron’s friends, mourning all those dinners they never had. It’s the dying that does it, always. I started here; I end here (we all end here). It is amazing how the death of someone you love exposes this lie you tell yourself, that there’ll always be time. You can go months or even years without speaking to a dear old friend and feel fine about it, blundering along, living your life. But discover that this same friend is dead, and it’s devastating, even though your day-to-day life hasn’t changed one iota. You’re rudely reminded that this is a capricious, disordered cosmos we live in, one that suddenly has a friend-size hole in it, the air now puckered where this person used to be.

Izzy Swart§

• [[pull]] [[syntacticsugarglider]]

• I’ll show you the shape of my heart if you let me, kindly.
  • My heart is in the Agora.

levi hart§

• a [[person]]
  • knows about [[adhd]]
  • a fan of [[cold exposure]] — I know little about it.

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Liss C. Werner, "Cybernetics: State of the Art"§

URL : https://newbooksnetwork.com/liss-c-werner-cybernetics-state-of-the-art-tech-uni-of-berlin-press-2017

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love will tear us apart§

• [[go]] https://open.spotify.com/track/34iOH7LY3vme5rQxsVILZ4?si=39569cfed63841ce
• [[yt]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No

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  • [[Mammonart]] by [[Upton Sinclair]]:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammonart

    @argimenes

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[[Someone’s]] making a [[deviantart]] clone based on [[matrix]]?? I have no idea if this makes real technical sense but I love it. (I’d have imagined [[activitypub]] a better fit?)

Meister Eckhart is considered the founder of [[German Mysticism]]. However, this is not entirely accurate, as many of his teachings were influenced by the [[Beguines]] and the [[Friends of God]]. In additon, posterity remembered his disciple [[Johannes Tauler]] better than him. Eckhart was mostly forgotten until rediscovered by Romantics in the 19th century.

Mozart§

• A [[person]].
  • [[composer]]
• A [[project]]
  • [[go]] mozart2.org
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• I’ll show you, and [[moloch]], where my [[heart]] is.
• You can do whatever you think best with that [[information]].

• https://coinranking.com/nft/fa12d105db-superrare-death-dip sold for 1.79 million dollars
• [[webaverse]]

• [[2022-04-30 10:41:21]] [[@vera:fairydust.space]] (link):
  • [[one minute art]] experiment i did with [[gravity sketch]] https://app.vectary.com/p/1iJ05qqzuJGGV1cGlopEox

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outsider art§

• [[pull]] [[henry darger]]
  • first name I think of when considering this concept.
• [[pull]] [[flancia]]
  • in many ways Flancia is probably outsider art, and that’s completely fine.
  • I did study literature / have always been into books but the expansion (sprawl?) from fiction to utopia to protopian framework to social project could probably be said to be outside my field of expertise :)

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Resistance and change often begin in art§

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

– [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]

I’m sure it’s true, but would be good to find some examples.

See also [[Stories don’t just describe our world, they cast it]] for the general notion of art and creativity being able to change the world.

Restart§

AKA [[The Restart Project]]

Review: People’s Republic of Walmart§

An : [[article]]

URL : http://socialistplanning.org/posts/review-peoples-republic

Author : Bjorn Westergard

[[The People’s Republic of Walmart]]. [[socialist calculation debate]]. [[Friedrich Hayek]]. [[Ludwig von Mises]].

Informative article.

It seems to disagree with most of the propositions of the book. I think the author is socialist (to help place where the disagreement is coming from).

Gives some handy background to the key points of the socialist calculation debate.

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• a [[song]].
  • by [[sting]].
• a [[running joke]].
  • about my sometimes being [[corny]].
  • #pull [[the shape of my heart]]

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The People’s Republic of Walmart§

In The People’s Republic of Walmart, Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue that large companies like [[Walmart]] and [[Amazon]] already use these digital tools for internal planning—and that they now need only be adapted for socialist use.

– [[How to Make a Pencil]]

The authors take the reader on a tour of topics loosely related to the [[socialist calculation debate]] per se and along the way present highly condensed arguments against capitalism and for economic planning with ‘democratic’ features

– [[Review: People’s Republic of Walmart]]

While the patient can be expected to prefer a cure, a revenue stream that endures as long as the patient does might prove more attractive to a drugmaker7. This anxiety about proper standards of conduct for the practioners of some art being subordinated to commercial standards is at least as old as the Platonic dialogues (“Is medicine to be the art of fee-making because the healer collects a fee for healing?")

– [[Review: People’s Republic of Walmart]]

We’re invited to imagine “…Walmart’s operational efficiency, its logistical genius, its architecture of agile economic planning… captured and transformed by those who aim toward a more egalitarian, liberatory society

– [[Review: People’s Republic of Walmart]]

Criticism§

What precisely is understood by ‘planning’ and what might make future implementations ‘democratic’ remains hazy throughout. Important arguments against planning are imperfectly communicated. As a result, People’s Republic is unlikely to persuade the skeptical reader of any political hue. This is lamentable, as the arguments in favor of certain conceptions of planning are much stronger than is commonly supposed today

– [[Review: People’s Republic of Walmart]]

the shape of my heart§

• a [[song]].
  • by [[sting]].
  • a bit corny perhaps? but I think I like it still.
  • #pull [[heart]]
• an [[idea]].
  • I believe my heart is [[agora shaped]].

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• #pull [[the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction]]

Tweets From Pamela J. Hobart§

Metadata§

• Author: [[@amelapay on Twitter]]
• Full Title: Tweets From Pamela J. Hobart
• Category: #tweets
• URL: https://twitter.com/amelapay

Highlights§

• I want a big brainstormed list of pithy contemporary life advice please ⬇️ For instance, "buy experiences, not things" ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/amelapay/status/1447995028916342791 pull))

Unlikely Herbivores Concept Art§

I wrote a verse in my notes:


It’s about my dream for the future of humanity.

I then made this collage to exemplify the ideas presented in the verse. Note the barcode background.

This verse will eventually be in a yiction song. I haven’t found a good place to put it yet, but you’ll hear it some day soon. Hopefully I’ll remember to update this page with a link.

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Walmart§

Waterfall Chart§

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