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David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
mostlysignssomeportents: Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Years with a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism’s love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. The Utopia…
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taikonaut: humanoidhistory: Fifty years ago today, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history when he stepped outside the Voshkod 2 spacecraft and became the first person ever to walk in space. As a small step, as a great leap, Leonov’s 12-minute spacewalk was an adventure for the ages — and it almost killed him. The BBC has…
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This thread is for the purpose of educating and disseminating information to combat the dubious or false information spread by ill inform and lazy posters (namely tzortz). It is acceptable to coil Ethernet cables when they are too long for a run. Coiling Ethernet cables will NOT create inductive currents that can blow devices on…
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kateordie: thechanelmuse: Thirteen-year old baseball phenom Mo’ne Davis has launched a sneaker line to help impoverished girls “I never thought at the age of 13 I’d be a role model, but having young girls look up to me is pretty cool,” Mo’Ne said in a news release. “If I can inspire them to reach their…
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Peck has developers in Silicon Valley camped out at Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores, incorporating customer and salesperson feedback into code in real time. “I think that kind of rapid prototyping—typical in a lot of other industries, not so typical in ours—will be critical for figuring out this collision of physical and digital,”…
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blakegopnik: THE DAILY PIC: Carlos Garaicoa is showing this and other computer-woven rugs in the “New Territories” show of Latin American creativity at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. All of these “floor tapestries” are faithful, almost trompe-l’oeil renderings of pieces of pavement in Havana, the artist’s home town. (The shadows are…
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How might this situation be remedied? The depth of the problem, of the blindness of our ethos, may be seen in the fact that Governor Scott seems unaware that the actual economy of Florida has much less to do with STEM disciplines than it does with what I call the H’MMM disciplines. Florida’s economy has…