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There has been in our culture, in the past decade in particular, a group of reasonably smart people who hired incredibly smart people – mathematicians mostly – to design algorithms that exploit time/space phenomena such as latency to vacuum insane amounts of money out of the economy, for doing absolutely nothing except exploit systemic flaws…
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kateoplis: “Because of Watterson’s decision to avoid endless merchandising of his characters, we can only get our Calvin and Hobbes fix by digging out our books. We’re not saturated with Calvin and Hobbes in commercials or on toy shelves or at theme parks and that helps to keep the strip intact. It isn’t watered down, longtime fans still…
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kateoplis: “Because of Watterson’s decision to avoid endless merchandising of his characters, we can only get our Calvin and Hobbes fix by digging out our books. We’re not saturated with Calvin and Hobbes in commercials or on toy shelves or at theme parks and that helps to keep the strip intact. It isn’t watered down, longtime fans still…
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Drewbot: The 5 Blows to the Human Ego
Drewbot: The 5 Blows to the Human Ego dbreunig: Donna Haraway, one of my favorite professors from my time at UCSC, came up with a list of the four major blows to the human ego: ideas which caught on, undermined our supposed central place in the universe, and diverted culture. They are: The Copernican Revolution,…