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the reality distortion field that goes the other way: the theater of yes-your-plans-are-succeeding manufactured for the benefit of the leaders, so they continue trying to make the New Economy happen… more ›
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The parallel between hipster consumption of music and the African art fetish of 20th century anthropologists is striking. https://subpixel.space/entries/after-authenticity/ more ›
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newdarkage: “FOR OVER A week, the City of Atlanta has battled a ransomware attack that has caused serious digital disruptions in five of the city’s 13 local government departments. The… more ›
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newdarkage: “The notion that additional data will lead governments to formulate better policies also requires a reality check. Many states are currently trying to obstruct the movement of people, gripped… more ›
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newdarkage: “When similar health care systems have been automated, they have not always performed flawlessly, and their errors can be difficult to correct. The scholar Danielle Keats Citron cites the… more ›
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newdarkage: “Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable.” — Paul Valéry, Notre destin et les lettres, 1937 (Map–territory relation – Wikipedia) more ›
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newdarkage: “In the textile town of Lowell, Mass., in 1846, the mill clock slowed down to lengthen shifts and then sped up at night when the workers were off, according… more ›
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newdarkage: “Taking it a bit further: maybe we are already molecular. Financialization, informatization, and algorithmic culture name a few of the already-talked about forms of molecular regulation. Behind them are… more ›
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Bad remedies “That Facebook, Twitter, and Google — which, by the way, holds just as much if not more power than Facebook, but without the attendant media scrutiny — have… more ›