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Simplicity with intent. We've experienced the best civilization has to offer, yet remain unimpressed.
The Edge of the Wild
Joined March 2013
OFFICIAL: Our "not deemed safe for the woke snowflake libs by the coastal elite freeze peach gestapo" views have been censored for years. We can now report inside information reveals Elon Musk is in fact our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Also, a robot. An Immortal Robot God!
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"Many imagine that humans in the past all died young and that, thanks to medical science, people are now living longer and longer. Soon, perhaps, we’ll all... achieve immortality. It’s a nice idea; it’s just entirely fictional." https://t.co/oZdqliV3GS
huffpost.com
The truth is our early ancestors didn’t all die at 30 — and medical science has given us less of a boost than you think.
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The mythology of technology has been making false promises for thousands of years. Where are my flying waste-restaurant-fry-oil biodiesel vegan taco trucks? https://t.co/PZQbCnzVQB
technologyreview.com
Lab-grown meat may do more lasting damage to the climate than beef, according to a new study. High impact: Proponents of lab-grown meat say it could one day supplant livestock—particularly cattle, a...
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Dark days when Facebook's venture capital backers start to sound like us. The sanitized version of the fascist seeds at the core of Facebook, Google, and the hearts of their founders... https://t.co/1DJuRMXTH4
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When your feed simultaneously contains multiple articles about mass die-off of insects and articles explaining that capitalists plan to make edible insects the foundation of the human diet in the future.
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"[Previously], I didn’t think this was a very complicated subject; The #Luddites were wrong and the believers in technology & technological progress were right,” Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury secretary and presidential economic adviser… “I’m not so completely certain now.”
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"The view that we should not worry about any of these things and follow technology to wherever it will go is insane," said @daronacemogIu, an economist at MIT. https://t.co/NvHdDpaPLv
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Among many puns and digressions, say "I told you so" vis a vis humans becoming the sex organs of the machine world.
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"At the heart of Debord’s critique is his belief that capitalism is an inherently uncreative system. The obsession with profit demonstrably works against human interest, especially when it comes to the protection of the environment." https://t.co/VtsxWPaJOl
hyperallergic.com
The spectacle can be found on every screen that you look at. It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser.
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Brilliant critique of Doctrine of Progress (c.f. Pinker's Enlightenment Now) from Lewis Mumford, 1936. @nntaleb
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Technology causes fascism causes technology causes fascism causes technology... https://t.co/1wjz0EzPfE
theguardian.com
The World Economic Forum event revealed how elites are more afraid of leftwing populists, than rightwing ones, says Guardian columnist Cas Mudde
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Any YouTubers out there with creaky dulcet tones want to English dub this #JacquesEllul interview so people can fall asleep to it and drill the genius into subconsciousness? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/IKfPr5AFKF
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"I am a champion for both #wilderness and the cultures that closely in concert with it… climate change is a huge problem for indigenous cultures of the Arctic. So I am an advocate for Native solutions to climate change" – @kiliiiyuyan
#TEK > #Tech
https://t.co/ESWIxc3kui
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Seems tech cheerleaders are only friends with straw men
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
Someone came to the stones and said: Be human The stones replied: We are not hard enough yet – Erich Fried[i] 1) Regardless of where arguments about the impact of technology on society…
Framing critics as “doomists,” “alarmists,” and/or “apocalyptics” is often a straw man argument which portrays worthwhile attempts to warn of possible serious risks as being the same as saying something will definitely happen.
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Maybe too pro-tech/anti-primitivist, but a fine essay: "…moving towards post-civilization — with or without industrial collapse — is a matter of looking around oneself, one’s community, and one’s landbase, and determining what is appropriate. https://t.co/GAEwMOVEzH
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"Fascism sets out an ethos, not a set of policies; appeals to emotion, not fact. It begins as a pose, often a deceptive one. It likes propaganda, dislikes truth, and invests heavily in performance. Untroubled by its own incoherence..." https://t.co/l4hcl4225l
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Also, why isn't the moderator cranking out most of that content also running our Twitter account?
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