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Marx builds on Smith. Would you agree then that Adam Smith is disproven even more and responsible for far more starvation? That would be ridiculous.

Marx actually has a bit about this: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm... The most interesting point here is relating machine speed to intensity. Plenty o…

Can't argue with that! And what a prologue it is.

You've found the right market. There's an awful lot of tech folk who don't read but want to feel like they do. I gotta rep my favorite though, even if it's typical. "Call me Ishmae…

Careful you don't fuck up your hearing with an fx chain mistake.

As a long-time web/app developer getting into game dev, it feels like I'm entering "the big leagues" of software engineering. Tougher problems, more problems, more _interesting_ pr…

Theory and practice are both important. A few analogues: - fundamentals on an instrument vs performance - low-level graphics programming vs using a game engine - comp sci vs softwa…

Living in LA, the LAPD helicopter noise really is incessant. It's hilarious to hear flying cops try to be intimidating through when dispersing illegal concerts or singling individu…

As is their right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

Ah gotcha. My bad, didn't know it was a joke. But I'll still take it as an excuse to post RFK being a fool hahaha.

You really ought to never trust the output of LLMs. It's not just an unsolved problem but a fundamental property of LLMs that they are manipulatable. I understand where you're comi…

Love this article. If you'd like a book that works deeply through the topic of commodified humanity, Minima Moralia by Adorno is painfully pertinent here.

He is not a vegan. Here's him drinking raw milk recently: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PzSe0z6gH0M

Thanks so much for replying. I didn't think it was your intention at all.

The logo is fairly evocative of the SS insignia. To explain in the clearest terms: unlike the SS insignia, the lightning bolt in the logo has tapering at the bottom. The second ele…

Imagine typing a description of your ideal self into an image generator and everything in the resulting images screamed at a semiotic level, "you are not the correct race", "you ar…

Definitely Guattari! Anti-Oedipus, which he wrote with Deleuze, is a trip and really wonderful. That's actually how I came across Reich. Guattari is interesting for pioneering schi…

I agree that would feel pretty artificial, if we understand it the utilitarian way. But Wilhelm Reich doesn't really follow a utilitarian calculus. I.e., for him pleasure is not th…

One of my favorite radical psychoanalysts. He has a stellar analysis of fascism in "The Mass-Psychology of Fascism." It's almost frightening how prescient he was not only for it's …

I'm happy to see people learning the Curry–Howard isomorphism the fun way.

Of course this message comes off as rude. Some open source leaders have immense skill in being nice. Dan Ambramov and Matz (Ruby community's motto: Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice)…

I wouldn't call it fearmongering. The shortage is real and has been happening for months. Those affected are likely aware of it.

Always love to see Tero Parviainen's new projects. Big inspiration for my webaudio tinkering.

I think diving into his personal life can be very useful with Nietzsche. I can't say the same with every philosopher though. Wonderful Wittgenstein quote, btw. Nietzsche's almost c…