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PaulGrahamRaven

@PaulGrahamRaven@assemblag.es

Science fiction writer turned tech critic turned STS/critical futures academic turned consulting critical foresight practitioner and worldbuilder-for-hire. Resident in (and aspiring citizen of) Malmö, Sweden.

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Loukas, to random
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It's ironic and depressing how all the other Swedish parties have policy points or slogans on their EU parliament posters, while the Social Democrats just say, "yeah...vote for us because of... vibes".

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@Loukas @guldfiske They might find the vibes things worked a little better for them if they didn't all dress like the sort of person in late middle-age who's been stuck in the lower tiers of middle management at a major accounting consultancy for the last fifteen years.

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@Loukas @guldfiske Yeah, very similar vibes. Perhaps due to the omnipresent influence of Sun Tzu on politics in the West: the old saw about "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" is here somehow translated into "blend into the wallpaper, and maybe you'll be the last ones left standing"

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@Loukas @guldfiske Pasokification is one hell of a drug etc etc

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@Loukas Fair point! But that rhetorical weakness, the whole "don't scare the horses" thing, is plausibly a legacy of the long drift toward the managerial center.

PaulGrahamRaven, to philosophy
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might be an ancient pagan remnant

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/might-be-an-ancient-pagan-remnant/

mhoye, to random
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We've all seen the IBM presentation saying, a computer can never be held accountable therefore...

but if you rotate and adjust the gamma settings on the best versions of that image on the internet you can see further text through the page.

https://cohost.org/a-hungry-mouth/post/4039145-chosting-my-reply-be

The header is called THE COMPUTER MANDATE and it is incredible reading.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@jonty @mhoye It may not have been a firm-wide document, but the stuff it's talking about was IBM dogma; my old man worked for Big Blue in the mainframe era, and he drilled shit like this into me as a computer-obsessed kid in the mid-Eighties.

olimould, to journalism
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Culturally, The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 was the epitome of the 90s in Britain and pre-dated, perhaps even laid the foundations for the media revolution that predicated Cool Britainnia and with it, Blair's political popularity.

It was live, anarchic, bright, irreverent and very Channel 4. It's place in media history is often overlooked, but I suspect it has more influence on the socio-political zeitgeist than it's given credit for...

#media #culture #ukpolitics #TV

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@olimould Don't forget your Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.

(But really, the vanguard was The Word.)

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Every time I see a picture of Geert Wilders, I somehow expect it to be accompanied by a detailed longread on how Harry Enfield finally got the sociopathic serial-killer movie role he'd longed for through his entire career

aworkinglibrary, to random
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Wrote about why I like to work with intentions instead of goals, and what that looks like in practice: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/farfetching/

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@aworkinglibrary This was what I needed to read today. Thank you!

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Wondering, not entirely idly, if there's perhaps some combination of filter terms which might block out all discussion of this year's US election without also, in effect, blocking out the entire internet...

... and now wondering if that latter result would actually be such a bad thing?

ahmetasabanci, to random
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#CyberpunkCondition https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ahmetasabanci I find it quite funny that some of the biggest advocates of the extropian diaspora from Earth are also contributing to what will soon be the complete impossibility of launching anything from earth without it being smashed into by some broken piece of commercial junk

samuel, to random Swedish
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Nej nej nej! SD:s trollfabrik är ett stort problem och det är där fokus ska vara.

Första delen av Magdalena Anderssons (S) inlägg var bra. Men att ta tillfället i akt att driva igenom massövervakningsförslag som Chat Control och ID-kontroll är en jättedålig idé!

Tillbaka till sakfrågan: SD är ett demokratifientligt och mediafientligt parti. Tidöpartierna måste agera!

S: Kräv legitimation för konton på sociala medier | SVT Nyheter
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s-stoppa-alla-anonyma-konton-vill-se-krav-pa-legitimation-pa-sociala-medier

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@samuel That is the most vaguely left-of-center response to the problem imaginable. A year of focus groups couldn't have come up with something more anodyne and futile.

mistertim, to random
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Just realised that late last night in a mildly catatonic state I wrote "reasoning through abjection" instead of "reasoning through abduction" in this draft, which is quite an on-brand slip of the tongue

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@mistertim A verbose synonym for academia in general, amirite

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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A whole lot of Swedish politicians recapitulating the "I never thought leopards would eat my face!" meme this week.

PaulGrahamRaven, to sciencefiction
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pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/pause-for-a-moment-to-reflect-on-the-enormous-significance-of-this/

klingebeil, to random German
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Editing submissions for a small publication and the worst ones are the ones clearly written in part by LLMs.

They not only have no personality to them but you can see how the authors outsourced their thinking to these tools.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@klingebeil But why not outsource thinking, when thinking is so hard, and when doing anything that's hard is clearly worth avoiding? Your problem, Johannes, is that you hate progress. Just let an LLM edit the content that LLMs wrote, and then you can concentrate on immamentising the transhuman eschaton!

jasonpettus, to random
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Your occasional reminder that in a tech industry full of failed promises and customer exploitation, the only people TRULY benefiting are the sociopath employees hopping from one company to the next, destroying everything they touch before failing upwards to the next doomed project. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/anthropic-hires-instagram-co-founder-as-head-of-product/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@jasonpettus At least this d-bag trusts 'AI' enough to let it write his anodyne press statements

jasonpettus, to random
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The first official portrait of King Charles III is primarily colored red, and British citizens ARE LOSING THEIR FUCKING SHIT BECAUSE OF IT https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/style/king-charles-iii-portrait-jonathan-yeo-red.html

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@jasonpettus hashtag not all British citizens

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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The Asia Times understands the US better than the New York Times does.

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/cargo-cult-why-america-cannot-have-nice-things/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@GuerillaOntologist That is a cold, cold burn. Kudos to 'em.

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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The freelance life can be incredibly nerve-racking at times, but it does have its upsides---such as when a sunny day on which you're a bit tired happens to coincide with a period of relatively low deadline density, and you can just decide "nah, fuck it, I'm having today off, actually".

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Cold-emailing heads-of-hiring at games development firms about the "narrative writing" positions they're advertising, because if you don't ask you don't find out, right?

AndrewDanaHudson, to random
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Contract signed, so I can regretfully inform you that I have entered into the Omelas Response Story Discourse. Look for "An Omodest Proposal," coming eventually in Lightspeed Mag. Apologies in advance for this one!!

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@AndrewDanaHudson smdh

PaulGrahamRaven, to sciencefiction
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overgrown, with a rich ecosystem: Sheri S Tepper’s Grass

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/overgrown-with-a-rich-ecosystem-sheri-s-teppers-grass/

tomstafford, to random
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TODAY: Launch event for our programme

"an Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation"

A-F-I-R-E !

https://researchonresearch.org/project/a-f-i-r-e/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@tomstafford

video/mp4

klingebeil, to random German
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extremely funny shit https://eu-acc.com/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ahmetasabanci @klingebeil

"So would you like us to remove the free healthcare etc. at the same time as we remove the friction?"

"..."

"Airport's over thataway, asshole."

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