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“Innovation which accepts the framework of a harmful system only makes that system more effectively harmful.” —Andreas Widmer

Turns out ~500 years ago, Thomas More was like a proto Dave Chappelle. (Utopia, 1516)

a-whole-nother, my favorite tmesis

2019 — Žižek and Peterson

1971 — Foucault and Chomsky

@mast4461 @DescentRebirth nicely done 👍

.@shaunlebron, @DescentRebirth Proof of concept of 360° "fisheye projection" in DXX-Rebirth. The last few pieces, mainly about frame buffers and texture buffer initialization, eluded me for quite some time. Now: refactor, cleanup etc. Code at github.com/mast4461/dxx-r…

@fogus Ha :) Tim Noko actually messaged me when I went on Reddit to ask for sources on old lisp editors. Talk about primary source! I read about him some—he’s lived off the grid after quitting his tech job some 30 years ago I think. What’s your experience with nokolisp?

@mast4461 @DescentRebirth wow neat—panini may not look good with roll, since it assumes a constant horizon to keep vertical lines perpendicular against. I’d recommend the curved projections here:

@DescentRebirth @shaunlebron Now with less cropping and zooming. Also rotating the top, back and bottom faces so that they connect on screen. Next up: projections.

Working on a "fisheye" mod for Descent 2 (DXX-Rebirth (@DescentRebirth) to be specific) after being inspired by the work of @shaunlebron: youtu.be/ZNSW6Ga7Wmo First milestone: rendering all 6 sides of the "visual cube". 🎉

@eli_schiff @AndreasWidmer “they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away… thus, they seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils in poverty but their remedies do not cure it: they merely prolong it”

@spiralganglion I have some success with reverse-dictionaries: reversedictionary.org/wordsfor/move%…

@spiralganglion i’ve been using webster’s 1913 since you tweeted it last month or so 💯 (love it, but wish it looked better in mac dictionary)

When you're looking for just the right word — say, to name an abstraction or concept — what resources do you lean on? My favourites: ▪️ Webster's Revised Unabridged (1913 + 1828) jsomers.net/blog/dictionary ▪️ WordNet wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn ▪️ Wiktionary wiktionary.org

@svnshowers it’s the small things—john’s quips, lionel’s single raised eyebrow, harold’s posture

@shaunlebron I love this show 😂

My “cynic pixie dream girl” by Jonathan Nolan

@dennnis “Art which becomes popular is a manifestation of collective desire.” And tropes like these form a hilarious lexicon of shared desire

@shaunlebron 😂️ with a fascinating wikipedia clickhole from "Manic Pixie Dream Girl–MPDG" to "Magical Negro" and beyond... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pix…

Cultural Rocketmen, not Luddites—using technology as a launch pad to a future without it (from high- to low-tech) after finally understanding energy. @stuart_mcmillen stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-s…

Realtime Art Manifesto (2006)—“Go to them rather than expecting them to come to the museum.” tale-of-tales.com/tales/RAM.html

Tech Philosophy Academics were a bit abrasive to the only person in Silicon Valley willing to listen to them. I see @tristanharris taking it in stride, finally bridging these two bubbles—voicing McLuhan, Mumford, Postman… dare I say, Ellul? tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/lett…

@hvierich (I tagged the wrong Helga)

Humans as a Hyperkeystone species—ecological engineers operating as a “love poem to the planet” when positioned correctly within it. An anthropologist lives with the Bushmen for 3 years, and tells her story: youtu.be/cYCV0ouVlJU @deepgreenresist @HelgaDV

@hvierich @Clivedurdle @TheLikevillePod Yeah, I wanted to distill the main points into a small page so I could remember and share it. But I did interpret parts, so let me know if I misrepresented anything.

@Clivedurdle @shaunlebron @TheLikevillePod It seems to be a transcript of a small segment of the podcast.

Hunter-gatherer-managers—the “Gardeners of Eden”—are a missing link in our understanding of pre-civilization. The megafauna weren’t hunted to extinction… youtu.be/970Qd6W1EB8 @hvierich @TheLikevillePod