Ah, the Torment Nexus is coming along nicely I see.

What a wonderfully succinct way of putting it.

You were talking about data ownership, not intellectual property.

Oof. Was not aware of that one.

According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. As told by Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes replied, “Stand out of my light.”

One day while he was eating a frugal dish of lentils, he was challenged by the philosopher Aristippus, who, for his part, led a golden life as he was one of the king’s courtiers. Aristippus scornfully told him: “See, if you learned to crawl before the king, you wouldn’t have to settle for rubbish like this vulgar dish of lentils!” Diogenes replied: “If you’d learned to make do with lentils, you wouldn’t have to crawl before the king!”

Big dick energy. Love this guy.

Your heart rate. Your step count. Your location. Your searches. Your browser history. Your call history. Your contacts. Your transactions. Your credit history. Your medical history. This is data that you didn’t choose to create or share, but that you exhaust in the day-to-day things you do.

Surveillance capitalism has grown too unfathomably huge and ingrained to choose not to share this data; that would be akin to checking out of modern life wholesale in a lot of ways. Guarding this data takes not only the realisation that it needs guarding, but changing law and culture such that the parties that have to have all that data to provide you with services cannot take it from you to sell.

In Yanis Varoufakis’s words: Techno feudalism.

Yeah I don’t see 8K delivering any value. My eyes can’t resolve past 4k anyway, it’ll just be heavier on the GPU and it won’t get me a damn thing.

Sure, 64k ought to be enough, yada yada. That doesn’t apply when you’re running up against biological limits though.

…For now.

Pedestrians are faced with a choice: Funky-ass beats or funky ass-beats!

I think Jimmy’s right. Personally I think Maslow’s pyramid is backwards, it’s exactly the struggle for the bottom tier that fills out the top as a consequence.

In a world where the ground levels of Maslow’s hierarchy (physiological needs and safety) are not a given you absolutely need your peers to attain them. Love, esteem and self-actualization follow from it; you work together to achieve a goal and by achieving it you gain connection, (self) respect and the ability to live in accordance with your nature.

Ironically, by having all of your needs taken care of almost by default, life becomes devoid of meaning. We are robbed of the ability to gain self-reliance; any and all prerequisites that deliver what takes care of your needs are outside of our control entirely. How well we are off is mostly a matter of things like happenstance of birth, the current economy, the decisions the company you work for makes, whether or not the bank approves you for a loan, gas prices, food prices, electricity prices, none of which you have any control over.

Before the industrial revolution life was not a cake walk. Even basic things like having enough to eat, basic medical care, clothes, warmth and light were HARD to come by, but it’s the struggle that makes it worth it. I realize I’m saying this as a white, heterosexual, pudgy, Western European male. In terms of material and societal wealth I might as well have won the lottery.

In terms of the meaning I find in my life I have lost.

I’m jealous of the guy in the GIF.

Remember kids, the market does not aim to produce food but profit. If it can get you to pay for eating sawdust or forever chemicals it will and it has.

Funny, I’ve always thought of them as terms of honour. At least that’s why I called my father old man. He called his captain that back when he was a sailor.

edit: I guess it’s a way to acknowledge seniority.

Ah yes, the market. Known for it’s agile flexibilty so that it can ajust to demand at will and efficiently. I’m sure this will turn out well for everyone. By which I mean the peasants will be forced to commute to keep the status quo or they’ll lose their house while governments bail out the class that took on the risk for this real estate.

If you work remote, just don’t. That’s what I don’t. Works great.

You hate ads but the article got you to watch this one. 4D chess!

Throttle growth? But then how will we create believable bullshit generators? We have to stick an AI label on useless crap to sell damnit!

Install Terminal and NeoVim or WSL

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