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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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polinski, to random
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This week's Komoy Dispatch /// featuring: things I have learned following @yaxu 's recent output, possibly stumbling into a new music composition dialectic, rotating patterns, max and strudel ... ---> https://knru.polin.ski/tide-coming-in/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@polinski @yaxu That Konnakol video is 🤯

PaulGrahamRaven, to politics
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paradigms don’t die easy (but they die all the same)

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/paradigms-dont-die-easy-but-they-die-all-the-same/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@polinski I wish I could claim I'd invented the term, but it's a commonplace of psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_(psychology)#Burst#Burst)

You're right about it making a good band name, though! Shame I have no band to give it to...

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Oh, man. I know that journalism is in a hard spot, but even so I gotta say that seeing a Robinhood ad in a 404media story about ticket scalping just feels... wrong, somehow. All the things they could possibly promote, and they've gone with the STONKS platform.

I mean, it's not exactly a milkshake duck moment, but it does rather rust the chrome of their knight-in-armour image, doesn't it?

ingrid, to random

I beg your pardon

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ingrid This is a term used also in twitching, which is what eccentric Brits of a certain class call birdwatching

susankayequinn, to climate
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It makes me happy that there are academics studying hopeful climate storytelling. (I'm setting up an interview for my participation in the second study of this type)

https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/42770

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@susankayequinn I've worked with the IU futures crew. Good people, good scholars.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@susankayequinn No, I was talking of the folk at Utrecht, as in the student thesis in yr original toot. Don't know anyone at Indiana. :)

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@susankayequinn (And now I notice my own typo: I meant UU, not IU, sorry.)

ianbetteridge, to random
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I see Dorsey is well into his “two croissants short of a breakfast basket” stage.

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@ianbetteridge

Yeah, when I read "you're on one", this Nineties veteran thought "nah mate, you're on one"

@sdarlington

PaulGrahamRaven, to worldbuilding
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06MAY24 / video of Copenhagen worldbuilding lecture

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/06may24-video-of-copenhagen-worldbuilding-lecture/

scd, to random
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“Shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level, shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level!”

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@scd What an incredible smell you've discovered!

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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"Instead of engaging with people and organizations hurling weaponized messages at you, do anything else. Write a letter, sit in a garden, talk to a friend, play a game, listen to music, or seek out information that isn’t laced with lies and threats. We won’t end this culture war by manufacturing better weapons. We must refuse to fight. We must rebuild our public sphere, not nuke it from orbit."

Very wise words from @annaleen on life in a psyops-saturated culture.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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(That quote ganked from their latest newsletter, which you can find here: https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/how-to-recognize-a-psyop-in-three-easy-steps/

Finding it hard to articulate how much of a relief it is to hear someone make this argument. After two decades of ratchet-effect culture war bullshit, it's desperately needed, on this side of the Atlantic as much as t'other.)

ianbetteridge, to random
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I’m sure that Nick Bostrom’s move from AI doomer to “maybe AI is going to save us” has absolutely nothing to do with AI making a lot of money for people who he wants to fund him.

https://www.wired.com/story/nick-bostrom-fear-ai-fix-everything/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ianbetteridge Any port in a storm, that prick.

ecoscore, to gardening
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Harold the Barrel is celebrating and encourages you all to get out there and
☀️ 🌱 💚 Make Compost 💚 🌱 ☀️

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ecoscore He looks like a right barrel of laughs

eversion, to random
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Having a ruthless clear out and getting a bit emotional at the discovery of three pins I distinctly remember using to display my undergrad final drawings in 1998.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@eversion Take that, Proust!

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Fucking hell, people, you're gonna make it so I have to google whatever this fucking thing with the bear is, aren't you? sigh

PaulGrahamRaven,
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Ah, OK, it's a tiktok thing, which at least explains why I have zero clue what the fuck everyone is on about

PaulGrahamRaven,
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Oh OK. Given the topic, I'mma STFU and stop carping. Though if we're at the "exasperated yet gnomic responses-to-memes" stage of the cycle, I doubt my presence or absence from the discourse will make the damnedest bit of difference.

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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The arrival in Malmö of That Song Contest is heralded by the appearance on local public transport of public service announcements reminding people that buying sex is illegal here, and that is telling me something I did not know or expect about the audience for this thing

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@bestdeadends More the tacit implication that this week there are presumed to be a higher than normal quotient of sex buyers? Or at least that the powers that be would like to suggest that there are, which -- now I come to think of it -- may be the more likely interpretation

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@benjaoming I agree it's not great, but if you think this is an intense surveillance dystopia, I recommend never being in a UK city that's playing host to even a totally regular domestic-league football game

yaxu, to random
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"Future London" seem super dodgy, far-right andreessen-style techno-optimist/accelerationist bollocks.. and somehow hosting mainstream tech events. https://futurelondon.org/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@yaxu That's some real last-gasp-of-Silicon-Roundabout bullshit, right there.

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Just finished playing Pentiment, which now holds the crown for Game That Made Me Cry The Most Times. So simple, ludically speaking, but fantastic writing.

PaulGrahamRaven, to art
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begin to remake who we are and how we live

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/begin-to-remake-who-we-are-and-how-we-live/

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