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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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PaulGrahamRaven, to philosophy
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merely directions which allow the chauffeur to park the limousine

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/merely-directions-which-allow-the-chauffeur-to-park-the-limousine/

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@Loukas Thanks! Yah, that's my blog. The Starmer point was meant more as illustration, really. The question of what it means for me to say I am a leftist is what's exercising me right now---because while I don't see what I believe in reflected in Starmer's project, I am increasingly finding I don't see it in the more frantically doctrinaire leftisms of the moment, either.

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile

pluralistic, to random
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Pining for the fjords

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@pluralistic That's not a fjord, it's an archipelago

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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No, you just bought some early-access cyberpunk heist game on Steam because it was on offer and you thought it might be a laugh

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ahmetasabanci CyberKnights: Flashpoint. It's still a bit janky in places, though it's hard for me to tell how much of the problem is rooted in my utter lack of experience with stealth-based games.

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@ahmetasabanci Well, maybe wait for it to be on offer; I caught it yesterday just a few hours from the end of a 25% discount, and ~20euro seems reasonable. I mean, that's the price of a couple of cinema tickets, so if I get a handful of evenings of diversion out of it, I'm already over the odds. As for the stealth, I figure it might make a change from the CRPG hack'n'slash which has been most of my gaming recently... something a bit more mindful and patient, you know?

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ahmetasabanci (The hacking mechanic looks quite fun, and people are complaining it's hard and distracting in the discussion board, which I take to mean it's significantly more than cosmetic. But I suck so much at the base sneak'n'steal'n'shoot stuff that I haven't actually managed to try it yet... )

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@TreseBrothers @ahmetasabanci Thanks for the invite! Unfortunately I have the sort of mind that finds Discord an unnavigable nightmare, so I'll just have to learn by blundering through and making mistakes... a pattern which has characterised most of my life at this point. :)

(In the meantime, if you find yourself in need of another writer, give me a shout? I'd like an opportunity to work with game designers... )

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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So look, on a lot of levels I might agree with you that protesting Israel's participation in Eurovision is futile at best, and maybe even counterproductive within that limited context, too. But it bears noting that the protests in Malmö are only "about" Eurovision in the sense that UK protests in 2012 were "about" the Olympics. There are a lot of other issues in play, not least of which is the militarisation of the city, and the long-haul persecution of minorities by the cops and the city.

PaulGrahamRaven,
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It's very rare I get to play this card, but nonetheless: if you don't live here, maybe keep a leash on your assumptions and judgements, hmm?

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Huh - no Carrington Event? Might just go back to bed, then.

PaulGrahamRaven, to Sociology
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unable to receive, contribute toward, and pass along the collective treasures

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/unable-to-receive-contribute-toward-and-pass-along-the-collective-treasures/

PaulGrahamRaven, to music
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09MAY24 / Albini

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/09may24-albini/

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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Ah, fuck, not Albini. :(

ingrid, to random

For the second time in my life yesterday I saw Björk walking around Brooklyn Bridge Park, treating this as a good omen

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ingrid Was she walking widdershins, tho

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@ingrid I feel like there should be some sort of almanac for this

HadasWeiss, to random
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editor: I believe the manuscript lies within your area of expertise

me: reads abstract fuck

PaulGrahamRaven,
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@HadasWeiss hahahah

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

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

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