Sorry, is this an impromptu school exam or are you trying to go to bat for Rhodesia in some smart way? If you want to say something, just do it.

Pan con Chicharrones (Peru) on Sandwiches of History⁣ YouTube video by Sandwiches of History

Blessed by utube with a whole channel about sandwiches www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A4Q...

It's not merely a budget thing though. When a state publicly approves and support violence perpetrated by another state, it automatically moves the poles of whats allowed in internal policy of said state. Germany is a vivid example in the current moment. That symbolic role is quite large.

Sure, it did. But I don't think people go out to protest or make moral cases of violence and oppression elsewhere for economic stats. That's a rather minor point.

There is a very significant amount of effort, aid, help, legal and propaganda assistance that's always went into it from Western countries. Does to this day, which is why the direct comparison to Rhodesia stands up so well. So it's a pretty well grounded tendency.

Silver Stallion YouTube video by Cat Power - Topic

Reminiscing lots today www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbjy...

On the other hand if western democracy is mainly constituted by inherited monetary wealth and that of social institutions, it's easy to see how it becomes naturalized in some minds, and appears as a sort of inherent cultural difference. Which is awful.

Even more difficult considering the wide class disparity: for some who turned to violence and/or radicalism it was clear since late 90s, for others (like Germans) the moment has passed unnoticed. Far easier to see clear breaks in so called hybrid regimes.

That is to say that it's very difficult to put a mark on the timeline of western societies at which they have passed a point of no return via mostly neo-liberal processes. Difficult to say when exactly the "vote for change" or "wave the flag for change" ceased to be meaningful.

Were I some kind of scholar, I'd write that democracy isn't a heritable on/off switch but a spectrum constituted by social institutions which are easily eroded, monetized, privatized, etc to a point where civil, peaceful responses are addressing non-existent societies.

And this would probably be my angle about theory of what is a video game.

This is very much how it looks like from an ASD boat being rocked by a myriad digital ecologies vying for attention. But I often wonder if this is also familiar outside neurodiversity. And weirdly enough I've never known fandom about anything, even once.

One of the actual highlights in this awful year was learning that hyperfocus is less about focus and more about inability to extricate oneself from a particular narrow mental and ethical ecology. It's like as if someone else always sets your clock.

On a completely serious note when sculptor Richard Serra said "work comes out of work" he was talking about RLHF to yourself on your own work. Pretty much every photographer does it as well.

And not random people at that! What fomo does to a mfer!

Let us all remember that for a few years a massive amount of people believed predict-next-token-machine will predict next unknown in science as if it was a token. As if nature, science and language are one single thing and truth is like getting three cherries in a slot machine.

I understand why thinkers of all kinds prefer to forget about the difference between the pure and the applied maths particularly in relation to physics, but it makes a lot of philosophy of math related conversations sound like a game of marbles.

Or perhaps it's because it was written prior to the stampede around the topic in past two years. In any case, composiotionality of authorship is a rare topic, and despite slightly annoying form of mimicking "supercomputer", at least 2/3 of this is exceptional.

We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov was one of the most interesting reads around the topic of AI for me this year. Partly because it's built around questions of authorship not cheapened by the usual sensationalism and commercial religion, but around practicing poetry.

I suppose it's a bit of hangover from fine arts for me where "interesting" is almost derogatory. More of a last line of defense than real motivation.

Part of me gets frustrated that philosophy that gets public attention is guided less by necessity and more by what's interesting. Then again it's hard to find a personal vector that's more versatile in all sorts of human pursuits aside from pleasure and profit.

Something comical about the number of people, especially writers, who believe writing is competitive. Comical because literary fiction has been a kind of business of existential truth searching, rummaging in the words, and yet it's practicioners rarely find this instead.

That is layers and layers of contemporary crises seem to have made it clear there are whole disciplines that verge on pseudoscholarship. Maybe that was the ultimate goal of post colonial studies: to reveal how much out there hides the real world, instead of revealing.

Looking through the piles of nonfiction I've planned on reading in past years and finding that so much of this stuff seems meaningless in the present. Liberalism truly an interregnum and so much written in it's ethical mode is basically wishful thinking.

Seen so many Jia Zhangke scenes. This one in Xi'An.

The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution

Zheng Xiaoqiong is very relevant in this regard, a poetry of people who aren't in history books www.equator.org/articles/the...

It doesn't take long in the country outside the mall districts, just past the wrong turn in a big underpass, to realize that Jia Pingwa and Jia Zhankge are neorealists, while China of Tooze is a fascinating mirage, a spirit of excel sheets, under whose shadow lives pass quietly.

Guy who learns more about math just to find out what the aesthetic experiences of different maths are like.

Was really hoping to buy some of it, but it was basically impossible to do it three different regions. It's like in Italy where they think food from a different region shouldn't be taken seriously. Potato salad tho can probably be recreated in the west, just not sure what kind of pickles they used.

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