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Specifically about the Hollywood style of screenwriting and production, across its various eras, and which films best encapsulate it. For example, I'm coming to believe that Casablanca might be peak Hollywood, if Hollywood had to be represented by a single film, which isn't really a...

Did a quick search for ideonomy here, and didn't find anything, so there is a good chance it hasn't been brought up before. I recently found out about this, and it bears a great resemblence to much of what I was trying to do under the protean banner of 'nootopology' and 'psychocartography' and...

Just started this ten days ago, deeply enjoying it so far. I see there is a Melville thread, but didn't see any threads for Moby-Dick. I was drawn to it because of its reputation as a complex book, and while its not as maximalist as I was expecting, its still quite rich in technical atmospheric...

Or haute autism. Machines learning how to love, bootstrapping emotional intelligence via heuristics, extreme awkwardness parties, URL<>IRL meetups, screening dates like one would screen prospective hires, globetrotting elite remote tech workers, turning Burning Man into a DAO, etc...

Already some noteworthy happenings, and I've just been at this place for a couple days. A georgian mansion in San Francisco, part of a network of co-living properties called Embassy Network. I'm here with 8-10 other people (still not sure who exactly among those I've encountered are actually...

They don't have to be handprinted from Ghana in this thread.

Anyone here read any Rousseau? I’m finishing up the First Discourse, over an amber ale at Cowboy Ciao in the Phoenix International Airport. A pretty reactionary anti-promethean take on the enlightenment. First I’ve read any of his writings.

I know you guys are all itching to keep track of the web3 political sphere, so I present you with the following. This is slated to be published in the first issue of the Sapien "Metaverse Newspaper" (not sure if they're gonna go with that title). This is pretty much aimed at the technical...

Thought this was... unique enough to warrant its own thread. Horseshoe praxis? https://www.dailydot.com/debug/proud-boys-black-hammer-coalition/

On a screen, natürlich. A group video conference is to be coordinated, on a date/time to be collectively decided upon. Also, I would like to record this meeting, as the first roundtable of Solo Salon, perhaps provisionally retitled Poly Salon. Does anyone have any recommendations as to how to...

(taken from my newsletter, hence any difference in tone) For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic...

Been thinking about making a thread about this, but this article just pushed me over the edge. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/15/barbados-to-become-first-sovereign-nation-with-an-embassy-in-the-metaverse/ There were also a couple good tweets about this, from random people. One, in...

I'm just ten minutes into this presentation, by an artist not a scientist, introducing cellular automata, and I felt I should share it here. I think @catalog especially will appreciate it. I'm also gonna look for some software that lets you create your own parameters. Something of a gnostic...

So i've been thinking about starting on actual blockchain projects, and I have a number of working ideas, and one of them is turning Dissensus into a DAO. Now a DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which just means group of people who need to coordinate some collective decision...

Had a conceptual breakthrough this morning, in terms of understanding social attraction. In the interest of being more invested in relationships, I started thinking about how I should respectfully communicate sexual attraction to a female friend of several years, whom I will be seeing soon...