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many thanks

thats where I got mine lol

speaking of which are there any threads on music made by tracker/tracker type DAWs and/or the demoscene? a bit before my time but I've always been interested in learning more about the sub-culture

yes it is. but its also refers to a place to get illegal/copyrighted software typically through torrents

i read the entire thing and i enjoyed it. I really liked the chapter(s) on fetishization, As you say, there is tendency to elevate the surrogate to an "end" itself. Something like "code is law" would be an example of this kind of fetishization in which the "letter" is identified with the spirit...

let me know if you find a good replacement tracker. rutracker is great for vst and other music software and i cant find any non-russian ones

I don't think it's a psychological need per se, I just think the same patterns of information consumption are at play. Disaster becomes a spectacle. We would be tweeting and sharing videos while the world was ending.

it's amazing how just one fuck up can have such a monumental impact

i shouldn't have even asked now i look clueless

i still don't know actually. but i'll pretend like i do so i wont get made fun of

i was wondering why all the pictures changed.

wtf is this

one of my favorite examples of this is in open source software. the internet did not change the fundamentals of our economic-political system -- but I think its much easier to imagine different economic systems in which labor is not so alienating because of the success of the model.

there is no tech solution to people, but hows this, tech can open new political possibilities and ways of social arranging ourselves. the tech is not sufficient sure but it can be what allows us to politically change.

so really you think its impotent insofar as its utopian vision is doomed to fail given political realities. its not impotent insofar as it can be captured by the power that b if it tries to see adoption?

ahhhh. i see now. yeah ive had this thought before. something something deal with devil.

maybe in our life times. but things that are impossible today dont seem so impossible in on one or two life times. how thinkable was the fall of monarchies? elaborate. what don't you think so. little confused do you agree with my characterization of your view or the fact that its impotent.

but my point is that the two are contradictory, you cant hold both at the same time. either its impotent or its not

what seems to be your real objection then-- if its that it cannot do much to change "reality" then all your arguing for is a kind of fatalism. unless your suggesting it will be a worse reality. tbf this is a plausible belief to have

doubt crypto can ascend past the hegemony of the u.s, but in periphery countries the ability to transact and bank without the state i think weakens political power of those states