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Definitely a reaction to the popularity of Keynesian economics, as well as Marxism. But to answer your question, no, there's not really anything new in neoliberalism that wasn't in classic liberalism. Private property, free markets, lassez-faire, political equality (i.e. equality before the law...

I don't think it's unreasonable at all to have complicated, mixed feelings about this war don't agree w/all points in biscuit's initial post - it's conflating many things that vary widely in both severity and likelihood - but the general sentiment I do a healthy of portion of the Ukraine...

was working an awful lot, currently in a coding boot camp (if you can't beat em join em I guess; really I just want a job with good health insurance etc for the first time in my adult life), on a brief respite after most recent exam, before the next module starts

fun Chicago fact I learned relatively recently is that post-1990 there was something of a geographical split in Chicago house southside - deep, west side - ghetto Dance Mania (and eventually onto juke etc) idk how pronounced it was, and I certainly wasn't around in those days but having lived...

peak Fingers reminds me of certain Detroit folks - Robert Hood, Dan Bell (specifically as DBX) - in his ability to conjure forth absolute magic from extremely minimal ingredients, as in Bring Down the Walls or Donnie a lot of the classic Chicago dudes were good at that but he was, I think, the...

nah I think basically everyone here would agree, tho it may differ depending on yr take on deep house in general (99% snooze to me) from 86-89 he's fucking untouchable tho, I'd probably only put Pierre (and maybe Marshall Jefferson) in his class from those initial house legends if I had it to...

at first I was like, getting paid without the people paying you knowing your name is pretty fucking nuts at least at a job that's nominally "legitimate" and not in some black or gray market sector which speaks as you said to the lack of regulation, can't imagine that's going to last someone...

that's at least a realistic version of a good outcome I have strongly suspect that it will be significantly more Black Mirror meets cyberpunk - not the kool parts that everyone likes about badass hackers wearing mirrorshades, the everything else of a dystopian near-future where unfettered...

I do agree at least that the lowering of demographic barriers in terms of gender, race, etc is a more or less unalloyed good tho I doubt its particular to DAOs, so much as a gradually increasing byproduct of so much work becoming remote that is a case where I think greater physical space...

I'm sure I see above you speculate that devs will eventually start creating apps that allow people without any or with only minimal programming experience to start creating their own smart contracts, which sounds right - it's obviously what happened with websites via WordPress (which...

being at the cutting edge of the think tank-lobbyist hustle doesn't seem like a bad place to be, career-wise

tho having said that, I wish you the best of luck with yours, even if it does sound (no offense) like basically an Andrew Yang think tank dressed up in tech speak

thanks, that's a pretty reasonable answer it's hard to for me to imagine these doing much of anything sans mass participation which I don't imagine is forthcoming - technocratic may have not been exactly the right word since it implies societal or national-level decision-making power that DAOs...

in same way that crypto is a financial system designed by devs daos sounds like - or I mean, is - a political system designed by devs with all the good and bad that implies idk, I certainly see the benefits of decentralized autonomous decision-making, theoretically amplified by technology...

also, don't want to totally rehash an argument I'm sure has been had plenty of times but I'd push back pretty hard against UR as po-faced the early stuff especially is, mostly, very functional dance music, whatever else it is pretty sure that charge is far more true of (a section of) their...

if I voted my heart, Final Frontier all the way, it's not even close a towering pillar of electronic music, right up there with Stockhausen or Voodoo Ray or whatever else you'd care to name morning after tune for posthuman cyborgs dancing on the ashes of the old world with the eerie mix of...

Mudd Club or Danceteria or etc, not CBGB's if you're going to call on downtown early 80s NY get yr references right otherwise leo's wife Lydia Lunch (Karen Finley? Ikue Mori? I'm still not convinced that Leo isn't actually Arto Lindsay) will get angry

And, everyone's official spokespeople voice an asymmetric worldview - admittedly the Kremlin's are more (significantly more, depending on the comparison) egregious, but that's what spokespeople do - what government ever has been like "you know what, yeah, we're equally in the wrong and our...

Probably the first war (that people in affluent parts of the world care about, anyway) in the era of modern meme mass-culture, in which memes are playing a significant role, but memes are just the latest iteration - or part of the latest iteration, anyway - of information warfare, which is as...

No, they're just named after them I ran into them a couple times in my youth They seemed, like every tiny doctrinaire Communist sect I've ever encountered, to be more or less a cult, tho idk if it's a specific personality cult like the RCP has w/Bob Avakian. They'd show up @ all manner of...