Mal- Dis- Mis- I'll Take It All
I'll play with the bots and kneel before my algolords. In the big picture, they provide the clearest picture.
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Technology
A collection of 170 issues
The Silicon Valley Overlords are Jumping the Rationalist Shark
They're invoking other forms of intelligence and praying more ardently than a peasant woman who's just seen a ghost. We need a wit like Rabelais to strike them down . . . and quickly.
Give Me Waymo or Give Me . . .
Nah, just gimme Waymo
Silicon Valley and the Nazi
These rump rangers of the left hemisphere are riding rough over the right hemisphere. So did the Nazis. Cooperation with AI is gnostic complicity.
Why I Don't Stay Informed
I'm glad the Establishment didn't succeed in destroying JRE during COVID. It’s pretty much the only way I stay informed to the extent I want to be informed.
I agree with Nassim Taleb’s observation that there’s no reason to read the daily news,
Is the Netflix Documentary a Paean to Catholic Convert and Daily Communicant Marshall McLuhan?
The Social Dilemma uses the intellectual framework built by McLuhan, but the similarities stop there
The Social Dilemma documentary has broken records. According to its main star, Tristan Harris, 38 million households in the first 28 days saw it on Netflix.
That’s incredible.
What’s even more incredible?
The
Substack Frustrates Me
Substack frustrates me like only a lover can get frustrated with his beloved.
It Suffocates. I get frustrated when I can't breathe. Substack frustrates me. It buries me with unknown authors who I want to read, but I can't possibly get to all of them.
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Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?
A new essay about the Marshall McLuhan disciple, Neil Postman
You like dead white guys? How about a dead white guy who was the disciple of a dead white guy?
I do. I also like DWG Marshall McLuhan and his disciple, DWG Neil Postman, whose Amusing Ourselves to Death is
The Grid-less Vacation
Power Down Week is April 21-27, 2024
Listening to Podcasts at Oxford in 1374 and Kansas in 1974
Why do we love those conversational podcasts?
If you were a student at a medieval university, you listened to lectures.
And listened and listened and listened to lectures, often more than ten hours a day.
But they weren’t like lectures at today’s universities, where hundreds of students sit