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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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print-shop dispatches
Monoprint means just what it says: it’s a print method in which every print is unique. A less aspirational way to phrase that might be: you never know what you’re going to get.
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weirdly equivalent, in a way that regularly warps my brain
If you wanted to be uncharitable, you could label this as a form of fake-it-till-you-make-it, though in most cases there’s probably no actual fakery going on when it comes to the capabilities being proclaimed.
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everything is connected to something
Already deeply unpopular with the communities upon which they are being imposed, the potential for datacenters to become sites of sabotage and warfare is not going to help their public image in the slightest.
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an unusual segment of the species
Ross Barkan on the anti-humanism of those who peddle Those Two Letters.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”