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Month: June 2020

  • satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort

    In 1928, the poet Paul Valéry had a vision of the future: “Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement…

  • dynamic entropy / epistemological bunkering

    Yesterday’s XKCD is funny, but (for me at least) funny in a grimly ironic way that Munroe may not have intended. In it, he points out that major figures in early cybernetics (von Neumann, Claude Shannon) and/or computer science (Richard Bellman) carefully named their research fields in ways intended to make the criticism of said…

  • 11JUN20 / accessions

    Shamelessly reestablishing old vices, here… but when Lunds Kommun permits people to set up a second-hand book stall directly between the train station and the social science faculty’s corner of the campus, well, what’s an addict to do? Some serendipitous finds, though. Bought a far more recent (and much more expensive) copy of Capital Vol…

  • Palme

  • child-like dinosaur