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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
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protocols > platforms
I used to read Techdirt, and Mike Masnick in particular, with genuine reverence when Futurismic was still a running concern. He was tech-critical long before it was fashionable to be so, but from a position that challenged my own thinking quite a bit, and still does: in short, Masnick’s about as close to First Amendment…
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leveraging their putative goodness / the psychopathology of private infrastructures
You may remember Joel Bakan from such influential Noughties non-fiction books/movies as The Corporation. Well, Bakan’s back, and his earlier thesis — that corporations, if considered as people, are basically psychopaths — is no less true than before. In fact, he claims it’s worse, because concepts like “corporate social responsibility” have merely encouraged them to…
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strategies for lucidity
I’m having the sort of day — and month, and year — in which confirming that I’m neither dreaming nor hallucinating has been more needful than ever before, in the best possible way. I seem to have joined the academic branch of #1000mphclub…
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].”