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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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the Way is the way things are
This year’s big meta-project is, in a nutshell, to worry less about things.
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adversarial customer service
We’re long past the point where capitalism required competition on service, aren’t we?
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beyond the douchbaggery of dogs: attentional guideropes and negative worldbuilding in Flow
I will stop overthinking animated movies aimed at children when people stop making animated movies for children set in worlds with a crazy amount of implicit but unaddressed questions embedded in them.
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optimise has no exact antonym
Something something “beat on, boats against the current” something
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].”