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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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mutually assured distraction: a plea for generative disarmament
What if a re-run of the Cold War, but in addition to stockpiling nukes, we also stockpiled ideologically purified knowledges with a savagely short half-life, as if in some nightmare that even Philip K Dick might have shied away from making into a cautionary tale?
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nothing was learned
It may be too much to hope that this is the last gasp for the “horror movie Cliff Notes” approach to history.
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a black hole full of light
I admire his ability to refrain from I-told-you-so.
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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?
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].”