MachineMachine /stream - search for ideas https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/378843

In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come from appreciated.

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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:38:54 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/378843
<![CDATA[AI and Indigenous Languages]]> https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/

It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at risk of extinction belong to Indigenous communities.

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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:42:43 -0800 https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/
<![CDATA[Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out | Communism | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto

For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:17 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto
<![CDATA[MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games]]> http://www.metafilter.com/199880/Advanced-Lawn-Mower-Simulator-and-other-deliberately-crap-games

Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000 with Pear-Shaped ("a simple maze game where you try to collect as many pears as possible") and Crap Football, featuring a digitised Des Lynam. "There are ideas that can't possibly work, eg Sim City: The Text Adventure or Blind Flight Simulator. Or names that are just funny, like Whack a Nun II and European Sandwich Hunt."

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Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:35:16 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/199880/Advanced-Lawn-Mower-Simulator-and-other-deliberately-crap-games
<![CDATA[Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel]]> https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f8khzt/lapedo-child-a-neanderthal-modern-human-hybrid-

Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

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<![CDATA[Lapedo Child: A Neanderthal, modern human hybrid? - BBC Reel]]> https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f8khzt/lapedo-child-a-neanderthal-modern-human-hybrid-

Big ideas reflecting our evolution and what makes us intrinsically human.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:53:17 -0700 https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0f8khzt/lapedo-child-a-neanderthal-modern-human-hybrid-
<![CDATA[A Brief Look at Jordan Peterson - SOME MORE NEWS]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSNWkRw53Jo

Hi, woke moralists! In today’s episode, we take a look at Jordan Peterson through the lens of Jungian archetypes – just as he would want – and explore some of his other ideas about climate change, gender, marriage, hierarchies, and lobsters. Don’t check the timecode!

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Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 8:53 - Jordan Peterson Is Not A Climate Expert 19:24 - Jordan Peterson Demands That You Respect His Bigotry 26:28 - Who, What, Why, and How is Jordan Peterson? 34:56 - The Persona 1:28:44 - The Shadow 2:00:47 - The Anima And Animus 2:34:13 - The Self

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Wed, 03 Aug 2022 10:00:21 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSNWkRw53Jo
<![CDATA[How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it “too many ideas chasing too little data.

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<![CDATA[How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it “too many ideas chasing too little data.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:38 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/
<![CDATA[The Strange and Terrifying Ideas of Neoreactionaries ❧ Current Affairs]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/the-strange-and-terrifying-ideas-of-neoreactionaries

Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays On and Around the Alt-Right.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:51:57 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/the-strange-and-terrifying-ideas-of-neoreactionaries
<![CDATA[An Honest Conversation On The Problem With NFTs & Cryptocurrency, with @Folding Ideas]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8St36RjHd2E

In this episode, Chelsea speaks with Dan Olson from @Folding Ideas to discuss his recent explainer video on the danger of crypto and NFTs.

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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:43:51 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8St36RjHd2E
<![CDATA[If NFTs Were Honest | Honest Ads (Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CloneX Parody)]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_v4bb2e4k

What if NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CloneX, and other such stupid crap were actually honest about what they were?

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SOURCES: https://www.cracked.com/article_31914_nfts-are-so-so-dumb.html https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artists-opensea-rarible-marble-cards-fraud-art https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nft-fraud-qinni-art https://www.wired.com/story/nfts-hot-effect-earth-climate/ https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/tech-design/article/3123302/would-you-pay-us590000-meme-nyan-cat-just-sold-six https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/24/nft_users/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/irs-is-probing-the-dark-web-to-look-for-cryptocurrency-nft-tax-evasion.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgzed/what-the-hell-is-right-clicker-mentality https://kotaku.com/nft-buyers-scammed-as-creator-bails-who-could-possibly-1847806528 https://hyperallergic.com/702309/artists-say-plagiarized-nfts-are-plaguing-their-community/ https://news.bitcoin.com/nft-criticism-heightens-skeptic-calls-tech-a-house-of-cards-claims-nfts-will-be-broken-in-a-decade/ https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447690/link-rot-research-new-york-times-domain-hijacking https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/interpol-david-lynch-nft-collaboration-1248376/ https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/how-brands-are-using-nfts-continually-updated-list/2376086 https://www.theverge.com/22683766/nft-scams-theft-social-engineering-opensea-community-recovery https://kotaku.com/nft-buyers-scammed-as-creator-bails-who-could-possibly-1847806528

Roger Horton: Jack Hunter Artist: Darnell Eaton Writer: Mark Hill Director: Jordan Breeding Art Director/Assistant Director: Andy Newman Director of Photography: Dave Brown Editor: Jordan Breeding Sound: Mike Schoen Key Production Assistant: Jose Brown Set Production Assistant/Art: James Satterfield Teleprompter: Hillary Shea

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00:00 - If NFTs Were Honest 05:18 - Darnell Is Going To Be Famous

NFT #Crypto #NFTExplained

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<![CDATA[The Problem With NFTs]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

If someone pitches you on a "great" Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.

Sources and Further Reading https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/03/11/nfts-crypto-grifters-try-to-scam-artists-again/ https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/ https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-absurd.html https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/who-goes-crypto-eth-bitcoin-etc-financialization-gamestop-class-wealth/ https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1478017698676228099?s=20 https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/cryptocurrency-is-garbage-so-is-blockchain-3e80078e77fe https://marker.medium.com/fintech-is-a-scam-a-listicle-in-eight-parts-7b6161f3a35a https://naavik.co/business-breakdowns/axie-infinity/#axie-decon= https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-future-is-useless-expensive https://twitter.com/NFTtheft https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-05-baseless-nft-hype-hits-a-crescendo-but-its-play-to-earn-thats-worth-watching-opinion https://www.technollama.co.uk/platform-is-law-the-cautionary-tale-of-stolen-nfts https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/02/12/libra-shrugged-chapter-6-banking-the-unbanked/ https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

Written and performed by Dan Olson

Crowdfunding: https://www.patreon.com/foldablehuman Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman 00:00:00 Preface 00:01:12 0. In 2008 The Economy Collapsed 00:07:09 1. Bitcoin 00:18:18 2. Ethereum 00:24:34 3. The Machine 00:39:07 4. NFTs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 00:57:54 5. The Unbearable Cringe Of Crypto 01:11:46 6. A Self-Organizing High Control Group 01:16:57 7. Crypto Reality 01:25:36 8. There Is No Privacy On The Chain 01:32:52 9. If This "Looks Like Scam" Then Every NFT Room I'm In Looks Like Scam LOL 01:38:29 10. Play To Earn Exists To Get You To Buy Crypto 01:46:39 11. We're All Gonna Make It And By "We" I Mean "Us" Not You 01:56:08 12. DAOs Exist To Get You To Buy Crypto 02:13:21 13. I Know It's Rigged, But It's The Only Game In Town

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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:00:03 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
<![CDATA[Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says | Archaeology | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/15/neanderthals-helped-create-early-human-art-researcher-says

When Neanderthals, Denisovans and homo sapiens met one another 50,000 years ago, these archaic and modern humans not only interbred during the thousands of years in which they overlapped, but they exchanged ideas that led to a surge in creativity, according to a leading academic.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:28 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/15/neanderthals-helped-create-early-human-art-researcher-says
<![CDATA[Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”]]> https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times

Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler*, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:13:49 -0700 https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times
<![CDATA[Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen]]> https://aplusa.org/courses/critical-designer-slash-activist-engineer/

What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this class explores the equally compelling history of engineering and design projects that raise difficult questions, aid marginalized communities, address urgent social issues, or create new social conditions.We’ll talk to designers, artists, and engineers who work on issues of sustainability, power, health, education, and more. And we’ll run our own experiments in creative design work for the public good. The class includes significant reading, field trip(s) and guest lectures, short experiments, and a culminating project.We want you to witness and be inspired by the exciting, expansive fields of what are variously called social design, engineering for the public good, socially engaged art practices, and many other names. However, we also want you to be well versed in the many, many pitfalls of so-called “activist” work with technology—when it’s under-informed, poorly researched, focused on form and not on substance, it risks not only being ineffective, but can lead to actual harm. We take this risk seriously, so this course will have you mostly listening, learning, listening and learning some more, and, finally proposing—not carrying out fully-fledged projects in one semester. Trust us on this: We can have fun and be at play with ideas while also operating with due diligence as socially-minded engineers and designers. Humility and questions are your trusty companions here, your true north. We want to help you to lay a foundation; you will have many, many future opportunities to build the house.

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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:59:27 -0700 https://aplusa.org/courses/critical-designer-slash-activist-engineer/
<![CDATA[What does it mean to be human? - Digg]]> https://digg.com/2017/human-evolution-mosaic

Gaia Vince discovers that analyzing the genetics of ancient humans means changing ideas about our evolution. The Rock of Gibraltar appears out of the plane window as an immense limestone monolith sharply rearing up from the base of Spain into the Mediterranean.

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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:57:10 -0800 https://digg.com/2017/human-evolution-mosaic
<![CDATA[A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Aeon Ideas]]> https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life – money, power, jobs, university admission – should be distributed according to skill and effort.

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:06 -0800 https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you
<![CDATA[Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals - BBC News]]> https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46988399

Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is increasingly forcing us to re-visit these old ideas.

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Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:01:05 -0800 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46988399
<![CDATA[Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: the missing link between neoliberalism and the radical right | openDemocracy]]> https://www.opendemocracy.net/james-smith/steven-pinker-jordan-peterson-neoliberalism-radical-right

The academics have distanced themselves from the fringes of the right, but their ideas have gained currency there. Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: a bridge between fringe and mainstream conservatism? Image: Bhaawest (CC BY-SA 4.0), Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:50:16 -0800 https://www.opendemocracy.net/james-smith/steven-pinker-jordan-peterson-neoliberalism-radical-right