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“The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable. For Aristotle and Descartes; the silence of animals that does not give rise to speech
... See moreArnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more
OLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline.
Appendix
Bees collect nectar to make honey. Beekeepers collect honey to make money. Honey helps bees survive winter chills. Money helps beekeepers pay the bills.
Beekeepers leave enough honey in the hive for the bees to survive. Beekeeper-keepers leave enough money in the bank for beekeepers to survive.
Bees do not think about beekeepers. Beekeepers do not th... See more
Beekeepers leave enough honey in the hive for the bees to survive. Beekeeper-keepers leave enough money in the bank for beekeepers to survive.
Bees do not think about beekeepers. Beekeepers do not th... See more
The beekeeper-keepers
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building is the computer.
building is the computer.
Dynamicland
“I would scarcely have admitted it at that moment but there is something extraordinary in the ordinary practice of keeping animals as domestic companions. The unconditional love we are capable of expressing for small beings can mask but not overcome the fact that we love what we can never finally know. We can love only what cannot be fully recogniz
... See more- Use your tools to make things, don't make things about your tools. Technology and the end result are in a dance, one can never lead the other too long.
MANIFESTO
if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks.
Mandy Brown • A Unified Theory of Fucks
I frequently find myself reaching for my digital things on dimensions of time, but mainstream software of the day almost always falls short.