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⚡️ The Psychopomp’s Field Guide to Power & Control & Also the Lack Thereof 🪐
Logan 🪶⚖️👽
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Wolff Responds: "DeepSeek: Lessons for America" Dated January 29, 2025
youtu.beswarm the hive mind
A clinically depressed newscaster with Disco Elysium music
youtu.beWhy did the middle classes support fascism?
youtu.beIndeed, the obsessiveness/compulsiveness of my research has convinced the Google robots that I'm one of them, so they must challenge my humanity each time I try to use their service. Paradoxically, because I'm apparently one of those newfangled "smart" robots (my word, not Google's), no single humanity test is sufficient, since I might be learning ... See more
Abecedarian Web Log
lol (lmao—mdr, even).
“I'm left with an even greater challenge than certifying my humanness: to conduct my life's work, I must strive to be less inquisitive, less passionate, less productive, and less insightful. Therein lies the irony, for I must dehumanize myself to prove to a search engine that I'm ‘real.’ And now I'm off, once more, to Google myself.“
ART BY NUMBERS #5 – Protect Me From What I Want – Jenny Holzer (1983-84)
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Power & Control (& Also—) and Radical Creativity
“By using the usual mediums of banal advertising to convey striking, sometimes shocking or contradictory thoughts, she opens a subtle sociopolitical commentary. ‘Protect Me From What I Want’, from the Survival Series of 1983-1984, is a particularly resonant example of this when displayed in the huge sign Holzer used, as the universal message can be critically applied to the advertising industry, and mindless consumerism, that she is attacking in her work.“
"In a typical new-product-development process, market researchers comb through historical data, form multiple hypotheses, and check them through experimentation. That allows the researchers to identify a value proposition, which can then be developed and rolled out. The process may take many months.
Anomaly-driven innovation is very different. To be... See more
Anomaly-driven innovation is very different. To be... See more
Kevin Whitaker • The Power of Anomaly
For example, when given an opportunity to buy the patents for the telephone shortly after it was invented, William Orton, the president of Western Union (then the dominant telegraph company), reportedly dismissed the device as an “electrical toy.” The view prevailing at the time was that the telephone would be used merely for short updates—a purpos... See more
Kevin Whitaker • The Power of Anomaly
“electrical toy” is brilliant, so true king