“To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their…
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Money drives our lives. For most people it's why we work, give away a vast majority of our lives, often to jobs we find soulless and ungratifying. "No free lunch", as the saying goes. But food literally just grows out of the ground and on trees. Lunch should in theory be the…
Populism is the only game in town now that politician have eroded the trust for fair and balanced rule of law based policies. The continual erosion of social safety nets, the complete lack of political will to push back against naked profiteering and gouging of the working…
Not sure if it's an age thing or I've just finally found a smidgen of self awareness, beyond just dipping a toe under the surface level. Recently I've been trying to interrogate what really drives my decisions, how I've come to land on the positions and opinions that I hold. Am…
Robots leave their creators to create their own haven. What happens when society is upturned?
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One of the things I've been trying to tackle in my brain box recently is the idea of what a post capitalist system would look like. I'll not further beat the tired corpse of the analogy of a fish in the ocean not knowing what water is. I do however think it's helpful to actually…
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This post builds on a previous post: Praxis Paralysis 📬 The video created loosely from this blog So, I’ve been kind of absent from the internet for a little while. I mean, not fully gone. I still scroll and repost. I lose the fight against doomscrolling almost daily. But I’ve…
I'm not sure if it's the onslaught of constant information, or the general *waves hand around emphatically at everything* the general cooked nature of the world at the present moment. Everything seems so set. Maybe I'm finally hitting the realization that my late thirties are…
I have been looking for a while to where I fit in on the political landscape. There is so much dogma and rigidity around the camps as they currently exist. Marxist Socialists or Pluralist Liberalism, Anarcho-Humanist or Enlightenment Rationalist. None of these really fit, like a…
Something has gone missing. Dead Internet theory has been decrying the lack of soul online for almost a decade. But now even the human generated content feels as aimless and just as algorithmically driven as the slop that proliferates so much of our online spaces. The heart is gone. Reason for posting and sharing something has been twisted and warped into a clamouring for views, likes, duets, reposts & remixing. Above all the motive of being able to sustain yourself through shit posting has taken even those with enough means already, like certain tech billionaires, down to play in the muck.
Reflections on my lack of social circle and the close friendships of by-gone years. Clearly I lack something, can you tell me what it is?
AI is inescapable currently. Quite literally every app is introducing some sort of AI into it's main sections. My own website admin panel now has it through Wordpress which seems to have included it "out of the box" - I have no clue to which service it pings or who is footing…