so many rhythmic permutations from a single sound sample
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Unlock possibility for negotiation and understanding by just saying it.
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Unlock possibility for negotiation and understanding by just saying it.
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Inherently unsustainable if it needs a hundred percent of my time.
so many rhythmic permutations from a single sound sample
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get along with everyone, enough
"In case I win the lottery, I want the ticket in my back pocket."
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Understand what's important to the other side, and have empathy for it.
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"We worship the greats while ignoring geniuses in front of us until they're gone."
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Power wants you to consume instead of create, to be addicted rather than to enjoy.
It’s a psyop if you understand the other mind’s decision calculus, and have the ability to override their decision purely via careful selection of input information.
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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
The thing your industry would prefer not to deal with is reframed as an obsolete burden. Your refusal to do it is rebranded as innovation. Your inability to imagine a world where you don't get exactly what you want becomes a manifesto.
Once the platforms got large enough to be unstoppable, once they captured enough of the regulatory apparatus to write their own rules, the libertarian rhetoric got quietly shelved like a college poster you took down before your in-laws came over. Meta no longer pretends it stands for free speech and seemingly takes delight in putting its thumb on the scale. TikTok users have invented an entire euphemistic shadow language to evade automated censorship like "unalive," "le dollar bean," "graped" that would have made 1996 Barlow weep into his bolo tie.
Copyright and patents matter when they're Apple's copyright and patents. Or Googles. Or OpenAIs. Go try to make a Facebook+ website and see how quickly Meta is capable of responding to content it finds objectionable.
People did not get better because they went online. Giving everyone access to a raw, unfiltered pipeline of every fact and lie ever produced did not turn them into better-educated people. It broke them. It allowed them to choose the reality they now inhabit, like ordering off a menu. If I want to believe the world is flat, TikTok will gladly serve me that content all day. Meta will recommend supportive groups. There will be hashtags. There will be Discords. There will be a guy named Trent who runs a podcast. I will never have to face the deeply uncomfortable possibility that I might be wrong about anything, ever, until the day I die, surrounded by people who agree with me about everything, including which of the other mourners are secretly lizards.
Marx, Ecology and the Lie of Separation
[We can go beyond "consume better, recycle better, choose sustainable products" to ask "who owns the land? who controls energy? who profits from extraction? who bears the waste and breathes pollution? who labours? who has water? who gets sacrificed for development?"]
The Diary Of A CEO: Jefferson Fisher
[Walk into a room as if you've been there before and everyone else is visiting.]
[I want to know the names of helping staff, how many times they've done this today, how they're doing, because it's too easy to just talk to the "important" people.]
[Let your breath be the first word.]
[In times of emotional crisis, they walk instead of running. Being calm is contagious.]
[Announce whether either of you is under capacity, and if both are then make a plan for kindness towards each other.]
Prepare your “no” and keep it handy
I took an hour to write a really nice “no” in advance. Considerate, but decisive. Not too long, but not too short. Generalized and versatile for all situations.
this refusal is the kindest I could have written. Yet it took three seconds to send. And I can use it over and over again.
[Increasing speed and distance over time by a maximum of 10% per week made each run was challenging but not insurmountable.]
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