Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has A Master Plan
impressive vocal control with this rapid falsetto breaking; nice n' crazy free jazz before and after
Pharoah Sanders: The Creator Has A Master Plan
impressive vocal control with this rapid falsetto breaking; nice n' crazy free jazz before and after
ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ เวชสุภาพร [Tor Saksit]: ปรากฏการณ์ [Phenomenon]
catchy Thai melody I stumbled upon in 2023 but never got around to learning; some cliche jazzy chords with nice surprises
[Profit from environmental exploitation wastes tangible resources to generate hypothetical value in the form of money, which derives its vaue from the resources being wasted; like a system that consumes itself by merely existing.]
Comedian Harmonists: Mein Kleiner Grüner Kaktus
more silly German music suggestions in response to my question, this one about "my little green cactus".
also, some vulgar Mozart in Good night, You are quite an ox and one I won't translate.
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Some things without a price are valuable because they create change on a deeper level.
Why just wash my hands with soap and water when I can hand-wash the dishes with soap and water?
Mussorgsky/Ravel: The Great Gate Of Kiev
bone-chillingly majestic as it is, but it probably feels stronger to listen to the 11 parts before. from Pictures at an exhibition
[The deaf] can comfortably sign while watching someone else sign. In large groups it still makes sense to have one "speaker" at a time, because people cannot look in more than one direction at a time, but conversations between pairs [have more overlapping communication than spoken conversations, as if they talk and listen simultaneously.]
[Conversation is best as duet over duel: each positioning the other to say great things, playing for the game and assist rather than the score.]
[Debate features adversarial "zero-sum" conversation, where weakening their position is as good as strengthening yours, and largely militaristic metaphors of] defending a statement, attacking a position, falling back to a weaker version of a thesis, countering one accusation with another.
[An alternative to the debate game could be one where two sides are given seemingly incompatible objectives for an upcoming legislation and scored on how well they argue that it supports their side. The score of each side added up and given to both sides, so they rank higher by collaborating more.]
music inspired by, and directly sampling, the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, recorded during a recent trip to Gambia.
[Answering questions about my book can mean: "short sound bites", "short anecdotes", "long considered reflections", or "long comprehensive explorations". I leave "pores" or pauses in my response to let the listener interject, hint at continuation, or change topics, and then gauge how deep to go based on that feedback.]
[Usage patterns show speakers using "uh" before shorter pauses of less than a second and "um" to indicate that a longer pause is ahead.]
[The longer you analyze stocks, the more markets have time to change. Fashion seasons also change while you shop; most] bad fashion is simply good fashion at the wrong time]
[Bryan Ferneyhough deliberately composes unperformable music to force interpreters to break out of simple reproduction and instead involve themselves as co-creators of site-specific performances (that can't be repeated).]
[Being spontaneous means keeping up with the situation, but you can't be sensitive if it changes while you're making sense of it.]
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Sometimes the author says it better, sometimes I can, but the focus is on what's meaningful for me.
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everything makes everything possible
Dots connected looking back are also seeds for future moments that can't be predicted.
ive been "promoting" things on the internet for 15 years now! here's my top tips
- show yourself having fun
- many consistent repeated small launches is better than one big launch
- someone needs to see something like nine times before it sticks
- reward people for following along with everything. you can never go too far with in-jokes
- let people feel part of something.
- never show off. never try to be cool
- be like a monster in a horror film - never show the whole thing. make it seem like there's more to discover by clicking through
- create drama and arguments by being fearless and stupid
- make it clear you dont need anyone - you're having fun on your own. its more infectious that way
- show how you feel. feelings are more powerful than information
- its a lot like rolling the dice. to go viral once, roll a thousand dice
"Inevitable" often means "would love to do that without your consent".
[Aspiring tech overlords seek to remove people's ability to consent.]
[Destabilizing the developing world through stealing resources and destructive wars is a cause for mass displacement and migration. The spoils are used to build western tech infrastructure and mass surveillance is proposed as a solution to people's fears of scary migrants walking around.]
[The ruling class wants you to believe you shouldn't have a say in how your society's resources are used to shape the future of your society; it's necessary to convince you because it's actually not inevitable.]
[Computers may be one of the first tools to preceed their tasks: first build it, then figure out what to do with it.]
"There is no shallow end," a philosophy professor told me. Because any objection whatsoever, from any angle, can fell a theory, you can't carve out ace of philosophical territory, master it in isola-, and move on to the next.
My first day of class in the philosophy major, the professor opens the semester by saying that anyone who says that "philosophy is useless" is already philosophizing, building up an intellectual argument to make a point that is important to them, and therefore defeating their own statement in the very breath of uttering it.
You question the assumptions of physics and you end up in metaphysics—a branch of philosophy. You question the assumptions of history and you end up in epistemology—a branch of philosophy. You try to take any other discipline out at the foundations and you end up in philosophy; you try to take philosophy out at the foundations and you only end up in meta-philosophy: even deeper in than when you started.
Universal basic income is not a reward for idleness; it is recognition that productivity gains belong to society, not just to capital.
A society that automates its way to prosperity while abandoning its workers has not progressed at all.
Technology advocacy without social advocacy is just greed with better tooling.
most daily choices are reversible, and because life presents an endless stream of future opportunities, spending excessive time and energy on minor decisions is inefficient and puts you at the end of the lunchtime rush of orders put into the kitchen.