Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social
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An amazing talk by Zadie Smith - upon receiving the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin. She talks about life, the world, and everything - from her perspective as a Black woman looking at society today. I caught the last 10 mins on my drive into work today and I had goosebumps and was nearly brought to tears.
If you can vpn it to listen via the UK, here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b48tqq
It is worth your time.
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another.”
– Kant, What is Enlightenment
#enlightenment
Well, here I was downloading Menschliches, Allzumenschliches Teil I by Nietzsche and then following some links and now I’m reading the first chapter of „Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?“ by Kant. His definition of the enlightenment is easy to read, his observation still true.
I guess tonight is one of those nights.
English: http://braungardt.trialectics.com/philosophy/early-modern-philosophy-16th-18th-century-europe/kant/enlightenment/
German: https://www.textlog.de/2335.html
#kant #philosophy
I’m on a trip with an iPhone and an iPad. It makes me sad to realize how much joy I derive from the kinds of activities in can do on my laptop but which these don’t allow. Why did I not bring the laptop!?
I read a few aphorism collections by Nietzsche as a teenager or twenty something. They’re great because each paragraph stands on its own and is controversial, weird, and it made me think – I mean I sometimes hated what Nietzsche was saying but having these mental arguments with a dead author, I loved that. And I loved his old school German.
#Nietzsche #philosophy
@kensanata right you are. this also reminds me of a Nietzsche saying:
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman—a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting."
Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknüpft zwischen Tier und Übermensch – ein Seil über einem Abgrunde. Ein gefährliches Hinüber, ein gefährliches Auf-dem-Wege, ein gefährliches Zurückblicken, ein gefährliches Schaudern und Stehenbleiben.
These numbers are insane. It should be the other way around!
I firmly believe we need to start calling NSAs and GCHQs of this world out on their bullshit. If you have ~$10bln annual budget and you leak a weaponized exploit, which then gets used in *malware*, you should be liable for damages.
WannaCry alone caused estimated $4bn of damage. Why should the victims pay for it?
From the recent thread on Christopher Alexander. Please enjoy this wonderful 17 page essay: https://www.chrisgagern.de/Media/A_City_is_not_a_tree.pdf
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I liked the article on Christopher Alexander’s A Timeless Way of Building written by @ckeen
gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/0/ckeen/phlog/2018-06-13-The-Timeless-Way-of-Building.md
The gap between his pattern language and the pattern language in software development is important. And Christopher Alexander’s book is a good read. I recommend it. It’s about usability, design, empowerment, life, happiness, and of course also buildings.
I'm seriously tired of ads on #twitter.
what the ancient Chinese thought of the Romans: http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html#sec11
It's also the site of a good Google Maps glitch: it mapped mid-demolition photographs onto a pre-demolition building shape and labeled it with post-demolition business names
Once more regarding: "The Scale Is Just Unfathomable" by Tarleton Gillespie. I read it as a giant admission that social media at scale is fundamentally broken. It cannot be fixed. We need smaller communities. I am hopeful about the Fediverse. I also read it as a criticism of capitalism: in order to make money off massive scale, we reduce the number of moderators. Because we can. Because of profit. And then we are distraught by the result. Don’t do that, then!
https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/
"The Scale Is Just Unfathomable" by Tarleton Gillespie https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/
I'm still interested to see how the fediverse's moderation-per-instance model can really scale. So far it works okay, but I think overall we're still a small community (or a handful of small communities), which makes things easier.
#MassSurveillance and “Smart Totalitarianism”
Under #neoliberalism, state and corporate power have fused to impose new forms of social control, using technology to transform private life into a system of total domination.
https://roarmag.org/magazine/mass-surveillance-smart-totalitarianism/
Does anybody know how to install the GNU manuals on #PureOS? I see that make suggests make-doc, which isn't available, or emacs25 suggests emacs25-common-non-dfsg which has no candidate. These are all in Debian non-free, but I don't use Debian, I use a distribution based on Debian. Do I still add the Debian non-free repo to my sources.list? That sounds like madness!
D'oh! Of course it's pydoc3 instead of pydoc! Can we please shoot #python 2 into the outer solar system and install it in some remote probe being sent on to Alpha Centauri? ☄
Sometimes #python docs are available loacally using pydoc. But how do I get the documentation for weasyprint or markdown? pydoc markdon, pydoc Markdown, pydoc weasyprint, man weasyprint, none seem to work.
