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Joybuke
Jun 28, 2024 from Joybuke

Sarkic Tropes: the Horror of Flesh

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: those urges that are instinctual, animalistic, and fleshy. The term now, from my kno...

nutcroft
Apr 17, 2024 from nutcroft

On conversations of debate and exploration

Dear friend, I appreciate your so-called engineering mindset. It's great to aim to approach things rationally, to understand things from the ground up, to do analysis of how systems work and how ea...

nutcroft
Mar 30, 2024 from nutcroft

For the joy of making it

I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...

Let’s get Person-al
Feb 12, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al

🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet

I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:

Let’s get Person-al
Feb 05, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al

🗨️ A Predictable Ui Is A Good One Until Generative Ai

We judge an interface as “good” if the user knows what to expect, and is never faced with results or feedback that seem out of the blue or confusing to them. I still think this is true, but maybe w...

nutcroft
Jan 16, 2024 from nutcroft

When hope and gloom unite

This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...

nutcroft
Jan 06, 2024 from nutcroft

Manifesting democracy

We cannot presuppose a democratic society before its existence. We can only identify a democratic system in a society after such society has existed for a nontrivial amount of time; insofar as demo...

nutcroft
Jan 01, 2024 from nutcroft

On the essence of decisions and hope

What is a decision and why does it matter? I. One could claim that decisions do not matter insofar they are not actions. Decisions are not facts. They are just something someone said and maybe some...

nutcroft
Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft

Applied anthropology

On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...

Silence Calling
Dec 07, 2023 from Silence Calling

Books

These books chatter on my shelf day and night

Silence Calling
Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling

Compulsions

Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex

Silence Calling
Oct 26, 2023 from Silence Calling

Spiritual Drama

I'm incomplete Unenlightened Seeking

Joybuke
Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke

Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...

Silence Calling
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling

Taking Off

A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off

Silence Calling
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling

Fire and Speed

The plane taking off starts moving fast and fast Increasing speed and moving wings Takes off

nutcroft
Jul 23, 2023 from nutcroft

Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone

Laniakea Books is a publishing house in London, England, which publishes public domain books only. Public domain books are books which their author has relinquished all copyrights and allows everyo...

Joybuke
Jul 19, 2023 from Joybuke

Radicals Are Losers

Radicals, at least the core base of them, have to, by definition, be losers. People usually only take stances for changing society, especially fundamentally changing society, if they see a problem ...

Joybuke
Jul 18, 2023 from Joybuke

The Gardener's Trap

Humanity has convenience and choice to such a point it borders on vice. Humanity assumes, due to said convenience and choice being an easy-to-digest abstraction over the complex reality of the worl...

nutcroft
Jul 01, 2023 from nutcroft

A birthday invitation

1 July 2023 is a totally not important date for the world but it just happened that I was born exactly 29 Earth circles around the Sun before that date. The thing is, while the Earth is rotating ar...

nutcroft
Jun 27, 2023 from nutcroft

Fight Club has the answers

It’s a few hours after watching the Fight Club for the second time in my life that I write these words. It's been more than decade since I watched it for the first time and even though I had liked ...

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