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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 ...

Joybuke
Jun 04, 2023 from Joybuke

Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed

Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...

nutcroft
May 31, 2023 from nutcroft

The misery of applications

Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...

nutcroft
May 18, 2023 from nutcroft

Negations and characteristics of democracy

Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...

Joybuke
May 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Anatomy of the Rot

Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...

Joybuke
Apr 11, 2023 from Joybuke

Virtue's Accessibility Problem

“Vice is easy, virtue is hard” is a common mantra that I don’t believe to be true. The default perception of virtue is that it’s a thing to struggle towards, while vice is very easy to pick up and ...

nutcroft
Apr 08, 2023 from nutcroft

A new startup lifecycle

I. The philosophy of Posthaven II. The reason startups get acquired III. Sympathy for Posthaven’s founders IV. Suggesting alternative futures for startups V. Conclusion I. The philosophy of Posthav...

Joybuke
Mar 28, 2023 from Joybuke

How to Make a Successful Cyber-Ethos

A cyber-ethos is, effectively, what most people would refer to as a community on the internet. It is a collective of people on the internet who are contributing to one, centralized internet culture...

Joybuke
Mar 27, 2023 from Joybuke

Machine Learning, the UBI System, and Media Incest

If any article I write is going to be worth skipping, this will be the one. Reason why: this will about a contemporary, developing topic. Most people who talk about anything of value should know th...

Joybuke
Mar 27, 2023 from Joybuke

The Danger of Labels and Why the Restoration Wont Come From the Bottom Up

It’s common to hear people state that “labeling” and categorizing people based on politics is a bad idea. In normie politics, it’s often said that it creates “bias” or tribal mentalities, and those...

Joybuke
Mar 04, 2023 from Joybuke

Localism Is Extinct

Localism, at least localism in the material world, is an extinct concept. There no longer is a culture of people bound together by material necessity in industrialized nations. What little there is...

nutcroft
Mar 02, 2023 from nutcroft

Responding to: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers

This is in response to this blog post: https://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html In 2010, James Hague, a recovering programmer, gave some advice to new programmers. He said, if you are someone who would wr...

nutcroft
Feb 28, 2023 from nutcroft

On AI taking over jobs: The world is based on gifts, not transactions

What are we going to do now that AI will take all our jobs? I. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted1 that, in 2030, society would be so productive that we would barely need to work. Presumably, t...

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