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This is the cold, severe reality of the day. I can't hand-wave away facts of my community for the tail end of the industrial revolution applied in Africa.

I have my optimism that in the darkness life will be conserved and born anew. We don't need another aphorism extolling the virtues of how bright some corner of the planet is and how that is a worthy trade-off for personal or collective suffering.

I'd prefer to live in the '90s when you could keep a secret and have a life that was not inside a panopticon. That was safety, not this metaphysical slavery to a set of advertising megacorps that pushes our behaviour around by statistical application of recommendations. I miss going on holiday and coming back with stories of the new world, rather than being able to bring up a 4k photo of every location within 250ms. I miss being able to fight people and gentlemen's agreements on the back of a handshake and a word. We have lost a lot, I pity those that forget so easily.

Living in the 50s with a stable job that can support two adults and some kids with appliances that never die and vaguely drive-able cars seems a hell of a lot easier and safer than now. There are always brighter moments in the past, it's pointless to even make the rebuttal about living in the past, as if we could.

Your work depends on pulling dark information on genomes into yet another database for a client. I doubt I'm going to sway you on the damage of recent progress. GATTACA is closer than I'd (we'd?) like and you probably won't be around to see it. The worst part is that it's likely to be secret, no blood tests at the gate required. Just sort a database row and you have your secret candidates for the next task.

A two thousand year semi-respite from the naturally severe realities of life is ending and nobody seems to having anything to say about the shining beauty of a mankind that valued truth, a good handshake and gentlemanly behaviour. Is violence such a bad price to pay for freedom? I guess you can buy people off with iphones and widgets while they get slowly locked up by a system seeking absolute control over their lives.

C'est la vie, long live man.

I can google for others too, I don't think the numbers will sway your opinion though.

The K-shaped recovery is a real bubble, don't get caught in either side, they're both blind.

The ability for google to legally and materially read my emails transcends law, classifying emails and my knowledge. Ethics doesnt even start when its done outside society. Advertising is second order financial gain derived from their absolute power over retained information. There's a bigger picture.

The research is bearing fruit, seeing that on the ground is a different matter.

Zuckerberg is a glorified newspaper salesman. He depends on soaking up negative narratives to appear powerful. Nobody is more powerful than the government, they can only impose costs on the gov, the government will resolve all conflicts.

Destroy the ontology, identity and neccesity of tech and you will have your material world back under the rule of a weapon, as it has been. Do you want that?

There's also people deliberately misrepresenting knowledge for clicks & selling products. Micheal Crichton was right not to be concerned about the fall of journalism. He said (to effect) anybody can write whatever they want. The value is in the edited content. Which he meant by mainstream, validated press agencies that used to control most intepretation. The concept still applies, most of youtube will not be missed.

They prefer their churn and burn, buying out games and giving them for reduced prices. It makes little sense unless it is seen as a very long term play.

Fortnite changed steam's dominance. Epic games is buying out a lot of games to offer on their store and they have the cash to burn on it. Who knows where all the fortnite fans will be in 5yrs, epic or steam.

Hot headed aggression will always overcome truth, and find a way to abuse knowledge and win wars. We must tell our truths often and early if we are to progress diplomatically.

It interprets the trumpet in Miles Davis - It Never Entered my Mind as dark ripples and is beautiful in it's own way.

It's a long way from the last time I used a visualizer on Winamp, nice!

In this case it's a metaphor for westernized.

It has to be edited by paid employees, legally sound and maintained. wikipedia doesnt cut it.

People are actively darkening their own worldviews by arguing themselves out of good knowledge and swimming into fake news for the thrill of victory. Heady aggression is killing our ability to hold rational positions, when they start misquoting fifteen studies and claiming the 'truth' is whatever they want to know.

The guitar Elvis used has the same spirit imbued into it, that his music possessed and his fans enjoyed. Any other guitar, is just a guitar. There are cars, boats, houses, ect that have this same effect of carrying a higher meaning.

Buildings have a connection to the landscape around them. Something aesthetically pleasing in architecture works in harmony with the nature/city surrounding it. Many buildings are an eyesore because they do not fit into their surroundings. Many of the british Edwardian masterpieces didn't work when recreated in australia. Parthenon works on it's original landscape.

The techniques that go into building them have a relevance to the society around them. A cathedral can be a 300yr construction cycle as a testament to entirely new building techniques like a domed roof. The first building to carry that maintains the meaning of a step forward for humanity. Subsequent buildings don't carry that meaning. Building a cathedral now with a domed roof takes like a year and is cheap, commonplace and uninteresting. The Parthenon's warped foundation to trick you into thinking it's a straight building is not an necessary technique any more, though amazing for that time period.

Museums in britian that contain all the dead art to ever be considered worth preserving tried to charge an entry fee (gold coin donation, 2015ish) instead of being free to the public and admission dropped by 25%. The value of preservation is quite low.

Texas is not the birthplace of democracy, and it is not interesting spamming out parthenons with modern tooling. The excess of modern perfection completely minimizes the original achievement, all you are preserving is the recipe-book for building that particular pattern of concrete. The only spirit a faux-parthenon in texas carries is crass commercial reproduction of long-passed european greats. Like a plastic Disney castle vaguely imitates european castles, a parthenon in Texas is a pointless attempt at claiming something the state didn't earn and can't own by definition.

Make something that is unique and special that could only be made in Texas. There are unique set of materials, landscape, people, social culture and attitudes, desires of what needs to be expressed in the culture. We only have one Texas, it needs to be Texan and not faux-greece. Any given patch of land yearns for it's own self-expression. I can't see any other way of building, nor the virtue in dropping foreign works from a great height into an empty landscape.

The structure of the schengen area and the differing population densities is an entirely different beast, I agree.

If there were a definition for "set up to fail" it would be that customer... Or are we to assume google is a potentially hostile force, whenever it feels like being one.

We used to ban the sales of products that harmed customers.

Colbert's white house correspondent's address covered it. Politicians don't talk about super depressing stuff like guantonomo bay and journalists have the courtesy to not try and find out.. We don't talk about data collection in any serious manner.

I think the weakness of data collection is when it gets in the average joe's way and it hasn't done that yet in a big way. The more we hammer home that it must facilitate movement through life and not hinder it, the better the middle ground will be.. maybe.

There is a requirement that both sides get really good at eviscerating lies and liars. Neither side of the fence wants fake data or betrayal.

What does this even mean? He keeps his existing job inside the industry and feeds you tips for $? He's a glorified sales role?

These guys look more like friends than business partners.