2022 - To Read

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From the editors of Popula.com and the residents of the Brick House Cooperative: Tom Scocca reads you the newspaper

Posted on Tuesday 13 Dec 2022. 909 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Edward Harrison Composer, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Software Designer, Coder

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Walter Benjamin's rules for writing

(New Left Books 1973). But also read Macciocchi’s own contributions to this important and exciting book. Althusser on intellectuals: ‘It is extremely difficult for specialists and other bourgeois and petty-bourgeois “intellectuals” (including students). For a mere education of their consciousness ...

For Déborah I will begin with a text which will seem unusual: Jean Bollack’s translation from the beginning of Oedipus Rex when the priest is addressing Oedipus. This translation says: “For our city, as you yourself can see, is badly shaken—she cannot raise her head above the depths of so…

Howard Marks’ book The Most Important Thing has sold three-quarters of a million copies.

The 'good old days' were sometimes ugly, but please let us experience their good bits

It's 2003 again.

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

This article aims to analyze music from a philosophical and theological perspective, using the principles of multi- and transdisciplinary methodology. After a brief introduction, which presents the main moments in the history of the musical phenomenon, a first chapter addresses the metaphysical dimension of music in classical composers. The second chapter shows the position of philosophers towards music, starting with Pythagoras and ending with Schopenhauer. The third chapter focuses on music theology in general, but also on the theology and metaphysics of music to the French philosopher of Romanian origin, Emil Cioran, who, after Augustin and Schopenhauer, wrote probably the deepest pages on the ontology of music. The last chapter refers to to the archetypal character of music.

Why The Intrinsic Perspective is going paid

Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?

Nowadays, all websites must be accessible to everyone, and one of the many practices to achieve this is to use relative units.

And we’re all losing.

Reuters reports that at least $1 billion worth of customer funds have vanished from the failed crypto exchange.

The writer’s unusual discipline has come close to driving her crazy. The results have been both refined and depraved.

What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexander's writing has much more for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection of ideas for better software and programming, triggered by reading of Alexander's book The Timeless Way of Building.