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Populacast!
From the editors of Popula.com and the residents of the Brick House Cooperative: Tom Scocca reads you the newspaper
Let’s use spreadsheets to rewire apps and make new ones
Posted on Tuesday 13 Dec 2022. 909 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.
Ed Harrison
Edward Harrison Composer, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Software Designer, Coder
A Critical History of Poverty Finance
Special Issue: Foucault’s Method Today. Continental Thought and Theory (2022)
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Walter Benjamin's rules for writing
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel · Intellectual and Manual Labour: An attempt at a materialistic theory (1973)
(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 ...
Is Europe's soil changing beneath our feet? - Groupe d'études géopolitiques
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…
Selfish Writing
Howard Marks’ book The Most Important Thing has sold three-quarters of a million copies.
Ask HN: Similar Books like “Raytracing in one Weekend” | Hacker News
The age of Unix workstations is over. What did we learn?
The 'good old days' were sometimes ugly, but please let us experience their good bits
A year of new avenues
It's 2003 again.
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DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.
The World John von Neumann Built
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.
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism
“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, […]
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The Metaphysics and Theology 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.
Goodbye academia, hello Substack
Why The Intrinsic Perspective is going paid
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
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?
What is the Difference between px, rem and em?
Nowadays, all websites must be accessible to everyone, and one of the many practices to achieve this is to use relative units.
Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis
And we’re all losing.
Between $1 billion and $2 billion of FTX customer funds have disappeared, SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions: Report
Reuters reports that at least $1 billion worth of customer funds have vanished from the failed crypto exchange.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction
The writer’s unusual discipline has come close to driving her crazy. The results have been both refined and depraved.
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The Timeless Way of Programming
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.