In this spirit, check out the very strange Katla on Netflix.
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Here it hel
ps://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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Ha! Yes, my first brush with the severe cognitive dissonance of "out there" was
after abou
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/
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Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 10:08 AM
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Well
. I was probably
> watching Night Line before nodding off.
>
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> No. I don't think I've
alf Of u?l? ?>$
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> Nah. That's a syntax error on your part. The Blankfaces lack any ability to
> restructure the technology. They're Eloi, not Morlocks. What you
Thursday, August 5, 2021 9:44 AM
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> Nah. That's a syntax error on your part. The Blankfaces lack any ability to
> restructure the technology. They're Eloi, not Morlocks. What you can do,
> though, is learn t
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No. I don't think I've ever watched Night Line. >8^D In the late '80s, I spent
almost all my time arguing on bulletin boards and using f
No. I don't think I've ever watched Night Line. >8^D In the late '80s, I spent
almost all my time arguing on bulletin boards and using ftpmail to download
things like Minix. The Russians I knew didn't talk about politics at all.
On 8/5/21 9:40 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:
> Do you remember
Yes, I think the proposal was to follow that metaphor to its conclusion with
regard to the Eloi's true value.
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Nah. That's a
backtrack and revise their strategy and that would be
> inconvenient.
>
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> I agree. When you g
t 5, 2021 12:29 PM
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I agree. When you get some quantum computing dork all up in your face
complaining about the rules we all have to follow, it places an unsolicited
cognitive load upon everyone in the surrounding region. Often, the b
t for suboptimality. They
would have to backtrack and revise their strategy and that would be
inconvenient.
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I agree. When you get some
is a repetitive motion
> and easy, and easy is nice sometimes. My take is that the blankfaces like
> that kind of cognitive easy.
>
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, 2021 12:17 PM
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My fellow Blakkfaces like Ms. Umbridge do not attempt to regularize the entire
world according to their doctrine. They are more like feudal lords, attempting
to regularize their small fiefdom. Further, most of them only regular
faces like that
kind of cognitive easy.
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My fellow Blakkfaces like Ms. Umbridge do not attempt to regularize the entire
world according
Daniels wrote:
> How is a blankface different from authoritarian?
>
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> Given some of the conversations I've had
How is a blankface different from authoritarian?
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Given some of the conversations I've had with some of y'all about bureaucracy
as technolo
Given some of the conversations I've had with some of y'all about bureaucracy
as technology, I thought this might provide you with some dopaminergic
confirmation:
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5675
> What exactly is a blankface? He or she is often a mid-level bureaucrat, but
> not every
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