Posts
- Hope liver on 2025-06-25 Yep, I truly compare hope to the human liver in this blog post.
- Innovation! 2025-06-25 Innovation isn't magical pixie dust of efficiency, but a set of tradeoffs.
- Don't inform yourself: learn 2025-01-10 Information in itself is meaningless.
- More of The same 2024-11-22 I can't wait for 2040
- Durov is a twat 2024-08-27 Rambling, rambling, rambling
- Jansen's strandbeests 2024-08-25 Praise for the poesy of movement
- Eulogy to my shirt 2024-04-20 A man and his shirt part.
- Tech as a moral smoke screen 2024-04-13 Technology as an excuse to do things you really wanted to do but couldn't due to moral or legal qualms.
- The Surveillance Vending Machines 2024-04-08 A musing over the implications of the Waterloo university facial recognition vending machine debacle.
- The limits of statistical thinking and the value of personal experience 2023-07-30 Rif at an poorly thought out article published on ourworldindata.org that highlights the extremely naive and Panglocian view (this is the charitable interpreation) of science in the SV think thanks.
- Technologism 2023-03-15 Societies fail the same way individuals fail, we consume to forget, society creates to forget
- Shared dogma and metahumans 2023-02-26 A dive into ontologic nihilism, agremented with existential minimalism, resulting in the interpretation of culture as agent, and an attempt to learn from this insight.
- Emotions in politics 2023-02-18 Why politic? Why emotion? Why rational? Where policy?
- The Dogma dogma 2023-02-11 Speculation on how we structure our understanding of the world and how we integrate new facts in our understanding
- Are you content? 2023-02-04 I hate you for saying 'content' as a noun that doesn't relate to containers.
- 15 Years of Digital Maoism 2022-12-06 My response to Lanier's seminal piece on Wikipedia
- The beginning of a dev career 2022-09-20 A retrospective of Nicola Papale's software development career
- What was my Computer Science degree good for? 2022-09-14 A critical evaluation of Nicola Papale's University education and the role it played in his professional life
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