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The Workshop of ideas 2025-07-04 To hell with the marketplace of ideas
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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