At the illocutionary speech act level, that was an acceptable response. It’s kind of like when you say “what’s up?” and your interlocutor says “hey there!” The question has not been answered, but it’s still collaborative because the point of the exchange was not really an inquiry, it was a greeting.

The movie looks completely predictable. And the NIN song sounds pretty mid-tier for them. BUT I gotta say that the song sounds really good mixed in with the preview. On the youtube page of the NIN song, fans were joking that the movie is really just an extended music video – and that might be the best way to think about it.

Milking and threshing sound way more fun than yet another Zoom meeting.

Whenever I think I can’t stand yet another video meeting, I think back on the (very brief) time I spent working on a farm. It was fun for a day or two, but after like 5 days I was ready to do whatever it took to get away from there. I got respect for farm workers, it isn’t easy!

When he asks to see their code, they send him a single file.

I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.

I frequently wish that the movie Apocalypto had inspired a whole genre of movies. Kind of like Westerns, but taking place in pre-Columbian times. That’s the sort of thing that creates new history nerds in a genre. Do you happen to know if Mexico has produced many/any good movies that take place in pre-Columbian times?

This person Aztecs!

Don’t forget all those “networking” trips out of town.

if you’re clairvoyant, casinos offer a better return on investment.

I dunno… suddenly demonstrating clairvoyance in a casino sounds like a great way to experience cheater’s justice…

Interesting article. I wonder if just deleting this was the right move tho. Maybe they could have stored it away somewhere and ignored it indefinitely.

PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored. Like food vacuum-sealed and never eaten, while any nutritional value slips away.

I’m not really familiar with these tools, but it seems like they’re not being used as the type of constraint that enables exploration and creative expression. Dunno if that’s a fundamental characteristic of the tool.

In trying to remember everything, I outsourced the act of reflection. I didn’t revisit ideas. I didn’t interrogate them

One of the most useful insights I came across in the digital humanities was that meaningful language use was performative, as well as subjective and situated.

The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold.

Reminds me a bit of Casaubon in Middlemarch.

Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.

There’s this approach to creativity where you force yourself to do a first draft (even if it sucks), to make sure your brain knows what you want it to produce. Then you get rid of the first draft, take a little bit of time off so your brain can work on the problem “in the background”, and then start working on the real draft.

great (and brief) article.

there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”

lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Borgia

I read an interesting article about that: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ads/

This is restoration of a 1992 film from Kazakhstan, about an event of great historical importance that most Euro-Americans have never heard of. The IMDB reviews make it sound really interesting: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104224/reviews/

Existe https://mujico.org/ en español pero por algun razon está desfederada por muchas de las otras instancias.

• left: introduce him to his post-MFA career options
• right: “have you written anything I’ve heard of?”
• up: tell them they write just like their teachers
• down: “I can do the same thing… using AI!”

Have you ever tried to interpret those shapes for clues about the future?

Perpetual motion machine discovered.

Amazing. Sometimes nature really freaks me out.