It had anti-memetic properties, but linking Sam McGee, Shepard tones, and our deathless discourses was a fresh perspective worth thinking about:
Shepard tones create the anxiety energy needed for a dying system, to continue to haunt humanity in zombie mode.
(It feels related to Primavera De Filippi’s work with Plantoids. It wasn’t touched upon by her lectures, but the deathlessness of her originals does seem to create a challenging environment for new entries.
Without the death of the original plants to release their capital and energy requirements back into the system, the protocol will always require external energy to sustain itself.)
Regarding the internet eating the news, a few thoughts related to the other article on making the internet a place to hang out
1 One thing I remember from the pre internet era is how you didn't necessarily read the news alone so much as watch TV together or even newspaper in a park or on a train would offered involve honestly strangers asking each other to if they were done with the newspaper
2 there's something very much to the issue where a constant drip of global doom across all feeds is very much anxiety and DC in subtle ways that's obvious and tried to say but then also a big shift. Sometimes I go to Media outlets I used to read like say wired or whatever and it's pretty striking how much the culture were and other things just kind of subtly pervade well everything. It's not good for the human animal when there's not opportunities for rest and relaxation
3 I wonder about the opportunity to build protocols as a pathway to institutions at the Nexus between URL and IRL. I'm thinking of the internet equivalent of friends don't let friends drive drunk. I was chatting with some new friends who I play pickup soccer with on Sundays about the idea of having some sort of test or license or other similar thing before people could use certain parts of the public internet. Like social media and Facebook or whatever. Stump stuff is just insanely bad and I can't believe that the so-called adults are letting stuff like this happen. for example in my hometown there was an instance last year where there's a whole social media mob convinced there was a homeless person in a canyon but there was no homeless person it was just like group psychosis or something
4 there are a lot of examples like the last one in three red large if we are honest with ourselves about the state of what passes for discourse. I said I don't do tend to think that you know eliminating gatekeepers has been on net positive and does open the door to new and non-trividly battle worlds like what the you know more federated polycentric governance crowd at the network state got a bladder or the edge city crowd or all that kind of stuff or trying to build. Of course there's the mega question of how we get from our current foster clock into a better equilibrium without a war or other cataclysm which are the typical step change functions historically. I would also note that I think that some of those network techno network state network city network nation network everything crowd neglect the impacts that putting those ideas out there can also lead to backlash. Reactionaries can feed off of revolutionaries.
Anyhoo just a few thoughts that went in a few different directions reading civil of your posts and restacks this morning. Thanks for sharing it was enjoyable while I did my morning spin and stretch with voice to text. Be well sir
Good piece. I like the concept around fauxtarky. It’s a good way of putting the inherent contradiction of the public narrative on borders and immigration.
It’s nice to see humour making its way into the protocol discussion.
Not my favorite piece but I did like the moth bit 😆
It had anti-memetic properties, but linking Sam McGee, Shepard tones, and our deathless discourses was a fresh perspective worth thinking about:
Shepard tones create the anxiety energy needed for a dying system, to continue to haunt humanity in zombie mode.
(It feels related to Primavera De Filippi’s work with Plantoids. It wasn’t touched upon by her lectures, but the deathlessness of her originals does seem to create a challenging environment for new entries.
Without the death of the original plants to release their capital and energy requirements back into the system, the protocol will always require external energy to sustain itself.)
Regarding the internet eating the news, a few thoughts related to the other article on making the internet a place to hang out
1 One thing I remember from the pre internet era is how you didn't necessarily read the news alone so much as watch TV together or even newspaper in a park or on a train would offered involve honestly strangers asking each other to if they were done with the newspaper
2 there's something very much to the issue where a constant drip of global doom across all feeds is very much anxiety and DC in subtle ways that's obvious and tried to say but then also a big shift. Sometimes I go to Media outlets I used to read like say wired or whatever and it's pretty striking how much the culture were and other things just kind of subtly pervade well everything. It's not good for the human animal when there's not opportunities for rest and relaxation
3 I wonder about the opportunity to build protocols as a pathway to institutions at the Nexus between URL and IRL. I'm thinking of the internet equivalent of friends don't let friends drive drunk. I was chatting with some new friends who I play pickup soccer with on Sundays about the idea of having some sort of test or license or other similar thing before people could use certain parts of the public internet. Like social media and Facebook or whatever. Stump stuff is just insanely bad and I can't believe that the so-called adults are letting stuff like this happen. for example in my hometown there was an instance last year where there's a whole social media mob convinced there was a homeless person in a canyon but there was no homeless person it was just like group psychosis or something
4 there are a lot of examples like the last one in three red large if we are honest with ourselves about the state of what passes for discourse. I said I don't do tend to think that you know eliminating gatekeepers has been on net positive and does open the door to new and non-trividly battle worlds like what the you know more federated polycentric governance crowd at the network state got a bladder or the edge city crowd or all that kind of stuff or trying to build. Of course there's the mega question of how we get from our current foster clock into a better equilibrium without a war or other cataclysm which are the typical step change functions historically. I would also note that I think that some of those network techno network state network city network nation network everything crowd neglect the impacts that putting those ideas out there can also lead to backlash. Reactionaries can feed off of revolutionaries.
Anyhoo just a few thoughts that went in a few different directions reading civil of your posts and restacks this morning. Thanks for sharing it was enjoyable while I did my morning spin and stretch with voice to text. Be well sir
Good piece. I like the concept around fauxtarky. It’s a good way of putting the inherent contradiction of the public narrative on borders and immigration.