Michael Mann — the Only Male Filmmaker: “What is the constant in Mann’s characters? They don’t act like animals about women. I don’t mean that they’re chivalrous, I mean that they treat them like something more than chattels. Who would even want a chattel that’s always yapping? No, you want a woman because….well, you can’t…
Tag: machine
DISASTROUS AMATEURISM
I had Grok collate my updated draft notes for a screenplay/novel hybrid that I’m creating called Disastrous Amateurism. And the Grok synthesis is really fascinating to me. It didn’t change the tone or direction of anything but helped to sharpen my conception of everything. I’ve shared it below, largely unedited save for the addition of…
LINKS: Safeguarding Oblivion; the Permission Structure Machine; Communion on the Moon
On the Grid — How Surveillance Became a Love Language: “…true privacy requires safeguarding oblivion, not secrets.” Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment: “The wizards of the permission structure machine had become captives of the machinery that they built. Bullying large numbers of people into faddish hyperconformity by controlling the machinery of social approval may require both…
▒▓█ w̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞k̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞d̳̿͟͞ ̳̿͟͞l̳̿͟͞i̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞k̳̿͟͞s̳̿͟͞ █▓▒░ philosophical automatisms, pervasive untruths, the value of marginal & discarded information
Bitcoin and Philosophy: “Bitcoin seizes philosophical attention because it is already doing philosophy – or what philosophy is still (on ever rarer occasions) expected to do – and at multiple levels. It tells the truth. Bitcoin is not only a recognizable philosophical statement, but also, and more importantly, a philosophical automatism, a synthetic philosophical machine.[6]…