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“Dark Matter” of civilization—most of the knowledge holding everything together is not being written down. Systems designed with lost knowledge can survive for a time on autopilot, but are not robust to collapse: youtu.be/OiNmTVThNEY (by Samo Burja, pronounced boor-yuh)

So, if you've ever wondered why Cyberpunk as a genre is so steeped in Japanese imagery, this is why. The 80's was freakin' weird about Japan, and the cultural anxieties of the day fed into imagined dystopian futures where Japan was the dominant economic and cultural force.

~“While I was living in the woods, I sort of invented gods for myself. *laughter* Not that I believed in them, but they were ideas that sort of corresponded with feelings I had.”

 macOS typographic characters—neatly hidden

the bassline to Impossible Knots Thank You Thom Yorke

“Wizards and Prophets—Wizards unveiling technological fixes, Prophets decrying the consequences of our heedlessness.” —Charles C. Mann

Hunter-gatherer-managers—the “Gardeners of Eden”—are a missing link in our understanding of pre-civilization. The megafauna weren’t hunted to extinction… youtu.be/970Qd6W1EB8 Helga Likeville Podcast

Tech Philosophy Academics were a bit abrasive to the only person in Silicon Valley willing to listen to them. I see Tristan Harris taking it in stride, finally bridging these two bubbles—voicing McLuhan, Mumford, Postman… dare I say, Ellul? tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/lett…

Realtime Art Manifesto (2006)—“Go to them rather than expecting them to come to the museum.” tale-of-tales.com/tales/RAM.html

Cultural Rocketmen, not Luddites—using technology as a launch pad to a future without it (from high- to low-tech) after finally understanding energy. Stuart McMillen stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-s…

My “cynic pixie dream girl” by Jonathan Nolan

a-whole-nother, my favorite tmesis

Turns out ~500 years ago, Thomas More was like a proto Dave Chappelle. (Utopia, 1516)