NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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sudocurse
@sudocurse

I don't have one simple take away, one magic idea. That's kind of the point. I will say that if and when the key problems facing our species were to be solved, then perhaps many of us in this room would be out of work (and perhaps in jail).

But it's not as though there is a shortage of topics for serious discussion. We need a deeper conversation about the difference between digital cosmopolitanism and cloud feudalism (and toward that, a queer history of computer science and Alan Turing's birthday as holiday!)

I would like new maps of the world, ones not based on settler colonialism, legacy genomes and bronze age myths, but instead on something more … scalable.

and

One TED speaker said recently, "If you remove this boundary ... the only boundary left is our imagination". Wrong.

If we really want transformation, we have to slog through the hard stuff (history, economics, philosophy, art, ambiguities, contradictions). Bracketing it off to the side to focus just on technology, or just on innovation, actually prevents transformation.

benjamin bratton. [text version] - (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted)


NireBryce
@NireBryce

because it makes it very clear that conference talks are just livestreamed blogposts, even when they're credentialed


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

they actually contend that this was intentional in this kinda defensive rebuttal:

It's only by genuinely granting power to local organisers that TEDx could have achieved its current scale. We have been astonished how good most of these events are. From TEDxSydney (which packed out the Sydney Opera House) to TEDxKibera (held in a slum near Nairobi), audiences globally have been informed and inspired. Like Wikipedia, it shouldn't work but it does. And also like Wikipedia, occasionally mistakes creep in. Out of the 40,000 TEDx talk videos now online, about a dozen have been truly embarrassing, featuring pseudoscience or other absurdities.