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life

social distortion: disaffection

Disaffection is not giving up. It is what happens when you can no longer see yourself in the world that helped create you.

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Philosophy

the phone died, the bill survived

The phone died; the contract lived on, quietly proving who really owns whom.

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cybernetics

The first rule of communication systems theory fight club…

It took me a long time and much exasperation to recognise and acknowledge that the first rule of communication systems theory club is: do not tell people about the theory. Not because the theory is secret. Because the theory is ineffective as information. People are not waiting for a better model of the system that […]