in just a few years, the last gamergate survivors will have died. listening to their warnings now is more important than ever before
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Part of what makes Banksy’s work so popular is that it doesn’t operate much like street art at all. Think about Invader or Fairey, artists who appear in Exit Through the Gift Shop: Invader’s 8-bit career began with a single “Space Invaders” icon that the artist reiterated endlessly. Fairey’s work started with a stencil of Andre the Giant prefaced by the word “Obey,” again, repeated over and over. While they’re both more like media moguls than graffiti writers today, Fairey and Invader started with the same strategy: to project themselves into public spaces by broadcasting themselves all over it.
That ambition to control a public space through this sort of redundant branding, to make the street your own, is a masculine one—and it’s shared by the overwhelming majority of street artists. In the theater of the public square, graffiti is cousin to cat-calling—which Slate’s Dee Locket smartly explains as the constant effort by men to “create the illusion of dominance in shared public spaces,” specifically by claiming women’s private spaces as their own.
pure ideology
Wanksy
So wait… is graffiti Woke, or Broke?
Anonymous asked:
So, this artist Penelope Umbrico made a collage of the incredibly large number of portraits people had posted to flickr of themselves standing in front of the sunset, and put it up as an exhibit for an art gallery. Unsurprisingly, this apparent tendency for people to take pictures of themselves standing in front of sunsets and posting them to flickr has inspired others to take pictures of themselves in front of the collage, and posting it to flickr.
argumate answered:
It’s like the tension in MMORPG design: if everyone does the same quest it destroys the logic of the game world to some degree (the bad guy is beaten millions of times!) but if quests have to be unique for each player you can’t share the experience.
* twitches *
Time. The answer is Time.
Set the MMORPG in a world where the timelines are divergent and there are thousands or millions of them, and the world itself is broken into thousands of planes/zones/worlds spread across a vast and diverse cosmos in a state of multiversal war.
The players are warrior-chrononauts, members of various factions in this cosmic war across universes and timelines. Many of the same worlds, however, occur again and again, and thus they have a shared experience of intervening in them. There isn’t just one Space Hitler, there are thousands or millions echoing out into the cosmic void.
Video games are almost perfect for this, since single-player games do the multiple timelines branching thing intuitively just by their structure, with saves and replays!
oh sure you can do that for one game, just gets a bit painful when you have to resort to it for all games.
Ah, but thanks to Death of the Author, I already did.
I don’t think this actually true. Bill Gates, 1/8th of that number, is *already* doing massive-scale philanthropy, it hasn’t yet solved the problem of human poverty because human poverty is an even more massive scale problem, and it’s not obvious to me that any authority that could tell Gates to run his philanthropy differently/confiscate his money and do it instead of him would necessarily do a better job than him.
I’m in favor of governments taxing very wealthy people and using the money to pay for things that make the lives of poor people all over the world better, but I think this specific claim about the 8 richest people in the world makes solving poverty seem like a smaller problem than it actually is.
The thing about using mass immigration to try to solve global poverty is that it can’t keep up with birth rates. Redistribution from the wealthy mostly can’t, either.
Only what is produced can be consumed. The production capacities of these migrant-generating countries must be increased, and their birthrates must fall (increasing paternal investment per child, further increasing per-capita economic productivity in addition to not spreading limited base resources as thinly).
Probably the way forward isn’t quite giving or taking but something like partially self-funding institutions that “sell” infrastructure at a discount and promote development of local businesses and foster self-improving attitudes, promoting the formation of better institutions that will help the changes to stick.
One of the things Bill Gates is trying to do is cut birthrates in the developing world by promoting contraception, girls education, and vaccines (cut the death rate and the birth rate also drops).
Yes. That’s part of the reason I don’t approve of seizing his fortune for the glory of the third world - the US government in the hands of the Republicans does the opposite with bans on funding to nations that practice abortion.
In their religious fervor, the Republicans are Natalists - a policy that might make sense for nations like Japan, but which does not make sense in countries that already cannot feed their populations.
I don’t think this actually true. Bill Gates, 1/8th of that number, is *already* doing massive-scale philanthropy, it hasn’t yet solved the problem of human poverty because human poverty is an even more massive scale problem, and it’s not obvious to me that any authority that could tell Gates to run his philanthropy differently/confiscate his money and do it instead of him would necessarily do a better job than him.
I’m in favor of governments taxing very wealthy people and using the money to pay for things that make the lives of poor people all over the world better, but I think this specific claim about the 8 richest people in the world makes solving poverty seem like a smaller problem than it actually is.
The thing about using mass immigration to try to solve global poverty is that it can’t keep up with birth rates. Redistribution from the wealthy mostly can’t, either.
Only what is produced can be consumed. The production capacities of these migrant-generating countries must be increased, and their birthrates must fall (increasing paternal investment per child, further increasing per-capita economic productivity in addition to not spreading limited base resources as thinly).
Probably the way forward isn’t quite giving or taking but something like partially self-funding institutions that “sell” infrastructure at a discount and promote development of local businesses and foster self-improving attitudes, promoting the formation of better institutions that will help the changes to stick.
On Tech Elitism and Gatekeeping
“. If you identify yourself “I am a PHP programmer“ or “I am a Windows user“, that sounds like you can’t change that! Criticism of your tool, or of the ecosystem around your tool, sounds like an attack on your personality. You are forever married, shackled even, to an editor, operating system, language, graphics editor. “ <- I really dislike this attitude. I think that programmers should view all these things as tools that can be taken up and put back down again as needed rather than being a part of your identity.
That makes sense, after all a language is just a language, and while they sometimes have new concepts and idioms to learn, IME they aren’t that challenging to switch between.
My question is whether employers will treat it that way. It’s obvious to me that a good C# programmer is only N months away from being a good Java programmer, but the job listings don’t seem to work that way.
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very talented people.
If someone from another field successfully invades physics or math, we just call them a physicist or mathematician instead of whatever they were originally.
What about when a Poli Sci major ships software?
“Money is no object”
That’s right, as my new theory details, money is not a collection of particles, but actually a wave -