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I may have been an avid macOS user once, but in the future I will seek to come as close as possible to using my computing platform as a tool, rather than to become a tool for those who seek to profit on others in cyberspace.
Avoiding Distractions in Modern Computing
Thoughts on Security
The wheelwright sees meaningful distinctions in the wood—distinctions of worth and of quality—that in no way find their source in him. The skilled craftsman does not decide to treat the ash as if it were “frow as a carrot,” the way David Foster Wallace decides to treat the lady in the checkout line as if she were on her way to the hospital. Rather, the fact of the matter is out in the world. The task of the craftsman is not to generate the meaning, but rather to cultivate in himself the skill for discerning the meanings that are already there.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Exactly, fictitious capital operates by pulling imagined future surplus value into the present. And because global capital currently struggles to find high growth returns in traditional manufacturing, it floods into these grandiose narratives. The narrative literally is the product that sustains the financial architecture.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
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