First Prev Next Last Kary 29⟡5 Zea Pou 1493 Gregorian 2025-01-13 Khayyamian 976/10/24 Shamsi 1403/10/24 We value our friends in the moment we brag about knowing them to others. When their awesomeness directly lifts us up. This is perhaps rude and bad to say, but think about it: if you wish to have influence on someone, influence their circles. Quotes & Excerpts Bush got his take-charge attitude, he said, from the line of sea captains in his family. "They have a way of running things without any doubt," he said. "That left me with some inclination to run a show once I was in it." ↖︎ Vannevar Bush Take the meat industry for example: the production of meat, is consistently concealed, sanitized, even glamorized through a mishmash of branding, sanitized packaging, and advertising. The presentation of the neatly packaged commodity on the shelf seems to appear by magic, thus obscuring the horrendous working conditions that factory farmers face every single day. This sanitation process also masks the cruel and torturous industry of inhumane animal slaughter, and provides people a guilt-free way to consume animal products without ever having to get their hands dirty, thus detaching the whole process from their conscious reality. LESLIE FLUETTE ↖︎ Commodity Fetishism and The Spectacle According to Karl Marx commodity fetishism is the process of ascribing mysterious or magical characteristics to an object and in doing so the labor that went into creating the object is covered up LESLIE FLUETTE ↖︎ Commodity Fetishism and The Spectacle I just can't imagine why people stuck creating 2d paper like ways of displaying information. They got so proud in this some place in the early 80s or something, or 70s, where you could do bit map and UI, so then you could have on there what you're going to see when you print it out, and I'd say "okay, but actually printing it out's the last thing you want to do". DOUGLAS ENGELBART ↖︎ Interview with Doug Engelbart and Bill English, Moderated by John Markoff Day's Context Videos Watched Commodity Fetishism and The Spectacle Composing the Score for Wicked with John Powell Doucet "Chopinata" (Joy) Hyuk Lee 이혁 Хёк Ли Doug Engelbart on OHS A - excerpts from his 1995 Vannevar Bush Symposium Memex animation - Vannevar Bush's diagrams made real squeak smalltalk tutorial: downloading squeak 0.0.0.1.mov squeak smalltalk tutorial: installing squeak (on Mac) 0.0.0.2.mov Tech Revolution: Vannevar Bush This Style Changed Cinema... And It's Back Vannevar Bush White Rabbit: Interview with Doug Engelbart and Bill English, Moderated by John Markoff Why multi-passionate people need to approach mastery differently Open Books