Supposedly salvageable capitalism of late capitalism. // Robert Reich discusses 'Saving Capitalism,' the Netflix documentary based on his book about how the Washington-Wall Street alliance isn't serving the public and why citizen activism gives him hope.

economy, humans of late capitalism

The web didn't spring out of nothing. People had been considering & building hypertext type systems since the 40's. Dr Tim Brailsford explains.

Computerphile, computer nostalgia

Allen Ginsberg sings “Father Death Blues”, and relates two anecdotes on death involving his guru Trungpa Rinpoche. From the documentary “A Poet on the Lower ...

Allen Ginsberg, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, poetry

Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep Meeeeeeeeeep Meep-Meep (c) 2009

Muppets, humor

If you were redesigning English, and you could make it do anything that any other language in the world does, what would you change? In the video below, YouTuber Tom Scott talks about four fantastic features in other languages that he wishes were found in English.

language, English

Synchromysticism. // Apophenia, synchromysticism... the biggest element in a argumentative sale like this is repetition. You don't buy the first time they make the argument, but when they build over it, they repeat everything again -- when you re-watch the same images and “logic” again and again it is not the fact that you doubted it the first time that you mind fixes upon, but the fact that you remember it. You transform the working memory of an argument into rhetoric for it, the second time you know you already doubted it, then everything is “fair game” from then on... only that it isn't. That's how conspiracy theory works: infomercial repetition rhetoric + apophenia. // (Of course, this is an self-conscious ironic example. I recognize the artists behind this production are way smarter than simple charlatans or naive x-file style believers.)

conspiracy theory

Part one of a two-part excerpt on Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing on his sense of religious belief. Taken from the 1984 BBC documentary, Sea of Faith.

Wittgenstein, philosophy

Hatajuku (Hakone), Mr Yamada Shiroyuki, yosegi craftman (wooden mosaic).

One of my favorite YouTube channels.

Nuclear reactor footage courtesy Canada Science and Technology Museum. Spent fuel pool courtesy IAEA Imagebank

nuclear nostalgia

First time I watched Stalker was on VHS (a double tape feature) in a 14 tube TV. So I guess it was a bit blurry.

Stalker