Category: Valley Hi

the flat spot of progress

at meta, you are the key

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nothing but a keyboard .. The world became my secretary 

lower value human capital ripe for the plucking

six months worth of keystroking and you’re dead 

converting humans to capital for over a decade .

meta-one giant keylogger hack 

“he who competes with the machine, becomes the machine” Vonnegut

“And what does the money machine eat to shit it out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.” -William S. Burroughs

1979, IBM employee manuals reflected concerns over human control, telling engineers, “a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

unwritten footnote

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Why do we want the solution to have come and gone .why do we think the past is better ,was better .. The ancients must’ve been right. but, aren’t they what preceded us .didn’t they set this top spinning

we are their sum, their scree.

Scree: Loose rock fragments or debris that cover a steep mountain slope. 
• Talus: Similar to scree, often referring specifically to the pile of rock fragments that accumulates at the base of a steep cliff or slope. 
• Colluvium: Rock fragments and soil that have accumulated at the base of a slope, often deposited by downhill creep or rainwash.