If they make Italian cuisine a World Heritage Site before they declare video games to be a World Heritage Site I’m gonna be so pissed
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14·17 days agoI think it’s actually cool and good to judge historical figures through a modern moral lens, and we should do this more often
i love downloading textbooks for free and i can’t stop doing it. i’m scared libgen will be gone one day so i’ve compulsively saved ~4000 textbooks lol. gonna go do some more
35·24 days agoHexbear is a little weird/embarrassing
4·26 days agoAnyone have recommendations on what I should read as a per-requisite to understanding Baudrillard’s Simulation & Simulacra book? It looks way too cromulent for me as someone who’s read very little philosophy.
I keep hearing about the book though and the concepts seem tantalizing to me, at least as read on Wikipedia. I’d love to engage with the actual text
I would be amazed at this point if Peter Theil had not funded some stealth startup to make an anti-woke LLM (like Grok but more openly fascist) to start spamming the internet with reactionary rhetoric. I try to not default to blaming everything on bots, but it really is only a matter of time until this happens, and I feel like the influx of batshit takes I’m seeing online does not correspond to the change in rhetoric I’ve seen from libs I know IRL.
I have a few friends who have mentioned to me that they barely do any work at their job, especially remote workers. One of them says they literally only work 6 hours a week.
Is this common??
For the past like 3 years I’ve been at a very micro-managey company that incessantly tracks time, so I’ve been pulling a solid 40+ hours a week. Job security is good, but damn, if I could go work somewhere where I can slack off more, that time would be invaluable. I’d love to read more
My employer offers contributions to a retirement plan and there’s like 20 different options for funds that you can put money into, only one of which is a fossil-fuel-free fund. But looking closer at that fund, it’s basically only investing in tech, insurance, and weapons companies.
I just,