#technological society

[ryansholin]

Jamuary 17: Technological Society

A real bassline! A drum track that includes some variation! More mixing, compression, and EQ! A sample, processed! More of the same horns! And naturally, as a result, a simple public domain found footage bit to clumsily illustrate what Jacques Ellul is saying.

These little daily exercises are proving quite useful to learn and practice new things, when I put in a small amount of effort.

[nikolasongsa]

[nando161mando]

'Uh, We Seem To Be Experimenting Some Technological Differences."

[samwaverley]

Building Connections and Resilience Through Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with Jason Sherman

How does a social media influencer with over 10 million followers handle hundreds of thousands of DMs? CEO and co-founder of groundbreaking platforms, Jason Sherman, has the answer.

“Diversity and inclusion are not just values we advocate for; they are principles we actively practice.”– Jason Sherman This powerful statement from Jason Sherman is the driving philosophy behind his innovative ventures, Spinnr and Vengo AI. The CEO and co-founder of these groundbreaking platforms, Jason has dedicated his career to fostering genuine human connections and building resilient…

[sallymajors]

Building Connections and Resilience Through Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with Jason Sherman

How does a social media influencer with over 10 million followers handle hundreds of thousands of DMs? CEO and co-founder of groundbreaking platforms, Jason Sherman, has the answer.

“Diversity and inclusion are not just values we advocate for; they are principles we actively practice.”– Jason Sherman This powerful statement from Jason Sherman is the driving philosophy behind his innovative ventures, Spinnr and Vengo AI. The CEO and co-founder of these groundbreaking platforms, Jason has dedicated his career to fostering genuine human connections and building resilient…

[rachellepryce]

Building Connections and Resilience Through Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with Jason Sherman

How does a social media influencer with over 10 million followers handle hundreds of thousands of DMs? CEO and co-founder of groundbreaking platforms, Jason Sherman, has the answer.

“Diversity and inclusion are not just values we advocate for; they are principles we actively practice.”– Jason Sherman This powerful statement from Jason Sherman is the driving philosophy behind his innovative ventures, Spinnr and Vengo AI. The CEO and co-founder of these groundbreaking platforms, Jason has dedicated his career to fostering genuine human connections and building resilient…

[twbmagazine]

Building Connections and Resilience Through Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with Jason Sherman

How does a social media influencer with over 10 million followers handle hundreds of thousands of DMs? CEO and co-founder of groundbreaking platforms, Jason Sherman, has the answer.

“Diversity and inclusion are not just values we advocate for; they are principles we actively practice.”– Jason Sherman This powerful statement from Jason Sherman is the driving philosophy behind his innovative ventures, Spinnr and Vengo AI. The CEO and co-founder of these groundbreaking platforms, Jason has dedicated his career to fostering genuine human connections and building resilient…

[world-v-you-blog]

The Betrayal of the West

Am I therefore to become a masochist and reject everything western, deny all the values of our world? No! I take a middle ground: I admit the accusations in their full extent, but I do not accept the rejection of the West in its entirety. I accept responsibility for the evil that has been done, but I deny that only evil has been done. I know our civilization is built on bloodshed and robbery, but…

[stormypngz]

✦ transparent phones!

i love phones i'm foaming at the mouth rggghhh

[disk28]

[explore-blog]

In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story.

[endcraft]

i like etho as a mcyt figure because he is like if a computer engineer could be a caveman. like imagine if the guy who invented the watch and the guy who invented the wheel were the same guy. imagine if you were talking to him and he was like oh yeah i also invented the hand axe. and google

[joyboythehopepunk]

therapy isnt enough i need capitalism to end

[beekeeperspicnic]

I've got this colleague at my day job who keeps saying infuriating things, but they are so funny in the context of the fact that evenings and weekends I'm making a Sherlock Holmes computer game.

Me: Oh yeah I'm learning Javascript at the moment. Him: Pff you don't want to do that. You're an artist and graphic designer, that's where your strengths are, I think you'll find computer programming really boring, it's not for everyone. Me: *looks at fourth wall and shrugs*

Me: I read this really interesting paper about a project working with dementia patients, where they guide them through making a memory map of familiar places. Him: Ooh, like Sherlock Holmes and his mind palace. Him: See, Sherlock Holmes has a mind palace. Him: But I'm sure you don't read those sorts of books, you wouldn't be interested. Me: *Sitting on a zoom call, with my collection of Strand magazines and signed picture of William Gillette very visible behind me. Opens mouth. Decides I don't have the energy. Closes mouth.*

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.

[mollysunder]

Some people have long essays for why Viktor will s2's main antagonist. Meanwhile I think Viktor will be a main antagonistic because he's got some of the worst traits of a tech bro. Iykyk.