https://boingboing.net/2020/12/15/the-quiet-horror-of-procedural-generation.html
文中提到的短篇科幻 Report on an Unidentified Space Station (http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/roauss.htm) 也值得一读。
文中提到的短篇科幻 Report on an Unidentified Space Station (http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/roauss.htm) 也值得一读。
Boing Boing
The quiet horror of procedural generation
The following is from my newsletter, The Magnet. There’s a free version and a subscriber version. I hope you’ll check it out! — Mark That feeling from being the only one in a buil…
https://howvideo.works/
> This is an informational site about video and how it works. We started by talking about Playback, next we added content about Delivery. Stay tuned for more about Processing and Capture.
> This is an informational site about video and how it works. We started by talking about Playback, next we added content about Delivery. Stay tuned for more about Processing and Capture.
> The Starlink satellites are clearly not responsible for the loss of the starry sky. That process has been underway for more than two centuries and has been the consequence of what are now much more mundane technologies that we hardly think of at all. But I began to think of the ambitions of the Starlink project as somehow amounting to a final twist of the knife. Perhaps this is a bit too dramatic a metaphor, but if we think that the loss of the star-filled night sky is a real and serious loss with significant if also difficult to quantify human consequences, then the final imposition of an artificial network of satellites where before the old celestial inheritance had been seems rather like being tossed cheap trinkets to compensate for the theft some precious treasure. One might also interpret the development in more symbolic terms, almost as a modern-day Tower of Babel, which is to say as a defiant and hubristic gesture of human self-sufficiency, a self-referential enclosure of the human experience, a literal immanent frame (to borrow a term from philosopher Charles Taylor).
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-did-we-lose-when-we-lost-the
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-did-we-lose-when-we-lost-the
The Convivial Society
What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?
Starlink is a point of departure to consider the costs of the unrelenting drive toward artificial illumination, a technological development most of us now take for granted.
这篇文章太精彩了，唯一的缺点是没看过 The Office 的人没法 100% 领会其中的一些内容。
https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/
https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/22/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social-class/
Alex Danco's Newsletter
The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: The higher you ascend the ladder of the Educated …