You’ve heard of predictable accidents Maybe also Perrow normal accidents: 2 predictable events combining in an unpredictable disaster in a single complex system, like a nuclear plant Now I give you: Curtis-Perrow hypernormal accidents. Systems of systems in a failure cascade.https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1296235522927529985 …
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Here’s the ELI5 on normal accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents …pic.twitter.com/LjuI1uj8LB
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Hypernormalization = Adam Curtis documentary title, borrowed from theorist of Soviet collapse Alexey Yurchak. The documentary was meh, but core idea is good. TINA syndrome (There Is No Alternative) coupled with a mighty effort to maintain normalcy that is so surreal, it’s weirdpic.twitter.com/Svvb254193
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Shameless shill: I’ve been developing my own paywalled theory of it. The paywall is ironic and also my own contribution to hypernormalcy
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Top 5 hypernormal accidents unfolding 1. Covid 2. Stock market 3. China (yes, the whole country) 4. Trump 5. Return of Biden (I like him and will vote for him, but him winning nomination is definitely a hypernormal accident... in an aggravate-and-delay-the-inevitable way)
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The op forest fires don’t even make the top 10 worldwide currently I’m afraid
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This has been your regularly scheduled reality commercial break. Now back to fiddling with telescopes and astrophotography while the world burns.
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Shelley Wright @ikashellI'm tremendously heartbroken watching the fires encroach onto Lick Observatory. Fires are pushing closer to the telescope domes. Lick is the first mountain top observatory in the world (1888). It's truly a wonder of the world and national treasure.(Personnel are thankfully safe) pic.twitter.com/cfuej3tYKqShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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