Wolf Tivy

@wolftivy

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Berkeley, California
Joined June 2018

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  1. 11 hours ago

    The parade dress uniform of the Reformed Unified Intelligence Service shall include a tinfoil baret.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    The job of an intelligence agency is to make conspiracy theories for the state. This is a critical capacity and a serious base of power. Don't let anyone tell you conspiracy theorizing is never appropriate.

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  3. Feb 1

    Are nonviolent communication, and its opposite, command language, not merely context-defined tools, but context defining? Do they have an activist effect on culture, creating more liberal or illiberal modes of thought and social organization?

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  4. Feb 1

    Sometimes inappropriate, but what if we just start using command language more, and force the issue? Are we then forced to redevelop and explicate our contextual authority structures? Does a society that uses lots of imperative language necessarily develop chain of command?

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  5. Feb 1

    IMO we underuse the imperative, and shoehorn things into declarative that we really mean to be imperative. "It is preferred that employees attend this seminar". Disgusting. We pretend to be free agents, but a society of such is a contradiction, so we invent passive aggression.

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  6. Jan 31

    Many things can be phrased either way. You can make a declarative appeal to ethical principles or certain truths, or an imperative appeal to your own contextual authority. Which feels more natural says a lot about our political culture.

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  7. Jan 31

    There is much political ontology baked into linguistic matters like imperative vs declarative phrasings. "I would prefer you do X" vs "Please do X". The former implies a world of free agents, trading information. The latter implies a social structure of command and obey.

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  8. Jan 31

    They're just questions, Leon.

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  9. Jan 31

    To be constructive, a better way to state it would be to note that it is an interesting alternate perspective, to view the motion of the solar system from the reference frame of the galaxy.

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  10. Jan 31

    >implying one inertial reference frame is any more "accurate" than another

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  11. Jan 29

    Power exists. How shall we use it?

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  12. Jan 28

    Manuel de Landa's abstract machines of nonlinear history: * Autocatalytic productive meshworks (market flows, metabolism, ecosystems) * Anticompetitive control hierarchies (states, monopolies, organisms) * Adaptive replicators (genes, cultures, technologies)

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 27

    The task of the 2020s, to make up for the atomized 2010s, is to engineer tangible, embodied communities in such a way that takes the full weight and spread of the simulacrum’s pull into account.

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  14. Jan 25

    I've noticed some people have much more moral confidence than others. This seems closely related to who is the ruling class. Today I explored this idea a bit:

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  15. Jan 25

    Self driving cars are a cope for being too incompetent to build trains, which have been automated for decades.

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  16. Jan 24

    Heaven sends disasters to punish bad regimes, and prove good ones. This Chinese virus situation is one such test, and they certainly know it. Either way, it will be a clear sign of whether they have the Mandate.

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    Jan 24
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  18. Jan 23

    Inspired by I did some thinking about writing as a daily practice. Here's the result:

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 23

    ”So, where do you see yourself in a billion years?”

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  20. Jan 23

    Love God, love your neighbour, say the great teachers. Surely the path of righteousness is loving adherence to the fullness of God's will in achieving virtue and growth, and putting aside our negativity to work together on the great Project. Let's conquer the Universe together.

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