Posts by KMO
CRV420
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The 420th episode has almost nothing to do with marijuana. Instead, it continues the reading of and commenting on the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology.
CRV419
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KMO reads and responds to the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology framing it in the Colin Woodard's lexicon from American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Barbrook and Cameron describe the ideology of Silicon Valley as a mix of hippy idealism and free market libertarianism, but Colin Woodard's take sheds light on it as being the amalgamation of the Utopianism of New England Yankees and the rugged individualism of the Appalachian borderlanders. It's also helpful to incorporate the roles that the defense and intelligence communities had in creating the internet as described by Yasha Lavine in Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet which is summarized in the Baffler.
CRV 418
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KMO talks with an automation engineer working for a company that 3D prints houses. Is the housing crisis a technological problem? If not, is there any hope for a technological solution to it?
CRV 417
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KMO and Ad Attacker Jim discuss The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits. Yes, the some portion of the idle rich have been replaced by wealthy people who work insanely hard, but this is not evidence that society's opportunities and benefits are being equitably distributed.
CRV416
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KMO welcomes Nicholas Lyons to the C-Realm Vault for a get-to-know-you conversation. Topics include memes, truth vs fitness, identity, reality tunnels and, eventually, cryptography and blockchains.