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John Ohno

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Based on my (non-expert, and many years ago) survey of the literature + updates from the replication crisis. I’m a software engineer with a…

Aug 15

Aug 15

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The Phantom is Structured Like a Language: the symbolic economy of high strangeness

The following is the transcript of a lecture given by the late Dr Fyodor Kuroki at Yomiyama Polytechnic in March of 2012.

May 16

The Phantom is Structured Like a Language: the symbolic economy of high strangeness

May 16

As a magick practitioner the whole “magic is science we don’t understand” thing frustrates me.

It’s not totally wrong: magick is full of proto-science. But you can also practice magick without acknowledging any forces not accepted in…

Dec 1, 2023

Dec 1, 2023

Fandom’s two cultures (and third wheel)

An expansion and refinement of On Communities.

Sep 19, 2022

Sep 19, 2022

Media indoctrination and the patriarchy

There’s a narrative (primarily in second-wave feminist discourse, but still extant) that the media indoctrinates men into a kind of violent…

Jun 18, 2022

Jun 18, 2022

There’s this idea that every major shift in media technology produces political instability, and…

The most obvious ramification is actually related to how centralized meaning-making ends up being — something that has to do deeply with…

Apr 12, 2022

Apr 12, 2022

Whenever I complain about dating, there’s a certain kind of guy who sees it, fails to process what…

And they all feel entitled to flood my notifications with it, too. Fucking jerks.

Apr 12, 2022

Apr 12, 2022

People who think Torvalds won the Tanenbaum/Torvalds debate & therefore monolithic kernels are…

Worse-is-better is one of the most damaging infohazards in tech.

Apr 12, 2022

Apr 12, 2022

When it comes to privacy, regulation is not enough

Opsec is hard. When making opsec decisions, you must decide whether it is safe for you to let some second party know something about you —…

Feb 16, 2022

Feb 16, 2022

Property is incompatible with decentralization

A lot of NFT discourse involves people who understand neither intellectual property nor regular property arguing about whether or not it’s…

Jan 31, 2022

Jan 31, 2022

John Ohno

John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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