John OhnoSubliminal MessagesBased 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 15Aug 15
John OhnoinModern MythologyThe Phantom is Structured Like a Language: the symbolic economy of high strangenessThe following is the transcript of a lecture given by the late Dr Fyodor Kuroki at Yomiyama Polytechnic in March of 2012.May 16May 16
John OhnoAs 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, 2023Dec 1, 2023
John OhnoFandom’s two cultures (and third wheel)An expansion and refinement of On Communities.Sep 19, 2022Sep 19, 2022
John OhnoMedia indoctrination and the patriarchyThere’s a narrative (primarily in second-wave feminist discourse, but still extant) that the media indoctrinates men into a kind of violent…Jun 18, 20221Jun 18, 20221
John OhnoThere’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, 2022Apr 12, 2022
John OhnoWhenever 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, 2022Apr 12, 2022
John OhnoPeople 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, 2022Apr 12, 2022
John OhnoWhen it comes to privacy, regulation is not enoughOpsec 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, 2022Feb 16, 2022
John OhnoProperty is incompatible with decentralizationA lot of NFT discourse involves people who understand neither intellectual property nor regular property arguing about whether or not it’s…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022