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John Ohno

John Ohno

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Jun 27

I’m trying to stop drinking coffee

Almost 20 years ago, I was sitting in my university computer lab on my laptop, observing an argument on IRC. I had a markov chain bot — a…

John Ohno

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Feb 25

Rx: A Prescription for a New Hypertext

A new hypertext system should be based on permascrolls (private append-only logs of typed characters) and permadocs (public…

John Ohno

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Aug 15, 2024

Subliminal Messages

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…

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John Ohno

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May 16, 2024

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.

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

John Ohno

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Dec 1, 2023

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…

John Ohno

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Sep 19, 2022

Fandom’s two cultures (and third wheel)

An expansion and refinement of On Communities.

John Ohno

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Jun 18, 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…

John Ohno

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Apr 12, 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…

John Ohno

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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.

John Ohno

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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.

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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