I’m a cool little dude from the future (born 2203)
Anyone have recommendations on what I should read as a per-requisite to understanding Baudrillard’s Simulation & Simulacra book? It looks way too cromulent for me as someone who’s read very little philosophy.
I keep hearing about the book though and the concepts seem tantalizing to me, at least as read on Wikipedia. I’d love to engage with the actual text
But also like, when have Pro-Palestine protest movements in the US called for violence?
I would be amazed at this point if Peter Theil had not funded some stealth startup to make an anti-woke LLM (like Grok but more openly fascist) to start spamming the internet with reactionary rhetoric. I try to not default to blaming everything on bots, but it really is only a matter of time until this happens, and I feel like the influx of batshit takes I’m seeing online does not correspond to the change in rhetoric I’ve seen from libs I know IRL.
I have a few friends who have mentioned to me that they barely do any work at their job, especially remote workers. One of them says they literally only work 6 hours a week.
Is this common??
For the past like 3 years I’ve been at a very micro-managey company that incessantly tracks time, so I’ve been pulling a solid 40+ hours a week. Job security is good, but damn, if I could go work somewhere where I can slack off more, that time would be invaluable. I’d love to read more
Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing