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This is Letterboxd’s top review of Jiro Dreams of Sushi:

“As a culture, we don’t put a lot of stock in the pursuit of mastery. Sure, we’ll cheer for Michael Jordan and clap for Yo Yo Ma, but if we can find some way to destroy you (Tiger Woods, anyone?) we will. It seems, eventually, that the pursuit of mastery is some sort of threat on our tendencies toward the mediocre. This is where we find ourselves.

Enter Jiro. Jiro is the best sushi maker in the world. Really. He has no other passions, no other drives. He is 100% devoted to the pursuit of mastery in his field. It’s something you don’t see every day and, more importantly, something to aspire to.

This movie isn’t about how the world should be. Jiro isn’t pursuing a perfect world. He is only after mastery of his craft. And by being that, and only that, he makes the world better. It’s this level of devotion that put a man on the moon, invented airplanes and cured polio. In fact, Jiro is what stands between us and plain primate experiences of the world. Not Jiro personally, but what he represents.

We should, as a people, care about mastery. We should care about being good at the things we do. We need more Jiro and less Snookie.”

Spot. Fucking. On.

I love Letterboxd because, unlike most social networks, it encourages dedication from its users and rewards it. 

It’s great when things on the Internet are NOT about immediacy.

“Welcome to the Internet. Now that you have seen some of our history from 5 years ago, please refrain yourself from posting anymore of the old stuff. Thank you and have a good day.”

Flawless response to the posting of old shit by skyline385 on Reddit.

The Pirate Bay goes physible»

“We’re always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it’s time for the next step.

Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don’t talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we’re physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We’ll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one.

We believe that the future of sharing is about physible data. We’re thinking of temporarily renaming ourselves to The Product Bay - but we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. In the future, we’ll download one.”

The Arpanet Dialogues»

ARPANET Test 1975 
with Marcel Broodthaers, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan & Edward Said

The following transcript presents an excerpt of a conversation between Governor Ronald Reagan of California, artist Marcel Broodthaers, cultural anthropologist Edward Said, and actress Jane Fonda. The session was moderated by Maeve O’Reilly. Please note that the respective computer terminals for each participant were identified by the names of gods from Roman mythology and have here been changed to reflect the actual names of the participants. The application, still in its early stage of development, had limited syntax capability, thus punctuation was limited to the full stop. Also, the original timestamps for each transmission have been removed for the sake of legibility.

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MARCEL BROODTHAERS
Hello.

EDWARD SAID
Hello this really works.

RONALD REAGAN
Hello this is Gov. Ronald Reagan of California.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS
Yes amazing.

RONALD REAGAN
Neat stuff.

Continue reading.

Hace unos días subí esto a Reddit...»

Tras 158 “thumbs up” y 46 comentarios, el más votado dice así:

I think such an operation already exists on reddit, digg, and all the major social media websites. Their disclaimer that they don’t apply this technology in the U.S. is nothing but a flimsy cover-up.

More than half the commenters on /r/conspiracy show signs of astroturfing. Common tells:

  • Short, one-word responses
  • Ostracizing/ridiculing language
  • For the longer responses, an appearance of dumbness, an excuse for avoiding difficult questions
  • Letting the opponent exhaust himself with earnest responses, then post a short, psychologically frustrating response that doesn’t address any serious discussion

If you have a criminal mind like I do, this is all common sense: if I were to do this, how would I do it? Exactly like this.

Y no puedo estar más de acuerdo. Las reglas del trolleo son universales y conocidas, y su poder considerable. Para usarlo como arma sólo hay que apuntarlo en la dirección adecuada.