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This reminds me of a book I read recently, "Applied Elite Theory," by Neema Parvini. He makes the argument that culture is downstream from law, which is downstream from the interests of the ruling class.
Democracy: A Guided Tour is a good political philosophy 101 kind of book. Democracy is a tool, not a poem, and we can judge how well it's working from the standpoint of standards like stability, virtue, wisdom, liberty, and equality.
The table of contents itself is useful for developing a mental model.
1. Democracy: Why or Why Not?
2. For Stability: Stability through Shared Power
3. Against Stability: Passion and Polarization
4. For Virtue: Does Democracy Enlighten and Ennoble?
5. Against Virtue: Does Democracy Make Us Angry, Mean, and Dumb?
6. For Wisdom: Two Heads Are Smarter than One
7. Against Wisdom: Garbage In, Garbage Out
8. For Liberty: The Consent of the Governed?
9. Against Liberty: Democracy as the Many-Headed Master
10. For Equality: Democracy as the Public Expression of Equal Standing
11. Against Equality: Is Democratic Equality an Illusion?
In general, I found the "against" chapters more persuasive.
#books #bookstr
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Ordered To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism with @Whitepaper Books after requesting it and getting notified that it had been added. Excellent service, and paid in sats. Looking forward to making more purchases. #bookstr
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You might want to keep your distance then. 😅
I wasn't expecting the alien's rules to be so open-ended. I like the flexibility, but I could see others getting frustrated by how free-form it is.
If you've played Things in Rings, and had fun figuring out the placement rules, you might enjoy this. I'll need to play Signals more before I have anything else to say.
Shōbu (2019) feels like a game humans could have been playing for hundreds of years.
You win by pushing all your opponents stones off any one of the four gameboards.
The twist is that you get two moves on your turn, a passive move followed by an aggressive move.
The passive move is setup, no pushing allowed.
The aggressive move must involve a different stone, and must mirror how the passive stone moves. Pushing is permitted here.
#boardgames
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Yeah, it does a lot with a little. Good emergent storytelling.
Signal (2025) is a cooperative game for 2+ players, which thematically reminds me of the film Arrival (2016).
The humans supply the inputs (wooden pieces of different shapes and colors), then the alien moves them around according to certain hidden rules.
The humans and alien win if the goal output is created after the alien manipulates the inputs.
#boardgames 
boop. (2022) is a two-player abstract strategy game where you try to be the first to line up three cats in a row (or get all eight of your cats onto the bed).
But you start the game with only kittens, which then "graduate" into cats only after you have lined THEM up in a row of three.
The twist though is that placing a piece bounces any adjacent pieces one space away, so lining up three is trickier than it looks.
And yes, the box converts to a bed, and yes, your kittens can be "booped" off them.
#boardgames
I thought the first 10-15 minutes were very promising, before the change of location. Almost wish the entire film was set there.
Me too, you could tell S2 would have really expanded the scope. And yeah, me neither, but it sure had a chip on its shoulder. For some reason I think of it whenever I see a labubu toy out in the wild.
Scavengers Reign, if you don't mind animation and think the ecology in Annihilation (2018) was too tame. One season, short episodes. Crew gets stranded on alien planet and try to get off before becoming food for the, uh, flora and fauna. Unfortunately, ends on a cliffhanger, and I think it was canceled by HBO before Netflix picked it up, at least in the US.
The Innocents (2021) if you like, uh, Norwegian supernatural dark fantasy thriller horror.
I'll mull too and return with my thoughts once I see both.
My next watch. You like it more than Together?
#gm #nostr -- There are only a handful of hip-hop songs I consider perfect and this is one of them. The Pharcyde were criminally underrated in the 90s. Hell, I still don't think they get the recognition they deserve.
Side pivot, Delicious Vinyl was also a stacked label in the 90s. Also a little known fact is there is a Delicious Pizza and Record on Sunset in LA where they spin hip-hop while you grab a slice. Lots of cool hip-hop and DV memorabilia, album covers, and art.
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I forgot this song existed. Thank you.
1:07! About 2 if I'm packing.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0z1o5L7HJx562xZSATcIpY
This is genuinely my favourite tune of all time. I've seen Radiohead live, 8 times.
I was there at Glastonbury in 17'. They performed this on The Pyramid Stage, I actually🥹🥹🥹🥹. So moving🙏🏻.
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Pyramid Song is in my top five if I'm also watching the music video