03 DEC 2025 by ideonexus
The System of Oppression is Still in Place at the End of ...
o, directly opposing Rebekah Simpkins’ assertion that “By removing the control, Neo sets the prisoners free,” the first film ends with those controls still in place.45 At the end of The Matrix, after all, Neo does not awaken everyone to “the real,” but instead exploits the continued functioning of the Matrix, leaving the illusion intact so that he can fly. As Žižek writes, “all these ‘miracles’ are possible only if we remain WITHIN the VR sustained by the Matrix …: our ‘...Folksonomies: science fiction critical theory
Folksonomies: science fiction critical theory
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notesThe Matrix makes many, very clear references to Black oppression. All of the antagonists are white men wearing business suits. Morphius tells one, "You all look the same to me." Later, Morphius is bound and gagged in a historically-evocative fashion.
At the same time, Neo is a white savior. In the end of each film, the oppressors remain in power. The Matrix is never dissolved and its victims remain trapped. The system of oppression remains in place.
01 DEC 2025 by ideonexus
People Attack Increased Options Because They Feel Like Th...
The key to understanding the world today is in this comic right here.
this Boomer comic has been making the rounds on Facebook for at least a decade,
and it portrays a brave, older Marine in a coffee shop where the barista says,
“can I interest you in a soy latte?”
he says, no.
“just coffee, black.”
“caramel Macchiato?”
“just coffee,
black.”
“iced peppermint mocha?”
“just coffee, black”
“frappe?”
now, the first thing you'll notice is that this scenario has never oc... 1 notes
notes29 NOV 2025 by ideonexus
Socrates' Criticism of the Written Word Echoes Those Agai...
En la época de Sócrates, los textos escritos aún no eran una herramienta habitual y todavía despertaban recelos. Los consideraban un sucedáneo de la palabra oral — liviana, alada, sagrada—. Aunque la Atenas del siglo V a. C. ya contaba con un incipiente comercio de libros, no sería hasta un siglo después, en tiempos de Aristóteles, cuando se llegase a contemplar sin extrañeza el hábito de leer. Para Sócrates, los libros eran ayudas de la memoria y el conocimiento, pero pensaba ... 1 notes
notesIs it better to know things or to know where knowledge is kept and may be retrieved? You can't remember and recall every fact in every book in a library, but you can know what book has the facts you are looking for. Search engines can know where the facts are, so using them makes us twice removed from the fact itself. AI regurgitates facts, potentially removing the source completely… but so does a person telling you the fact.
29 NOV 2025 by ideonexus
Riddles Present New Ways of Looking at Things
The riddle can accomplish certain things by inviting the riddlee to awaken to a new vision of the world. It is not a form well suited to all sorts of discourse, however. According to Cohen (1996),
It is clear that the riddle is not the best way of communicating about unknown things. If we want to learn from another person about something that he knows and we do not, a genuine question would serve us better than any riddle. On the other hand, if we want to communicate our experiences and our...Folksonomies: riddles
Folksonomies: riddles
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notes29 NOV 2025 by ideonexus
Interactive Fiction, Like Riddles, Lack Replay Value
Infocom's interactive fiction, like most interactive fiction, is generally held by players to not have replay value in the usual sense, much as one cannot simply "replay" a riddle to which one knows the answer (although one can pose it to another, think about it again once the answer has been forgotten, or appreciate it in new ways with knowledge of the solution). Critics have noted that "once this kind of finite interactive fiction has been mastered, it generally ceases to hold the reader's ... 1 notes
notes20 NOV 2025 by ideonexus
Arabian Quote About Wisdom
“He who knows not,
and knows not that he knows not,
is a fool; shun him.
He who knows not,
and knows that he knows not,
is a student; Teach him.
He who knows,
and knows not that he knows,
is asleep; Wake him.
He who knows,
and knows that he knows not,
is Wise; Follow him.”
― ArabianFolksonomies: wisdom
Folksonomies: wisdom
04 NOV 2025 by ideonexus
Interactive Fiction has "Potential Narrative"
A work of IF is not itself a narrative; it is an interactive computer program. A narrative is “the representation of real or fictive events and situations in a time sequence” (Prince 1980, 180); this can result from an interactive session but does not describe any IF work itself. Similarly, interactive fiction is not a story in the sense of the things that happen in a narrative, or more precisely, “the content plane of narrative as opposed to its expression or discourse; the ‘what’ ...Folksonomies: interactive fiction gamebooks
Folksonomies: interactive fiction gamebooks
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notes25 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
Crosswords Make Use of Trivial Information
It may be of some interest to note, in this connection, that the crossword puzzle became a popular form of diversion in America at just that point when the telegraph and the photograph had achieved the transformation of news from functional information to decontextualized fact. This coincidence suggests that the new technologies had turned the age-old problem of information on its head: Where people once sought information to manage the real contexts of their lives, now they had to invent con... 1 notes
notes25 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
Intelligence in Oral and Print Societies
In a purely oral culture, intelligence is often associated with aphoristic ingenuity, that is, the power to invent compact sayings of wide applicability. The wise Solomon, we are told in First Kings, knew three thousand proverbs. In a print culture, people with such a talent are thought to be quaint at best, more likely pompous bores. In a purely oral culture, a high value is always placed on the power to memorize, for where there are no written words, ,the human mind must function as a mobil... 1 notes
notes23 SEP 2025 by ideonexus
Vivek Ramaswamy Claims American Culture has Venerates Med...
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer... 1 notes
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