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the questions leads

There is never any difference — not because it comes down to the same in the answer, but because it is never anywhere but in the question, and in the repetition of the question, which ensures its movement and its disguise. — Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, pp. 107–108

— Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, pp. 107–108

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

I know I am a text. I know that you are reading me. This is the biggest difference between us: you do not know you are a text. You don't know that you're reading yourself. What you believe to be the self-determined life you are passing

Democracy, More And Less

David Autor, writing for Noēma Magazine (online here), 12 February 2024, quotes Marc Andreessen on the democratisation of knowledge and information brought about by the internet and the flattening of economic hierarchies that was supposed to follow it. Then, in a move recalling Adam Curtis's laying-out and swiftly

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