Category: Vlog

Fractal Briefs | Patreon and The New York Times

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In an interview with The New York Times, Patreon’s Jack Conte and Jacqueline Hart addressed the fallout from their removal of political commentator Sargon of Akkad.

A fallout that took with it the likes of Sam Harris and a sizeable chunk of patrons. A fallout that affected not only political types but the average Patreon creator.

Patrons often support more than one creator. So if an unsavory move like the removal of Karl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) prompts patrons to exit there is a ripple effect that damages the livelihoods of many creators.

In this Fractal Brief I give a rundown of my impression of the fairness of the ban and why the issues surrounding Patreon are incredibly important.

 

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Fractal Briefs | Silicon Valley is not Intellectual

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Topics

– Technicians are not intellectuals
– Technocrats are not elite (using prebuilt tools isn’t special)
– Using technology to enforce worldviews is douchy
– What is an intellectual
– How credentialism and materialism rot brains and cultures
– You need to repeat good concepts (The Great Conversation)
– Etc.

Note: Was looking for royalty free music but then remembered ‘O yea I play guitar.’ It’s a good feeling. Whether it’s painting, music, photography expanding your range of expression will always make you more independent.

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Fractal Radio | Episode 31 – Patreon bans Gimli and a bit of a ramble besides

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Topics

– Patreon bans Sargon of Akkad
– Loss of patrons ripples outward to unpolitical creators
– Simple pleasures
– The importance of prioritizing spending
– Why creators shouldn’t be ashamed of trying to monetize their work
– Accreditation vs. Education and Creative Confidence
– Publishing paradigms

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Fractal Briefs| Losing DeWitts

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And after having mangled, and torn, and completely stripped the two brothers, the mob dragged their naked and bloody bodies to an extemporised gibbet, where amateur executioners hung them up by the feet.

Then came the most dastardly scoundrels of all, who not having dared to strike the living flesh, cut the dead in pieces, and then went about the town selling small slices of the bodies of John and Cornelius at ten sous a piece.

-Dumas

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Fractal Radio | Episode 30 – Dusty Pens and Blank Pages

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Don’t rely on technology to overcome your laziness. A nicer pen and notebook will gather dust just the same as your BIC and that yellow legal pad. These are the things I discuss along with the frustration of coincidences involving hats.

Dank Classics – http://www.freemusicpublicdomain.com/royalty-free-classical-music/

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Fractal Briefs – Does wisdom come with age?

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An homage to Styx’s shirtless shenanigans. Basically just a wee social commentary on demographic silliness. Case in point: every generation is shit.

+Styx’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05WMnxnoYI

+Sargon’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwC0gQ1GX8

+Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/06/give-six-year-olds-the-vote-says-cambridge-university-academic

+ Dank Beats : https://archive.org/details/DanielIvanFreeRoyaltyMusic

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Fractal Radio | Episode 28 – Social Media and ‘Hardly Explicable Human Conduct’

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A bit of a opinion stirred by Bryan Lunduke’s recent decision to quit all social media. I discuss the need for a refractory period to process each other’s opinions, insights,  and quirks.

Then the vlog veers in the direction of Roscoe Pounds ‘The Philosophy of Law’ and I make a brief case for why we should understand the underpinnings of law.

Finally, I explain why I haven’t uploaded as much substantive stuff.  Again.

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