emacsgifs
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Comment · 8 years ago
It first appeared in 1986. Perhaps you are thinking of ML
Comment · 8 years ago
Are you missing a /s?
Comment · 8 years ago
Unless you're not in a marijuana friendly jurisdiction
Comment · 8 years ago
It won't prevent corruption. It will alter the logistics of corruption though.
Comment · 8 years ago
You mean evil-mode?
/s
Comment · 8 years ago
> do you know how many bona fide members of the counterculture themselves exploited and back-stabbed others, especially for petty power politics and fame/recognition?
I do, and fair point.
> It's some particular Americanism (or protestantism relic?) to believe agents of change, national heroes, great historic figures etc, must also be good, altruistic and warm people
I don't think it's a Protestant relic, it's more of a general simplistic perspective that there are through and through good people.
But still I agree it's unrealistic to think this way.
Comment · 8 years ago
When you indent the text by two spaces it renders as a pre block.
On mobile this will mean only about 35 columns are visible at once.
Comment · 8 years ago
> I have no trouble believing that Jobs (and the vast majority at Apple) used the image of counterculture in good faith, even while they changed it into a sort of hollowed-out version streamlined for capitalism.
This is exactly as I understand it too... Except this being a fairly good example of what counterculture circles generally call, a complete sell out.
It's complicated of course, how else does one stay relevant long term without also being extremely wealthy / i.e. the ability to broadcast a message to many many nodes? Put another way. Money talks.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is one of the more insightful and interesting reads posted on HN.
I took issue with the statement that Apple have always cynically coopted counterculture and utopian motifs. Then I thought about it for a second.
Getting people pumped up about Apple using utopian imagery and counterculture suggestions was always cynical. It just happened to work very effectively on me in the 80s, and may very well have fuelled a lot of my early life's optimism. In particular my faith that certain tech/companies were inherently good. I was certainly a big fan of Apple for many years.
If that naivety hadn't already faded significantly, this may have been a more severe reaction, than ... Hey wait!? ... Oh right!
Obviously Steve had already exploited and cheated Woz on a number of occasions before the formative Mac 1984 Ads (which made a deep impression on me at the time.) So it's not that much of a reach to say they are somewhat cynical.
Jobs is a very interesting person, specifically because I think he bought a lot of his own bullshit. Possibly his LSD experience was something which led to deep understanding of humans and interpersonal politics, which may have led to him developing his reality distortions field... Who knows. He may also have developed the classic [1]Acid Jesus Messianic complex and as a result we have the enigma we are left with in the public memory of Jobs. Millions who believe he was an agent of change and a tech god. While many many, who look deeper at the man think he's quite the piece of (edit for politeness) work.
Speculation on this is ultimately pointless... but it's something I muse about myself.
Comment · 8 years ago
Burn down the Disco.
Morrissey is such a magnificent and malignant buzz kill.
Comment · 8 years ago
God King Emperor of Eternity?
I can see an egomaniac going for that.