Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • Not telling. But we know

    Not telling. But we know.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-23 01:04:14 UTC

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  • (c) Curtis emphasizes criticism and writes in continental (empathic, moral, lite

    …. (c) Curtis emphasizes criticism and writes in continental (empathic, moral, literary) prose or, lets say, ‘imprecise’ language. I write in anglo analytic prose (systematizing, law, analytic) or ‘precise’ language. And P is the largest work produce since the Marx.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-23 00:45:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1186805795725463558

    Reply addressees: @QuestionMThings

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    @QuestionMThings True. (a) we don’t think of programming as an invention over the logics, that bridges the gap between empiricism and logic(words) and math(measures). It is. (b) programming and database work are intolerant and teach you to think using these terms. ….

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    @curtdoolittle

    @QuestionMThings True. (a) we don’t think of programming as an invention over the logics, that bridges the gap between empiricism and logic(words) and math(measures). It is. (b) programming and database work are intolerant and teach you to think using these terms. ….

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1186804404994875393

  • photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_dJ9jhts2Ng/73094737_490578818205680_48253760002

    photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_dJ9jhts2Ng/73094737_490578818205680_4825376000206438400_o_490578811539014.jpg photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_dJ9jhts2Ng/73025639_490578928205669_1071447216247275520_n_490578921539003.jpg JEALOUS MUCH??? 😉

    (look what I got in the mail today!!!!)

    Ok, well the logo is WAAAY too big, it should look like the starbucks logo on the second photo. But I guess we are gonna get there soon!!!

    Sister unpacks it. Mother says immediately “Oooh!! I Want One!!!” Good thing they don’t read latin. 😉

    (PS: I have NOTHING to do with this stuff other than approving it. So congratulate the people behind it when they come out. I’m not saying who is doin’ what until they launch. )


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-22 18:03:00 UTC

  • Predmetsky Rosenborg thanks for coming back and fighting the good fight 😉

    Predmetsky Rosenborg

    thanks for coming back and fighting the good fight 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-22 12:41:00 UTC

  • “Curt, what happened to Eli??”— Banned in the purge. He’s occupied with person

    —“Curt, what happened to Eli??”—

    Banned in the purge. He’s occupied with personal stuff. We see him on twitter. But he’ll be back when he gets things settled.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-22 10:18:00 UTC

  • FORMULA FOR A FILM SCRIPT: PAGES By Gene Turnbow (Quora) As much as I wish it we

    FORMULA FOR A FILM SCRIPT: PAGES
    By Gene Turnbow (Quora)

    As much as I wish it weren’t so, there is still a formula for a film script.

    Your action had better start before page 10 or you’re… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=489929684937260&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-22 01:55:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1186461085798416386

  • FORMULA FOR A FILM SCRIPT: PAGES By Gene Turnbow (Quora) As much as I wish it we

    FORMULA FOR A FILM SCRIPT: PAGES

    By Gene Turnbow (Quora)

    As much as I wish it weren’t so, there is still a formula for a film script.

    Your action had better start before page 10 or you’re toast. This is about 10% of the way through your script, and it’s the opportunity for things to begin changing. The lead character begins the journey, something important happens that throws the future in doubt, and off they go.

    By about the 15% mark, the main character is settling into the groove of exploring the situation, either emotionally or physically.

    By the 25% mark, it starts to become clear that there is a specific situation that needs to be resolved, and the lead character needs to start applying themselves to the task in earnest.

    Your main character needs to have his or her epiphany around page 55 of a 110 page script. That’s the point of no return. Moving forward from here means there’s no going back. The lead character is now fully committed to whatever it is that must be done. The stakes become more clear, and the details of the complications unfold.

    At the 75% mark, there is a major setback. This sets the stage for the final conflict or battle, again, whether it’s physical or emotional. The final push for resolution begins.

    At the 90% mark, it’s time for the final conflict that the entire film is leading up to. Against all odds, the girl gets the boy; the boy gets the girl; the girl frees her city; the beleaguered improbable company lands its first big contract; the planet killer is destroyed.

    Then at the end, some kind of closure happens. We get to see that happily ever after as a payoff for sitting through all that, but it means something to us now because we understand what’s been at stake and how hard the character has had to fight to get there.

    Not every screenplay follows this formula, but pretty much all the successful ones do. If you’re trying to sell a screenplay, if you’re not following this, you’re going to have a very hard time.

    Don’t fool yourself into thinking that this formula doesn’t matter. The people who read scripts for production companies assess scripts by checking what happens at these percentage points in the script and can figure out if the script is worth reading in its entirety based on just that, in a matter of about three minutes. The slush piles are piled high with scripts that don’t meet this basic requirement.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-21 21:55:00 UTC

  • RT @MartianHoplite: @curtdoolittle “First, I think of a man. Then I remove reaso

    RT @MartianHoplite: @curtdoolittle “First, I think of a man. Then I remove reason and accountability.” – Jack Nicholson


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-21 21:14:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1186390402120728576

  • I THINK YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT PROPERTY AND COMMONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EACH —

    https://grist.org/…/how-food-forests-and-people-are…/UM. I THINK YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT PROPERTY AND COMMONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EACH

    —“Commons are for high-input, savage hunter-gatherers.

    Deconstruction of the commons via recognition of private property is the first step to civilisation.”— Jonathan Besler

    Um. Well, not quite the argument you’re making. European Hunter gatherers either did not produce fixed commons (hunting grounds, grazing grounds, farms) before they competed with settled peoples, only after they competed with herding peoples, or settled peoples. All people hae always produced normative institutional commons: Norms, traditions, myths, manners, customs, and even property respect itself are commons.

    The central problem for settled people has been the gradual conversion from familial property to individual property, that followed the increase in the division of labor, and the development of inheritance, and the devotion of surplus to the incremental production of commons (defense, granaries(ex:africa), buildings(south america), walls(mesopotamia), grazing lands(caucuses, steppe), farming lands(anatolia), walkways(britain), bridges(asia), water transport (mesopotamia) ).

    The excess productivity of the flood river valleys when irrigated made possible the conquest of, taxation of, and centralization of proceeds of production in administrative(clerical) and martial (military) classes, in exchange for suppression of local rent seeking, corruption, and exposure to brigandry.

    Europe was unable to centralize as such until the conquest of other peoples under agrarianism, and the expansion of mediterranean trade. Europe lacks the flood river valleys and warm climate and so production was distributed, power, distributed, and evolved only in parallel with trade.

    Even the english, the most corporate of european peoples still maintained intergenerational familial property (land, animals, house) until the early modern period.

    The jews maintained serial marriage until the late middle ages, and the irish until the 1800’s, and slavery, polygamy, and child marriage, and paternal ownership of property are still practiced in developing countries.

    The distribution of decidability upon the scope and interest in property evolves with the division of labor, just as it did with women in this century.

    The distribution of decidability in conflict over demonstrated interests determines property.

    As property increases in atomization, free riding of all kinds is incrementally eradicated. This pushes people into all four directions: decrease in consumption, increases in productivity, innovation in production, or innovation in parasitism.

    The population always seeks means of externalization of loss, privatization of commons, free riding, parasitism, and predation, so the law must keep pace with innovations in

    The individual is the most rapid means of adapting to constriction of consumption. The market for goods services and information is the most rapid means of adapting to the expansion of production. The market for suppression of free riding, parasitism and predation is the most rapid means of adapting to the expansion of parasitism.

    The common law is the most rapid means of suppressing innovations in the parasitism by the immediate expansion of the suppression of innovations in parasitism, by the first case adjudicated. It requires no further institutional support other than communication between judges.

    The principle difference P-adds is that ALL demonstrated interests of all kinds and require strict construction of judgements (findings), contracts (agreements), regulations (insurance against non-resitutability), legislation (contracts of the commons) and command (military dictate in cases of duress). And it prevents ir-reciprocal and untruthful (untestimonial) speech in matter of the commons to the commons.

    This means sovereignty, rule of law of reciprocity, and truthful speech, and no more marxism, socialism, libertarianism, feminism, postmodernism, denialism, as well as no more judaism and islam or any other religion contrary to the natural law of reciprocity and testimonial truth.

    CheersUpdated Oct 21, 2019, 8:54 PM


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-21 20:54:00 UTC

  • DEFENSE AGAINST AD HOMS (ART) 0) I started writing fiction in first grade. I rea

    DEFENSE AGAINST AD HOMS (ART)

    0) I started writing fiction in first grade. I read … a lot. I never went anywhere without books (plural).

    1) I wrote my first 100+ page book at 13. (it was… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=489710488292513&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-21 19:10:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1186359077263331328