mircea_popescu: i did not say orwell was ineffectuial. i said he was stupid.

mircea_popescu: down with the shackles of this evil british empire of the blips which nevertheless creates the sort of people i like, even if i'm not actuaslly good enough to do anything in support. let's build utopia.

mircea_popescu: incidentally, even though modern pigments and computers and what have you, we're not being deluged in fine art, as "you'd expect" (if you were say orwell or some other dumb schmuck with the If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him? I have always suspected that if our economic and political problems are e

mircea_popescu: i am persuaded.

mircea_popescu: no i know teh song lol.

mircea_popescu: or how shall i put this, there are two types of question justice answers.

mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 i dun think much of welles as a director.

mircea_popescu: i do not share this view.

mircea_popescu: For every auction sale, a catalogue is produced describing each painting to be sold. Every entry indicates the certainty with which Sotheby's is prepared to attribute it to a particular artist. The catalogue entry may describe a painting in the following ways: i) Simply putting the name of the artist, for example, ‘Giovanni Bellini,' means that, in Sotheby's opinion, the work is by Bellini. ii) Attributed to Giovanni

mircea_popescu: no i mean, the common, standard foodl. regarded as ideal by the village prisoners.

mircea_popescu: "no, i dont think they were townpeople [ie idiots] because when sitting to repast they took out mamaliga cu brinza like normal pewople]

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi why you think 'in savour or hue, no comrades have you' better than "in color or taste there's no comrades"

mircea_popescu: mneah. i dun like it, not my kinda woman.

mircea_popescu: i do not wish to consort with preteens ffs.

mircea_popescu: i dunno, what you like is what you like. to me she seems dumb.

mircea_popescu: but i don't mean copacetically like. i mean like like one's supposed to like art : un coup fumant. if she came off the toille you'd have no choice but to drop everything and marry her.

mircea_popescu: i don't remember any classical nude i like the face of.

mircea_popescu: besides, the modern copy can be fix. i much prefer my own rewrites of classical poems to the originals anwyay.

mircea_popescu would not feel particularly better for owning the "actual" copy of a painting he likes rather than a very good one. actually i'd feel like a total fool.

mircea_popescu: this is like, "it doesn't work if i come back home and there's TWO almost dressed blondies waiting for me"

mircea_popescu: i feel like a very old man.

mircea_popescu: oh i guess they were using it historicaly for the line above huh

mircea_popescu: i got one from yest, too :)

mircea_popescu: s just they don't amount to much traffic wise, even when piled together, which is how i've never noticed before.

mircea_popescu: either they stole someone's shit, in which case i want the original ; or else they made it up, in which case i dun want to hear it. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: meanwhile how did that quote go, i really liked that thing, with social biddings and shit

mircea_popescu: cuz i might want to be able to distinguish orwell from orlov

mircea_popescu: (and i maintain that in all context hybrid encryption is retarde dwithout exception. either fuck or get off the woman.)

mircea_popescu: i wasn't at any point contemplating "rsa encryption = rsa run once over the message herp"

mircea_popescu: i dunno dood. but once i figure it out i'll make the computer do what you mean.