https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/

#statistics #socialScience #socialScience research

Linton, Oliver & Hara, Maureen & Zigrand, Jean-Pierre & Cliff, Dave & Hendershott, Terrence. (2011). The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets.

#automation #finance #technology

>be prole
>all life dependent on money
>work all day to maximise the profit of some or the other entity
>a whole ecosystem of such entities
>market.png

>market is run according to capital
>capital is observed through stock market
>line go up, line go down

>stock markets all run by algorithms
>"high frequency trading"
>algorithms calculating each and every event to best predict market forces and make money
>feedback loop of self correction

>all life guided by whims of self propogating algorithms

>skynet who?

Kaushik, K., "Capital Reporter", The Caravan, 01/12/2014.

"How profit and principle shaped the journalism of Shekhar Gupta"

long but worthwhile read on the rise of the founding editor of The Print.

#media #news #elite

Crow
: from the Life and Songs of Crow

by
Ted Hughes

poetry of inability//meaning

#poetry #literature

We know that Internet providers (ISPs) block access to certain websites, either due to government mandate or to protect IP rights.

this piece shows how middleboxes are used for this purpose, where the connection is intercepted etc, with replicable methodology

#internet #technology #censorship

Deathmate Black by Open Mike Eagle

#music

The latest book published posthumously of Mark Fisher

and with this the arch is complete