As if responding to Leibniz—who once wrote that music is an “occult exercise in mathematics performed by a mind unconscious of…

“As if responding to Leibniz—who once wrote that music is an “occult exercise in mathematics performed by a mind unconscious of the fact that it is counting”—Nietzsche pointed out that in areas like art, quantitative measures are simply inappropriate. “Assuming that one estimated the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, and expressed in formulas: how absurd would such a ‘scientific’ estimation of music be! What would one have comprehended, understood, grasped of it? Nothing, really nothing of what is ‘music’ in it!” he wrote.”

– Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don’t Exist. London: Allen Lane, 2013. (viacarvalhais)

Rules for Red Teams

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  • Rule 1: Always have an escape plan
  • Rule 2: Never get caught.
  • Rule 3: Be aware of your surroundings.
  • Rule 4: Always have a backup plan.
  • Rule 5: Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.
  • Rule 6: Trust your gut.
  • Rule 7: Simple and light equals freedom, agility and mobility.
  • Rule 8: KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.
  • Rule 9: The solution is in the problem.
  • Rule 10: Don’t become predictable.
  • Rule 11: Never take the elevator.
  • Rule 12: Act, don’t react.

Rules for Red Teams

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima On May 14, 1995, six-year-old Tibetan Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was named the 11th Panchen Lama by the 14th…

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
On May 14, 1995, six-year-old Tibetan Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was named the 11th Panchen Lama by the 14th Dalai Lama. After his selection, he was detained by Chinese authorities; he has not been seen in public since May 17, 1995. China later named another child, Gyancain Norbu, as Panchen Lama, a choice that exiles claim is rejected by most Tibetan Buddhists.
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Welsh town moves ‘offshore’ to avoid tax on local business

Crickhowell, taxation, economics, UK, corporatism, HMRC, scalability

Local businesses in Crickhowell are turning the tables on the likes of Google and Starbucks by employing the same accountancy practices used by the world’s biggest companies, to move their entire town “offshore”. Advised by experts and followed by a BBC crew, family-run shops in the Brecon Beacons town have submitted their own DIY tax plan to HMRC, copying the offshore arrangements used by global brands which pay little or no corporation tax.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crickhowell-welsh-town-moves-offshore-to-avoid-tax-on-local-business-a6728971.html

NASA found a way to track ocean currents from space. What they saw is troubling

GRACE, oceans, satellite, earth monitoring, environment, climate change

The GRACE satellites are a pair of twin observing devices that orbit the Earth 137 miles from one another. The Earth’s gravitational pull on the satellites varies depending upon the mass of what is below them at a particular time — a mountain, an ocean — and so by measuring slight perturbations in the distance between the two satellites, scientists detect these mass changes. But when does the Earth’s mass change in a significant way, one that would suggest an important anomaly? Mostly, this does not happen with the ground, rocks, mountains — at least not on human time scales. But water at the Earth’s surface moves around a great deal — California’s drought has been picked up by GRACE, as has dramatic melting of the glaciers of Alaska.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/11/04/nasa-can-now-detect-worrying-ocean-circulation-changes-from-space/