#thetrap — Public Fediverse posts
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@worik
> the candle here is the use of quota, not the use of AII take your point, but in this case (and many others) the one is clearly driven by the other. It's technocracy on generative steroids. Exactly the kind of thing Adam Curtis focused on in one of his best TV series; The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (2007).
Here's the full series as one 3 hour video;
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Something to think about over our holiday season feasts 😅
Unearthing the origins of agriculture
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304407120.
> “We are now in a real golden age for our understanding of the origin of agriculture”
#Agriculture #humanhistory #youngerdryas #thetrap #climatechange #unintendedconsequences
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Lena Headey on Her Film ‘The Trap,’ and How She Wishes Her ‘Game of Thrones’ Role Ended
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As #AdamCurtis pointed out in his doco series #TheTrap, when governments create metrics to measure the success of their policies, the danger is that managers will meet those metrics by any means necessary, regardless of whether that has anything to do with meeting the underlying goals of the policy:
https://aus.social/@shlee/102467293709275626