Time for a bit of ‘professional development’ reading. When did the tide (start to) turn from progressive, future-thinking agendas in American culture —specifically as reflected in architectural projects— to what in 2025 can only be described as a society gripped by nostalgia and almost completely absent of innovative, creative endeavors? Well, this book by Douglas Murphy starts to make a good argument for the 1960s and 70s. Murphy’s book takes us through the realm of World’s Fairs, Buckminster Fuller and Brutalist estate projects to shed light on a period of architectural history where Post-Modernism captured more attention in the books than these last grand projects of Modernism. Murphy does a really good job of not being exhaustive but, rather, focused on a selection of strong cases that illustrate the point: that these top-down projects were not resonating with a society where current events were undermining any confidence in the experts. The civil unrest of the late 60s knocked a few things loose, and the economics of the 70s continued to foster dissatisfaction in the citizenry. But the following couple of decades managed to be, arguably, a distraction from the continued erosion of confidence in the experts. And here we are today, where teachers, scientists, politicians have joined the architects as untrustworthy. These things really do take time to manifest profoundly in the everyday.
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#lastfutures #douglasmurphy #architecture #modernism #buckminsterfuller #brutalism #civicprojects #publichousing #worldsfair #expo #geodesicdome #distrust #postmodernism #ex_libris_jz
#Distrust
#distrust : to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality
- French: méfiance
- German: das Misstrauen
- Italian: sfiducia
- Portuguese: desconfiança
- Spanish: desconfianza
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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past
#Trump presidency a key concern for Southeast #Asia, survey shows
"Trump took 3rd place at 46.9% in top concerns for #SEAsians, according to a #ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute #survey.. Hostilities in #SouthChinaSea was 1st w 51.6% of 2,023 people surveyed.. #Japan remained e "most #trusted major power” among 66.8% of SE #Asians surveyed, rising fr abt 59% last yr. #US fell to 3rd spot behind the #EU, while some 41% of the respondents expressed #distrust toward #China" #ASEAN
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/04/asia-pacific/politics/trump-presidency-southeast-asia-survey/
How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors — https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/sct-not-after/
#HackerNews #How #to #distrust #a #CA #without #any #certificate #errors #DistrustCA #CertificateErrors #CyberSecurity #HackerNews #SSL
From The Atlantic, in “The Erasing of American Science”:
“Both by trying to control #science and by #funding less of it, the Tr*mp administration is starting a slide toward a future where more, rather than fewer, people have reason to #distrust science and its results.” https://tinyurl.com/5xhddekk
distrustful civilisation
#mortbones #therainwillcome #art #quotation #themystery #distrust #civilisation #wisdom #nature #gold #experience #heart
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes nodds in agreement
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange also means to foster a climate of #mutualism and #care instead of #distrust and #greed...
Nobel prize for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
500 years of European colonialism, extractivism and the resource curse
"Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs against a view that links economic development to geographic factors. Instead, we argue that the reversal reflects changes in the institutions resulting from European colonialism. The European intervention appears to have created an “institutional reversal” among these societies, meaning that Europeans were more likely to introduce institutions encouraging investment in regions that were previously poor. This institutional reversal accounts for the reversal in relative incomes. We provide further support for this view by documenting that the reversal in relative incomes took place during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and resulted from societies with good institutions taking advantage of the opportunity to industrialize."
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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 117, Issue 4, November 2002, Pages 1231–1294 (PDF>)
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/reversal-of-fortune.pdf
#colonialism #extractivism #SettlerSociety #IndigenousPeoples #SocialRelations #PE #economics #democracy #RuleOfLaw #AuthoritarianRegime #populism #corruption #goverance #reforms #distrust #UnevenDevelopment #democracy #institutions #ResourceCurse #nobel
A quotation from Billings, Josh:
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I hav larn’t one thing, bi grate experience, and that iz, I want as much watching az mi nabors do.
[I have learned one thing, by great experience, and that is, I want as much watching as my neighbors do.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/billings-josh/72313/
#quote #quotes #quotation #distrust #humannature #neighbor #selfawareness #selftrust
Matthew Carey's book #Mistrust: An Ethnographic #Theory is, like lots of #anthropology, refreshing and mind-expanding. His focus is on the High Atlas mountains of #Morocco. There's interesting discussions of lying, tolerance, conspiracy, etc. He even touches upon #anarchism, although in a somewhat superficial fashion. And I personally prefer "mistrust" to refer to "mistaken trust" as opposed to just a synonym for #distrust. But, it's still provocative and worth the time. #HAUBooks
A quotation from Catullus:
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Then let no woman hence in man believe,
Or think a lover speaks but to deceive.
He, while ungratified desire is high,
Shrinks from no oath, no promise will deny;
Soon as his lust is satiate with its prize,
He spurns his vows and perjury’s curse defies.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/catullus/71736/
#quote #quotes #quotation #battleofthesexes #desire #men #women #seduction #promises #betrayal #lust #distrust #truth #trust
#LGBTQ #people have a #complicated #relationship with #police.
New #survey shows #high #rates of #harassment, #abuse and #distrust
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #NoPoliceAtPride
This is a really terrible sentence: “THIS IS ESSENTIAL IF AI IS TO EARN PEOPLE’S TRUST AND MAKE US COMPETITIVE IN A GLOBAL MARKETPLACE WHERE AI ETHICS IS EMERGING AS A KEY CONSIDERATION.”
We need people to #distrust AI. And ethics and competitive/marketplace are surely antonyms.
https://www.scotlandaistrategy.com/scotlands-ai-strategy-the-principles-for-ai-in-scotland
#FermiEU was invited to the CORDIScovery #podcast to discuss how #trust and #distrust are generated, the mechanisms that allow for the rise of far-right #populism, and the ways #machinelearning can support law enforcement to determine when online #disinformation might cause real life harm.
🎧 Listen to the full episode and share your thoughts in the comments below!
Chrome 停止信任 Entrust 憑證的計畫
Hacker News 上看到「Entrust Certificate Distrust (googleblog.com)」這個討論，Google 決定要停止信任 Entrust 頒發的憑證：「Sustaini
#Browser #Computer #GoogleChrome #Murmuring #Network #Security #Software #authority #ca #certificate #chrome #chromium #distrust #entrust #https #privacy #program #root #security #ssl #tls
"This one thing may derail your shot at healthy aging, scientists say"
Even the LA Times engages in clickbaity headlines.
The scientist only found a correlation, not causation. The article even states:
"The study didn’t show that excess TV time **caused** any of the nurses to miss out on healthy aging, only that there was a significant inverse **correlation** between the two. Still, there’s good reason to suspect that their favorite sedentary behavior bore at least some of the responsibility."
(Emphasis added.)
The last sentence is just a feeble attempt at justifying their headline.
Shame on the LA Times (@latimes). Is it any mystery that every time a newspaper says "trust us!," I go 🙄.
#LATimes #CorrelationIsNotCausation #correlation #causation #clickbait #newspapers #journalism #ShittyJournalism #trust #distrust
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