coaxidleglobe

hey guys, welcome to coaxidleglobe!

my name is Ricardo Lochinvar (also Ricky Lachlan, Richard Lucky, other similar names, and combinations thereof) (twitter here). i couldn’t really come up with a pseudonym that i felt captured the prerequisite aspects of myself for years, so i picked some initials, and shuffle the actual names around.

i write about politics, technology, economics, and other stuff on here. i’m probably going to open the blog up for other people to publish on eventually. right now i accept external contributors if someone sends me something directly.

i wouldn’t count on links or even the site structure to be persistent (at least in the early stages in the website). content will go down frequently. the general modality of this blog is i text people a link (of my own or someone else’s material) that i just put up. if you like something you see here, take a screenshot or download the webpage. i ask that you please don’t mirror this site onto anything like the internet archive. i am working on my own solution to things (material persistence concurrent with authorship redaction) inspired by Project Xanadu, but that is still in the works. for now, my guarantee of material persistence is you can download the “raw” files and then match them against their checksum, which is visible in the presentation page metadata, by running the sha256sum on the downloaded file.

note on markup: if i use ^s surrounding a sentence, that is notation i use to mark if something is improper on purpose, namely hanging sentence fragments.

Blog

Remix Culture

As a prediction, I think this is has some merit, but as a cultural critique this is diarrhetic. The central issue is the elevation of trash and remix culture - which is the crux of the spiritual Dionysian rot of the 2010s and its consequences; social media is remix culture, Roblox is remix culture, and it culminates in an experience like Fortnite, which is a completely incoherent and creatively bankrupt digital experience where you play as a vtuber model and battle Darth Vader at a digital Travis Scott concert, the whole thing serving as an advertising engine to hock washed properties to 13 year olds. It culminates in a culture on and offline full of references and dearth of true experience, it generates Marvel quipslop. The Metaverse died in the crib because it was steeped in the trash economy - Zuckerberg’s vision was not Snow Crash or Cyberdecks or Hologames but the dream of living in an infinite Facebook; the true Metaverse is born not when technology reaches the point of universal abiogenesis, but when people dare to make original work again, because everyone is terminally stuck in the past, referential, morose about it, depressed because nothing new has happened since 2001. But new things have happened - it’s just easier to contextualize technological progress in terms of grift, culture war in terms of the World Wars, geopolitics in terms of Hollywood. This is a distinctly American problem, of course, but by proxy it’s the world’s problem. Slop is not the unbidden horde...

Response to "The New Law"

If good grammar is not enough, then what is enough? good grammar is very important The collapse of bedrock religious institutions within the country has totally shattered the ability of this country to have general shared understanding of what is something that is good. america had healthy protestant institutions but they got hollowed out with evangelicals and megachurches. some of them are still around: AAC, presbyterian, lutheran, episcopalean. The new law must be combatted with institutional capture. It cannot be defeated without using extreme means. The systems of governance are dysfunctional - the very mechanism Thomas Aquinas used to declare the immorality of duels in question 40! While it is always important to have the capacity to inflict extreme violence, that does not mean it is an effective means conducive to whatever the desired ends are. Is this not just Machivellianism? Democracy needs to be rolled back. Yes It happens from creating organizations of social credit which exclude others and take care of members. Making things private is the only way to roll back democracy without institutional power. if it stays private, this pathway leads to certain extinction domains can be charity, education, food catering, media, trades, and religious organization. why not the state department? why not close down the state department? why not have the department of energy become an incubator for a runaway american energy supremacy policy? targetin...

Cybernetic Empire

We are foremost a cybernetic empire, and that is most apparent in the very delicate and Anglo form of cybernetics (arguably, the only extant, or at least the original form of, cybernetics, see Land musing how in hindsight it may prove that the telos of the Anglo was to usher in technocapital superintelligence) required to build cybernetic systems. That is, I have been so impressed by the delicacy of the personalities required to build aerospace systems, especially ones which must think and live and react, and how to make the companies and leadership structures work that are able to (a) discuss (b) deliberate but ultimately productively/correctly (c) decide how and where to accept uncertainty regarding the design and requirements of these systems, So impressed by the absolute and unobvious necessity of very particular, strikingly American relationships to truth, labor, conflict, and above all, ownership/responsibility, required to get work done at all, but more so, to get work done effectively without clogging the channels with constant communication (see before for another example of how challenges are posed by how difficult it is to talk about these things) (because the whole point of aerospace is that you do not have a pre-existing formalism, this is cutting edge, this is subtle, this is far from intuition, but requires the adaptation of intuition if you are to move quickly enough to succeed), And how both those things—the leadership and the work ethic—would absolutely utte...

The New Law

Our government is composed of three branches with varying elements within the total unit allowing for effective subsidiarity - power goes to the people most capable of solving the problem. Each level of government imitates the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. This is because institution law is comprised of three elements: generation of law, enforcement of law, and interpretation which guides both of the former processes. These three functions are carried out in every institution. Generation of policy strategy or an idea is followed by someone interpreting the memo and executing on it how they see fit. Some sort of review may take place to determine whether or not the memo was abused or abided by. These three functions may be carried out by one man or many, but the principle of these three friction points remain the same. Execution requires interpretation, judgment requires interpretation, and generation frames it all with the language used. Unfortunately the clarity and specificity of the policy is not enough. Raw grammar can be endlessly debated, especially nowadays where many of us, have poor instruction in the trivium. If good grammar is not enough, then what is enough? Likely nothing that is not written on the hearts of men. Maybe this is a hint as to why we have the saying ‘spirit of the law’ rather than the ‘intent of the law.’ The spirit of the law is a term which generally refers to the intent or the direction and attentions of the s...