Ben Miller

@transitive.bsky.social

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senior lecturer of storytelling and academic director, department of digital screen. university of canterbury. aotearoa new zealand.

His sign says, "Science is Awesome."

To conduct each swim meet match, officials place random swimmers
from each group at opposite ends of a section of a river. The competitors begin swimming at the sound of a gun, pass each other swimming in opposite directions, then are timed as each passes his/her respective finish line.
It is the swim meet tradition that one group of competitors-the prosalways swims downstream, and the other group-the cons-always swims
upstream. This tradition began as it represented each team swimming toward their village. Swim meet officials initially presumed that these conditions were just and fair for each group.

A quote from Yanis Varoufakis' Technofuedalism, chapter 1, Hesiod's Lament