🖥️ Backtrace: Mechanisms for Forgetting is a pixel, one‑bit puzzle from Petallix Games where a home PC seems to come alive and its files hide memories, feelings and other people's fates. 😳

Set in 1984, you play Lynn who gets her first computer: hack files, uncover hidden data, dive into BBS-era net and hacker communities, and even build/share your own levels. Coming to PC on Steam; release date TBA. WILD

#SteamAndEpic #Mechanisms #Forgetting #Backtrace #Petallix #BBSEra

Education is the system where humans learn how to think, how to belong, how to interpret reality, and how to become themselves. #Distortion #mechanisms thrive wherever authority, #identity, and meaning are co‑constructed.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/27/how-the-70-distortion-mechanisms-behave-inside-education/

The workplace is the primary environment where survival is mediated through tokens (wages, benefits, access, legitimacy). #Distortion #mechanisms thrive wherever survival depends on #compliance, interpretation, and hierarchy.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/27/how-the-70-distortion-mechanisms-behave-inside-the-workplace/

Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf]

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1080192.1080202

#HackerNews #Sybilproof #Reputation #Mechanisms #Reputation #Systems #Blockchain #Research #ACM #Papers

"Erich Fromm discussing productiveness and two mechanisms of escape: that of destructiveness and authoritarianism"—Philosophy Overdose

Erich Fromm on Productiveness, Destructiveness & Authoritarianism (1963) >

https://youtu.be/ODXDi9hCF9g?si=qilvUEuOQ6h3eKIk

#Erich_Fromm #interview #short
#mechanisms #productiveness #destructiveness #authoritarianism

#German #silent cinema of the Twenties.

A #day as a #symphony: this is the core idea behind the movie "Symphony of a Great City", dedicated to Berlin in 1927. The same year as the masterpiece "Metropolis".

The movie starts with fast images from a train approaching Berlin, then there are sequences representing the awakening city, the industrial production, lunch pause, frenetic activity and trains, metro transportations, and finally ending with concerts and fireworks.

#Technology and #mechanisms are a great inspiration. Less evident is the #Expressionism reference, which more characterised "Metropolis" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920). Another source of inspiration is the abstraction of Oskar Fischinger's animations.

#Montage is ingenious. It can remind one of Russian cinema of "Battleship Potemkin" (1925), and the audio-visual associations in the French "Ballet Mécanique" (1924). The latter, with the music by Georges #Antheil, who later collaborated with the German actress and scientist Hedy #Lamarr to invent the frequency-hopping spread spectrum.

Interestingly, the orchestral piece "The Iron Foundry" by Mosolov dates to 1927, and it is also inspired by mechanisms and industry. Inspiration that, in turn, dates back to Italian #futurism, but "The Art of Noises" by Luigi Russolo was published in 1913, before WWI.

(Vorabend, dann. Stadtlichter hinter einem Vorhang aus Schnee. Verkehr brandet durch den Matsch. Spiel heimkehrender Vögel. Passanten, Wartende, vereinzeltes Kopfnicken. Fixpunkte. Stationärer Orbit.)

#outerworld #concrete city #mechanisms #the winter and the lights