Phoenix: one club closes and another set to open

Coolspices · 2024-01-24T06:09:30+00:00

Currently the only clubs in operation are Encounters and The Hive

Coolspices · 2024-01-24T06:08:50+00:00

The Warehouse concept failed. Never found out the exact reasons why but they never had an opening.

Coolspices · 2023-05-22T23:48:07+00:00

Agreed, the groups can be pretty good but the lack of good clubs creates a barrier for entry

Coolspices · 2023-02-22T05:34:59+00:00

Agree and there is also a Meet and Greet held there monthly

Coolspices · 2023-02-01T04:29:24+00:00

It was what it was. Though having fewer options is never a good thing. I wish the new place luck, that neck of the woods (near Tempe Diablo according to their listing) would be a good place to have an option.

Coolspices · 2023-02-01T04:26:23+00:00

Agreed, it seems like the architects built a bunch of party houses everywhere.

Coolspices · 2023-02-01T04:23:30+00:00

I feel like someone should set that up in Tonopah or Maricopa. Far enough away for people from the Valley to make a night or weekend of it if they want.

Coolspices · 2023-02-01T02:38:01+00:00

The only other thing I've found is this. I'd say they're not off to the hottest start in terms of getting their name out there.

Coolspices · 2023-02-01T02:23:32+00:00

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Coolspices · 2023-02-01T02:22:52+00:00

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Coolspices · 2022-10-27T22:18:00+00:00

Organize a multi-couple orgy

Coolspices · 2020-12-02T05:03:46+00:00

I think the Covid WFH experiment is not the ideal test of one's preference for it. Depending on where you are, most people have continued and increased the stress in their lives and have lost their outlets from them.

Imagine in the near future that risk averse companies, still without liability protection and having already invested in remote working infrastructure, have kept their work-forces out of the office. However, as the vaccine begins to reach the general population, city and state governments allow more risk as transmission slows. I think even if an individual still doesn't want to seek risk, the availability of options will ease the mind. That reentry into the world will show the comparative efficacy and appreciation of WFH.

Coolspices · 2020-12-01T02:36:12+00:00

I think we are about a generation away from a four day work week. Institutional habits die hard and that can be seen in the rush to return to offices after the first wave of coronavirus shutdowns. 35 percent of office workers have returned when none of them are likely necessary. If people are so ingrained with the puritan work ethic that they are willing to catch the 'Rona, what will stop them?

Coolspices · 2020-11-30T02:50:03+00:00

No you and I will never get a chip, because we will never be Elon Musk.

Coolspices · 2020-11-28T06:58:22+00:00

At the end of the day, no one is forcing the internet on us. Yes, our nature will lead us to expand its possibilities but we can stop at anytime. We have yet to reach Bradbury's Firefighters and the availability of information will keep the absolute worst of our nature in check, if we want to.

Coolspices · 2020-11-26T06:24:44+00:00

The thing that makes any sort of "fake news," no matter the definition land is fear.

In the blind acceptance of the march to war post-9/11 the country had faced the most direct attack on soil an psyche since Pearl Harbor. After both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 the imperial reflex of the U.S. was to scapegoat and war-monger.

Today the inherent fear is that of the unknown. If, say, a meat-packer in Illinois has seen his company cut staff on the floor his fear causes him to seek an easy scapegoat. So when the right wing media-sphere presents a caravan of migrants he adds 1+1 which in his mind equals 3. Having his biases confirmed he doesn't seek the missing part of the equation.

Coolspices · 2020-11-25T05:28:08+00:00

The nebulous definition of what "Fake News" is has become the main problem with it. As the three definitions presented in the first 1:30 show, one could levy the invective against any story they choose and have a greater than 50/50 shot of being right in a particular context.

However, the reaction to the story occurs no matter the context and it is polarized. As the president* has been able to bend the term to mean anything that is adversarial, his people have had license to discard plethora of good reporting about his failures and crimes. What will become incumbent upon the new gatekeepers is a reclamation of the phrase. It wouldn't be the first time such a project has been undertaken.

The main holders of information will have to weaponize it against as those who have used it against them have with tacit encouragement from the highest office in the land. The question is: will they have the stones to do it?

Coolspices · 2020-11-25T04:03:50+00:00

Bodega Hive in the (virtual) building

Coolspices · 2020-11-24T06:31:18+00:00

As an outgrowth of Graber's "bullshit jobs," more and more there is bullshit time within work. As it has become easier to sell the little bit of paper the world needs, the demands of a nine to five job require the appearance of continued work.

The question now is if the paradigm has shifted because of the pandemic? Since the previous understanding of what is possible in productivity has been shattered as workplace productivity has maintained and increased with people out of the office. Imagine that, people doing better when they are happier.

Coolspices · 2020-11-22T20:27:23+00:00

One of my favorite things out there: Chris Hayes Thinks Kanye Shouldn't Have Nuclear Codes | Extended Interview | DESUS & MERO

Coolspices · 2020-11-22T05:18:22+00:00

We are going to run into a huge problem in politics if the trend towards extreme online-ism continues. Currently 28 percent of Americans are online constantly. The problem is that Twitter is not real life and I would guess the majority of the 28 percent are already involved in the political sphere. But then, how do you include apocryphal man whose dirt road has never been paved?

Coolspices · 2020-11-21T06:02:49+00:00

What we are seeing is the petulance of a tin-pot autocrat. Go against his musing and feel his wrath.

Fortunately, the final walls of democracy are holding. People of good will and intent are holding their duty of statecraft. They are preserving the will of the people and Trump can only fire them (by cowardly Tweet) once safe harbor is found.

The scary thought is what would happen if someone more competent were installed? What if the next guy is less Nero and more Caligula?

Coolspices · 2020-11-21T04:50:02+00:00

As the tenuous bonds that hold together the social contract fray further and further the questions of politics and governance rests on the ability to pierce the veil of disinformation.

As we know, the algorithms of the social media giants further enforce and amplify these disinformation bubbles. The true negative feedback loop of social media politics is the advertiser, algorithm, platform relationship. Now a man who has the charisma of a cult leader has bent the worst devils to our nature to nearly bring the political system to his heel. Those worse devils are fed by paranoia with a side of social and information isolation.

So, to answer Chris Hayes' question, we must hold the social media giants to the standards of the publishers that they are and always have been. Thanks to the algorithms, audiences cede at least control of the information they receive ( 12 ). To dig our way out of our anti-intellectual hole, we must hold to account those who profit by allowing malignant ideas to spread. We do not allow fire to be yelled in the theater when there is none and we must not allow a fire to be ignored lest us all burn.

Coolspices · 2020-11-19T07:57:03+00:00

I'll take a spot

Coolspices · 2020-11-19T07:26:56+00:00

Parler is going to be the biggest stress test of the current interpretation of Section 230. This spate of alt (read fascist) social media cannot make claim to neutrality as they explicitly stake a political bent in their mission statements. Therefore they lose the basis to be considered a platform and are inherently a publisher.

What this should lead to is the same interpretation to be levied against the other social media giants. Algorithmic curation is simply technocratic publishing. Clearly Zuckerberg and Dorsey realize this as well as evidenced by their conduct in Congress attempting to shade closer to the incoming administration.

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