- On caring for abandoned strangers
- On art as “the overcoming of death”
Beauty in the philosophy of cosmism is not an aesthetic category, but an ontological one. Beauty is a measure of creation’s perfection, its spirituality, goodness, and fullness
The protest against mortality, the hunger for immortality and resurrection, bestowed an initial impulse to human creativity. Fedorov remarks that it was out of a feeling of loss, out of protest against death that the first artistic monuments appeared
- (heavy stuff!)
- A bizarre recent Air-India incident
- On surviving headless
- On bringing back personal blogging
- Emacs is “not enough” (tough message, but all fans must encounter these limitations)
- Looking at “Medley Interlisp”
- A fun deep-dive into what happens as you type in the browser bar, in great detail
- (You’re guaranteed to learn something)
- On “Winning and losing” with AI
- Some more On Forth
- Ambitious “rewrite the world” attempts are always commendable; “Project Mage” is one of these
- An analysis of the recent Microsoft <-> OpenAI move
- An insanely productive effort: a new C++ compiler (!)
- Another contender for a “C++ successor language”
- Bacteria in your gut can talk to your brain — and “control you”
- A fascinating look at steel-making
- On holding on to concrete media
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