War humor
Random Note #356470
(reviving an old draft) Twitter (and all hyper-popular social media) has really emotional content. People almost never have a calm discussion. Indeed, it is as if they've been whipped until it c…
Random Note #987346
(reviving an old draft) A blog shouldn't be a series of posts. What if I want to change an older post? A blog should be a graph of posts, and the "chronology" should be a series of dif…
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Liberated balloons…
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Good to see progress here…
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Monthly recap -- July 2023
Major update(s) Trip to Banff National Park in Canada * Stayed in a cabin without internet * Amazing landscapes (see pic above) * Did some strenuous family hikes! (Consolation Lake, Agnes Lake)…
Uber-Rationalism
Bruno Maçães talks about a recent convergence of ideologies ... Here some serious pathologies quickly coalesce. First, many of these people only recently developed a taste for politics and political…
On Work
I sometimes say "I want to work till I die", and people take it to mean that I want to "hustle forever" or "be a wage slave forever" etc. This is, of course, not what I…
Precarious times
An excerpt from Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times"…
A Russian mosaic
An uncharacteristically brilliant article from the New York Times, and very ... evenly-balanced one today https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/europe/putins-forever-war.html Here are some quote…