Oberon Dixon-Luinenburg

Update on my text preservation project: —A few months ago I announced my project to record digital information on very durable tablets, so that it will still be there for future historians after our hard drives have decayed to junk. The glib oversimplification was "Carve the entire English-language Wikipedia in stone." —After further research and experimentation, I believe the best approach is laser-etching on tempered glass tablets, due to the combination of durability and cost. I’ve made a preliminary proof of concept, and am now doing more detailed prototyping. I should have a couple hundred tablets arriving this week, so I can mess around and see whether I’ve got the right specifications before I start serious production at scale. —Soon I’ll start taking orders through Ammonite Inscription Company, which will sell tablets inscribed with anything you want to preserve. Do you want to keep your grandmother’s memoir for your descendants? Do you want your thesis to last after you’re gone? Do you want a memento you can give to the speakers at your conference? Do you want all your tweets preserved for future historians? To get email announcing when I start taking orders, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1E-r6e… —I’m also creating the Ennigaldi Foundation to preserve culturally important texts. Ennigaldi will purchase tablets (likely from Ammonite Inscription Company, but if we find a superior supplier, then so much the better) and arrange for their long-term storage, so that future historians will be able to read them in the year 4000 or whatever. Our 501(c)(3) application is underway. I’m not doing a major fundraising push yet, until we have a shitty initial version of the manufacturing and logistics up and running, but if you want to donate then please DM me. For updates on our activities, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/14_8RN… —Production will start relatively small, and scale up exponentially as I learn what the hell I’m doing and refine the manufacturing process. The first major project will probably be the production of a book or book-length text. The long-term goal is to print the entire English-language Wikipedia and store it in underground vaults, but even if there are no major hurdles or surprises (lmao) it will take a long time to build up that much capacity.

Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans ow.ly/Rcuo106ixAt

China has launched hundreds of rockets and built its own orbital space station, creating an industry second only to SpaceX. The Moon is next. America is now in a space race decision-makers and the public are barely aware of. Read the new article by @OberonDL (link below!):

We must honor the heroes and martyrs of our internet. That's why I’m building a statue of the late programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz, right here in San Francisco. Read the new article by @pabloantonio here: palladiummag.com/2025/01/03/one…

You do not need to take my word for it: we have made 14+ Briefs publicly-available for reading and listening. See this thread for links to all of them and why you should read each one: x.com/bismarckanlys/… 5/n

took me 3 years after I learned about O-1 from @patrickc bc I was dumb and clueless. if followed advice of @ArtirKel (nintil.com/us-immigration) and had support from @lisawehden & @minney_cat (lisa-wehden.medium.com/a-guide-to-app…), could've done it 2x faster youtu.be/-KoXt9pZLGM

Bismarck Analysis is hiring again! We're first searching for new analysts. In this position you’ll help provide our clients with navigation-grade analysis of companies, key players, and governments. If interested email samples of your work to contact@bismarckanalysis.com 1/n