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El Salvador/ATX :: Mars Katılım Ocak 2014
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@EveKeneinan @Memeszis why is it people only pay attention to pýr in Heraclitus, and not the circuit of elements that actually constitutes the world?
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@EveKeneinan @Memeszis well, except for the part about aristocratic-radicalist discipline, selective breeding, and training to resist the great leveling of all singular excellences and visions into universal[-ized,-izable, -ist] slop that came with the Christian-Platonist philosophical world..
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As you get older, you really start to lose patience with Nietzsche's "Look at me! I'm SO different from the classic philosophers! I INVERT their teachings! Aren't I bold and cool and daring!?!?"
No, Friedrich. I'm so very over that spell of yours. I was over it in my 30s.
The only question that matters is Socrates' question: is it true?
Nietzsche is like one of those modern artists who thinks "being good" requires "being original," and then won't make the best art he could, because it is "too similar" to some other artist's work.
Do you think Aquinas cared that he frequently "sounded just like" Aristotle?
No, and you shouldn't either.
You should be much more worried about the question "Why don't I sound like Aristotle here? Where did I go wrong?"
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@fleursetruines "I'm so very over it" perfect articulation of the longhouse response. big momma is tired and on break from your "I'm gonna be an astronaut" bullshit, you have a job at Denny's supporting this family to worry about
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Siempre relevante el comentario de BAP sobre la presión de la sociedad para “hacerse mayor”, conformarse y abandonar la ambición
Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن@EveKeneinan
As you get older, you really start to lose patience with Nietzsche's "Look at me! I'm SO different from the classic philosophers! I INVERT their teachings! Aren't I bold and cool and daring!?!?" No, Friedrich. I'm so very over that spell of yours. I was over it in my 30s. The only question that matters is Socrates' question: is it true? Nietzsche is like one of those modern artists who thinks "being good" requires "being original," and then won't make the best art he could, because it is "too similar" to some other artist's work. Do you think Aquinas cared that he frequently "sounded just like" Aristotle? No, and you shouldn't either. You should be much more worried about the question "Why don't I sound like Aristotle here? Where did I go wrong?"
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for Reich (2) esp in the larger context of (1) is very salient because the claim that ancient remains are sacred pseudo-property of local indigenous activist groups is used to prevent their examination, and the groups rightly fear that "a century before the white man came, we conquered the tribe that lived here before us" isn't a moneymaker story
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- weakens claim that european-settled lands are "stolen" in some special sense vs previous occupying groups
- invites scrutiny of whether ancient burials are actually ancestors of local indigenous activists
- kills claim europeans are uniquely evil
- ..which solidifies argument europeans are just unique in *voluntarily ending* slavery
- ..and leaves only uniqueness of technical and social development etc as explanations for global dominance
- legacy concern for Rousseau-style historical legitimation of the far left (more current 50y ago than today, but academic lock-in and leftist monoculture keeps it relevant)
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I still genuinely dont understand why the idea that neolithic peoples engaged in violent conquests would be “a political problem.”
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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@roxy_wodka @guantru @realMattKParker what, did you think stealing from a used book shop made you a "hero" or something
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why god why do used book stores use cover-destroying price stickers
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @yonejutsu "no elves" is the right move. it's impossible to convincingly depict a post-Edenic civilization of world-gardening immortals at personal drama granularity at TV show pace for a mass audience. it was idiotic to even try
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I wanted to write cyberpunk Middle-Earth. Two thousand years after the ring-bearer.
Metropolises built into the slopes of Mount Doom. Helicopter pads on the summit. Eagle couriers going to and fro. From the high rise corporate offices of the men of Gondor to the slums populated by the orcish criminal underclass. Dragons running banks and political conspiracies. Rumors of elves returning from the Grey Havens. Street mages with cyber-implants. Cave troll laborers on strike. Racial tensions between hobbits and the "biggers".
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
So Rings of Power is a flop. They lost more than 60% of their viewers in the first season, after spending a billion dollars. I think part of the problem was that they kept messing with actual beloved characters from Lord of the Rings, instead of telling different stories. Middle Earth is huge. There are lots of things they could do besides pollute the franchise. Here are five ideas that I think would be a LOT more interesting than the Rings of Power. 1) a "Cheers" type comedy set in the Prancing Pony in Bree. 2) the adventures of Bill the Pony and how he got back to the Shire. You KNOW that story's fire. 3) a mystery show about Sam's old gaffer solving crimes in the Shire. Called "Mordor, He Wrote". 4) an action show about a team of warriors patrolling the north to protect Eriador from bandits, trolls, orcs, wargs, stone giants, and so forth. It would be titled, "Walker, Thangorodrim Ranger" 5) the hijinks and strategems of the two blue wizards as they try to thwart the machinations of darkness in distant lands. Kind of a buddy action-comedy.
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We need a crash effort to cure sleep. It’s appalling that we have to waste a third of our life insensate. If we were able to cut everyone’s sleep from 8 to 4 hours a night, this would be the equivalent of raising life expectancy from 80 to 100!
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There is one magazine so influential that it sparked a technological revolution in the 1980s, without ever being backed by a corporate giant.
That magazine was "Galaksija"- a Yugoslav science and Sci-Fi phenomenon published throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
When imports of Western computers were impossible, Galaksija published the blueprints for a home computer (the "Galaksija") in a special DIY edition.
The result?
Thousands of people soldered their own boards. Most computers had no case, so they lived in cigar boxes, wooden crates, or custom metal frames. "Naked" computing at its finest.
Before the internet, radio shows like Belgrade's Ventilator 202 broadcast software straight over the airwaves. You simply held a cassette recorder to the speaker, recorded the static, and there was your new program.
Beyond the tech, the magazine was a visual trip. Its covers were legendary, often featuring surreal, striking sci-fi art blending space-age dreams with bold graphic design.
🫡A salute to the late visionary Zoran Modli. As a man of two skies, both as a radio host and a Boeing 737 pilot, he famously broadcast computer code over Ventilator 202, turning radio signals into a makeshift 1980s internet ❤️
#Galaksija #RetroComputing #Yugoslavia
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A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-my…
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@cremieuxrecueil @QuetzalPhoenix yep - always thought the maxim was strange given Plutarch, Tacitus, even Thucydides and Xenophon, tho posed this way it makes sense as a way of 20c losers writing historiography/metahistory
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Breaking News: The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the Governor of Sinaloa along with nine other current and former Mexican officials on drug trafficking and weapons-related charges. This move represents a direct and aggressive escalation by Washington against the highest levels of the Mexican state apparatus. The indictments detail a systemic entanglement between regional Morena governance and cartel operations, effectively labeling the Sinaloa state leadership a criminal enterprise under U.S. law.
This legal assault by the DOJ decapitates the political leadership of one of Mexico’s most strategically sensitive states at a moment of extreme national fragility. By targeting a sitting governor, the U.S. is signaling a total collapse of bilateral trust and an end to the era of diplomatic shielding for Mexican officials. The move is designed to force a confrontation within the Sheinbaum administration, leaving Mexico City with zero room to maneuver between its domestic political alliances and the threat of total diplomatic isolation.
The fallout will be immediate and chaotic. Beyond the legal proceedings, these indictments serve as a precursor to broader sanctions and a likely reclassification of Mexican security cooperation. For the Mexican government, the era of managed stability in Sinaloa is over; Sheinabum is now facing a direct challenge to state legitimacy and a physical security vacuum that will likely trigger a violent internal restructuring of cartel hierarchies and government control.
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The phenomenon of startups tailoring their ideas to VC expectations, becoming more “legible to capital”, was studied in this paper by Xiyue Li.
The result is lower quality, less innovative companies.
Jay Kapoor@JayKapoorNYC
Venture capital used to be about finding the hidden gems. Now it’s entirely about backing the sure thing. Lesson if you’re raising is that if you’re a hidden gem, start to behave like a sure thing. Else you will stay hidden.
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General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current Ambassador to the UK:
Due to scientific and technological progress, it has become impossible, regardless of what others may claim, to carry out operational-level tasks. 1/12
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Part 2 (the technical version) has been approved and is now on LessWrong; go like it because apparently it wasn’t frontpage material; link below
The readable one will appear on the newsletter tomorrow.
mc lumps ⏹️❗️ 🔨⏱️@lumpenspace
Part 1 of my Against Orthogonality series, The Parable of the Dung Beetle, is now available on my substack. Part 2 will dissect the very concept of godlike means for buglike ends and hopefully allow for some saner discussion in the future.
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Authorities have declared an internet blackout in a desperate last stand against what Gen Zers are calling "The King in Yellow Challenge."
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@notneededtbh1 @johannesmkx the meaning is obviously what's being applied to suspect 1
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@johannesmkx The term racism used to have a meaning. Now it doesn’t. People are just afraid to be called with that word, but truly it doesn’t have a meaning in 2026.
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Dutch police are asking for your help. Do you recognize these two suspects? They've blurred the brown suspect so you can't recognize him.
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Dansçıların birbirleri ile değil ritimle senkron olmaları apayrı bir seviye. Görsellik şahane.
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