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23 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Some of you may be familiar with Dmitry Orlov. He's one of the immanent collapse doomsday sayers, like Joseph Tainter and some of the Cliodynamics people. Engineer by education and WITH a sense of humor (as you'll notice in his excellent talk here):...
23 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
“We neither think nor reason. Rather, we work on fragile materials — texts, inscriptions, traces, or paints — with other people.” Bruno Latour Programmers and software engineers often lack a wider breadth and scope of how they approach and...
23 Jan 2021 3 minute read 2 comments DonkeyShot
It looks like 2021 can be the year where natural psychedelics, like psilocybin mushrooms and truffles, are going to follow the legalization path paved by cannabis enthusiasts for the last few years. Experienced psychonauts welcome this as brilliant n...
23 Jan 2021 9 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I've been on a bit of a memory trip with music, and it has bought me back, way back all the way to the mid 90s... This song, Floot by Wagon Christ, from the album Throbbing Pouch, was a really pivotal moment song for me in so many ways... The whol...
23 Jan 2021 17 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
“Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.” - Kenneth Boulding "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Ma...
22 Jan 2021 2 minute read 1 comment (S)llew la Wulf
Richard D James has always had a piece of my heart... Some human beings are just magicians and whatever they put their hands to becomes something beyond what mere mortals are not only capable of generally creating, but often fully understanding......
22 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments fmoreno
I am not talking about today's prices, I am talking about myself and my life. I will tell you this fast, I have 2 unknown ball-like things in my body. I went to check them to the hospital and they did not know what they were. The situation was like t...
21 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Cos sometimes music is the best healer; "Wide open wide - looseThe Mistake was madeLove ... slipped from my lipsDripped down my chinAnd landed in his lap, andUs becameNousNow me non clairvoyant and in loveMade the coochie easy and the obvious invi...
20 Jan 2021 8 minute read 10 comments rhyzom
Throughout the years I've mostly stuck with Arch Linux (a very minimalist, build-it-yourself KISS type of distro), but lately have moved over to Manjaro - an Arch-derived distro that spares you the 3 days of editing .conf files and customizing your e...
20 Jan 2021 12 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Link to the entire original blog post here (have quoted/cited about half the article here): Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was b...
