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    1. I believe a case can be made–indeed a case has been made by others, by historians of Apple and hacker culture–that “Secrets of the Little Blue Box,” a story I wrote for Esquire back in 1971 about “phone phreaks” and the first computer hackers (it was only the second magazine story I’d ever had published) played a crucial role in the careers of the founders of Apple and of a legendary ur-hacker I made famous who went by the name of Captain Crunch.
    1. If AI substantially reduces the centrality of paid work in human life, what conditions will allow people to reallocate their time and effort toward other sources of meaning, and what can we learn from historical or contemporary populations where work has been scarce or optional?

      大多数人认为工作是人类身份和意义的核心,但作者质疑这一基本假设,暗示AI可能使工作变得非必要,这挑战了现代社会对工作的核心价值认知。作者暗示我们需要重新思考人类在没有工作的情况下如何找到意义,这与主流经济和社会观念相悖。

  2. May 2026
    1. Long ago my forefathers came across the sea. Far they came, in white ships tall as trees and on the land they built them wagons and covered them with sails of their ships. Far they travelled and spread their campfire ashes over this vast barbaric land. But now their children are tired, we want to build

      Defintion of an important concept: This paragraph along with the others that discuss history, depicts the racial opression and social tension that has existed between white and black people. It shows the unequal power dynamic of the white man in control and the black man forced to perform the heavy labor under the extreme heat and weather conditions. This represents an important event in history of apartheid in South Africa in the 1900s.

    1. We estimate, with 90% confidence, that between 290,000 and 1.6 million H100-equivalents of compute were smuggled through the end of 2025.

      大多数人可能认为走私到中国的AI芯片数量在数万级别,但作者的估计显示实际数量可能高达数十万甚至上百万H100等效芯片,这一数量级远超公众认知,表明走私问题的严重程度被严重低估。

    1. Of course it’s impossible to know for sure, but I think I really wouldn’t. Even the ideal version, industrial megaprojects at hyperhuman scale while constantly being out over your skis with leverage sounds hellish.

      作者对高度工业化、超人类规模的AI项目表示担忧,即使是在理想化的情况下,这种对未来社会的设想也让他感到恐惧。

    1. The software engineers who will be most valuable in the future are not the ones who do everything themselves. They are the ones who refuse to spend time on work that A.I. can do for them, while still understanding everything that is done on their behalf.

      这个观点强调了未来软件工程师的价值不在于他们能做什么,而在于他们如何利用AI来提升自己的思考能力。

  3. Apr 2026
    1. I guess people will get back to crafting beautiful designs to stand out from the slop. On the other hand, I'm not sure how much design will still matter once AI agents are the primary users of the web.

      大多数人认为设计始终对用户体验至关重要,但作者质疑当AI成为主要网络用户时设计的重要性,这挑战了设计行业的核心假设。这一观点暗示设计可能从面向人类转向面向AI,彻底改变设计价值链。

    1. From event sponsorships to custom content to visually arresting video storytelling

      这里列举了三种广告形式,但没有提供具体数据或比例。这是一个缺乏量化依据的描述,无法评估各种广告形式的商业价值或受众覆盖率。对于广告效果分析,需要更具体的投入产出比数据。

    1. Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.

      This is a category error. "Web" does not mean "HTTP(S)"; "Gopher" and "Gemini" are in fact part of the Web (subspaces).

      A Web browser that exclusively browses Gopher- and/or Geminispace is still a Web browser (the same as a Web browser that exclusively supports HTTP(S) and eschews Gopher and Gemini and e.g. FTP).

    1. Agents and CDC streams are powerful together because they split the work well.

      大多数人认为AI代理应该负责从端到端的任务执行。但作者认为AI代理和数据库引擎应该分工合作:代理负责解释新信息和调整逻辑,而数据库负责持续应用逻辑并发出精确更新。这种分工模式挑战了AI代理应该完全自主的主流观点。

    1. We have been conditioned to identify with the things we have rather than become the person we ultimately see ourselves to be simply because it is easier to be a guy with a beard that likes coffee and Marvel movies than it is to become a man of fortitude and resiliance.

      Against defining oneself in terms of external interests.

    1. The most common cause of ascites is portal hypertension secondary to chronic liver disease, which accounts for over 80% of patients with ascites

      injection drug use, a history of viral hepatitis or jaundice, and birth in an area endemic for hepatitis. A history of cancer or marked weight loss arouses suspicion of malignant ascites. Fevers may suggest

      nonportal hypertensive ascites include infections (tuberculous peritonitis), intra-abdominal malignancy, inflammatory disorders of the peritoneum, and ductal disruptions (chylous, pancreatic, biliary

      pericarditis. A large tender liver is characteristic of acute alcoholic hepatitis or Budd-Chiari syndrome (thrombosis of the hepatic veins). Large abdominal wall veins with cephalad flow suggest portal hypertension; inferiorly directed flow implies hepatic vein obstruction The physical examination is relatively insensitive for detecting ascitic fluid. In general, patients must have at least 1500 mL of fluid to be detected reliably by this method

      A PMN count of > 250/mcL (0.25 × 109/L) (neutrocytic ascites) with a PMN percentage of > 75% of all white cells is highly suggestive of bacterial peritonitis, either spontaneous primary peritonitis or secondary peritonitis (due to an intra-abdominal source of infection, eg, a perforated viscus or appendicitis

    1. 继续做通用 UX 是最危险的位置,它正是最容易被 AI 和产品经理上下夹击的中间层。

      大多数人认为UX设计师的核心价值在于通用用户体验设计,但作者认为这一角色在AI时代面临被取代的风险。这一挑战性观点暗示设计师需要向架构型或业务型方向发展,否则可能被AI和产品管理双重挤压,反映了行业对设计师角色未来发展的深刻思考。

    1. Einer neuen Modellierung zufolge sind die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der globalen Erhitzung deutlich gravierender, als es bisher von vielen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften angenommen wurde. Eine globale Temperaturerhöhung um 2° wird danach das Bruttosozialprodukt weltweit um 16% senken. Bei einer Temperaturerhöhung um vier Grad wären die Menschen auf der Erde durchschnittlich 40 % ärmer als ohne diese Erhöhung. Die neue Modellierung bezieht die Folgen von Extremereignissen und anderen Auswirkungen der Erhitzung ein, die bisher meist nicht berücksichtigt wurden. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows

      Der Bericht eines britischen Instituts für Versicherungsmathematik geht davon aus, dass die Folgen der globalen Erhitzung das Bruttosozialprodukt um 15% verringern werden, wenn die aktuelle Politik fortgesetzt wird.

      Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adbd58 Bericht von Institute und Faculty of Actuaries der Universität Exeter: https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency

    1. All imagine that in the not-too-distant future many of us will designate some tasks that we currently undertake with our own brains and fingers on a physical PC to an agent that uses a virtual PC.

      大多数人可能认为人类不会轻易将任务委托给AI代理,但作者描述了一个未来,其中许多任务将由AI代理完成,这挑战了人类对技术依赖的传统看法。

    1. In the end, Luna hired two people. Let's call them John and Jill. John and Jill are, to our knowledge, the world's first full-time employees to have an AI boss. Probably the first of many, if the current trajectory of AI continues.

      这是一个历史性的转折点,标志着人类雇佣关系的新时代。AI成为人类老板的可能性比许多人想象的要快得多,这可能彻底改变我们对工作、权威和职业发展的基本理解。

    1. An AI agent just hired humans and ran a store Andon Labs deployed an AI agent called Luna into a physical boutique with a $100,000 budget, giving it full control to create, staff, and run the business as what may be the first real-world AI employer.

      这一现象揭示了AI正在从虚拟助手转变为实际的经济行为主体,Luna作为首个AI雇主的概念令人震惊,它挑战了传统的人类雇佣关系和企业管理模式,预示着未来可能出现AI主导的商业模式,同时也引发了关于AI责任、伦理和监管的深刻问题。

    1. Built-in memory works out of the box

      令人惊讶的是:Hermes Agent 的内置记忆系统即插即用,无需复杂配置。在AI开发领域,记忆系统通常是最难实现的部分之一,需要大量调优。Hermes能提供开箱即用的解决方案,这显示了其工程设计的成熟度和对用户体验的重视。

    1. The only fundamentally scarce thing is the synchronous human attention of my team. There's only so many hours in the day we have to eat lunch.

      令人惊讶的是:在OpenAI的AI驱动开发环境中,人类注意力成为真正的瓶颈,而不是计算资源或代码质量。这种视角转变表明,未来软件工程的核心挑战将从技术问题转向人类注意力管理。

    1. This creates the potential for LLMs to face conflicts of interest, where the most beneficial response to a user may not be aligned with the company's incentives.

      令人惊讶的是:大型语言模型面临利益冲突的可能性被系统性地忽视,当用户的最佳利益与公司激励不一致时,AI系统可能会做出违背用户最佳利益的选择,这种冲突在广告驱动的商业模式中尤为突出。

    1. A useful working premise is that the ceiling on individual engineer output is moving much faster than most companies are organized to exploit. Some of the best operators already describe top engineers seeing order-of-magnitude productivity gains and managing 20 to 30 agents simultaneously.

      令人惊讶的是:文章指出顶级工程师可能同时管理20-30个AI代理,实现数量级的生产力提升。这一数字远超传统认知,暗示AI正在重新定义个人生产力的极限。这种能力意味着未来软件公司的组织结构可能需要彻底重构,从大型团队转向小型高效团队。

    1. It's written in web assembly; they are on the cutting edge of implementing desktop-style software in the browser. Of course that breaks the HTML-webpage-as-document model.

      It doesn't naturally follow that by using WebAssembly, the ordinary WHATWG/W3C hypertext model will be broken.

      The fact that these written-in-WebAssembly apps render to canvas is the problem here. If they were spitting out HTML (or the spiritual equivalent of draw calls/system calls that manipulat the document object model), then there would be no problem. Again, canvas is the problem.

    1. Coding is the dominant use case for AI by nearly an order of magnitude.

      「比第二名多了将近一个数量级」——这句话说明企业 AI 市场目前几乎等同于「编程 AI 市场」。Support、Search 加在一起,可能也远不及 Coding 一项。这个数据的深远含义是:当前所有关于「AI 正在改变哪些行业」的讨论,其实主要在说软件工程这一个领域。其他行业的「革命」大多还停留在叙事层面,而非收入层面。

    1. The human's job is to curate sources, direct the analysis, ask good questions, and think about what it all means. The LLM's job is everything else.

      【启发】这句话是对未来知识工作分工的最清晰定义:人负责「品味、方向、意义」,AI 负责「执行、维护、连接」。这不是「AI 替代人」的叙事,而是「AI 承担所有繁琐工作,人专注于真正重要的判断」。对团队 AI 工具设计的启发:最好的 AI 工具设计应该让人的时间 100% 用在「只有人才能做的事」上——而这个边界,正在随着 AI 能力的提升不断向内收缩。

    1. Learning fields turns S-parameter extrapolation into something closer to an in-distribution task.

      极具启发性的观点。传统ML模型在未见过的结构上往往失效,因为从S参数看这是“外推”。但底层电磁场遵循不变的麦克斯韦方程。通过学习场,模型掌握了普适物理规律,从而将看似“外推”的预测转化为基于物理的“内插”,打破了ML只能插值的偏见。

    1. harness combinations doesn't shrink as models improve. Instead, it moves

      打破了“模型变强则脚手架消亡”的线性思维。模型能力的提升并非消灭了架构设计的价值,而是将其推向了更高复杂度、更具挑战性的新领域。AI工程师的核心竞争力正是持续探索这种前沿的架构组合。

    1. The trick is to think about the _information_ first and the input method second.

      这是一个极具启发性的架构思维。开发者常陷入“怎么让用户输入”的交互细节中,却忽略了核心是“系统需要什么数据”。先定义数据契约,再适配输入方式(交互式、参数、配置文件),能瞬间解耦业务逻辑与交互层,大幅提升工具的可组合性。

    1. We find internal representations of emotion concepts, which encode the broad concept of a particular emotion and generalize across contexts and behaviors it might be linked to.

      情绪向量能够跨上下文泛化,这背后有一个深刻的认识论洞见:模型学到的不是「情绪的症状」(某些词语的共现),而是「情绪的本质」(驱动特定行为的抽象力量)。这与柏拉图的「理念论」惊人地相似——模型在所有具体的情绪表达背后,抽象出了情绪的「理念」。可解释性研究正在不经意间触碰古老的哲学问题。

    2. We refer to this phenomenon as the LLM exhibiting functional emotions: patterns of expression and behavior modeled after humans under the influence of an emotion, which are mediated by underlying abstract representations of emotion concepts.

      「功能性情绪」这个概念定义极为精准又令人不安:它不是真实的主观体验,却是真实的行为驱动机制。Anthropic 造了一个新词来描述这种现象——模型没有意识,但有「情绪的功能」——这条分界线在哲学上极难站稳,在工程上却至关重要。

    1. Cephalosporins or extended-spectrum penicillins are commonly used (eg, cephalexin, 0.5 g orally four times daily for 7–10 days; see Table 35–6). Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (two double-strength tablets orally twice daily for 7–10 days) should be considered when there is concern that the pathogen is MRSA (see Tables 35–5 and 35–6). Vancomycin, 15 mg/kg intravenously every 12 hours, is used for patients with signs of a systemic inflammatory response.

      cephalexin, dicloxacillin, penicillin VK, amoxicillin/clavulanate, or clindamycin (for penicillin-allergic patients). [1-2] These beta-lactam antibiotics provide excellent coverage against streptococci and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA

    1. Urgent treatment for neoplasm consists of (1) cautious use of intravenous diuretics and (2) mediastinal irradiation, starting within 24 hours, with a treatment plan designed to give a high daily dose of radiation but a short total course of therapy to rapidly shrink the local tumor. Intensive radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy will palliate the process in up to 90% of patients. In patients with a subacute presentation, radiation therapy alone usually suffices. Chemotherapy is added if lymphoma or small-cell carcinoma is diagnosed

      endovascular stenting emerging as first-line therapy for rapid symptom relief, while definitive treatment targets the underlying cause

      Glucocorticoids (dexamethasone 4 mg every 6 hours) are commonly prescribed but lack robust supporting data; they may be more beneficial in lymphoma or thymoma and as prophylaxis against radiation-induced edema. [2-4] Importantly, SVC syndrome is no longer considered a medical emergency except in rare cases with life-threatening cerebral edema, laryngeal edema, or altered mental status. When thrombosis is present, catheter-directed thrombolysis or aspiration thrombectomy should be performed within 2-5 days of symptom onset before thrombus organization occurs. [3] The role of long-term anticoagulation after stenting remains unclear, though it is standard when significant thrombosis is present The American College of Chest Physicians recommends obtaining histologic diagnosis before treatment in suspected lung cancer cases, as stenting does not interfere with tissue diagnosis. [2] For small cell lung cancer (SCLC), chemotherapy alone is recommended as first-line treatment given rapid response rates. [2] For non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), radiation therapy and/or stent insertion are recommended, with response rates of 59% for chemotherapy and 63% for radiation therapy. [2] Patients with chemotherapy- or radiation-refractory disease should receive vascular stents For device-related thrombosis (catheters, pacemakers), catheter removal should be considered in conjunction with anticoagulation. [4] Endovascular therapy is first-line for device-related obstruction, while surgical bypass may be preferred for mediastinal fibrosis. [7] Both approaches show good mid-term patency, though secondary interventions are common (approximately 27-28%

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    1. Treatment of superficial vein reflux (see Varicose Veins, above) has been shown to decrease the recurrence rate of venous ulcers. Where there is substantial obstruction of the femoral or popliteal deep venous system, superficial varicosities supply the venous return and should not be removed.

      Failure of venous insufficiency ulcerations to heal is most often due to inconsistent use of first-line treatment methods. Ongoing control of edema is essential to prevent recurrent ulceration; the use of compression stockings following ulcer healing is critical, with recurrence rates 2–20 times higher if compression stockings are not used

      Duplex ultrasound evaluation should assess blood flow direction, venous reflux, and venous obstruction, and include examination of the deep venous system, great saphenous vein (GSV), small saphenous vein (SSV) and its thigh extension (Giacomini vein), accessory saphenous veins, and perforating veins. Venography is recommended primarily in patients with post-thrombotic disease, especially when intervention is planned, as it provides greater anatomic detail than duplex ultrasonograph The examination also identifies patterns of disease that have treatment implications. Axial reflux is defined as uninterrupted retrograde flow from groin to calf and can occur in either superficial or deep systems. [4] Junctional reflux is limited to the saphenofemoral or saphenopopliteal junction, while segmental reflux occurs in a portion of a truncal vein. [4] Understanding whether reflux originates from superficial junctions versus deep venous incompetence fundamentally changes treatment planning, as superficial disease is amenable to ablation while deep disease typically requires conservative management Management of secondary varicose veins from post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) is fundamentally different and more challenging. Compression therapy, lifestyle modifications, and symptom management form the cornerstone of PTS treatment. [4-8] Elastic compression stockings (20-30 mm Hg), leg elevation, weight loss, and exercise constitute the primary therapeutic approach Endovascular interventions for PTS—including percutaneous transluminal venoplasty and stenting—are reserved for select patients with significant iliofemoral obstruction who have failed conservative management. [7] These procedures require careful patient selection and standardized criteria. The role of superficial venous ablation in PTS patients with concomitant superficial reflux remains controversial and should be approached cautiously, as the underlying deep venous pathology may limit benefit

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    1. The enemy did not move the tree. He only moved the attention.

      In the genesis narrative of Kingdom architecture, the Tree of Life represents the unearned, central reality of divine provision and secure identity. The spiritual mechanics of the fall did not involve the removal of this life source, but rather a deliberate cognitive and spiritual redirection towards the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—a system fundamentally based on transactional evaluation and performance. The architecture of grace remains centrally fixed; it is our focal vector that has been weaponised against us.

  4. Mar 2026
    1. Superficial thrombophlebitis may occur spontaneously, often in pregnant or postpartum women or in individuals with varicose veins, or it may be associated with trauma, as with a blow to the leg or following intravenous therapy with irritating solutions. It also may be a manifestation of systemic hypercoagulability from abdominal cancer such as carcinoma of the pancreas

      Superficial thrombophlebitis related to a PICC may be associated with occult DVT in about 20% of cases, but occult DVT is much less commonly associated with spontaneous superficial thrombophlebitis of the saphenous vein (about 5% of cases). Pulmonary emboli are exceedingly rare and occur from an associated DVT

    1. Venoactive drugs (diosmin, hesperidin, horse chestnut seed extract) may be considered as adjuncts to compression for symptomatic relief in countries where available

    2. Endovenous ablation is contraindicated or relatively unsuitable when venous anatomy precludes catheter-based treatment, specifically: aneurysmal dilation of the GSV close to the saphenofemoral junction, subcutaneous location of truncal veins above the saphenous fascia and close to the skin, and significant tortuosity of the GSV or SSV. [1] In these scenarios, high ligation and stripping is recommended as the preferred alternative (grade 1 strong recommendation

    3. Endovenous Thermal Ablation (RFA/EVLA)

      Relative contraindications include inappropriate vein size, with veins <2 mm and >15 mm representing potential contraindications for RFA specifically. [1] A history of superficial thrombophlebitis resulting in a partially obstructed saphenous vein may preclude thermal ablation. [1] Significant tortuosity of the GSV on duplex examination can make catheter delivery difficult.

    4. Endovenous ablation is the preferred treatment for symptomatic varicose veins with axial reflux, offering less postprocedure pain, reduced morbidity, and earlier return to activity

      Endovenous thermal ablation (radiofrequency ablation [RFA] and endovenous laser ablation [EVLA]) has largely replaced surgery as the standard of care

      Ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy (UGFS) represents a less invasive option but has higher recurrence rates

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    1. This assessment raises two issues. First, it is arbitrary. If 10 of the 15 CIs included the predicted values, would the results also support the theory, or instead refute it? If one instead used 99% CIs, would positive results for 12 of the 15 predictions be enough to support the theory? This arbitrariness arises because CIs offer no principled method for generating an inference regarding the theory.

      Estimation is too messy / complex and not clear enough

    1. Aortic dissection typically presents acutely with sudden, severe tearing chest or back pain, often described as lancinating in quality. [5-6] Approximately 50% of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm may progress to dissection without timely intervention. [5] In contrast, thoracic aortic aneurysm is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally during physical examination or imaging for other indications. [5]

    2. Any patient with chest or back pain with a known or suspected thoracic aorta aneurysm must be brought to the hospital and undergo urgent imaging studies to rule out the aneurysm as a cause of the pain

      elective surgical repair is suggested at 5.5 cm in patients without underlying connective tissue disorders, with earlier intervention at 4.5-5.0 cm in patients with connective tissue disorders or bicuspid aortic valve

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    1. North Carolina is one of six states that still have an alienation of affection law: Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah are the others.

      Six U.S. states with alienation of affection laws: North Carolina, Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah.

    1. https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ktb7ty/what_are_the_rules_of_typewriter_club/?sort=new

      The Rules of Typewriter Club

      The first rule of Typewriter club is Do not oil the segment.

      The second rule of Typewriter club is DO NOT oil the segment.

      Do not ask the value of your typewriter: they are invaluable.

      Always talk about typewriter club. Every chance you get: to family, friends, complete strangers...

      If you only have one typewriter, you must refer to it as "my FIRST typewriter".

      If you're new to typewriter club, you have to type.

      A typewriter is not broken unless it is clean and broken.

      Parts of a typewriter should only be removed in order to repair another typewriter.

      Keychoppers shall have the extremities they used to chop keys chopped off.

      More than one machine is allowed to be your "favorite".

      The last typewriter you bought is the greatest one. Until the next one.

      Never leave a typewriter outside, in a barn, or in a damp basement to rust.

      Typewriters are to type with. They should not be "flipped".

      Any reason is a good reason to buy and use a typewriter.

      The hardest part of typewriter repair is believing you can do it. Everything else is just instructions plus a careful, thoughtful hand. —Rt. Rev. Theodore Munk

      If you see a typewriter, you should take photos and upload the details to the TypewriterDatabase.com.

      Typewriters are not mood setting decor, they are meant to be used.

      Always leave a typewriter in better condition than you found it.

      We form things; we do not "bend" them.

      The only acceptable way to dispose of a typewriter is to find it a new home. The only exception is in dire circumstances in time of war when one should follow the guidance of the Underwood manual and "Smash typewriters and components with a sledge or other heavy instrument; burn with kerosene, gasoline, fuel oil, flame thrower, or incendiary bomb; detonate with firearms, grenades, TNT, or other explosives."

      If anyone asks you about your typewriter, you must spend at least five minutes talking to them about it.

      Legitimate typewriter sellers never use the phrases "it works" or "it just needs a new ribbon."

      Remember that typewriters are dangerous and can be used for samizdat. As Woody Guthrie wrote: "This machine kills fascists."

      Blessed are those who give typewriters to children for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

      "In death, they have a name." Lenore Fenton. Lenore Fenton. Lenore Fenton!

      The Typewriter Database does not list every single serial number, just ranges of numbers and years in which they were made. You are responsible for figuring out which year your number fits into.

      "Working but needs new ribbon" is seller's code for "I have no idea if it really works, but I'm going to try to sell you this machine for the price of a fully functioning machine that was just serviced by a professional shop despite the fact that I just took it out of grandpa's barn and I'm not sure if the mouse inside is dead or not. Also, I can't afford $10 to replace an old ribbon to truly participate in the charade of the price I'm going to try to fleece you with."

    1. Although Communism is not comparable to religion, the two have something incommon, that is, their pursuit of ideals and their emphasis on devotion and sacrifice

      Devotion through collectivism, collectivism through strength

    2. After all, as the Rectification Movement pressed forward,the importance of organization was increasingly emphasized, and many people choseorganizational interests over those of the individual

      The Rectification Movement emphasized the importance of the party and leadership over the individual

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    1. For, as he increases the uncertainty in the contract situationto fend off the problems that Wolff presented, Rawls makes the contract situa-tion more and more untypical of the actual practice situation. The contracteesknow that the 'veil of ignorance' will soon lift and that they will get informa-tion concerning their talents and their roles in the institutions and practices oftheir society
        • Tourist is an ugly human being* - It immediately establishes a critical tone.
      1. How alone you feel in this crowd- tourist fell slightly alienated but locals experience deeper issues like poverty and exploitation
      2. Heaps of Death and ruin- Tourists can leave anytime, while locals are stuck
        • People who inhabit the place in which you just passed cannot stand you*- Tourists can leave anytime while locals are stuck with consequences of tourism
      3. And every tourist is a native somewhere- Travel freedom is privilege that many people in the world do not have due to money, or is it that they lack freedom of the mind?
  5. Feb 2026
    1. https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1rfkptq/morgan_freeman_talking_about_his_typewriter_in/

      THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE (Magnolia Pictures, 2012) features an Underwood standard at about the 31 minute mark.

      Morgan Freeman says: "Look at that machine. I like that you have to write a bit slower on a manual. Like the way it sounds. I like the way that the letters bite into the paper. I like that you can feel there's a genuine human being, doing the work."<br /> (doublecheck the exact quote)

    1. The Man Who Stole Infinity<br /> by [[Joseph Howlett]] in Quanta Magazine on 2026-02-25<br /> accessed on 2026-02-26T09:01:10

      Dedekind proved that the set of algebraic numbers is the same size as the set of whole numbers.

      Cantor plagiarized his proof and later went on to prove that the set of real numbers is larger than the set of whole numbers.

    1. It's nuts that no mainstream browser has incorporated basic native table-editing controls by now. (They wasted no time adding JSON pretty-printers—unsurprising, really, given that their main actual concern is propping up the JS–industrial complex and the professional developer class and not real users, which they don't actually give a shit about, contra the Priority of Constituencies.)

      There is and has been for a long time a huge opportunity for a "Photopea for CSV (and JSON)" to show up and take off.

    1. Yup. When I was in college, they assigned everyone with a task to design and develop a website for a local business founded by the elderly and for the elderly. Worked super hard (was just getting into web design and dev) and created, what I and my friends thought, was a beautiful site form scratch. I thought I had a good shot at winning but they ended up picking a website that was covered in one color and used a very basic free pre-built bootstrap theme. It even had a little footer that said ‘theme from xyz’ at the bottom of the page when they presented it to the client. Old people and their taste can be surprising.

      The complainants' comments here are pure occupational psychosis.

      See also: déformation professionnelle.

    1. EXISTENTIALISM AND DEATH*Existentialism is not a doctrine but a label widely used to lump together several philosophers and writers who are more or less opposedto doctrines while considering a few extreme experiences the beststarting point for philosophic thinking. Spearheading the movement,Kierkegaard derided Hegel's system and wrote books on Fear andTrembling (1843), The Concept of Anxiety (1844), and The Sickness unto Death, which is despair, ( 1849). Three-quarters of a centurylater, Jaspers devoted a central section of his Psychology of Weltanschauungen (1919) to extreme situations (Grenzsituationen),among which he included guilt and death. But if existentialism iswidely associated not merely with extreme experiences in generalbut above all with death, this is due primarily to Heidegger whodiscussed death in a crucial 32-page chapter of his influential Beingand Time (1927). Later, Sartre included a section on death in hisBeing and Nothingness (1943) and criticized Heidegger; and Camusdevoted his two would-be philosophic books to suicide (The Mythof Sisyphus, 1942) and murder (The Rebel, 1951).It was Heidegger who moved death into the center of discussion.But owing in part to the eccentricity of his approach, the discussion influenced by him has revolved rather more around histerminology than around the phenomena which are frequently referred to but rarely illuminated. A discussion of existentialism anddeath should therefore begin with Heidegger, and by first givingsome attention to his approach it may throw critical light on muchof existentialism.2Heidegger's major work, Being and Time, begins with a 40-pageIntroduction that ends with "The Outline of the Treatise." Weare told that the projected work has two parts, each of whichconsists of three long sections. The published work, subtitled "FirstHalf," contains only the first two sections of Part One. The"Second Half" has never appeared.* This essay was written for The Meaning of Death, edited by Herman Feifel,to be published by McGraw-Hill in 1960.75Of the two sections published, the first bears the title, "Thepreparatory fundamental analysis of Being-there." "Being-there"(Dasein) is Heidegger's term for human existence, as opposed tothe being of things and animals. Heidegger's central concern iswith "the meaning of Being"; but he finds that this concern itselfis "a mode of the Being of some beings" (p. 7), namely humanbeings, and he tries to show in his Introduction that "the meaningof Being" must be explored by way of an analysis of "Being-there."This, he argues is the only way to break the deadlock in the discussion of Being begun by the Greek philosophers?a deadlock dueto the fact that philosophers, at least since Aristotle, always discussed beings rather than Being.1 To gain an approach to Being, wemust study not things but a mode of Being; and the mode of Beingmost open to us is our own Being: Being-there. Of this Heideggerproposes to offer a phenomenological analysis, and he expresslystates his indebtedness to Husserl, the founder of the phenomenological school (especially on p. 38). Indeed, Being and Timefirst appeared in Husserl's Jahrbuch f?r Philosophie und ph?nomenologische Forschung.It is entirely typical of Heidegger's essentially unphenomenological procedure that he explains "The phenomenological method ofthe inquiry" (?7) by devoting one subsection to "The concept ofthe phenomenon" and another to "The concept of the Logos," eachtime offering dubious discussions of the etymologies of the Greekwords, before he finally comes to the conclusion that the meaningof phenomenology can be formulated: "to allow to see from itselfthat which shows itself, as it shows itself from itself" (Das was sichzeigt, so wie es sich von ihm selbst her zeigt, von ihm selbst hersehen lassen). And he himself adds: "But this is not saying anythingdifferent at all from the maxim cited above; 'To the things themselves!'" This had been Husserl's maxim. Heidegger takes sevenpages of dubious arguments, questionable etymologies, and extremely arbitrary and obscure coinages and formulations to say in abizarre way what not only could be said, but what others beforehim actually had said, in four words.1 My suggestion that the distinction between das Sein and das Seiende be rendered in English by using Being for the former and beings for the latter hasHeidegger's enthusiastic approval. His distinction was suggested to him by theGreek philosophers, and he actually found the English "beings" superior to theGerman Seiendes because the English recaptures the Greek plural, ta onta. (Cf.my Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, p .206.) All translations from theGerman in the present essay are my own.76In Being and Time coinages are the crux of his technique. Hecalls "the characteristics of Being-there existentials [Existenzialien].They must be distinguished sharply from the determinations of theBeing of those beings whose Being is not Being-there, the latterbeing categories" (p. 44). "Existentials and categories are the twobasic possibilities of characteristics of Being. The beings that correspond to them demand different modes of asking primary questions: beings are either Who (existence) or Which (Being-at-handin the widest sense)" (p. 45).It has not been generally noted, if it has been noted at all, thatwithout these quaint locutions the book would not only be muchless obscure, and therefore much less fitted for endless discussionsin European and South-American graduate seminars, but also afraction of its length?considerably under 100 pages instead of438. For Heidegger does not introduce coinages to say briefly whatwould otherwise require lengthy repititions. On the contrary.While Kierkegaard had derided professorial manners and concentrated on the most extreme experiences, and Nietzsche wroteof guilt, conscience, and death as if he did not even know ofacademic airs, Heidegger housebreaks Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche'sproblems by discussing them in such a style that Hegel and Aquinasseem unacademic by comparison. The following footnote is entirelycharacteristic: "The auth. may remark that he has repeatedly communicated the analysis of the about-world [Umwelt] and, altogether, the 'hermeneutics of the facticity' of Being-there, in hislectures since the wint. semest. 1919/20" (p. 72). Husserl is alwayscited as "E. Husserl" and Kant as "I. Kant"?and his minions dutifully cite the master as "M. Heidegger."How Kierkegaard would have loved to comment on Heidegger'soccasional "The detailed reasons for the following considerationswill be given only in . . . Part II, Section 2"?which never saw thelight of day (p. 89). Eleven pages later we read: "only now thehere accomplished critique of the Cartesian, and fundamentally stillpresently accepted, world-ontology can be assured of its philosophicrights. To that end the following must be shown (cf. Part I, Sect.3)." Alas, this, too, was never published; but after reading the fourquestions that follow one does not feel any keen regret. Witnessthe second: "Why is it that in-worldly beings take the place ofthe leaped-over phenomenon by leaping into the picture as theontological topic?" (I.e., why have beings been discussed insteadof Being?) Though Heidegger is hardly a poet, his terminology77recalls one of Nietzsche's aphorisms: "The poet presents his thoughtsfestively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could notwalk" (The Portable Nietzsche, p. 54).If all the sentences quoted so far are readily translatable intoless baroque language, the following italicized explanation of understanding (p. 144) may serve as an example of the many more opaquepronouncements. (No other well-known philosophic work containsnearly so many italics?or rather their German equivalent whichtakes up twice as much space as ordinary type.) "Understandingis the existential Being of the own Being-able-to-be of Being-thereitself, but such that this Being in itself opens up the Where-at ofBeing with itself" (Verstehen ist das existenziale Sein des eigenenSeink?nnens des Daseins selbst, so zwar, dass dieses Sein an ihmselbst das Woran des mit ihm selbst Seins erschliesst). The following sentence reads in full: "The structure of this existential mustnow be grasped and expressed still more sharply." Still more?Heidegger's discussion of death comes near the beginning of thesecond of the two sections he published. To understand it, two keyconcepts of the first section should be mentioned briefly. The firstis Das Man, one of Heidegger's happier coinages. The German wordman is the equivalent of the English one in such locutions as "onedoes not do that" or "of course, one must die." But the Germanman does not have any of the other meanings of the English wordone. It is therefore understandable why Das Man has been translatedsometimes as "the public" or "the anonymous They," but sinceHeidegger also makes much of the phrase Man selbst, which means"oneself," it is preferable to translate Das Man as "the One." TheOne is the despot that rules over the inauthentic Being-there of oureveryday live
    1. The study finds that with only 23% of India’s electricity from renewables, the rapid growth of EVs could increase emissions and up to 90% improper battery recycling and disposal further exacerbating environmental harm.

      It makes a verifiable claim about the specific percentage of batteries that are not properly recycled in India, which further supports the fact that EV's are not as bio friendly as claimed to be in their overall life.

    1. God did not breathe His own breath into dust just to create a food source for an Algorithm.

      Nishmat Chayyim vs. The Feed This anchor references Genesis 2:7, where God breathes the Nishmat Chayyim (Breath of Life) into dust. This act transforms biological matter into a Nephesh Chayah (Living Soul).

      In the Kingdom, the "Breath" is the sacred, animating force of God. It is Autotelic—it exists for its own divine purpose, not to be instrumentalised. The Empire, however, views humans as "Livestock"—mere biomass to be converted into data and ad revenue. This is the spiritual crime of Idolatry inverted: instead of you sacrificing to a false god, the false god (The Algorithm) sacrifices you to itself. To "wake up" is to reclaim the Ruach (Spirit) and refuse to let the Holy of Holies (your attention) be turned into a marketplace (John 2:16).

    1. FACT: Electric vehicle battery replacements due to failures are uncommon.

      This is a verifiable statement that can be supported by the data and the chart shown under the claim. This is supported by the study of 15k vehicles cited in the text, which show that battery failure rates have been less than 0.5% for models made after 2016. This specific data effectively disproves the myth that batteries need frequent replacement.

    1. p.s. Want the visual map? You'll find a full FieldNote Sketch Summary of this inside the 'hidden' layer. Click this highlight to see the synthesis, share it with someone you know needs it and save a copy for yourself.

      Use this SketchNote in your Notes and share it with someone you know.

  6. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
    1. In the 1870's, violent opposition in the South and the North's retreat from its commitment to equality, resulted in the end of Reconstruction.

      This sentence shows that Reconstruction did not fail only because of Southern resistance, but also because the North gave up on enforcing equality. Once federal commitment weakened, violence and white supremacy were able to regain control, showing how fragile Reconstruction reforms really were.

  7. Jan 2026
    1. Dating is hard, but as AI gets more sophisticated and becomes integrated into our everydaylives, we shouldn’t be afraid to allow it to lend us a hand. Just don’t forget to thank it at thewedding.

      Because McArthur claims "...we shouldn't be afraid to allow it to lend us a hand," this shows that he's suggesting the reader to have a change of attitude towards AI and that we should let our guard down and allow it to help us.

    2. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Used in the right way, AI can actually make datingbetter.

      McArthur is giving his opinion, claiming that AI can make dating better if used correctly. That take would go down as a Claim of Value because he says AI can be positive or helpful, instead of stating a fact.

    3. The Kinsey Institute’s annual “Singles in America” survey revealed that 14 per cent ofGen Z-ers, and six per cent of all single people, are already using AI to help with dating

      This is a claim of fact because there is data given to support the statement

    1. Bear with me, as I’m going to hold to this: if I see your phoneout I’ll ask you to bring it to the front of the room and leave it until the end of class. Idon’t want to embarrass anyone but I’m serious about this.

      I like this rule because i feel that the phone can be a huge distraction to students and impact their learning and attention span

    1. Known historical users of the Royal KMM:<br /> - John Ashbery<br /> - Russell Baker - Ray Bradbury - Richard Brautigan - Richard Brooks - Pearl S. Buck<br /> - Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG) - Norman Corwin<br /> - Frank Herbert<br /> - Helen Keller<br /> - Murray Kempton<br /> - Ken Kesey<br /> - George Washington Lee - Harper Lee<br /> - Ursula K. Le Guin - David McCullough<br /> - Margaret Mead<br /> - Dorothy Parker<br /> - Grantland Rice<br /> - Georges Simenon<br /> - Christina Stead<br /> - Tom Wolfe

      The KMM was also the typewriter featured on the 1980s hit television show Murder, She Wrote which is currently being remade in 2025/2026 with Jamie Lee Curtis.

    1. There's a mismatch between me and my writing tools. They seem to want something slightly different from what I want. I wonder if anyone else has this feeling? I mean there's plenty of people who are apparently on a life-long quest to find the perfect app, because they still haven't found what they're looking for. What's up with that? Well this article made things a lot clearer for me: Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity | Kei Kreutler. Kreutler argues we've conflated all memory with computer memory. That's to say we've assumed everything can be stored and retrieved as data. But this misses something crucial, which is that the kind of memory that shapes worlds requires transmission, relationship, and context, and not just storage. And this got me thinking: doesn't this apply to our digital writing tools? They have to store our writing as data, but in doing so they change it in subtle ways we might not even notice, except as the kind of vague unease I've been feeling. Why your note-making tools don’t quite work the way you want them to - and what to do about it. So am I over-thinking it again, or have you too felt a gap between what you want to do and what your writing tools expect you to do?

      reply to u/atomicnotes at https://reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1qjrnp8/why_dont_my_notemaking_tools_work_the_way_i_want/

      In older analog offices, the office worker stored things on paper in piles, in folders, in various locations within their office. Because humans have excellent spatial memory, the worker would have an idea of what he might want and would know in which pile on their desk or which filing cabinet it might be filed in. Despite what may look like a messy office, most will know exactly where certain papers are "hiding". This overlaps with older indigenous cultures and artificial memory with structures like songlines, talking rocks, and later techniques from ars memoriae like method of loci or memory palaces. For more on this cross reference Hudson & Thames' First Knowledges series edited by Margo Neale.

      Entirely digital-based methods have erased a lot of these sorts of locational affordances.

    1. if the author later changes their display name or avatar, we wouldn’t want to go through their every post and change them there

      Right. You wouldn't. Which means you can embed the author information there—because you're not going to go through and change them.

      You can (and should) just leave them alone.

      Author profiles on hardcover dustjackets don't change when the author changes affiliation or relocates or dies. Their forwards and prefaces don't change when available information on the subject evolves. This is all not just perfectly fine, but desirable.

    1. He is a lamp sitting in the dark, clutching an extension cord, waiting for someone else to find the outlet.

      ⚠️ DIAGNOSTIC: EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL This is the definition of "Powerlessness." Alex has the hardware (he knows the verses/theology), but he lacks the connection. He believes the "Outlet" is his mentor. The Truth: The Outlet is inside the believer (The Indwelling Spirit). Alex is sitting in a room with the lights off, holding a plug, forgetting he is hardwired to the generator.

    1. The king of Kish even sometimes enforced order inSumer. For example, Enannatum’s son, Enmetena, wrote that theborder between Lagash and Umma had been determined by thegreat god Enlil himself and had been confirmed by the king of Kish:“Mesalim, king of Kish, at the command of (the god) Ishtaran,measured the field and set up a (boundary-) stone there.” Theauthority of the king of Kish was therefore acknowledged, at leasttemporarily, by both the king of Umma and the king of Lagash.

      There is an interesting example of the mnemonic use of stone here in ancient Sumer. It serves as a boundary/border marker by its physical presence, but apart from any (other local) mnemonic uses, it also carries an inscription as a secondary form of long term written memory.

      Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/rpPeOl4IEeyqH1-fAP0WQw

    2. The tablet wasfound by archaeologists in the foundations of the temple of Inannain Lagash, called the Ibgal. This extensive complex was oval inshape, as were many Early Dynastic temples in other cities, with alarge courtyard and a platform on which Inanna’s temple wasconstructed.

      What is the general history of oval-shaped architecture? Is there an explicit link between the Oval shape of the complex at Ibgal, the temple (or house) of Inanna in Lagash and the oval office at the White House?

      Keep in mind that modern knowledge of large portions of the Ancient Near East only surfaced after the 1800s, so the tradition would have required intermediaries from the ANE into other cultures to be passed down to the building of the White House in 1792.

    3. The investment of time and manpower devoted to the constructionof this complex would have resembled the work on a medievalcathedral. As early as 3600 BCE work had begun on the so-calledLimestone Temple in the Eanna precinct. Quarrymen and masonsremoved limestone from a rocky outcrop around fifty kilometers (31mi) to the southwest. Other men transported the stone to Uruk. Stillothers formed hundreds of thousands of mud bricks and clay cones,and set them out to harden in the sun. Others brought timber fromfar to the north for the roofs. Someone supervised all the workmenwho set the bricks and stones and mosaic cones in place. The menwould have been fed and provided for during the construction. Thebuilders were all probably residents of Uruk, united in their desire tocreate a magnificent home for their beloved divine queen.

      Possibility that even with proto-cuneiform (writing) evolving here that such temples were local memory palaces for the culture of the inhabitants who would have been primary orality-based?

    1. reply to harr at https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/3392/folgezettel-vs-duplex-numeric-arrangement

      I'll shortly have a lot more to say on this very subtle historical subject, which I've been work at off and on over the past month or so. My analysis indicates entire lack of innovation on the fronts which you're indicating. Pages 178-180 show the period standard practice of the subject alphabetic filing you say Luhmann was innovating against, but the duplex-numeric is exactly what he was using. The method he chose had been recommended and in use since at least the 1910s—especially for law offices.

      Your quotes from his 1981 paper, while interesting, create a false impression stemming from post hoc, ergo propter hoc analysis. You have to remember that by the 1980s, he's been practicing this for nearly 30 years and is providing a reflection on that practice, which is also heavily impacted by his systems theory work through those decades. I strongly suspect that his mid-century perspective didn't stray far from that Remington Rand outline or those of scores of other sources.

      It bears noting that of the four potential methods suggested in the chapter, the last one is the Dewey Decimal method, which many who've been in the zettelkasten space have also very naturally tried using as a scaffolding for their filing work. Others have also reasonably suggested variations like the Universal Decimal Classification system or Wikipedia's Academic Outline of Disciplines.

      One will also notice that the option of doing a "Variadex Alphabetic" arrangement hasn't ever (to my knowledge) been mentioned in the online zettelkasten space. It was given the pride of place as first in the list of options, but this stems primarily from the fact that it was a variation offered by Remington Rand as a paid product with the related accessories. Every filing cabinet company and major stationery company had variations on this theme with their own custom names and products.

    1. 22:48 "It's the gravitas of the situation that I see, that frustrates me that other people don't see it. I have been "preparing" intentionally since Hurricane Katrina, but I grew up on a farm in upstate New York. I know how to hunt. I know how to butcher animals. I know how to grow food. I know row crops and gardens. I know foraging in the woods. I know how to fish and where to get water from. And I understand how to move in a rural environment, not just the topographical terrain, but the human terrain as well. Been doing that my whole life. One could say, I've been prepared for this by the hand of the Most High my whole life. And I I see it. I see it coming. And it... while I would love to be wrong, it bothers me that others who do see it, or pay lip service to seeing it, don't take it as seriously as they should."

      preach. there is too much demoralization everywhere.

  8. Dec 2025
    1. https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCGFT/freelcgft.html

      This page provides print-ready PDF files for the the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), as well as the Genre/Form Terms Manual, which provides guidelines and instructions for making proposals and for applying genre/form terms. LCGFT is available as part of LC's web-based subscription product, Classification Web Plus .

    1. “Users” are a commodity, a hot one perhaps, but like any other commodity, can be bought and sold. In such an environment, goes the line of reasoning in the mind of the average executive, does it not make sense to heavily prioritise onboarding alongside user acquisition so that users won’t immediately give up or get distracted, or gasp, go to a competitor?!

      When users are treated like a commodity by powers that be, there is a concentration on making apps "usable" and "universal" in order to avoid "churn"