Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

Das Ego hat Geschichte. Es ist kein spontaner Impuls, sondern eine gewachsene Struktur aus Erinnerungen, Prägungen und gelernten Reaktionen. Es ist wie eine Burg, die ständig erweitert wurde: jeder Schmerz ein neuer Stein, jede Freude ein weiterer Turm, jede Zurückweisung ein zusätzlicher Wall. Und je älter wir werden, desto komplexer wird diese Festung – und desto überzeugter ist der Hüter darin, dass sein Schutz unbedingt notwendig ist.

the current algorithms are too shallow and assume a relatively static environment where everything has already been bootstrapped

But privacy is difficult. Building truly private systems requires sophisticated cryptography, careful protocol design, constant vigilance against metadata leakage, and user discipline that most people cannot maintain. The cypherpunks understood this: privacy is possible, but it is expensive in complexity and effort. Many systems cannot achieve it. Many more achieve it imperfectly, leaking enough information for a determined adversary to reconstruct what he needs. Decentralization offers a different kind of protection, one that operates even when the adversary can see everything. Grant him perfect observation. Let him watch every transaction, identify every participant, map every node. He observes, he orients, he decides, he acts. And his action accomplishes nothing.

The word church means ministry, in the sense of parliament or governing assembly. Unfortunately, this word has been hijacked in modern times and now primarily denotes a building in which people gather for an hour per week to sing self-congratulatory songs and shirk all further responsibility

the verb εκκαλεω (ekkaleo), meaning to call out, that is: to summon, to assemble for some specific purpose. This verb isn't used in the New Testament but from it derives the noun εκκληος (ekkletos), which describes either a person or a group of people selected to govern or judge. From this noun in turn derives the important noun εκκλεσια (ekklesia), which describes an Assembly; not just any assembly but an Assembly duly summoned. This hefty word shows up all over the classics, and denotes a group of powerful men who have congregated in order to form a governing body or parliament, usually under a king or president: a senate that's formed from senators who each represent their own demographic group of citizens.

With AI, people feel they don’t need to learn programming, writing, or any craft. But I think that’s the wrong conclusion, especially on a personal level. As AI won’t replace human thinking, we will lose the muscle of thinking like we lost the ability to do simple math or remember a phone number as phones and calculators have replaced it.

the key difference between a free person and an enslaved person is that the latter had demonstrated an inability to keep himself out of bondage, which automatically meant that he was also unfit to keep society out of bondage. And that meant that slaves had no right to interfere with any kind of policy making. In our modern and sensitive times we call people who perform work but have no authority to make policy by the term "employee", which is the same thing as a δουλος (doulos).

The only competition the gospel has is with ignorance, which is not the opposite of wisdom but the absence of it.

A sheep follows the shepherd the way a child learns to speak. Both imitate, but neither knows what might come of it. The gospel is like a language within which one can express oneself in any which way one wants. The "freedom of speech" that is so proverbially important in our modern day and age is contingent on all speakers submitting themselves to the rules that govern the language. If nobody adheres to the rules, the language doesn't work (or even exist, because all language is consensus) and there is no freedom of speech. If everybody adheres to the rules, the languages works, and everybody can freely express what's on their hearts. In Galatians 5:1 Paul writes that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free (implying that the very purpose of the gospel is freedom; also see Luke 4:18), but the kind of freedom that is referred to is not the anarchy of flies — because flies are utterly bound by chaos, muteness, darkness and lawlessness — but the freedom of bees: freedom-by-law, or ελευθερια (eleutheria).

Notarization is a "security" feature by Apple. You send binaries to Apple, and they either approve them or not. In reality, notarization is about building binaries the way Apple likes it. I don't have anything against notarization as a concept. I specifically don't like the way Apple does notarization. I don't have time to deal with Apple. Homebrew installation script is configured to automatically delete com.apple.quarantine attribute, that's why the app should work out of the box, without any warnings that "Apple cannot check AeroSpace for malicious software"

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Our political system is a lie. Democracy, as practiced, is a lie. Our justice system is a lie. Our money is a lie. For some of us, our relationships are lies. Corporate media manufactures and peddles lies. Our schools teach children lies. Our healthcare system is driven by lies. The climate change narrative is a lie. Our financial system is one colossal lie. The stock market is a lie. Our consensus-driven science is a lie. Most of our wars have been started with lies. Our recorded history is selective at best. I could go on but I’m sure you get the picture now.

Occasionally violent revolutions interrupt this cycle and turn things in a different direction for a season, but eventually the same pattern takes root and becomes normalized again. It’s easy to understand why the establishment loves this cycle. The question is: why do freedom-loving people with functioning brains accept this status quo? Why do they find themselves in voting booths being forced to choose the “lesser of two evils”, which is still choosing evil? Why do they keep placing their trust in people and institutions that have revealed themselves to be untrustworthy time and time again?

GDPR guarantees to right to withdraw consent at any time.[6] In theory, parents can withdraw photo consent. In practice, doing so means: The child is excluded from class photos. They're removed from trip documentation. Their achievements aren't celebrated publicly. They may be the only child in their year with this restriction.

GDPR guarantees to right to withdraw consent at any time.[6] In theory, parents can withdraw photo consent. In practice, doing so means: The child is excluded from class photos. They're removed from trip documentation. Their achievements aren't celebrated publicly. They may be the only child in their year with this restriction.

This insight applies far beyond money. Trust is not morally neutral. In adversarial environments, trust is a liability. Trust is embedded into the functioning of our political and financial institutions. We’re supposed to trust that when elected officials make decisions, these decisions are carefully considered. We’re expected to trust that every policy is made with good intent and that it’s in our best interest to comply. During COVID-19, many trusted the guidance of public health officials, from social distancing (which isn’t even a medical term) to mask mandates to vaccine requirements. Meanwhile, the same officials gave themselves and their allies exemptions to all of the above. Despite the obvious hypocrisy, we were still expected to trust them, and some did, to their own detriment.

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I took a break for a few months because I was building a house

The Philosophy of Liberty says you can't give officials rights you don't possess yourself. You can't vote for someone to steal on your behalf. But that's exactly what inflation is - theft through monetary expansion. Politicians print money, which steals purchasing power from every dollar you hold. They didn't ask permission. They just took it. And they call it "stimulus" or "quantitative easing" to make it sound sophisticated. Bitcoin removes this power entirely. No one - not politicians, not central bankers, not the majority - can vote to inflate Bitcoin. The supply is fixed in code. You can't delegate the power to debase Bitcoin because that power doesn't exist.

Most problems in the world arise from the initiation of force by government. And the solution? Simple: people need to stop asking government officials to initiate force on their behalf. Evil doesn't just come from evil people. It comes from good people who tolerate the initiation of force as a means to their own ends. People that thought themselves good have actually empowered evil people throughout history this way.

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To get away from algorithms, away from being locked in and dependent on the platform, away from big tech chasing our attention, back to real connections as opposed to losing our followers with the Death of the Follower. We need open platforms such as Open Social Media and an open web, where the power isn’t in the platform, but in us as the producers. We need to get out of the algorithms, free from big tech, and back to real connections. But how?

We have designed a system that automates a standardised way of writing. We have codified la langue at a specific point in time. What we have left to play with is la parole. No language model will be able to keep up with the pace of weird internet lingo and memes. I expect we’ll lean into this. Using neologisms, jargon, euphemistic emoji, unusual phrases, ingroup dialects, and memes-of-the-moment will help signal your humanity. Not unlike teenagers using language to subvert their elders, or oppressed communities developing dialects that allow them to safely communicate amongst themselves.

This leaves us with some low-hanging fruit for humanness. We can tell richly detailed stories grounded in our specific contexts and cultures: place names, sensual descriptions, local knowledge, and, well the je ne sais quoi of being alive. Language models can decently mimic this style of writing but most don’t without extensive prompt engineering. They stick to generics. They hedge. They leave out details. They have trouble maintaining a coherent sense of self over thousands of words. Hipsterism and recency bias will help us here. Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.

After the forest expands, we will become deeply sceptical of one another’s realness. Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you’ll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine? Is there a being on the other end of this web interface I can form a relationship with? “Relationship” in the holistic sense – friend, acquaintance, pen pal, intellectual interlocutor, frenemy, drinking buddy, and sure, maybe a lover. Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you’re not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can’t?

The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Yancey Strickler Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk. function l(o){const r=document.createTreeWalker(o,NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,null);let t,e=!0;for(;t=r.nextNode();)if(t.textContent){const n=t.textContent.replace(/\s+/g," ");e?(t.textContent=n.trimStart(),e=!1):t.textContent=n}}const a=document.querySelectorAll(".intro-paragraph");a.forEach(l); It’s like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators. Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and digital gardens . Or make themselves illegible and algorithmically incoherent in public venues.

I love Grimoire

PRs are cheap, humans who understand them are not.

Während durch einen Anschlag von Linksextremisten in Berlin 30.000 Haushalte bei Minustemperaturen weiter ohne Strom auskommen müssen, widmet die „Tagesschau“ Südafrika viel Zeit.

No nsec login = it's not even nostr.

Employment was associated with more weight gain and less weight loss. Among the employed, working longer hours was associated with more weight gain, especially at the higher levels of weight gain where the health consequences are more serious. These findings suggest that as women work longer hours they are more likely to make lifestyle choices that are associated with weight gain.

Heavy pressures at work seem to predispose women to weight gain, irrespective of whether they have received an academic education. This is shown in a study of more than 3,800 Swedes... ”We were able to see that high job demands played a part in women’s weight gain, while for men there was no association between high demands and weight gain”

Além de gratuidade, mordomia e justiça, uma estrutura para a beleza também deve incluir a noção de sacrifício

Nostr is for content, what Bitcoin is for value. Bitcoin doesn't need Nostr and Nostr doesn't need Bitcoin, but they work brilliantly together.

Nostr is for content, what Bitcoin is for value. Bitcoin doesn't

In Zehlendorf, Lichterfelde, Schlachtensee, Wannsee und Nikolassee sieht man nach dem Stromausfall die Reichen ihre Range Rover vollpacken und dann ab nach Mitte ins Hotel fahren, der Gärtner übernimmt die Wacht im Haus, und die Armen müssen sich irgendwie durchkämpfen. Die Linke ist in all ihren Erscheinungsformen voller Verachtung für die Unterschicht und die Schwachen.

I’m developing Jumble in my spare time

If what we are witnessing is not, at heart, a political or cultural battle, but some manifestation of a spiritual war - well, then perhaps our time should be spent becoming the right kind of warrior. Because everything is currently set up to turn us into the wrong kind. The right kind of warrior takes on his own internal demons before he sails out to take on those of others. He takes his stand, and stands his ground, without giving in to the __nihil__ of the age. He cleaves to what he believes in without falling into traps laid by partisanship, anger and self-righteousness. Most of all, he works to clear out his own inner junkyard so that he can go searching for truth - and recognise it when he finds it. His war is against the worst of himself and for the best of the world, and what he is fighting for is the love he so often fails at. His most effective weapon is sacrifice.

Open is good, closed is bad. Why? Because closed things can't be harvested, exploited, or transformed in the image of the new world which the machine is building. 'Open' things, on the other hand; well, they're easy prey.

And that, friends, is one of the larger issues with AI writing. It tries to sound sophisticated without being sophisticated.