Quite the editorial - https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47483
Did dry January for the first time. This was the first time in my adult life that I didn't drink for more than 2-3 days.
For me, the revelation was pretty underwhelming: Next to no difference,. Only a little less merry 😄 Having said that: I do drink noticeably less and the first few beers tasted weird.
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"If Ukraine is forced to surrender its sovereign territory to Russia, it will be the greatest betrayal of a European ally since Poland in 1945." - Ed Davey.
That statement throws out over half a century of U.S. grand strategy. Establishing and defending a rules-based international order after World War II, along with the open trading system that emerged from it, was largely the brainchild of the U.S. This system worked wonders for both the U.S. and millions of people around the world. I'm sorry, but to discredit this, to my mind, would take much more substantial arguments than JD's shallow slander.
"If not Brussels, then Moscow" - here's Zelenskyy's speech actually addressing the problem before Europe with vision and clarity. Miles beyond that populist BS Vance offered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7-sMEhKOa8
at least someone gets it, there's so many fanboys around here
Guys, that was just a wanna-be edgy filler speech because he has nothing to say about Ukraine. And that's because this administration is a walking intellectual vacuum. It's just cheap populism.
Would that be enough to win the US presidency? Well, unfortunately, yes, but that's not a good sign!
"Why is US politics so unreasonsable?" 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇭 once fancied themselves "sister republics", sharing similar institutions & founding spirits. However, at the beginning of the 20th century, the two countries reformed their electoral systems in markedly different ways. My analysis of this divergence is now available in English in my knowledge garden.
Reasonable feedback is always welcome! There you go: 👇
Ahhh yes, that unmistakable E coli taste of Brexit freedom... 💩
I'm a bit late to this realisation, but, yes, absolutely: The future is digital currencies either way, the only question is which digital currency under whose control. Well but in this interview.
E.g. banks here in Switzerland setup a great payment system you can use for free called Twint - and everybody does. But you're always paying in their book money.
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Hm, I just remembered Threads exists 🤔
The end.
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Hmmm, I don't think splitting "person" into mind and body to go on and claim the mind always necessarily owns the body solves the problem. I agree that way you clear my first objection: It's no longer a circle. "You"/"Person" is in the mind owning the body. No circle.
But you now run into the second difficulty with speed. Let's see if you agree to this:
1.) If the body were "normal" property, you'd be able to give it away or sell it like all other property.
2.) So if we want to call it property, there must be some reason to disallow selling it.
3.) Your argument against selling it is that the locus of the mind is in the body. The mind can't leave the body, hence it can't transfer ownership of the body.
4.) Your protection against slavery is as strong as your argument in point 3.
Do you agree to these points? If not, which point not?
My pupils' notes reflecting what I said in my programming intro 😅
"Important: Always think as stupidly as a computer." 
I don't think the analogy with property holds up, because it's circular and because it'd mean you can give yourself away. It's circular because the definition of property is that it belongs to you. If you are your own property, that means you belong to you belong to you belong to you... leading to an infinite regression. "You" is never actually defined.
If something is your property, you can sell it or give it away. If you regarded people as their own property, that'd be a very thin legal protection against, from the video, slavery or rape. Because you could sell yourself and what the new owner does with her/his new property is none of your business (again: "you" isn't defined anyway).
So those are reasons I think your moral philosophy absolutely shouldn't ever equate people and property.
...the audacity... 😲
"...the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing..." https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
"Meta and TikTok confirmed that the code exists but said they don’t use it to snoop." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/13/facebook-instagram-data-privacy/
Oh wow, Snort/Iris have gotten really smooth. I left for Primal a few months ago, but this is nice! 😊
Blender is 30 today! 😊 This video gave me watery eyes... It's come soooo incredibly far! I was only 15 when I went to Amsterdam to the Blender conference 2003, knowing nothing about CS, coding... Now I'm almost 37, contributed money and even some code, and Blender looks healthier by the day! Open-source collaboration and the tools that facilitate it are, IMHO, really among the pinnacles of human achievement. It's profoundly awesome.
https://video.blender.org/download/videos/92902058-b049-4877-8171-4910407b6af0-1080.mp4
I think in computer science generally the tech gets better if it's made more consumer-friendly (even if only for the resource boost you get through wider adoption).
But for Nostr as a social medium, once parity is achieved broadly speaking (I think we're pretty much there), the ultimate fight isn't on the feature front, but against the network effect. Why should any single person decide to leave networks where they've established themselves with friends, people they follow, followers, etc. and start from scratch? It's a mighty obstacle.
Maybe the way Nostr will take hold is not as a social medium, but with other apps that people interact with. What are things people can't do now that we could enable them to do with Nostr that are of substantial benefit to the user?
"The West" is making an energetic comeback as the foremost signifier of stupidity in political commentary. 😣