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Not from around here. Thinking about complex systems, being a more dangerous cro-magnon in the anthropocene, and freedom tech (general)

Does anyone else have a weird bug on #amethyst where backspacing into a word deletes the previous space?

That's a great thought- I've come across Invidious a bit before, but don't know why I didn't think to use it there. Will make sure to do that going forward. Thanks!

A few! I like having different books for different places: one in the study, one for commutes, one before bed. Some way of dealing with a short attention span, I guess.

I've been trying to read more history, so currently enjoying The Mongol Empire, by John Man. It's a very literary and narrative history, so sometimes you wish there was a little more detail, but it's an incredible story, especially Genghis' original rise to power.

A fun fiction pairing with that has been The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian, a collection of Howard's original short stories in publication order. Everyone knows the Milius film with Arnold (which is great!) but Howard's Conan has a little more complexity.

Finally (and maybe a more relevant to the #bookstr folks who like finance/econ themes), I'm a little ways into The Laws of Trading by Lebron. It's definitely themed around trading decision making, but uses that to discuss more general principles for good decisions under uncertainty. The first quarter or so is good, at least!

I've definitely been trying to grow my physical library again, after a few years of relying more on ebooks.

I know that encoding non-transaction data on chain is controversial, but this could be a valid use case: hashes for specific versions of important or controversial texts.

I don't really worry at this point about a future where Hayek or Nietzsche are inaccessible, but I do worry about a future where the space is polluted by subtly distorted versions, as everything is constantly dynamicaly rewritten to serve the status quo.

This is an awesome list- it's good to know the baseline 'nix tools, but some of the extensions are so good. ripgrep and fzf are part of my standard setup on every system now.

IFAK check: how far away is your closest tourniquet, right now?

it's a desperately-needed bit of historical perspective. most people in the developed world just really have no idea how bad things can get.

Yeah, this definitely feels smoother...

Fair enough- the carnivore/ketone stuff is interesting, but something about 'em sets off my psyop flags

They should still be posting over here though

remember the auroch