Feels like a lost art these days
My top two are Coracle and NoStrudel. Play around and find the strengths of each client.
I'm here mainly because I'm interested in the software.
Also it's a void I can shout into when I have Thoughts.
A lot of people talk about the lack of algorithms as a big selling point. I'm not so sure it makes as big a difference as they think.
People on Nostr seem to be talking about how positive and friendly it is without any Nasty Algorithms.
However, the posts I see the most in-deoth interaction on are the spicy hot takes.
The quality of interaction is better, but all the real conversations on here are still arguments.
> "The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it."
— Frank Herbert in Dune.
This is why the nuclear armed nations are the ones with veto power in the UN.
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Does anyone know of any good, loose-leaf tea brands commonly available in US grocery stores?
It may be time to re-read it myself. The third book is the one I remember least.
Perelandra, though, was fascinating.
I do have a lot of hope in the regenerative agriculture movement. My parents are homesteading up in Tennessee and learning regenerative agriculture, and I pick up a little bit of knowledge every time I visit.
Regarding the incentives and scale, are you familiar with the economic theory of Distributism? I read Hilaire Belloc's Essay on the Restoration of Property a couple of years ago to get an introduction to the theory. The idea there of pushing the drivers of economic activity down to the most local, small scale as possible seems to me like it would address many of the broken incentives we face today.
*Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest by Fixing Liu is one of the most thought-provoking sci-fi books I've read
The Space Trilogy actually significantly shaped some of my thinking about the world
Goodness that's rather depressing.
I imagine with all the knowledge we have of biology now, we ought to be able to work out more sustainable methods of agriculture. It just seems there aren't incentives to do that on a national/global scale.
I'm thinking of the Nile valley, and how it supported Egyptian civilization for thousands of years. But it was fed by the annual flooding. Maybe damming and controlling river flow disrupts the natural processes that replenish the soil.
Ooh Dorsai is some great military sci-fi
Has anyone mentioned Asimov's Foundation Trilogy yet?