Finished reading: The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan đź“š
Because who dosn’t think about the fall of the Roman Republic? It covers a lot of the breakdown of the mores/norms that lead to Civil War (Marius, Sulla) and set the stage for Caesar and Augustus.
There may be some modern parallells :-/
There is a blind boy at our church. I realized yesterday that you (he) doesn’t need sight to “see” beauty, wonder and awe, things a camera just can’t capture, but poets can: Rocky Mountain High
September 11. Happy memories. 4192. “A day that will live in famy”. ⚾️
Using Science in Cybersecurity
Critial open source projects, like Linux, will be unable to track/respond to knonw (and likely, many more unknow) exploi...Security Exploits Too Cheap To Meter?
Now we’ve crossed a real threshold. It may be time to unplug the Internet. www.schneier.com/blog/arch… simo...Freud meets me at McDonald's
“Eating out is just an opportunity to pay for bad service” That was my quip to myself this morning. The cash...You don’t have to turn off notifications when you’re writing on paper.
The end of the world has a very long history
I recently watched the “Oppenheimer” movie about the development of the Atomic Bomb. In it they address the ...Monitoring your own car?
I came across CarWatch: a Raspberry Pi + local LLM that turns a car into a chat-room agent, reads engine data, watches f...The online off-ramp
Join me in a journey down the online off-ramp. I worked at America Online. I started my career at CompuServe, which pion...Neal Stephenson writes with pen and paper.
nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing…
Some good arguments for it.
Ironically, at least a few hardcore #emacs users Aldi have a habit of also writing a lot on paper
Will voice kill the keyboard?
Matt Kraning writes on LinkedIn: “Fourteen months ago, I wrote that Menlo Ventures was betting Wispr Flow would k...I poked my head into substack again. It shows me things I think are interesting, but it’s back in algorithm land begging for attention.
2015 called. It wants my attention back. Probably not.
I did the fateful thing. I updated all my #emacs packages after not touching them for 5 months. Now I’m recompiling emacs from the latest sources to try to make mysterious new errors go away. You pull one thread…
Different outlooks
The web page for the Portugese Camno says " Every year more and more people choose the Portuguese Camino." I g...This is not sustainable. People will just stop providing content if they have to pay for the bots and the time to fight them.
Annoy a marketing person. Set your phone to always use greyscale. Much less interesting that way :-)