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State of the Art Questions (1983)(academia.edu)
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"The Expanding Universe", Notes by Laurie Spiegel(unseenworlds.com)
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Agnes Martin: "Beauty Is the Mystery of Life"(artbook.com)
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"Spheresy 164" by Alina Popa and Nicola Masciandaro(slug.directory)
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I've gifted a couple friends Midori notebooks before. On the go, portable enough to carry in a jacket or back pocket, I'm partial to the A6 blank notebook. Otherwise, I like the free form factor of A5/A4 loose leaf paper, par
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Oh, yes, exceedingly so. I found it to be extraordinary[1]. It has been on the back of my mind to-read since late summer of 2019, where the recommendation came from a soft-spoken lecturer. 1: For example, ranging from "...Nippers would
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Just finished reading, for the first time, the short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener" by Melville. I have also been reading the essays in David Foster Wallace in Context [1], published in November of 2022. And I'm looking for
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UCSC should also have a psychedelics studies program (is there any better place?), particularly on account of their already unique (and wonderful) History of Consciousness program. I remember an old and dear chemist friend of mine there who
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The advice is excessive and idealistic. But otherwise, I think the default screen resolutions render text too small. On my laptop, I prefer the scaled resolution of 1024x640, compared to the default 1280x800. Other settings I use is increas
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Franz Wright on the Love and Failures of Language(lithub.com)
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> there is a whole new appreciation of being there And yet, the always unsuccessful attempt of the photograph: "To annihilate itself as medium, to be no longer a sign but the thing itself" (Barthes, Camera Lucida ).
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Great lantern analysis on your blog! I initially thought the Comet was right up my alley but seems like the Jupiter is a happy medium.
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For as long as I may remember, I've had the same problem. I detest artificial light and I'm a sucker for the twilit, moonlit, and candlelit. Seems like modernization means having every single dark corner illuminated. Aren't t
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I've tried different browsers, more so these past few years, and always end up back with Ungoogled Chromium. It seemingly uses half of the memory of Firefox.
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Although, the "pact with the digital has a price, which is this drastic loss of 'measure.'"[1] 1: https://www.publicbooks.org/changes/
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A rare occurrence, a few months ago, I came across one (re: a dissertation that is both entertaining and for the lay): Neocosmicism: God and the Void (2013) by Ellen Greenham[1]. It seems like it eventually came into fruition as a full-fl
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> The web of relationships extends to music as well. Reminds me of a recent, first time listen of John Cale's rendition of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night": https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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See also Josh Comeau's interactive guide to flexbox: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox...
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> classical texts are enmeshed in a dense web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years "[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextual[1]. Further reading: Hermann Broch&#x2
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses [pdf](cc-catalogo.org)
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As for generative AI: "mimicry is always sinister" ( Friendship's Death (1987), Peter Wollen).
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Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade(evonomics.com)
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Charles Sanders Peirce(plato.stanford.edu)
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It might be that the apophatic is best understood with it's counterpart in mind: the cataphatic. Whereas the apophatic is annihilating (sculpting into) whatever is not God (e.g., the finite), the cataphatic is constructing (amassing in
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Furthermore: In theology, the apophatic as a clearing of the unreal. In problem-solving, the invert as a uncovering of beliefs.
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> I've never done a dive into package managers and just used what's been available. See the Nix Package Manager[1]. 1. https://checkoway.net/musings/nix/
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Bifo Berardi on Political Impotence and the Rise of Global Silicon Valley (2017)(032c.com)
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If you don't want a snoozefest but rather something engrossing, see Emil Cioran's On the Heights of Despair , a discourse on skepticism.
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Better than anything you'll ever conjure up.
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Used XMR for the first time this past week (Anna's Archive and Mullvad VPN subscriptions) - pretty seamless experience due in part to Monero GUI Wallet and LocalMonero.

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