Sedentarian

I tweet about tech, history, books.

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A plague rages along the basin. The prisoners in the island’s high-rise penitentiary watch, as the town across the river dies.

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the next pope will be chosen based on a single criteria: the conclave will choose the candidate they believe can best stand up to Trump

can elaborate on this if anyone's interested

this is am big opp. in prediction markets if you can back this reasoning into a candidate

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The word "Technology," as a container for thousands of distinct practices, methodologies, business models, and technologies, is absolutely meaningless.

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These are the vitals of a macropenis enjoying a warm tropical breeze

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Four key stats are shown for each day:

Retained: # online that were online in the previous day
Churned: # that were online in the previous day but now offline
Resurrected: # that churned and came back online
New: # that are new to the network

4/n

[Urbit Foundation @urbitfoundation]

Four key stats are shown for each day:

Retained: # online that were online in the previous day
Churned: # that were online in the previous day but now offline
Resurrected: # that churned and came back online
New: # that are new to the network

4/n

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M. Burleigh on the Nazis also makes the mark.

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My favorite books r intellectual history, discursive/referential histories/bios, regardless of topic, books you can read through but also dip into like idiosyncratically-sampled libraries. Books like Menand's *The Free World*, Waldrop's *The Dream Machine*, etc. Will list these.

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Thomas Pankeham's 2 histories on Africa, one on the Scramble and the other on the Boer war, which have fairly been called "encyclopedic," are favorites. Of course, Caro's LBJ books, Manchester's Churchill books. Sarah Bakewell on Montaigne. Artemis Cooper on Patrick Leigh Fermor.

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@m_tron99 some micropenises are growers not showers

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How do writers decide what to work on?

When I sit down, existing preferences disappear, and I usually resort to rolling dice to pick from a numbered list. John Cage-style, I guess. Serendipity is the only way in these cases, for me.

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@elonmusk 🌬️👾

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"Let's take a step back and zoom out," I say.

Translation: "I am about to give you a midwit, general, abstract answer, & bathe you in lukewarm context, rather than answer a specific & granular question you asked, and actually have to venture a substantive opinion."

Guilty 😂

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#Woke practices violate healthy, rough & ready American pragmatism

In theory it'd be nice to have #pronouns fit each individual's self perception, but in practice unwieldy

Same with honoring Native American territorial precedents — impossible to be comprehensive/accurate

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If Twitter disappears what will I do when sitting on the toilet. Look at my hands, the wall? Please don't let me down @elonmusk, I can't bear the horror
🚽💩➖🐦 🟰😱

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Most underrated Stephen King novel?

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Nazis would not accept people into the SS if they had even one filled cavity, per M. Burleigh eminent historian, i.e. dental hygiene is correlated with fascism

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The interesting thing about the cheating scandal in chess is that other than *anal beads* no one I've seen has a strong hypothesis on how it was done?

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Rewatching Game of Thrones (after getting into the new series) is such a delight. Awesome one-liners in almost every scene. Deft balance of drama, action, humor.

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Occam's Razor on Twitter/Musk is that he really cares about Twitter and wants to make it better

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People still confuse strategy and tactics ALL the time, and TBH I don't always keep them straight in my own mind. This bit in Ricks's book on Iraq War II is good: