back on twitter, after an 11 year break.
neat.
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Surreptitiously Found Groovy Contemporaneous Quote: and check out a long time friend's super awesome wares he makes with his wife.
“Authority’s emulsion of truth and goodness seem particularly attractive in times of crisis. Its adherents today question an emphasis on the rational and autonomous individual pursuing truth and goodness through the independent application of her own reasoning. They look nostalgically back to the more communitarian moral structures of former times when authority enmeshed individuals in a social matrix and sanctified tradition as sufficient warrant for moral direction. In times of great cultural complexity, institutional authority offers the temptation of simplicity that other public justifications cannot match, for it only requires a power hierarchy to operate, and our cultures are stuffed full of those.” — The Deep Simple: The Terms of Public Morality by Steve Delacroix
via: Loren Cox – @skivvie – @skivvie
check out his his hand made laser awesome – jewelry, para-gliders, coasters, and more @ skivvies.com
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Irony in Planning
Composing an entry while the keyboard is unplugged.
Priceless. Double Entendre Bonus:
That Entry >>> You may have noticed I am writing less. Not true. I am publishing less, and editing with increased discipline, so that you may understand me better and enjoy it more..
Accidental Irony Mission, Accepted and Accomplished, and Remedied. Moral I guess? Look at the switch before you start typing. :-p
Dip the pen before you start scratching. Etc.
FakeFuscious Suggests the following:
- “He who leap knowing where, land half the time.”
- “He who leap knowing where, and what bring- man become too heavy most die.” ...
- “But man who can see life down there, inside his mind, and also his world clearly,
- – he bring the right stuff, and usually start village down there.”
Act in Accordance.
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Dinner Tonight – 2020, Day 282.
This be pretty epic tonight for dinner.
— A plate of:
three brown eggs, with pepperoncini, crushed red-chile, butter- sea salt, and a dollop of horse radish mustard mixed in while cooking- along with some secret ingredients that magnify and elongate that palate.
rice cooked to accompany meat, but by itself- with hummus atop.
refried beans loaded with brahmi ghee (which is clarified butter with super potent gotu kola in it), it is good for a lot more than just memory, folks.
-these beans also feature a fantasy line up of spices – think your traditional Mexican re-fried bean but with a little extra nutrition and a strange color from the tumeric you can't taste in it. Otherwise think restaurant or abuela consistency, flavor, richness and mouth feel of the good stuff that cooks for about 2 days.)
a rather large dollop of hummus, with wild caught yellow tail saturated in extra virgin olive oil, because well- this one does not need to be explained.
a pythagorean tetractys of tart red, ripe cherries as an apparatif.
bon appetit.
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Palantir Dances with The Open “Market”
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Palantir IPO'd... the other day, while nobody seemed to notice, well aside from a few spooks, and Theil.
Oh, and if you don't know who Palantir is, you should probably save this for when you are in a good mood. You were warned.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palantir-ipo-idUSKBN26K3N6
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54348456
US tech firm Palantir, known for supplying controversial data-sifting software to government agencies, has fetched a market value of nearly $22 billion in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
The BBC reports: The firm, which launched in 2003 with backing from right-wing libertarian tech investor Peter Thiel and America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), builds programs that integrate massive data sets and spit out connections and patterns in user-friendly formats.
The firm – sometimes described as the “scariest” of America's tech giants- got its start working with US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now supplies software to police departments, other public agencies and corporate clients.
It is active in more than 150 countries, including the UK, where it was one of the tech firms the government enlisted this spring to help respond to coronavirus.
In the first half of 2020, Palantir revenue rose 49% year-on-year, topping $480 million. And at its direct listing on Wednesday, in which investors sold some of their existing shares to the public, shares opened at $10 each – above the $7.25 reference price — giving it a value of roughly $22 billion.
Mark Cash, equity research analyst at Morningstar, who has estimated the firm's value at $28 billion — even higher than the valuation reached on Wednesday — said the firm is well-positioned in a growing industry.
“Data integration at this scale for the government is very complex and I think if you tried to stop spending on that and it just goes away, you're going to have some big problems,” he said.
“We think it's very hard to switch away from once you're in as a customer.”
Due to the use of its technology by immigration authorities in the U.S., Amnesty International issued a report (PDF) saying the firm was failing its responsibility as a company to protect human rights with inadequate due diligence into who it is working for.
- “Palantir told Amnesty that it had deliberately declined some work with border authorities in the US due to the concerns,” * notes the BBC.
“But the company has also vigorously defended its government work, maintaining that its clients own and control the data.
It says it has a team focused on civil liberties issues, but it is government's job to craft policy, not Silicon Valley's.”
Yeah, um- not a lot to say over here. Except I have been well aware of the watcher, it's antics, and growth.
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Re-Re-Re-Cap-Re-What? Heh.
I am probably the only person on earth that feels slight regret and trepidation when clicking the wrong image on a re-captcha.
and then the rest of the time, they feel like this because i think the thing is penalizing me, and it may as well be rendered in hyper-color because they always take longer the more expertly i execute them.
i can seriously never decide what the de-limiting threshold is for “when a square no longer contains a fire hydrant, or bicycle, or whatever.”
like, okay dude i see part of it in there, but when does the captcha want me to not , like consider that square “a fire hydrant” ?
- some guidance from the google team on this would be nice, did they ever write about this specifically? -
For someone who thinks too much, and has to deal with captchas ALL day, I really want to make a more peace-able arrangement with my understanding of them.
It seems half the time I am fine, the rest of the time I either provide it too little accuracy or too much, or I must be clicking to fast, or something. because it takes 2-3 times as long, and i have to re start or re-tokenize the whole thing by hitting refresh and start over.
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well hello there, global announcement and a good book to read- but mostly – my facebook replacement, – www.mytribes.net is LIVE- don't join unless you want to evolve.
good morning !
also, if you are planning on having a normal facebook experience during the election week, and “the next 3 weeks” after that, padded out by an additional 2 weeks... you can probably wait about as long before expecting people to start forgetting about things again.
That aside, the coffee is hot- so please excuse me, while the party I am trying to reach is located across the desk.
Stuff's good man. Colombian Morning Here. https://www.unclejohns.coffee
Now, if you will please have a fantastic day, and make sure to tell one person about it, but offer to listen to their day first. :)
Cheers!
In closing I give you the first few paragraphs of the most interesting book I am reading- This is the first few paragraphs of the start of Chapter Seven..
CHAPTER 7 Tolerance and Commerce Auerbach Reads Voltaire
- In the sixth of Voltaire’s Lettres philosophiques (1734, but written a few years earlier) we come upon a famous page:
Enter the London Stock Exchange, that more respectable place than many a court; you will see the deputies of all nations gathered there for the service of mankind. There the Jew, the Mohammedan and the Christian deal together as if they were of the same religion, and apply the name of infidel only to those who go bankrupt; there the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist, and the Anglican accepts the Quaker’s promise. On leaving these peaceful and free assemblies, some go to the synagogue, others go to drink; one goes to have himself baptized in a great basin in the name of the Father, through the Son, to the Holy Ghost; an- other has his son’s foreskin cut off and Hebrew words mumbled over him which he does not understand; others go to their church to await the inspiration of God, their hats on their heads, and all are content.
Erich Auerbach dealt at length with this text in his great book (Mimesis, 1946). His analysis opened with a word of caution: Voltaire’s “description of the London exchange was not really written for a realistic purpose.”
This is not an obvious statement, just as the notion of realism was not obvious to Auerbach.
Among the many variants of realism studied in Mimesis we find the modern form exemplified by the novels of Balzac and Stendhal, in which individual events and experiences are interwoven with impersonal historical forces. One such force is international commerce, mentioned by Voltaire in his passage on the London Stock Exchange. Auerbach preferred, instead, to emphasize the intentionally deforming characteristics of a description which, Auerbach- by taking the details of the religious ceremonies out of their respective contexts, makes something absurd and comical out of them. This is, Auerbach observes, “the searchlight device” (Scheinwerfertechnik), typical of propaganda:
“Especially in times of excited passions, the public is again and again taken in by such tricks, and everybody knows more than enough examples from the very recent past. . . .
Whenever a specific form of life or a social group has run its course or has only lost favor and support, every injustice which the propagandists perpetrate against it is half consciously felt to be what it actually is, yet people welcome it with sadistic delight.”
This implicit allusion to Nazism crops up again immediately afterward in a bitter and ironic observation: “[Gottfried] Keller was fortunate in that he could not imagine an important change in government which would not en- tail an expansion of freedom.” Mimesis, Auerbach wrote retrospectively, “is a book written in total awareness by a resolute man, in a determinate situation, at the beginning of the forties at Istanbul.”
With these words Auerbach was reiterating his own adherence to the critical considerations which he had worked out in reflecting on Vico’s Scienza Nuova.
More than fifty years have passed since the publication of Mimesis. The voice of Voltaire on the page discussed by Auerbach rings out today more powerfully than ever.
Yeh, its good. The above passage is from a book entitled :
“Threads and Traces” by Carlo Ginzburg.
I fully intend to read all of it, and I can't say that about many books.
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Good Morning.
So, Um, Check this out.
and then this out:
and then this out:
follow-the.link/to-join-mytribes (which goes to mytribes.net)
and here's your pretty image that took me all morning.
in wake of needing somewhere to go and all. I am the sole engineer in charge over at mytribes.net, and I will be needing to appoint some moderators. Send email to dev@ionic-sandbox.com :) I' Omar, or if you're a coffee nut- I roast my own , you can call me doctorbeans if you like.
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interesting error
Hello ! Hm. Unsafe what, too much string? looks like a cool hack- or an error. i dunno. not loading debuggger. wont.. too much to do ::erggg:: :-D
[Error] Error: element for event is null at line 37 URL: https://write.as/js/h.e0acb11.js [Error] Unsafe attempt to load URL data:image/svg+xml;utf8,#greyscale from frame with URL https://write.as/. Domains, protocols and ports must match. URL: https://write.as/ [Error] Error: element for event is null at line 37 URL: https://write.as/js/h.e0acb11.js
as seen from: eric6 Web Browser – 19.02.1 (rev. d14ddbfbbd36) The eric6 Web Browser is a combined help file and HTML browser. It is part of the eric6 development toolset. It is based on QtWebEngine 5.11.3 and Chrome 65.0.3325.230. /GNU Debian Linux (and right meow archaic 4.19 kernel) as I'm still deciding if I like 5.7x better than the 5.6.0bpo .. anyway!
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ah, getting closer
In fixing and syncing 179 sites into a new system, and playing with blog dns- finding, – which explains why my apache vhost file even with grsec and mod security turned off (shh) (i read logs, don't), um – the below. so I know whats doing it now, I think. how fast can one type curl? heh-
** URL: https://write.as/js/h.e0acb11.js **
Looks like I was talking about that above while I came in to fix some typos.
[Error] Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin “https://write.as" from accessing a frame with origin “https://ideology.happyspirit.net". Protocols, domains, and ports must match. at line 433Derp. No submit.as yet.
Getting closer. Need bed. Time to pull down the site and look at code or the github after checking the file to see if its just that. Bet Matt writes nice code, if ideologically he's anything like who I think he is. People trying to dream a better tomorrow can't sleep writing shitty code, I know I cant.
heh, #quagmireadsitua
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