An alternate 20th century of a more Russian world, an independent Constantinople, liberal-democratic Varangian Tsars, and more? Ooh...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/03/02/third-rome-viking-tsars-russian-turan-and-beyond/
This post's featured image is "Servant" by Jules Joseph Lefebvre.
#alternatehistory #worldbuilding #geography #history #demographics
Size is the best predictor of code quality (2011)
https://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-best-predictor-of-code-quality
@GottaLaff Obama is rich AF. He’ll be fine
@kerileighmerritt there’s a John Meyer song about this
@kerileighmerritt you do realize that younger white women become older white women, yes?
@stux with a giant fuckin' asterisk that you have to be willing to block shitheads and cultivate a good keyword mute list. there are definitely some unhinged wackos that have appeared in my replies when i garnered the attention of the wrong person or server.
@lack clever…
@lack also tagging @dormouse@mas.to
@lack I also think hard-atheist materialism, taken by itself without anti-Christian miso-theism, is a poorly thought out position. Either you accept the possibility of reincarnation or an afterlife of some sort, that just means you are re-inventing paganism… or, you deny the possibility of an afterlife or a soul, which is a difficult position to prove. Face it: consciousness is a hard problem, every AI developer or a sci-fi author knows that!
@lack Christian god: “You are evil, and you deserve to die.” Atheist: “No, -you- are evil and I think you don’t exist.”
@lack Hard atheism always seems to invoke “problem of evil” theodicy as its trump card. That is nothing more than the problem of Original Sin, inverted and returned to sender.
@lack picking up the gauntlet: I am a pantheistic agnostic. I unironically believe that hard atheism is a heretical branch of Christianity.
New #bookreview coming out just today in #ScienceasCulture, titled "From data revolution to #data narratives". Book is Data Lives, by @robkitchin
I achieved my goal for the day in just two hours of #deepwork! The Flown system really works for me. Now I can work on my paper this afternoon :3
Made an effort to stay the day right with a 15 min #yoga practice. Haven’t practised in, um, ahem ahem, let’s not go there. Good old Adriene and Benji were still waiting for me
Taking a sabbatical from all social apps for the time being. Later, guys