Angelino Desmet.🌹 @stardust@qoto.org

One of the greatest flexes in history, by Buckminster Fuller:

“Bucky was sent to Harvard. It was here that his long battle with authority began. Halfway through his first year he withdrew his entire college allowance from the bank to romance a Manhattan chorus girl and was promptly expelled. He was readmitted the next year and thrown out a second time for ‘irresponsibility and lack of interest’. He would later write:

“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.”

In the end, the man who was to become the greatest architect of his age didn’t graduate. The only degrees he ever received were the forty-seven honorary doctorates he was awarded many years later.” —https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6929497-the-qi-book-of-the-dead

#education

@trinsec TIL.

@trinsec Wait, there are cat water fountains? Capitalism sure produces the most questionable stuff.

I've got the most important job interview of my life next week, at a national scientific institution.

Have any remarkable advice? Shoot!

“Belgium's little Einstein”, isn't, yet. Because morality > intelligence.

https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/noteinsteinyet.html

Hey guys and gals, no doubt have you heard about NFTs. Because useless things are now solid investments, I've succumbed and made my own “N-FT”.

Throw morality out the window, and make me rich quickly!
https://www.nonfunctioningtower.com

Einstein's theory of antiwork.

From #antiwork in the USA to “tang ping” (躺平) or “lying flat” in China, people are fed up with the grind. Could it be that we shouldn't live to work, but work to live? That we shouldn't serve the economy, but the economy should serve us?

https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/antiwork.html.

Some trivial contemplation about prime numbers:

“Prime 997 and the significance of 1; Divisible only by itself and one. Remarkably simple, but simply amazing.” —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/997.html

#math #mathematics

Why doesn't @Mastodon support editing toots?

Don't get me wrong, the “Delete & re-draft” is great, but why not just support editing with an attached edit history?

“We're speaking out: Vivaldi is a "no go" on crypto.

Vivaldi CEO @jonsvt [1] takes a clear stance on cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Read 👉 https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin/
#cryptocurrecy #NFTs” —https://twitter.com/vivaldibrowser/status/1481584941481828358.

My goodness, I love Vivaldi browser so hard. Been using them for years; they blew me away from the start, and they continue to do so.

“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

Therefore: “Shut up and take my money!”
→ https://store.vivaldi.com
→ https://vivaldi.com/contribute/#:~:text=donation

PS I'm not affiliated with Vivaldi, I just think they deserve all the donations they get since they didn't succumb to an immoral cash grab.

@vivaldibrowserbot @vivaldibrowser
[1] Jon von Tetzchner: https://twitter.com/jonsvt.

Thanks @kev for writing “The Web Is Fucked” [1]. Indeed it is. I linked it on my similar article “Web4 should run on LaTeX” [2].

[1] https://thewebisfucked.com.
[2] https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/web4.html.

@trinsec Thanks for the heads-up. The URL should work now.

WOMBO's AI generative art is fantastic, but it's incredibly disappointing that they fell for Web3's greed-inducing, societal- and environmental-destroying hypercapitalistic narrative:

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html.

Web4 should run on LaTeX.
The World Wide Web is broken: it is dominated by a handful of websites, nearly everything is financed by ads, bloated tech needlessly slows down surfing, NFTs and blockchain are digital cancer, et cetera. Stop it. Just stop it.

https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/web4.html.

“The Corporation is a satisfyingly dense, thought-provoking rebuttal to some of capitalism's central arguments.” —rottentomatoes.com

The top comment:
“I pretty much knew all of this, but i watched to maintain my depression level in case I accidentally got happy.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQYsk-8dWg