Stupid opinion since I haven't read the article, but from the outside the case for #cliodynamics looks to me as weak as the case for #technicalanalysis: systems so complex and rare as the History of countries and the price of stocks can't be “predicted” by looking at past trends and patterns. Perhaps if we had had already millions of years of History, millions of nations with good written records, and millions of traded companies over the same long period of time — perhaps then some reliable patterns might emerge. And I'm still doubtful, given what little I know about #chaostheory.
(Just a hunch; epistemological confidence: low :)
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Don't you love easter eggs
curl -L http://git\.io/unix
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Some suggestions, in no particular order:
* [A Confederacy of Dunces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces)
* [Book of Longing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158005.Book_of_Longing)
* [Chess Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59151.Chess_Story)
* [What Do You Care What Other People Think?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5548.What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think_)
I liked them all — and they are either very short, quite funny, or are split into short independent bits that can be read in isolation.
(I was going to add [Lying](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869177-lying) to the list, but I saw you read and liked it too 👍)
#JonathanHaidt at his best. Well worth the (long) read, as a very comprehensive overview of the mess we're in.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
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elon can have twitter but he can never have my website
> _“[#ElonMusk] echoes a long-standing interest by [#JackDorsey] and others at #Twitter, including new CEO #ParagAgrawal, in a future version of Twitter that's ‘#decentralized’. A #web3 Twitter, if you will. […] Users will be able to configure their own #moderation, no centralized authority.”_
https://marker.medium.com/the-elon-musk-rollercoaster-of-volatility-9c3fcf0f413d
Not Invented Here? Guys, we have the #Fediverse and #Mastodon already! (No need for #crypto BS for this.)
> _“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for #crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals. By 2017, agencies like the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division (or IRS-CI) had traced #Bitcoin transactions to carry out one investigative coup after another.”_
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/de-anonymizing-bitcoin.html
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
I know! In fact, I used “fatherhood” and not “parenthood” because I was afraid that a mother would (rightly) mock me for “complaining”: “oh… so your coffee is too cold now? Poor thing! That's a real nuisance, unlike pregnancy! Or childbirth! Or breastfeeding!” 😅
Of course being a parent involves bigger sacrifices than watching your toast get cold while you take care of a kid… It's just that sometimes I truly find those little things more annoying than the big responsibilities 🤷
I know that you didn't take my toot the wrong and that I don't need to explain myself 😉 And yet:
MUCH RESPECT FOR MOTHERS 🙌
I went to get books for everyone and we four “read” in bed for a while, of course.
This morning, when I heard #MissEntropy was awake, I went to her room, took her in my arms and put her in our bed — next to #BreakerOfHorses's crib (we do this on lazy weekend mornings only). She was happy and lovely.
Immediately after sitting there between us two, she said: “I want #books… I want books.”
She's only 2.5 and can't even #read yet, but I consider 80% of my parenting goals accomplished already.
#fatherhood (fä′thər-ho͝od′)
_n._
**1.** cold toasts for breakfast.
**2.** having to reheat your cup of coffee three or four times.
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#AprilOfMyLife April 10.
Did my civic duty today. 🗳
Round 1 of the #Frenchpresidentialelection2022
