tripu @tripu@qoto.org

Volume III of #Proust's “In Search Of Lost Time” feels like lost time indeed. I'm barely one fifth through it and I can't see the end. It feels like I've been plunged into it for a very long year. Directions of use for some medicines are more thrilling than this.

…so far.

#books #TheGreatestBooks #allegedly #really #hopefully

@ignaciodenuevo@octodon.social, parece que @CSIngobernable y tú teníais razón en denunciar que el desalojo de #LaIngobernable fue efectivamente ilegal:

https://www.eldiario.es/politica/supremo-ratifica-desalojo-ingobernable-ejecutado-almeida-ilegal_1_8966016.html

A tip, maybe useful for others:

#Substack is great. But #email is definitely a crappy way (at least for me) to find and read (a small subset of) my favourite thinkers' posts.

This has been nagging me for a while.

I just confirmed that Substack publishes #RSS #feeds (just append `/feed` to the “home” view of any publication). So I'm unsubscribing from almost everything, and adding the feed to my #Feedly instead.

I don't do transcendental meditation or anything. But I've been all day at home taking care of two semi-sick small kids, and by now I assure you I'm enlightened as fuck. I'm level eleven of Buddha. My train left station Nirvana behind. I am one with the multiverse. I'm Vantablack belt in mindfulness.

I have neglected my #weeknotes for a month or so, but now I'm back on track (with more coming):

https://blog.tripu.info/2022-week-13/

Los practicantes del #AltruismoEficaz llegamos a donde estamos partiendo de intuiciones muy básicas, casi universales, y siguiendo unos pocos argumentos lógicos bastante simples.

Si te suena lo de «altruismo eficaz» pero no lo tienes muy claro, o si no lo habías oído en tu vida, **Pablo Melchor** de la _Fundación Ayuda Efectiva_ lo resume todo muy bien [en este artículo](https://www.sumapositiva.com/p/donar).

https://endbannedbooks.org/

#freespeech #censorship #literature #art #books

Living long isn't everything (you also want to prosper — wink ), but it's quite important. This is how you do it:

* Look after family relationships and social connections
* Take care of plants…
* …and eat mostly plants, lots of legumes, whole grains, soy
* No tobacco, no alcohol
* Constant moderate exercise
* Be outside in the sun
* Live where women aren't discriminated
* Live somewhere remote
* Have a religion (oops)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

I think I would happily pay for a subscription to #Twitter if Twitter:

* had no #ads
* showed a strictly chronological timeline of what you're following (and only that)
* offered #RSS (of accounts, hashtags)
* let us edit past tweets
* …while always preserving a history of changes and deleted tweets
* were better at flagging NSFW, and let us customise visibility of those tweets

But I'd rather pay the same money for the
#Fediverse and #Mastodon to:

* improve and evolve
* become simpler to use
* promote themselves so that they become way more popular

Physicists, help me understand this:

If they're referring to _power_, the unit should be _KW_, right?

And if they're referring to _energy_ consumed (in some interval of time), then it should be _KW⋅h_ (not _KW/h_). Right?

(And if so: the quantity is meaningless unless you specify _the interval of time_. eg: _“400 KW·h on an average day”_. No? I mean, my smartphone also consumes 400 KW·h… if I use it for long enough!)

> _“I don't find #languages easy but I have a hunger to #learn. When you can speak another language you go from being a person in an adult's body pointing at things like a child to being able to communicate with people like an adult again. There's a political basis for me to learning other languages, because if we don't come together in the world then the world's not going to make it.”_

— #EddieIzzard

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/28/why-languages-matter-eddie-izzard-alastair-campbell