Agamus

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by Agamus 4y ago
Not officially launched, but the beta is here: http://www.katabane.com/mt/table.html
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by Agamus 4y ago
Thanks for the link! The content of this video is pretty close to the perpetual internal dialogue happening between me and all of my selves. I eventually wrote a book about my findings thus far.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Ontology! Since my earliest memories, my mind continuously wanders off to questions like, 'what is the nature of... things? What is the substance of... substance? What qualities of a thing can I think away, and still allow the thing pa
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by Agamus 4y ago
For me, it's the theme and much of the music in Carl Sagan's original Cosmos Series. RIP!
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by Agamus 4y ago
Sad to hear! I had just this month sent myself on a deep dive of Vangelis' work. He composed so many amazing things - here are a few tracks that have stuck out for me. Something about them is just hard to "get out of": Jon
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by Agamus 4y ago
The whole thing reminds me of something more like baseball cards or other collectibles, where the monetary value rests in a collective belief in the inherent value. How much of the real value of cryptocurrency is not monetary? How much of t
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by Agamus 4y ago
The expression comes from England's Parliament. The full version is, "Hear, Hear the excellent speaker!"
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by Agamus 4y ago
The cadaverous reek of mandatory fun was best captured by the impressively pathetic David Brent in the original UK Office series (portrayed by Ricky Gervais). The moment when he points to a stuffed monkey on top of the coat-rack to demonstr
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by Agamus 4y ago
As enthusiastic as I get about 'vintage' tech, it's sobering to hear someone note the bumpy road that led us to the slick technologies we take for granted today. It sounds like you have some interesting stories to tell. Can y
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by Agamus 4y ago
I'm cobbling a gopher site for a book of metaphysics. It doesn't work for clients yet, but I have the gopher server in replit here: https://replit.com/@agamus/metaphysikos?v=1
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by Agamus 4y ago
Antisocial media makes people antisocial - news at 11!
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by Agamus 4y ago
So, "antisocial media sites" is more appropriate? A person who has never used these "social" media services must be nearly enlightened by comparison to a modern facebook junkie.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Allow me my fantasy: I imagine you are a younger, polite, curmudgeonly person who sadly missed the bouncy joy of this word when it was fresh. This fantasy makes me want to keep using this annoying word that I somehow love.
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by Agamus 4y ago
The Compact Edition is excellent, but be warned - it's quite big! You'll need an oversized shelf for it. My version came in a box with a pull-out drawer at the top to hold a magnifying glass. In my home, we sometimes race to see
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by Agamus 4y ago
I'm not convinced of this. One of his leads seems to have trouble getting the 'Da' out: https://youtu.be/MsfUiTJv2lE?t=123
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by Agamus 4y ago
I have used this as a general policy for whether or not I interact with a site since about 2004. That policy has kept me 100% off Twitter, Facebook, etc, since they appeared. I highly recommend, for those who can live without the modern web
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by Agamus 4y ago
Good points, though I was one of those people who was disturbed that Snowden's 'revelations' were news. Pre-Snowden, there were many of us who weren't paranoid or cynical, but who were not surprised by surveillance tech.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Agreed, but it still disturbs me. And I do think that a normal person must be a bit pathologically skewed, here in 2022, if they are not a little bit cynical or paranoid when they interface with a computer. Finally, one can be ultra-paranoi
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by Agamus 4y ago
Every time I see an article like this, it disturbs me to think that it is 2022 and this is news to people.
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by Agamus 4y ago
Turning off this spigot should be our biggest national security concern, in my opinion.
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by Agamus 4y ago
The solution is and always has been to cut the fluff from the academies. For context, go add up the salaries the 'student services' area of the expensive school of your choice. Having worked for one such office for ~15 years, the
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by Agamus 4y ago
>>According to Galor, diversity can inhibit economic growth by decreasing social cohesion >Surprised to see this acknowledged on Washington Post. Agreed, but it is argued as an aspect of an average: "According to Galor, divers
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Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix(nasa.gov)
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by Agamus 4y ago
I must be one of the lucky few. I've used Linux Mint as my main desktop for about 10 years now with zero problems. I've used LineageOS as my main phone OS for about 5 years now with zero problems. I run Windows for work and gaming
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by Agamus 5y ago
Replying on my own comment - I just want to add that if one truly avoids smartphones and social media... if one sticks to things like IRC, basic email and snail mail... if one avoids laptops and sticks with large, immobile desktop computers
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by Agamus 5y ago
The appearance of "smartphones" and Facebook killed the cool for me. That, and hearing tech-illiterate morons extol web 2.0 with tireless aplomb. It was sometime in 2008.
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by Agamus 5y ago
This is lovely! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, much interesting content on the web was only found in source, but this is another level of elegance.
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by Agamus 5y ago
Excellent summary! * I also have an aversion to blood, and I suspect for similar reasons. * Music is for me what the visual mind's-eye probably is for most people. I feel like I can basically 'hear' the music, in a similar wa
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by Agamus 5y ago
I'll appeal to aphantasia here again. For me, I love to watch videos, but the visual images vanish the moment I stop watching. As such, they are an inefficient way for me to learn. I retain more when I read. I suspect this is at the ro
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by Agamus 5y ago
I agree - I find it to be incredibly valuable in almost all contexts. Someone linked to Ross' post in this 'Tech Times' article: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/154165/20160427/mozilla-f...

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