This week I turned 16,000 days old.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de, how do you handle twts in Mutt? I mean, how do you organise, or manage the inmense amount that comes throught? Do you delete/trim? Move things to folders? Or simply keep that huge (12,000+ for me now) list?
Why we’re numb to 250,000 +++ coronavirus deaths? ⌘ https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-death-toll-psychological-reaction-f5aab275-1c93-444e-9914-5b0bf8fe07d9.html
10,000 Hours ⌘ https://xkcd.com/2374/
well, it seems like I managed to automatically weave all the !literate_programming parts into a !weewiki! It’s not all that helpful yet though, due to the fact that pages have autogenerated names like ‘wm_000_0002’. A table of contents comes next…
5,000 subscribers mark and returning home ⌘ https://youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz
Episode on the 10,000 Year Explosion and Pandora’s Seed ⌘
10,000 subscribers! ⌘ https://youtube.com/c/lukesmithxyz
Wait, the stand costs $1,000?
neat, casually adding a 1,000-person orchestra
Random link from the archives: http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/148/000/ originally archived Thu Jan 3 11:03:12 EST 2019
Book Review and Reflection: David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” – The New Antique https://thenewantique.blog/2019/01/19/book-review-and-reflection-david-graebers-debt-the-first-5000-years/
Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - 1985 (AUGMENT,101931,) - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/112/000/
In a thousand years, we’ll all have protruding foreheads because of the growth of the prefrontal corpus, a dunbar number of 10,000, and internet forums with polite behavior despite lack of active moderation.
How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/news/ken-layne-desert-oracle
Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/?
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART III[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167538424069/1000000-ad-part-iiimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART II[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167295499974/1000000-ad-part-iimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. A story by Tawfik al-Hakim (1953)… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167078472779/1000000-ad-a-story-by-tawfik-al-hakim-1953
2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/2000-cassettes-from-the-allen-ginsberg-audio-collection-now-streaming-online.html
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx w00t? I hopy this a hypothetical case, who’s dumping 18.000 USD in a new crypto currency? If I got confused during such a deposit, i would hopefully abort.
📚 Finished reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
📚 Finished reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Dumping dollars left and right
“DOD charged the American taxpayer $43 million for what is likely the world’s most expensive gas station.”
That’s what Special Inspector General John F. Sopko found when he looked at the construction of a natural gas station in Sheberghan, Afghanistan.
According to the report, at most that station should have cost about $500,000. But in this case, the Department of Defense’s Task Force for … ⌘ Read more
Glad I am not in North Korea
From the Wall Street Journal:
North Korea said on Monday it would issue new won currency this week that would in effect lop two zeros off the old —requiring 1,000-won bills, for example, to be exchanged for 10-won notes with, theoretically, the same buying power.
It said it would limit the amount of old currency it would accept in exchange, to the equivalent of about $40 worth at unofficial exchange rates.
— [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.c … ⌘ Read more
September 11th
We will never forget.
Today, eight years ago, a group of humans, guided by a political agenda, a deep hatred towards the United States, and a mad religious fanaticism slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center, destroying the Twin Towers, damaging other buildings, and killing almost 3,000 people. A second airplane hit The Pentagon, and a … ⌘ Read more
Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
Who has the right to be called Lesbian?
Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term “lesbian”.
The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally.
The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians.
Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people liv … ⌘ Read more