📚 Finished reading Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

we compress ideas and history into narratives because they become legible this way.↵↵math is a narrative for truth

A fictional history of the kingdom, set in the future. A new passage-↵↵Ｔｈｉｓ　ｉｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｂｅｇｉｎｎｉｎｇ．　Ｉ　ｒｕｌｅ　ｙｏｕ　ｎｏｗ．　Ｔｈｅ　ｆｏｌｌｏｗｉｎｇ　ｉｓ　ｍｙ　ｃｏｍｍａｎｄ．

The future is set in stone. The past, not so much. Having given up on change, we furiously rewrite history in search for telos and hope.

While we puzzle together Earth’s fake history and struggle with the Fermi paradox, they watch from afar and howl with inaudible laughter.

📚 Finished reading A History of Eastern Europe by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

📚 Finished reading A History of Eastern Europe by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Forest, fortress, it’s all the same to us. Every tree is a watchtower, our keep the heart. We’ve withstood sieges longer than your history.

Mythologos:↵(n) appeal to narrative↵(n) appeal of narrative↵(n) the Word as told↵(n) narrative principle underlying history and future

Mike Duncan of “History of Rome” fame has another great podcast: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/. I can really recommended it!

@david And there are no problems with shell quoting! And especially with history expansion when using an exclamation mark.

Thanks @kas@enotty.dk for the final nudge to change my bash history settings. Still on the fence about PROMPT_COMMAND=“history -a” though.

They have been king and queen over their garden for as long as history remembers. It is a small kingdom, but even the oaks bow before them.

📚 Finished reading Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity by David Christian

Russians and Syria
We bomb. From the air, from the ground, from afar, from ships. And so do the Russians now. We target what we belie … ⌘ Read more

The ritual of seduction

“The ritual —considered old-fashioned nowadays by just about
everyone under the age of 60— was traditionally a ceremonial, sacred
gesture; its history can be traced to ancient Greece and Rome. In the
Middle Ages, a vassal paid homage to his lord by kissing his hand. By
the 19th century, hand kissing had been reinvented to convey a man’s
gallantry and politesse toward a woman. Those men who still practice it
today know the rules: never kiss a gloved hand or … ⌘ Read more

Nazi crimes archives set to open
BBC News: Nazi crimes archives to set open.

The 47 million files hold Nazi records of forced labourers, concentration camp victims and political prisoners. They have been used to help people trace their relatives, but were kept closed to protect victims’ privacy. Many people felt the files should be opened to historical researchers to ensure the details of the Holocaust ( [Nazis genocide](http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/holocaust_overview_01.s … ⌘ Read more

I am a virus, open me!
The history repeats itself. No matter how many viruses get to their inboxes, no matter how many times you tell them not to open those attachments, when all logic and common sense are just yelling “delete!”, they will open it.

Virus and trojan makers/scripters will always succeed. Antivirus companies will always be behind (even for a few hours/minutes) and make tons of money. As long as my type of user exists there will be a future of revenues on that field and a headache for the r … ⌘ Read more