I can really recommend Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor. One of those rare books that had a noticeable, positive impact on my life.
> We have to few years on this earth to spend our energies hurting others.
Don't you live in a nation state that uses violence to maintain the order that you've come to enjoy? Here's a harsh dose of reality for ya, suffering is unavoidable... the trick is convincing the worker class that it's easier to just cooperate
I've lived in a lot of places, many of them on the receiving end.
I'm from a western country originally though, sure. Can't think of any wars we've been in during my lifetime that have done me much good. All wars of choice and aggression.
I don't know how much of an issue KYC is to your average crypto-dabbler.
I found a few K's worth of BTC down the back of the sofa recently, and was astounded by how easy it was to use it like Visa after converting to stablecoin.
I don't think prediction markets are a function of stranded crypto, because for most holders, crypto has never been more fungible.
This is so utterly urgent. The US is an increasingly-deranged, hostile actor, which is able to cripple our tech at will.
I think we've been far too complacent about the direction of travel across the Atlantic. Trump and his crew are the new normal, and the key players in Silicon Valley are on board.
Any European government not currently working towards independence from US tech is being almost criminally neglectful.
Steps are being taken. This week two big announcements in The Netherlands as well, one for a replacement to AWS and one for taking US tech out of state secrets, which weirdly enough wasn’t already a thing.
There will be no peace till Bibi and his enablers are at a 21st century Nurenberg.
The extent of the atrocities committed over the last years alone is staggering. The West's support of this animal is disgusting.
He is now attempting to scupper a desperately-needed, and difficult to achieve and maintain ceasefire. The world's economy and food security is at stake here. He has to be stopped before he drags us all into ruin.
It’s not just one man, you have to follow the money. Look at Trump’s donors, there is a huge lobby in the US funded by Israeli billionaires who got us into this war and the previous Iraq war. The majority of our senators in both parties also supported this conflict (and also the billions in military aid we send to Israel every year) because they too have been purchased by the same lobby.
Even if we had a Nuremberg for Bibi and his cronies, this lobby will still wield enormous power in the US and continue to push us into wars for Israel.
Not disputing that in the slightest, but the locus of accountability stands with those at the helm.
A network is vast and complicated, a cabinet is not. This is where prosecutions typically start.
The statements Trump and Hegseth have made in the last weeks are similar in form to those used to bring to justice perpetrators of atrocities in Rwanda and Serbia.
Prosecutions may be optimistic, but the rest of the world needs to think very seriously about boycott, divestment and sanctions on both the US and Israel. The UK and Germany are borderline.
We stop them all now, or we're all going to spend the next decade broke and hungry.
I've designed jewellery for my wife's last few birthdays. Nothing fancy, geometries, square kufic and such.
Very crude approach: I've been doing it in Blender, if you've 3D skills should be easy. I've got a friend who does the printing and casting, so there's more I could explore there later.
I also do dioramas, which grew out of 40K. Got bored with hench guys with guns and moved to 6mm, it's been great fun focusing on buildings.
Matrox Mystique was a combination 2D/3D consumer card, which at the time, was still something that mattered. Sure a Voodoo addon card mattered more, very soon, but then quickly things shifted back to combination 2D/3D card with Nvidia!
Also, how is a "first $2000 consumer card" something that "matters"? That's precisely the kind of thing that doesn't matter. My entire laptop cost less than that and I play games with it. What matters much more is that I can play quite a bunch of games that are even pretty recent with a laptop that cost less than that, all with an integrated graphics chip from a company that is precisely known for having abysmal 3D performance: Intel (I have an Iris Xe)
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