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Week Notes No. 45: Learning Currents

By Justin G. on 25MAR04TUE

Despite the sleepy recovery, I did manage to scrape a few learnings from the insides of my eyelids.

1. Articles & Newsletters
   • Today in Tabs on all those government firings. I, for one, am not very excited about how exciting things are about to get. Apprehensive, anxious, or just feeling really quite uncomfortable about all of this, any of those would be more accurate. Maybe a little bit angry about the stupidity and brazenness. I do not think it will end well, or end how the perpetrators want it to. But I don’t know anything.
2. Podcasts
   • Ezra’s interview with Martin Gurri. Some points we need to hear about the right’s more competent adaptation to the new info-sphere. Some facts were disputed between the host and guest about Biden’s lucidity and USAID’s legal origins. And some willful naivety on the part of the guest, in my opinion, regarding the expectation that the rule of law will be respected.
3. Words
   • Not just one word, but a whole bunch of proto-words. I followed some obscure symbols to the back of The American Heritage Dictionary, and there in the appendix I found the essay on proto-indo-european language. And a mini dictionary of roots, only about ten pages. It is fas-ci-na-ting. I cannot wait to learn more.
4. Quotes
   • “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer, via HN.
   • “what are you going to do now with what you believe in?”
5. Links
   • A decoder ring for the asinine AI (AAI?) naming schemes.
   • Another decoder ring, err mnemonic.
   • corporate.watch is “fun” and “useful”. Really. Corporate-speak for “when in time are we now?” is patently absurd. Has it been patented? It has, hasn’t it? Then let’s just go with useful.
   • I discovered mapper.acme.com has really excellent satellite photos. It’s been right there at the top of the geohack list of online maps purveyors the whole time.
6. Facts & Ideas
   • That was good. Notice the mundanities that engoodenate your day. Write them down. And share them. Also, it was worth clicking through to the original author.
   • I am not in charge of when these things get published. Some poor soul in Pompeii had their brains glassified by extremely hot gasses. Sucks. Super interesting that this is something that can even happen. Glassification of brains?! Still su-ucks!
   • First Pharoah’s tomb discovered since King Tut. Cool! Other’s have already made the jokes about awaking the ancient dead at a time like this, so I will not.
7. Skills
   • You can change tab groups in Safari with ⌘–⌥–[ and ⌘–⌥–]. Via pxlnv.
8. Open Questions
   • Can anyone recommend a podcast that goes episode by episode through the whole The X-Files canon?

Good doggo zen.

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