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Walking through history in Heidelberg
Old friends and older castles
Reclining on the patio. Rabbits run back in forth around the edge, playing. A squirrel walks along the top of the fence, pausing before leaping to a nearby tree. I hold Hild, nearly halfway through, and note the way the skin wrinkles on my left thumb. No, a little longer. The light is still good.
True freedom is not the ability to fullfil our every craving at any time, but to be free from our craving in the first place.
Finished The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut 📚
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Love working from my home office on days like this 🌞
Game watching time! At the fan zone at Surrey City Center
Wife came home after 6 days in the interior at a conference and visiting friends and family. We went for a lunch date at a Korean Chinese place and have been talking for hours as we catch one another up. 6 days is long, especially for the one left behind 💞
London, Part 2 — Another trip report
Samurai at the British Museum, the treasures of the British Library, and just enjoying the lovely weather
Finished The Rebel’s Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon 📚
Epilogue is a broad overview of Fanon’s influence across countries/fields/eras. Masterclass of analysis: informative, provocative, and well-written. @adamshatz.bsky.social really stuck the landing of this phenomenal book.
In the last 15m of this ep of @techpolicypress.bsky.social Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian points out something really important: the agent harness might be the leverage point for governance.
A nice round number 🧘
Perfect night for eating mandu 🥟 on the patio (wife is drinking the beer. Dumplings are vegetarian)
Damn anti-SOGI protesters at my kids school today for Pride month. Apparently the turnout is getting smaller every year, it was just a handful of people today. But damn. Poor kids to see that hate spewed in front of their school.
Monthly newsletter roundup: it is funny how we enjoy some things that come back around, and have to block other things.
Today is the last day of early bird pricing for DwebYVR Cascadia Camp this summer! luma.com/1hj4bko4
Ever wonder how fast you could get from Kobe to Kyoto by train travelling at Mach 1?
The Truth has been revealed to be a d20!
#encyclical #DnD
We need to keep up the pressure to kill the third attempt, and others beyond 🔥
#cdnpoli #BillC22 #dontsurveilme
Reading the Journals of Younghusband
The overstuffed bed of the Seman Hotel in Kashgar was a luxury after a 30+ hour bus ride along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. The lighting in the room was low, with shadows adding more complexity to the fancy moulding and cornices. I read Peter Hopkirk while leaning on a mountain of pillows. Prior to becoming a hotel in 1950, the building served as the embassy of the Russian empire in the 19th century.
Across every aspect of our digital economy, we should carefully map our dependencies and ask ourselves, “What’s our simplest collaborative path to self-reliance?”
Minimal Viable Sovereignty. @vassb.bsky.social in @betakit.com
Found what looks like a decent ePub conversion of the Pope’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas in case you want to take some time reading and annotating it. That’s what I am going to do.