Galen

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“The Sea of Japan is a Mediterranean”

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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.

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Poppy fields as ‘resistance crops’—not requiring post-harvest infrastructure vs rice etc

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Kevin Kelly: Q: Do we want national / sovereign AI? A: National level internet is a failure mode / let’s not take that as our north star. Some transnational global intelligence modelled after the present open internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjVj_WRXxwA&ab_channel=ProtocolTownHall

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https://summerofprotocols.com/the-unreasonable-sufficiency-of-protocols-web

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Is the multi vector space noumenal or phenomenal?

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"les non-dupes errent"

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Awesome demonstration of the original unreleased iphone keyboard implementation from Ken Kocienda, built up by Julien Dorra: https://juliendorra.github.io/blob-keyboard-simulator/blob-keyboard-simulator.html

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Going deep down the split ergonomics Corne keyboard rabbit hole and ending up here: youtube.com/watch?v=FprARCVnGL4

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"If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it will be expected to be in print another fifty years. This, simply, as a rule, tells you why things that have been around for a long time are not "aging" like persons, but "aging" in reverse. Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy. This is an indicator of some robustness. The robustness of an item is proportional to its life"

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Exceptionally fun essay today about the botanist who’s attempting to rediscover forgotten species of coffee (beyond robusta and arabica) including ‘Coffea stenophylla’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-forgotten-bean-could-save-coffee-from-extinction-180986230/

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Great simple illustration of public and private key cryptography stolen from reddit user MixaLv

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“Zomia is a geographical term coined in 2002 by historian Willem van Schendel of the University of Amsterdam to refer to the huge mass of mainland Southeast Asia that has historically been beyond the control of governments based in the population centers of the lowlands.”

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Insane that Singapore property rental websites include an optional toggle that ‘owner accepts applicants of all races’

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Looking forward to joining the Summer of Protocols Khlongs and Subaks workshop in Bangkok in April. @ethereumfndn

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A hackathon feature I shipped at Shopify just got roasted by John Oliver 😂😂😂 https://youtu.be/89R9ZxKaIOw?si=4u9afEqLh62DznRH

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Thaipusam in Singapore!

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