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Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. Right now, there's simple saving and search. Next up? Sharing. Head to the site to see it in action and get access. https://subset.network
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Status of the wholes 2024 is done. It’s an annual review-roundup that covers my reading, writing, moving, playing and speaking. https://swellandcut.com/sotw-2024/
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ALL DONE. 2024 was a great year for reading; may 2025 be the same. https://warpcast.com/msms/0x6f69c9cf
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~20/~80 done. Aiming for thread-complete in the next couple o' days. 📘📗📙📕📗📕📘📙📕📙📘📗📙📘📕📗 https://warpcast.com/msms/0x6f69c9cf
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A mega-thread of all the books I read in 2024. The setup: one cast per book (from oldest to most recent)—title, author(s), an impression and a link. Comments, questions and further recommendations welcome.
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Training log, gi: worked a few motions and attacks from sit-up guard into knee cuts, side control and mount. Sparring was 8/9 five minute rounds. Spent most of the time attacking from open guard and side control but also tried for some smooth, controlled sweeps from butterfly and half guard (middling success rate).
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Today’s reading also featured early squabbles over miners rights in Victoria, Australia. https://warpcast.com/msms/0x8402f6d8 https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359
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Question: is parenthood so transformative because it reliably evokes a true and deep awe? An awe that may have been slumbering for years/decades, or only ever emerged momentarily since childhood.
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This AM’s reading? Some early governor conflicts in Australia: A Short History, and cyte shenanigans in Greg Egan’s Morphotrophic. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359 https://www.gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/MORPHOTROPHIC.html
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AFK and/or lurked for most of November. What went down in the Farcaster and Warpcast world?
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This AM’s reading? On the devil and melancholy in Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears; about the post-1st fleet arrivals into Sydney Cove and the departure of Arthur Phillips in Australia: A Short History. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300258455/dostoyevsky-reads-hegel-in-siberia-and-bursts-into-tears https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Thomas-Keneally-Australians:-A-short-history-9781760632359
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Today's reading: The Alchemy of Air. Learned about the early German dyeing firms—BASF, Bayer etc.; proto chemical engineering orgs—and initial attempts to prise apart bonded nitrogen elements, as well as Haber's research, his collaboration with Bosch, and the subsequent commercialisation by BASF. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/73464/the-alchemy-of-air-by-thomas-hager-author-of-the-demon-under-the-microscope/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
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Has anyone come across anything at the intersection of personal logging / journaling practices and new(ish?) trends in observability engineering? Currently eyeing up Day One and Drafts apps for some new log-journal-note-taking behaviour and thinking that obs-eng practices could eliminate much of the personal-infra setup headaches that inevitably arise. https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
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Training log, no-gi: drilled some Uchi Mata throws into quarter guard, then incorporated a back step into the saddle position and some leg attacks from there (achilles lock, Aoki lock). We also looked at a rolling back take from a saddle position escape, as well as a rolling saddle entry from the Uchi Mata position. Sparring was 10 x 5 minute rounds, as usual. A few fast-paced, scramble-filled rolls mixed with some more balanced, steady rounds, plus a round being on the receiving end of some real sneaky foot attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evmsOeYxxzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9-KpVAH1k
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Today's read: Lying for Money. Worked through the chapters on counterfeiting and book-cooking, going from Alves dos Reis and the Portuguese bank note scandal of 1925 to Enron's dodgy accounting in the 90s/00s. https://profilebooks.com/work/lying-for-money/
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Today's reading: on the escapades of James Cook and Joseph Banks in David Hunt's Girt; about the nitrate industry, the War of the Pacific and the Iquique massacre in Hager's The Alchemy of Air. https://davidhuntwriter.com/book/girt-the-unauthorised-history-of-australia/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/73464/the-alchemy-of-air-by-thomas-hager-author-of-the-demon-under-the-microscope/
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This guy can move. https://youtu.be/duJendMuh9w
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Training log, gi: worked on a few passes from HQ / mission control—knee cuts, switch and staple etc.—and capped it off with a rolling entry to a loop choke. Sparring: nine x five minute rounds. Took a few rounds to mentally lock in, at which point I managed to bruise my wrist. This meant a fun constraint for the remainder: no posting or framing with my left hand and minimal gripping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCGLrC6q2yM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNASDxyjcAA
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Today's reading: kicked off two new texts. First, I read about the different types of fraud—long firming, counterfeiting, control frauds, and market frauds—in Lying for Money. Second, I read about the many discoveries of Australia by Spain, Holland, Britain and China. https://profilebooks.com/work/lying-for-money/ https://davidhuntwriter.com/book/girt-the-unauthorised-history-of-australia/
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This lodged in my brain and wouldn't leave. Realised why. Standards vs. no standards is a more important distinction than high vs. low standards. A passage from Vaillant's The Tiger: "The most terrifying and important test for a human being is to be in absolute isolation,” he explained. “A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really? Sometimes, this brings staggering discoveries. Because nobody’s watching, you can easily become an animal: it is not necessary to shave, or to wash, or to keep your winter quarters clean—you can live in shit and no one will see. You can shoot tigers, or choose not to shoot. You can run in fear and nobody will know. You have to have something—some force, which allows and helps you to survive without witnesses." That force: standards. https://warpcast.com/na/0x0ce453bd
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