The BRICS coalition, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, faces significant cultural and civilizational barriers that hinder deeper collaboration among its members. Unlike Western alliances such as the G7 ...
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6.7The Spiritual World
2025-07-13 • philosophy consciousness epistemology miracle science
The text explores the limitations of modern science in explaining consciousness and miracles. It discusses the 'hard problem of consciousness,' highlighting the gap between physical brain processes and subjective experience. The a...
The blog post discusses the concept of hyperstition, which refers to self-fulfilling prophecies that shape reality through belief. It explores how capitalist economics is influenced by hyperstitions, using historical examples like...
The article discusses the economic implications of a weaker U.S. dollar, arguing that it can benefit the U.S. manufacturing sector by making American goods cheaper for foreign buyers, thus boosting exports and creating jobs. It hi...
The blog post provides a detailed guide on using bash scripts to streamline the process of adding images to blog posts on a Hugo website. It outlines the steps to take a screenshot, resize it, and generate the corresponding Markdo...
The blog post explains how to generate preview cards for a Hugo static site by parsing each page to extract the title, date, tags, a preview image, and a description. It discusses challenges with homepage performance due to large ...
The author shares a personal account of using the Casio ProTrek PRW2500T-7 watch over seven years, highlighting its durability and features such as solar power, automatic time calibration, tide graph, and UTC mode. While the watch...
The article discusses the advantages of using fountain pens, such as the smoothness of writing, craftsmanship, and the ability to style handwriting. It also covers the cost of fountain pens and the situations where they are not su...
The author reflects on their first year in the Marines, discussing their experiences in bootcamp, the importance of physical fitness, making friends, staying in touch with loved ones, the strong and noble people in the Marines, an...
The article discusses the robustness of old Thinkpads and the fragility of modern MacBooks. It compares the design philosophy of both laptops, highlighting the modularity and open ecosystem of Thinkpads, and the lack of modularity...
The text discusses the growing privacy concern with Large Language Models (LLMs) and the movement towards running AI models locally on your own computer. It introduces Ollama, a tool to manage running LLMs locally, and OpenUI, a b...
The text provides tips for reducing digital collection on yourself, including leaving your phone behind, using open-source software, compartmentalizing online identities, using alternative productivity tools, choosing a privacy-re...
The article discusses how to automatically generate social media cards for articles with Hugo, which can transform how content appears across social platforms. It explains the process of creating social media cards using Hugo temp...
Ladybird is an independent browser project that uses its own custom web engine called LibWeb to render webpages. It cannot be downloaded from their homepage yet, but developers and tech-enthusiasts can build the browser from sourc...
Tolstoy's War and Peace critiques the Great Man Theory, emphasizing that history is shaped by countless small actions, chance occurrences, and sweeping forces beyond any one individual’s control. He dismantles the belief that 'gre...
The text explains how to use Ranger file manager inside a tmux window to preview images in macOS. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to install iTerm2, build Ranger from source, install libsixel and Image Magick, and configur...
The article discusses the process of setting up redirecting, caching, secure, and compressed static webpages with nginx server. It includes detailed information about adding HTTP2, security headers, URL redirection logic, caching ...
The text is a note taking script for the terminal, which automates the process of creating daily and general notes, with features such as tagging, searching, and archiving. It also provides a calendar view and the ability to updat...
The text explains what SearXNG is and why it should be used. It also provides a script to deploy SearXNG easily on MacOS using Docker.
The author discusses the programs and equipment they use for their work, including their computer hardware, operating system, peripherals, applications, and command line tools. They detail their preference for open-source software...
The author discusses the challenges of hand-coding a website and the benefits of switching to Hugo, a static site generator. Hand-coding was manageable at first but became tedious and inefficient as the site grew. Hugo automates t...
The text discusses the concept of wealth and capital, emphasizing that wealth is not just a pile of money but is tied to commercial capabilities represented by stocks, assets, and equity. It explains how extremely wealthy individu...
0The Historical Conception of Leisure
2025-01-03 • philosophy history culture leisure
The text discusses the historical conception of leisure, tracing its roots back to classical antiquity and its evolution through medieval and modern thought. It highlights how leisure was not just the absence of labor, but a sacre...
0Bootcamp
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