Tidbits and notions. Stuff and blither. News and snooze. This little gmiphloglet be short and more mirth than matter.
The Archimedes Palimpsest (web archive)
Full imaging archive of the Archimedes Codex, a compilation of otherwise lost texts by Archimedes revealed using various spectroscopic techniques and synthesized using computer imaging. This is a marvellous feat of infotech archaeology providing a crucial glimpse into the 3rd century BCE philosophico-engineering world which produced the Antikythera Computer. I’m especially interested in Archimedes’ Mechanical Method herein as an alternative to calculus. If anyone can provide a primer on how to so calculate, please do.
Malcolm X - The Ballot or the Bullet (LP)
Seldom highlighted enough is Malcolm X’s internationalist thinking, both as strategy and as global communal imperative. There’s an interesting tension here, between separatism and internationalism, often figured as an evolution in his thinking after his Hajj. But perhaps this represents a clarification of his seeking to find a new context for black people in America necessitated a discovery of relationship beyond the hermetically sealed parochial strictures peculiar to the USAmerican polity.
Oh my goodness. Dr. Demento is broadcasting online. And you can order a custom audio message from him! And listen to his archive of decades of demented songs. There is a royalty fee, sigh... But I daresay it is worth it. Please spread the news, Dementites.
Vidak has delivered a lovely PinePhone review and omnibus tour of current OS offerings. There are instructions for basic flashing and hints of things to avoid, always good to note! I’m keen to get a PineTab, so am encouraged by his enjoyment of Mobian. Hopefully OS’s will continue to debug issues to get Pine to a solid state soon. Thanks, Vidak!
Inside the mind of a CBP gulag guard.
Whenever phrases like “the banality or evil” become too worn by use, read something like this.
Working my weary tukhas off lately. Yet all’s I really want to do right now is watch Critical Rôle and play Simutrans.
2010 USA Racial Population Map
Provides a fine detail tool for racial tensions in various regions.
Bishop Fulton Sheen on Fear (Invidious)
Bishop Sheen leverages a disarming charisma to chat with us about fear. An interesting high modern mix of Catholic and psychoanalytical conceptions of self, fear, anxiety... Withal some resonance for 2020.
So, “cottagecore” is a real internet... trend? 🤷🏽♀️
This is fine...
...is the abortion of community.
That is all.
Leonard Nimoy - Eye of the Tiger
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