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“This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what “the people” means.” - Yu Hua
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这是我生命中的关键时刻。我一直以为光比人生的声音传播得更远，声音比体温传播得更远。但那天晚上我意识到事实并非如此，因为当人民团结一致，他们的声音比光传播得更远，他们的热量传播得还更远。从那晚开始, 我找到了人民的意思- 余华
The difference: we lived in the economic reports, and they live in history.
<< La leçon à tirer du châtiment de Dreyfus est de montrer au monde ce que nous faisons de traîtres. >>
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"The lesson to take from the humiliation of Dreyfus is that we will show the world what we do to traitors."
Worth reading
"Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer 
Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man.
Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and its nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist."
Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man.
Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and its nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist."
Goodreads
Doctor Faustus
"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Man…
we're still wrestling with this post-halving
read your friends, but more importantly, read your enemies
Steve Witkoff is negotiating "peace" between Israel and Hamas, and now Ukraine and Russia. His unique qualification for this access and power seems to be his shitcoin shenanigans with World Liberty Financial and Trump.
Want to have access to the top negotiator for the United States government? Enrich his sons and Trump by buying large amounts of shitcoins like Justin Sun did.
underrated/undertold part of the DeepSeek story, is that the company behind DeepSeek never had government support (despite billions being poured into achieving DeepSeek's goal of "advancing Chinese AI") and no support from the Chinese VC scene. Self-funded by a rich dude who worked in an industry the government hated.
my hot take on AI is that maybe it means mech engineers stay mech engineers instead of being software engs
in Benjamin Button, the film (loosely based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel) depicts the origin of Benjamin aging backwards in time because of a backwards clock built by a mourning father for a son lost in WW1 - with that same father passing away of a broken heart.
The film depiction and story lines up with Émile Durkheim, a French sociologist whose main field of study was how societies could hold their integrity in a post-religious era. Many of his students, who shared his goals, would pass away in the trenches of a WW1 borne of societies who gained their integrity through sharpening it through war, until finally, his own son André died as well on the war front - a loss from which he would never recover and never be able to go back in time to study.
Two years after his son died, Émile Durkheim would pass away of a stroke.
BM, Nostr
«Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.»
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
-Camus
one of my favorite things is blending DMX with historical events. The Sima Yi taking over Wei with X Gon' Give It To You remix is seamless
gm from those of us with nothing to do but to flip through tariff tables
mood
i and the lads doing serious werk on the bitcoin chain vs. i and the lads going to a bitcoin conference to talk about our bitcoin werk
go on, fellow heroes
