til, the battle of Morgarten. Where 1500 farmers lured 9000 trained, armed Knights into a narrow pass between a mountain and a lake, and pushed rockslides and rolling logs down on them destroying the entire army. Giving birth to Switzerland. 🇨🇭

@ben how are your roasting experiments going?

@David II so did that gada turn out to be more in the well meaning but unuseful, or actually useful category?

fascinated by the Greek city state. not so much by the cities themselves, which were not what we think of as cities, but the city state trade networks they set up under the nose of other Empires, and even in their territories. the original parallel polis.

this generation seems increasingly shallow and arrogant to me. it lacks the humility to see its own shortcomings and failures. Everyone is an expert, and knows nothing. its kinda bumming me out. gonna need to narrow inputs and change focus.

go deep enough into your rabbit holes that normies have no idea what you’re talking about

just had a weird insight rabbit holing in ancient greek writing style. The Apostle Paul's letters are an insight into what an intelectual giant he was. The letters to different places, different city states and cultural paradigms were written in those rhetoric styles, logic frameworks, and cultural paradigms. No where is this more evident than in the comparison between Romans and Ephesians. One being written in a legal structured, point by point "therefore" logic, and the other being writen in Greek Parataxis, "and, and, and, compounding greek logic style. Each letter was written in a culturally relevant way, using cultural references and thinking those cultures would understand. Which adds weight to his statement, "i have become all things to all men, that by all means, i may save some."

kinda fascinated by Greek colonization, and how it’s largely responsible for much of how the world looks now.

til, the majority of southern Italy from 500 to 250bc was Greek. So much so that the original name of Naples was Neapolis.

its kinda weird that LEDs havent had a larger impact on fashion.

the thing about AI i find most interesting is not AI. Its the human marketing trying to convince potential customers it is a superior intellect. And how many scifi bros buy it hook line and sinker.

til,

Magna Graecia - Wikipedia

wrote a little elisp function which outputs the stdout of a shell script to a dynamic block in an org mode document, then wrote little bash functions which cycle through psalms, proverbs, and John based on the day of the month, or year. the dynamic blocks update when the document is opened, and new chapters appear each day in the foldable headings. thinking of more cool things to output into a self updating daily reading document.

someone wrote a State propaganda bot for nostr, to spout mainstream media at us 😂 @FactChecker

this is Eva Vlaardingerbroek. A few days ago, she called the prime minister of the UK bad names on twitter. Today she received a letter from the UK banning her from entering the country. Because the government of the UK are pathetic, corrupt, sissyboys who cry when pretty girls call them names. 🤓

@tanel is a good dude.