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There is power in the blood. Wonder-working power. Would you be free from your passionate pride?

Saying, "It's not about me," and hoping that reverberates in the spirit of others.

The Wilsonian premises of statehood are institutional cover for segregationist and eliminationist projects that proved useful to the grand strategy of north Atlantic powers during their 20th century struggle with a Central Eurasian power.

@codicil

so weird that every website started doing this at exactly the same time that every app stopped being a real app and just became a website in a zip file

Normies like to say something is "extremely complicated" when actually it can be described with two or three uncommon-to-obscure terms. People simply don't have good vocabularies and it hinders their capacities to reason about the phenomena around them.

Anyway, read books.

Open are the double doors of the horizon
Unlocked are its bolts

@enkiv2 Yummy infodump! I'm always fascinated by Xanadu, but all the other systems you describe are also interesting.

Do you have any insight on when bidirectional linking appeared to be a dead end?

I am working with a highly disorganized person in a semi-superior position. She keeps trying to put things on my schedule 1 day in advance in bizarre and unhelpful times that force me to cancel on her. So far I've been very apologetic and helping her to save face, but I think I'm going to stop helping her save face pretty soon.

I think that east asian cultures may have a good angle with this dynamic.

Kinda showed my cards to a colleague by mentioning that I like Machiavelli. Whoopsie poopsie.

People ask me, "How do you know about that?" And I tell them, "I know what knives and spoons are. I know what the Steven Universe wiki is."

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