𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐞𝐕𝐚𝐧 @ColonelUpdate

@ilJefeReardono @FreeIrishman7 fsspx.today/chapel/fl-fort…

@reoindustries @thomaspainealt Can you make this with enough headroom for a 6’5” guy?

@theodorvaryag 🙏🏻

The root failure of the modern software stack is duplicated context. Every layer reconstructs reality from fragments, until screenshots become a disconnected sign language between systems. We built Shrine, a namespace OS, around a different premise: every interaction should operate on the same underlying reality.

Manuel Simoni @msimoni

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Operating systems research and development failed so badly that the best way to exchange information between apps is a screenshot.

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@TossitRambles @urbit god tier would've been ~master-bottec but ty

@sigilante @wmartianltdco It's also just a really bad time to be a seller.

@sigilante I've been using the video file marks for blob storage development, thanks.

@theodorvaryag Nethack.telnet.io iirc

A pasture grazed by cattle alone is a good pasture. A pasture grazed by cattle and sheep, together, is something else entirely. The cattle take the long grass, the coarse stems, the rougher patches. The sheep follow behind and clean up what the cattle ignored: the shorter regrowth, the wildflowers, the species the cattle wouldn't touch. The pasture gets grazed at two heights, by two different mouths, on two different patterns. Twice the use. Twice the work. None of the waste. Add a goat and the bramble line goes. Add a pig on the woodland edge and the parasite cycles break. Add a few geese and the weeds you didn't even know you had quietly disappear. The result is consistently the highest-biodiversity, highest-productivity, lowest-input agricultural system on earth. Higher protein per acre than arable. More carbon in the soil. More birds. More wildflowers. Less disease. Less input. Each species breaks the parasite cycle of the others. Each one prefers the plants the others avoid. The system tunes itself. This is not innovative. It is what almost every functional agricultural society on earth has done forever. Roman estates. Medieval manors. Mongolian camps. Welsh hill farms. The single-species, single-field, single-product model that replaced it is about a hundred years old and is running out of steam on every metric you can measure. The fix is older than the problem. It is a Welsh farm with cattle on the lower pasture, sheep on the upper, a goat on the bramble line, and a couple of geese in the orchard. The farmer would explain it in four minutes if you asked. The policy paper has not asked.

The problem I had for the first 31 years of my life as a protestant was everyone claiming to teach the “clear teaching of the Scriptures” taught vastly different things on every conceivable topic. The solution I found, very much thanks to the Church Fathers, is that Christians had always believed the Catholic Faith, that it was very much in Scripture, and once I understood it, so many parts of Scripture that had been confusing or elusive for so long suddenly began making sense. But yes, if you reduce everything to everyone reading the Bible “for themselves” (ironically, something we NEVER see in Scripture), then it is natural to conclude that this intrinsically anti-scriptural, rebellious act (reading the Bible as if Christ never established a teaching office in His Church, first in the Apostles and later in their successors) would naturally lead you away from that Church—particularly if you are encouraged to do so by those who already have.

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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

Imagine drinking some ale with the boys at the local tavern and the bard starts playing this banger

Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS

2 months ago

This original medieval-style dance piece is in G minor, with a chord progression that alternates between Gm and Cm, incorporating variations like Gm6 and Cm6 for that hypnotic flow.

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One of my best friends worked at a Trump golf course as a caddy in high school. It was a good job as a high schooler. I vividly remember him coming home after a shift one day and proudly pulling out a crisp $100 bill: "Trump tipped me this!" It was a lot different back then.

NoNonsense @paulsblueshirt

2 months ago

@CryptoSor9 @DiarioBitcoin @AutismCapital It's a freakn hoax. Whoever came up with this idea is dumb AF

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@Voltropy @jlehman_ I often run volt sessions that grow beyond the 128k context token limit and am unable to compact the session. Besides running compact manually more zealously, is there something that can be done automatically when the threshold is approaching?

@sigilante @satisfiesvalues Pros/cons of such?

Consider the lilies of the field. They hustle not, neither do they grind

There’s a cool feature in Latin, the gerundive, which is a verbal adjective implying that something should/must happen. A few of them survive into English words: If someone should be revered, they are “reverend”. If something must be cut away, it is a “dividend”. My favorite: if a story is so good that it simply must be read by everyone, it is “legend”! Latin reverendus/a, dividendum, and legenda. Pretty cool that what is sometimes a difficult concept for Latin learners is actually present in English, albeit rarely. Do let me know if there are any good ones I’ve missed.

Your medieval peasant ancestor had 80 to 100 days off per year It was not an employee benefit, but religious mandate The liturgical calendar gave labourers saints days, holy days, the great feasts Lords could not override them Then secularisation came and the market filled the space You now negotiate 20 days from an employer and call it a benefit We didn't free the worker from the Church But the market from God's calendar