Aaaaaaaand we’re back astralcodexten.substack.com 📖
I started a Links page where I’m collecting things I found online that have shaped who I am.
htop while compiling emacs feature/native-comp
Everything else will fade but I’ll remember that 2020 was the year the New York Times killed Slate Star Codex and it will still be the worst year on record.
Omg. Money Stuff is back! 😃💵
“Now, we live in a new world, a world in which currency is a choice, and not just a choice in terms of use… Any of us can now create a currency using a simple web form.”
— Andreas Antonopoulos, The Internet of Money
Heist movie you might not have heard of: Den of Thieves. On Netflix atm.
Gerard Butler plays a morally ambiguous cop, and Nicky Sobotka from The Wire plays the head of an ex-military bank job crew. The plot plays out back and forth between both sides of the law. I’m only a third of the way through right now, but it’s pretty good so far.
Getting into a good book makes me wonder what anyone ever watches tv for.
(disclaimer: I watch a fair amount of tv)
I have a feeling that Anathem is really good, it just takes a couple hundred pages to get there. That’s why, more than ten years after first reading Cryptonomicon, it’s the only Stephenson book I haven’t read. I’m 120 pages in and determined to finish it this time, however.
Listening on repeat: www.youtube.com/watch