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rozruch | Oct 02, 2016 |
| @jboss Suspect not. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 13, 2016 |
| Ghost Town by the Specials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4 | ||
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rozruch | Sep 13, 2016 |
| I'm getting the impression people are going elsewhere right now. I may sniff around myself. I have not done so so much so far. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 13, 2016 |
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| Trying to figure a good way to set up Twister on #QubesOS. I may write a script to download rather than installing in template VM. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @vegos @thedod @black_puppydog Updated. I was running fairly up-to-date. All good. The interface etc. is great. Just wants more people :) | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @vegos @thedod * hides * I doubt I'm running it myself. I have updated nothing. Just a git pull? I should take a look. :D | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @thedod @vegos I came through that & realised the world sucks but it doesn't pay to care, or that I want to care, but the hurt is optional. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @vegos @rysiek @mokuren Most people I know wouldn't know how to begin to give a shit about anything that matters. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| A post that gives some, though far from all, of the clarity I have long needed re #tor: | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @vegos Good effort! | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| Banging my head against bureaucracy. Any example of the same triggers almost paralysing cognitive dissonance. Does wonders for your career. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @vegos Hardcore. Good luck. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 04, 2016 |
| @thedod @vegos Sorry, follow you both so came across this. Been there. Many times. It sucks. But came through it. Glad you're on the mend! | ||
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rozruch | Sep 03, 2016 |
| @vegos Those boys know how to make a video! | ||
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rozruch | Sep 03, 2016 |
| Work is killing me right now. I'm somewhere else. My mind and focus is somewhere else. Not now working on my writing will be a huge strain. | ||
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rozruch | Sep 03, 2016 |
| Slow over here. Like a dying cafe. I often come here like I would to Twitter but don't feel so able to sound off: no anonymity in obscurity. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 31, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 31, 2016 |
| Back at school. My head full of the origins of the universe & everything else I'm going to teach in the next few weeks. The novel: on hold. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| Ie. relatively open-internet-friendly PGP-friendly mail service. Webmail not necessary. Shitty business incl. data-mining practices a no no. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| I got onto that via looking into reasonably secure email. Must move from Yahoo(!) Any tips? I have Protonmail but can't sign git commits. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| "SIGINT is the heroin of intelligence collection. The whole world got hooked on it when they discovered it, and it has had a very good run…" | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| Hm, it's not moving so fast round these parts. I do miss the variety of folk on my Twitter TL. I may be tempted back yet. Not yet, though. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| They provide what they are asked for, and what they must provide to remain highly-funded. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| If they are not, then this does not necessarily mean they are to blame since intelligence has increasingly become consumer-led. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| Of course, the question is whether these advanced terrorist threats (their supposed target) are indeed their main focus. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 27, 2016 |
| "HUMINT. More of it." The Grugq on how intelligence agencies can tackle advanced threats. Obviously true. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| (Sorry, I figured #Twister needed a little of the excitement of the #Twitter rants that kept my feed amusing, if not all of the aggro.) | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| He showed her her urine under the microscope. Me, my sperm. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
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And the .css remains rubbish... Anyway, back to it! |
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| Reworking the index now. I've just broken the blog moving the index from the "landing" on the server to the index in the repo but nevermind. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| Even such things as transferring GPG keys to sign commits will take a little time. The first commit from Qubes OS will be a key one though. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| I may try to work on some podcasts, get a handful of less time-intensive things going, get back to fixing the website... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| With the writing it's something different. Being forced to not write may break me time and again. It hurts to have to stop. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| I feel that with revisiting the website - something that started with zero skills but got somewhere at least... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 24, 2016 |
| Nice to see #syphilis is trending. Just above #hillary in fact. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 22, 2016 |
| @vegos This is a great story! :) | ||
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rozruch | Aug 21, 2016 |
| Still, I ought to learn a little more about #Wikileaks. I tended to stear clear of it, not being convinced of its methods. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 21, 2016 |
| Wrote that take on The Fifth Estate half way in - watched it in two stints - it redeems itself in the second half, I think. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 21, 2016 |
| @sylmobile @vegos @jpfox @analyticascent I Started too late :( but heard good things about them from ie. Twitter.@leashless (Vinay Gupta) | ||
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rozruch | Aug 21, 2016 |
| @sylmobile @vegos @jpfox @analyticascent It will be for some time, I think. The command line is both intimidating & foreign to > 95% of ppl. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 21, 2016 |
| @vegos :D No, didn't get it. I can imagine though. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
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For what it's worth: Julian Assange: rash, egotistical Chelsea Manning: heart first, head second Edward Snowden: weighed every action |
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| Going to watch The Fifth Estate. Got to talking about whistleblowers as my missus was telling me not to write anything would get me shot. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| I suspect if I explained that to this Bonobo cat, he'd understand. It's that kind of album. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| Listening to Bonobo and writing notes on a CC story about the artefacts of human intellect collected for a Voyager III. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| Which will be true until the pace picks up here. I owe Twitter a lot, but it took as well as it gave. The same ~could~ be true here. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos Basically, alcohol's bad. Beer is fractionally worse than wine, which is a little worse than, say, vodka. Yeast not the only factor. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos Beer kills me sadly. Yeast :( I live without. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos Sounds good. I've tended to under-use tofu. Heard soya was nutritionally overrated but it tastes ok and is versatile. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos I wasn't a huge fan in muesli but give it a go. Like it in pancakes and as a side but maybe it's not so suited to raw-style cuisine. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos It's got a strong flavour but I've found a few recipes. Crisped up in the oven with roast veg is good. Sometimes with homemade stock. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 20, 2016 |
| @vegos No, I normally hyperfocus with cooking but shoved some veg in the oven & went all 'ah, it'll be all right' listening to a podcast. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| Anyways, goodnight all! | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| I am sure a lot of the good people were pushed out of the dissident movement because ppl were scared to take on the smears against them. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
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On the one hand, I can imagine sociopaths within tech. On the other hand I can image tor as a target of the smartest intelligence operators. |
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| I tried to work out what was going on at tor for some time but there were a lot of ppl playing games & I swung from 1 certainty to another. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| On the one hand, he is said to be a rapist. On the other, I know many Czechoslovakian dissidents who had similar smears made against them. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| @jboss I read 1 internal conversation leaked on pastebin discussing former secret service people getting involved. Over my head at the time. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| @jboss I mainly followed on Twitter and had a friend lock me out of an account a month ago. Do you know anywhere reliable to read up on it? | ||
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rozruch | Aug 19, 2016 |
| @vegos I've not found time yet to puzzle out the whole init freedom issue. Qubes is nice. Impressed so far. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 15, 2016 |
| Phillip Glass's ~Koyaanisqatsi~, Neil Ardley's ~Harmony of the Spheres~, and Górecki's 3rd Symphony becoming the soundtracks for the novel. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 15, 2016 |
| Thanks to whoever it was put me on to the #Lenovo #Malware. I'd heard rumours before but had no details. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 15, 2016 |
| Bought a 2nd hand Lenovo Thinkpad. This test runs -ve for #Superfish #malware. I'm running #Ubuntu. Anything else to do? | ||
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rozruch | Aug 15, 2016 |
| Rubbish! The worst faults of UK cinema: felt like some Oxbridge type aping Ken Loach by writing about the horrors of British inequality. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| Seeing myself as increasingly unlikely to go back to #Twitter. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| We're having a film day: Irina Palm featuring Marianne Faithful as the eponymous pseudonymous "hostess": | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| @vegos Understood. I may then roll back - I like Debian - but I'll play around while I'm on a fresh install & write on Qubes experience. N8! | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| @vegos Hadn't heard of @bellingcat. Worthy project, good work. I've upgraded but intend to try to install #Qubes which will drain resources. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| @luissoeiro Worth checking out. Have you taken a look? | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| I refuse to call it by its English title ~Virgin Mountain~ as it's crass and there is no artistic need to translate the title, a man's name. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| I really must read ~In Gratitude~ by Jenny Diski. I read the first few chapters obsessively when serialised in the LRB: | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| Hungover and my signing key expired yesterday. Sub-ideal but coping so far. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 14, 2016 |
| @myleneb https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/28/jenny-diski-obituary | ||
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rozruch | Aug 12, 2016 |
| This kind of Fourth Estate asset stripping is heart-breaking: | ||
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rozruch | Aug 12, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 12, 2016 |
| I haven't regularly paid for the #Guardian #newspaper for over 10 years. It's ok to be ambivalent about its output but that won't change it. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 12, 2016 |
| #Hackers Congress at Parallel Polis coming up in September into October, #Prague: https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/hcpp16/ #bitcoin #crypto | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Ok, I have decided to commit to #Twister to see how it develops, check out #ZeroNet & #Galaxy2 & maybe podcast about the various ecosystems. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Anybody have any thoughts on #Qubes or tips in setting it up. I have to get some >5gb DVDs but hoping to install and try it out. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| That is part of the reason I'm here, and if I haven't found the answer yet, it is something I would like to keep exploring. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| What does that do for the people on London Bridge? For the people we talk to day by day who spout #Twitter and #Facebook trending topics? | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| So the internet wants to sell me Karl Ove Knausgaard right now. It doesn't know me well, but it's not far off. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| The idea of zamřelci seemed appropriate a few months back when I was working on a git repo of, primarily, fiction and writing notebooks. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| (I had left the pub to just go for a walk. I hadn't taken a wallet and so returned, and my girlfriend convinced me to get the book.) | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| That resounded with me. It's interesting,incidentally,what this means when you can find little trace online, or don't get round to doing so. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| To "die in", which doesn't work in English, but he takes to suggest becoming neither dead nor alive. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| The word zamřít is a neologism which plays on zemřít, to die, and the prefix za which with spát, sleep, means to sleep in. To zamřít is... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Anyway, while I'm here and talking to myself, I'll talk to myself as I did in the early days of Twitter... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| I suspect my lit schtick is more niche here than on #Twitter, but I haven't properly set up #ZeroNet yet so I'll stick it out for now. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Also Karl Ove Knausgaard is following me: I'm getting ads for the Czech translation after live tweeting my increasing rage with My Struggle. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| On the other hand I have discovered that his English Wikipedia page needs a lot of work which, being obsessive, might add to my to do list. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 11, 2016 |
| I have discovered Miloslav Topinka, a #Czech poet whose concept of Zamřelci I was tracking down for some time: | ||
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rozruch | Aug 08, 2016 |
| Alex Gibney on Julian Assange, the DNC leaks, Wikileaks methods vs those of other leakers, and "noble cause corruption": | ||
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rozruch | Aug 03, 2016 |
| when I was isolated and surrounded by extraverted climbers and kayakers who endlessly quoted Borat and talked exclusively about their sport. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 03, 2016 |
| I feel ambivalent about Twitter and its role in my life, but I have made genuine friends there, it has kept me in touch... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 03, 2016 |
| ...I took a look at sb's Twitter profile yesterday to learn about another black woman has been killed by police in US... | ||
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rozruch | Aug 03, 2016 |
| All due respect to Twister developers. This is not intended as criticism, I'm just laying out what I & others will need to abandon Twitter. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 03, 2016 |
| Little about politics/literature/culture here. I get the importance of vim vs emacs but Twister will be niche until it's easier to install. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 02, 2016 |
| @vegos I'm looking forward to more clarity. According to Steve Silberman Ed Yong will write the definitive book on this: | ||
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rozruch | Aug 01, 2016 |
| "This is not the 1930s with drones & trolls." Paul Mason more convincing on the similarities than reasons for hope here: | ||
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rozruch | Aug 01, 2016 |
| Researching this area has been essential for me to function. I have #ADHD and #asperger's syndrome and this does *a lot* to help. | ||
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rozruch | Aug 01, 2016 |
| Not a great article, but there is more & more on the role of gut flora of late, I'll expect some breakthroughs soon-ish | ||
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rozruch | Aug 01, 2016 |
| “There [was] nothing criminal... They’re in the mindset of preparing for the end of the world, accumulating weapons and things like that." | ||
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rozruch | Jul 31, 2016 |
| "the world stares at Britain &sees a drunk, dank rock crawling with Shrek-faced bigots & delusional schoolboys in grown-up suits" AL Kennedy | ||
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rozruch | Jul 31, 2016 |
| @analyticascent @jpfox Been away without internet so I've missed that. I'll look into it-it may be a matter of time, it's a nice interface. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 31, 2016 |
| @vegos @jpfox @analyticascent Will do. It's early days for me yet in any case-it's easy to forget how long it took to build a TL in Twitter. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 29, 2016 |
| Been off-line a couple of weeks writing on a typewriter (and longhand) on a Greek island. Got perhaps 1/2 a first draft of a novel. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 11, 2016 |
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rozruch | Jul 11, 2016 |
| In the US #Brexit has become a shorthand for 'Sorry your country failed' | ||
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rozruch | Jul 10, 2016 |
| If democracy will speak primarily to the basic emotions, we're done for: http://www.personalityresearch.org/basicemotions/plutchik.html | ||
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rozruch | Jul 10, 2016 |
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rozruch | Jul 10, 2016 |
| I draw the line on retransmitting Alex Jones on Obama's plans to federalise police even if a stopped clock is right twice a day. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 09, 2016 |
| @vegos That's a great story! Much in need of some positive news from Britain. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 09, 2016 |
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rozruch | Jul 08, 2016 |
| The more I learn about the #blockchain & tech, the less I believe it can in its present form do anything to address most problems we face. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 08, 2016 |
| #BlackLivesMatter? Is there anything about that here? Are the structural inequalities in society reflected in tech ie. #blockchain? | ||
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rozruch | Jul 06, 2016 |
| Yes we have to design social networks, but we also have to support progressive journalism. The black chain doesn't solve everything. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 06, 2016 |
| Even 4 years ago this wasn't so stark, and the big newspapers & magazines, though in decline, weren't in the shape they are now. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 06, 2016 |
| It has long ago reached the point that this kind of stuff determines elections, but the biggies are ahead of us. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 06, 2016 |
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rozruch | Jul 05, 2016 |
| I worked out an approach last night involving how to "arrive early" in the next draft. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 05, 2016 |
| It's a lot less crowded over here than in Twitter land. I'll give it that. | ||
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rozruch | Jul 05, 2016 |
| The #Satoshi Affair by Andrew O'Hagan: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair #bitcoin | ||
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rozruch | Jul 05, 2016 |
| The last few days v. much about trying to read an article on #Satoshi in the London Review of Books. Everything getting in the way. #bitcoin | ||
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rozruch | Jul 05, 2016 |
| Just joined. Increasingly intolerant of centralised systems. Would like to transition from #Twitter. Impressed so far. #twister | ||