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micahredding.bsky.social

Expanding, lasting life. Former musician, one-time world traveler, current Nashville-ian, christian/transhumanist @christiantranshumanism.org ( @micahtredding on twitter )

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Why can’t we write directly to the web? Why can’t plain text link? Why can’t we post comments by just including links to what we’re commenting on? Why do we have to keep reinventing these things?

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TV Tropes is the source code to our culture

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The Vitalik Ethos

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Hypothesis: Apocalyptic movements in history are triggered—not by misguided religious fanaticism—but by rapid disruptive change.

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I have this sense that the mythic world of Les Mis is the real world. A world of profound wrestling with order and grace, a world where we struggle for atonement, and to redeem our naive idealisms, and to maintain our integrity in the face of the universe.

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Computation is another word for Transubstantiation

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Maybe bad is that which removes you from productive feedback loops

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Feels like children’s television has mostly given up on the idea of teaching reading and math. I don’t have a strong opinion about this. Seems interesting.

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If Markdown did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it

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The spirit of Christ in the gospels is 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, the 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘰𝘴. Which is the epistemological form of agape love. Thus, as a teacher, he reasons with his students. And teaches them to reason with each other. Nothing, he claims, has been hidden from them.

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Unfortunately, a Roomba is not compatible with having a child (who will go to any length to disrupt the Roomba’a efforts)

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"People you may know" aka people who unfriended you

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The two biggest business stories in years, are AI and Taylor Swift. Coincidence?

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Obsidian treats names as canonical identifiers. Zettelkasten uses ID numbers as canonical identifiers, and treats names as ephemeral. I think the latter is better at matching how the human mind actually works. Thought is pre-verbal.

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Growing up, I don’t think I realized how much of the culture I was absorbing was second-hand drug culture

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We are living through the feudal era of the internet. We can remember a freer and simpler era, seemingly closer to our ideals. Erased with the growth of complexity. Eventually, we’ll attain our freedom, and establish a true basis for those freedoms we once glimpsed.

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America has always been conflicted over whether it was supposed to be Rome or Jerusalem

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This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

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It was easier to know what to do when my team were the scrappy underdogs

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The real deep state is reality itself