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Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Ja, daar was ik al bang voor: dat Scandinavië Europa's vluchtoord wordt
Zwarte Zaterdag: ruim 1000 kilometer file in Frankrijk, ook druk naar Scandinavië
- https://nos.nl/l/2625165

finally, a fair review of morgoth's "feel sorry for the fanatic". this has always been a great album, when it came out it really depressed me that i felt like the only one who appreciated this bold and successful step into something so different. a true work of art. you can hear they are feeling it.
any past review of this album not even mentioning killing joke as a reference was not getting it at all.
the self-fulfilling album title is gold.

I need something bigger than a pair of 24" 1080p display on my lab bench.
Big GPU profiling traces just don't fit in 1080 scanlines when you are looking at double digit numbers of threads and lots of Vulkan queues.
I can't fit any more width, but maybe I'd benefit from like a 30-something inch 4K in portrait mode?

RE: https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/117004917892316803
Almost as if we shouldn’t be trusting vital scientific research to factory farms for human beings or something.

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

Useful piece about 'Shared Decision Making' - something we all should know about
The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law – and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine

The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law – and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine
Doctors should recommend treatment accompanied by conversations about the pros and cons for the individuals who are in front of them

Useful piece about 'Shared Decision Making' - something we all should know about
The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law – and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine

The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law – and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine
Doctors should recommend treatment accompanied by conversations about the pros and cons for the individuals who are in front of them

For some reason I keep wanting to say something - Utter a statement to another human being - but I don’t want any response. I don’t want any action taken. All I need is to be heard and then we can keep going on as before…
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