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• Money, Power, and Credibility - 'Learn shit save your money amass great power. Then use it to fuck shit up."
• Warning: Hayao Miyazaki Is A Tricky Job Interviewer
• I am not always very attached to being alive
• Going Critical — Melting Asphalt
  
  • What I learned from the simulation above is that there are ideas and cultural practices that can take root and spread in a city that simply can’t spread out in the countryside. (Mathematically can’t.) These are the very same ideas and the very same kinds of people. It’s not that rural folks are e.g. “small-minded”; when exposed to one of these ideas, they’re exactly as likely to adopt it as someone in the city. Rather, it’s that the idea itself can’t go viral in the countryside because there aren’t as many connections along which it can spread. […] We tend to think that if something’s a good idea, it will eventually reach everyone, and if something’s a bad idea, it will fizzle out. And while that’s certainly true at the extremes, in between are a bunch of ideas and practices that can only go viral in certain networks. I find this fascinating.
• 404 Page Not Found | Kate Wagner
• Ilya Starinov - The godfather of modern insurgent IED warfare.
  • "In this post I’m going to cover some of the factors in his life story that influenced him to become the person he was. His story should be more commonly known in the EOD and counter-IED community. The use of IEDs was extensive in WW2 and that’s not widely understood."