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Get Out of the Black
“Going Internal” or “Being in the Black” are an informal term used in the USMC when a marine stops paying attention to things and people around him due to …
Tags: Musings | Philosophy
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How Hyperstition Shapes the Market
The concept of hyperstition, originating with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, posits that fictions and beliefs are not merely predictive of the future, but actively cause it. The CCRU also...
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Robust Technology: Protrek Watches
I’ve been wearing a PRW2500T-7 Casio ProTrek watch on-and-off for roughly seven years now. I wore it on my adventures in Boy Scouts, through my experimentation with …
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Automate Creating Article Preview Cards With Hugo
Below is how I generate preview cards for this Hugo static-site on my home page. How the template works is by parsing every page in my site (unless a page is marked with …
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The Spiritual World
Modern science appears to have given us an incredibly detailed map of the world, but closer inspection reveals surprising blind spots and gaps. Questions like why subjective consciousness arises at all seem to lie outside mechanistic accounts of nature. These questions inherently cannot be reduced to current physical law ...
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The Benefits of a "Weak Dollar" for U.S. Manufacturing
This article is a stub. Wrote it to quickly link to someone. A “weaker dollar” means a US dollar is buying fewer units of foreign currency than before. Many people …
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Script for Instantly Adding Images to a Hugo Webpage (macOS)
In this example I'm using the second script to add in an image to this article. Adding images to my blog posts used to be a chore:
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The Advantages of Using Fountain Pens
I physically write my notes and schedule down as opposed to typing them out. I remember things better when I physically write them out. I can bring a notebook/pen anywhere — as …
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Thoughts on my First Year in the Marines
I have been enlisted in the Marines for fourteen months now. First four of those months I was in bootcamp and Marine Combat Training (MCT). This basic training was followed by …
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Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad
If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, then it …
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Script to Automate Deploying Open WebUI on macOS
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly changing how we interact with information, offering impressive capabilities from brainstorming to summarization. But behind this …
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Cyber Security Tips
Stop Bringing Your Phone Everywhere! The sheer amount of sensor data modern smartphones collect is staggering. They continuously log your precise GPS location—even when apps …
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Automatically Generate Social Media Cards (With Images) for Articles With Hugo
What my social media cards looks like for my article on Tolstoy when shared on different platforms. Have you ever shared one of your blog posts on social media only to see a …
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How to Install Landybird Browser on macOS
Ladybird is an early-stage browser project that stands out due to its use of a custom engine, independent from major frameworks like Chromium (Google’s engine for Chrome), …
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Tolstoy's Critique of Great Man Theory
In the 19th century, many historians embraced the Great Man Theory, which claims that a handful of extraordinary leaders dictate the course of events through their intellect, …
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Ranger Image Preview With Tmux on macOS
Ranger file manager inside a tmux window, with image preview shown in the right. What Is Ranger. Why Use it to Preview Images?: Ranger is a terminal-based file browser that uses …
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Nginx Server Configuration for Static Sites
I use nginx as my webserver. It’s fast and has a tone of features. However, for me it’s been a process to learn how to set up properly redirecting, caching, secure, and …
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Note Taking Script For the Terminal
Daily & General Notes Script: Previously I was using the Obsidian Application as my Journaling and “To Do List” software. Obsidian has vim integration and a button …
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Script To Deploy SearXNG Easily on macOS Using Docker
What is SearXNG? SearXNG is a fork of the original SearX project, actively maintained to provide a modernized and efficient meta-search experience. It functions by aggregating …
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Programs and Equipment that I use
Bottom line up front: For my hardware I use an Apple laptop with third-party peripherals that can be easily transported. I try to use open-source software when possible because …
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Why I Switched to Hugo from a Hand-Coded Website
Bottom line up front: A lot of the tedious work of linking together webpages, maintaining consistency across pages, implementing RSS, etc. can by automated by using a static site …
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Capital Beyond Wealth
Bottom line up front: Wealth is rarely held as cash or physical currency; instead, it is tied to commercial capabilities represented by stocks, assets, and equity. There exists no …
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The Historical Conception of Leisure
§ 0 Leisure in Classical Antiquity: The Foundation of Intellectual Life Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what …
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Bootcamp
Poem Aye Sir Running Marching Yes Sir Pushing Screaming No Sir Eating Sleeping Picture of me at the 'confidence course' courtesy of MCRD April 2024
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Script to Generate Rss Feed
1 This is a bash script to generate a full RSS feed from a directory containing simple webpages. The script works by pulling out the text between a few html tags to fill the needed …
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Illinois Untamed
Poem free–speech & free(d)–men pro–union & pro–unions shake–hands & shake–downs frontier-man & gangster-man … lost–boys & lost–men Illustration of …
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Domes and Spires
I’ve asked my Priest about the frequent usage of domes in Orthodox architecture. I was told the domes have to with how the Orthodox view divinity. With a dome the walls come …
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Words and Laws
1 The proper use of language can be found through but never prescribed by editors, lawyers, judges, or other authorities under English common law. Under this tradition, there is a …
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Humane Suffering
1 Part of human agency ― and the human experience ― is the ability to choose to do bad acts and them having to deal with the pain and consequences caused by doing them. Not letting …
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News Is Designed to Agitate
1 Many journalists (especially the social media ‘independent’ variety) intentionally produce content to emotionally agitate their watchers/readers/listeners. Often this …
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Unicode Math Symbols Keyboard Guide
Unlocking Unicode Symbol Input on MacOS If you’re using MacOS, enabling Unicode symbol input is straightforward. Here’s a step-by-step guide to set it up: Open System …
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An Adventure
Poem Four boys and two men A van filled with supplies Driving west across the plains Towards A beautiful fading sun Ready for an adventure! Nebraska, 2018
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The Direction of Time
§0 A Black Box 0.0 When anything happens there is a tendency to immediately give the occurrence an explanation and then to say “it was obvious wasn’t it, we should of …
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Stary Night
Poem Petal to the metal Windows open Radio blasting A telescope in the back A book to the side Not to be back until morning Illinois, 2020
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American Allegiance
Loyalty is bedrock. Knowing that a person (or a people) will protect you gives peace of mind that thugs can’t come in and take everything you have built without trouble, or …
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Poetry
Poetry Not affection nor expression But invasion and infection Acts of war and will Alive Dancing to Music Breaking at a smile Watching a sunrise Shine Not how long but how bright …
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