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A view of the Scottish Highlands. Olive green hills are criss-crossed with white dirt trails.

A flock of sheep on the peak of Gamskarkogel in Austria. A wooden cross stands on the peak in the background.

A sheep in the foreground with the Austrian Alps in the background. There is a stormy sky with the sun setting, painting the clouds purple and gold.

The view of the valley from Coire an t-Sneachda. There is a woman standing on a cliff's edge in the right foreground.

Running and incomplete list of ideas that have changed the way I look at things

Twitter (or decentralized alternatives) is a great interstitial journaling tool

Using the idea of Leary’s “Quantum Universe”, where all matter can be reduced to a digital 1/0 representation, I wonder what the compression ratio for memories in our brains is, and what (lossy) algorithm is used to achieve it.

All software essentially deals in simulation. Even that which supposedly interacts with “real” things, like an inventory system, is actually a simulation of the inventory system designed to be more easily manipulated by the software operator.

Therefore all software engineers are simluationists, or creators of an alternate reality whose ties and influences to the physical reality which they inhabit vary in strength.

Easily set your vim path per project and get only the files you want.

Indieweb is the type of federated web3 I want to see rather than the introduction of artificial scarcity and an ecologically ruinous accounting system that encompasses current blockchain tech.