Thursday, June 6, 2024

Links for June 6, 2024

  •  Ben Southwood at Twitter
    In the 2000s we discovered an amazing tool to literally bring inventions from the far future forward to the present, or near future. Despite its huge power we have barely used it since. So Works in Progress has produced a practical easy-to-follow guide that anyone could copy. 馃У
    ... This mechanism to buy inventions from the future is called an 'advance market commitment'. Basically, you say you'll buy something if companies or scientists can invent it and produce enough for you. It's part of a broad range of 'market-shaping mechanisms'

Linki z 6 czerwca, 2023

  • Ebenezer Rojt, Baal Szem Tow i cuda chasydyzmu

    Pro艣ci 呕ydzi ch臋tnie czytali historie o 偶yciu i cudach Baal Szema ... A cuda te by艂y wielkie. Czasem - o czym za艣wiadcza Ksi臋ga ku chwale Baal Szem Towa - nawet g贸ry s艂a艂y si臋 Besztowi pod nogi. ... A tego, 偶e Beszt wst膮pi艂 do niebia艅skiego pa艂acu Mesjasza, wprawdzie ju偶 nikt nie widzia艂, ale poniewa偶 on sam o tym opowiedzia艂, i to ze szczeg贸艂ami ("Gdy nasz sprawiedliwy Mesjasz zobaczy艂 mnie z daleka, powiedzia艂: Nie krzycz tak"), to rzecz musi by膰 pewna, bo jak偶e zarzuci膰 k艂amstwo 艣wi膮tobliwemu m臋偶owi, kt贸ry osobi艣cie rozmawia艂 z Mesjaszem ...

  •  Gazeta.pl: Restauracja pe艂na go艣ci, a za 艣cian膮 strzelanina. "Wieczorami przychodzili policjanci, balowali z gangsterami"

    Przest臋pcy przychodzili do w艂a艣ciciela lokalu i proponowali ochron臋. Kto z tej propozycji nie skorzysta艂, m贸g艂 straci膰 偶ycie, a na pewno spore pieni膮dze. Zreszt膮, jak skorzysta艂, te偶 je traci艂. Tak wygl膮da艂a kiedy艣 przera偶aj膮ca gastronomiczna rzeczywisto艣膰 w Polsce.

    A jak to si臋 sko艅czy艂o? 

    Ale w艂a艣ciciele lokali na warszawskiej Star贸wce nie zamierzali si臋 tak 艂atwo poddawa膰. Gdy gangsterzy bezkarnie demolowali ich puby i restauracje, a policja udawa艂a, 偶e nie widzi problemu, og艂osili protest. ... Bezsilni restauratorzy postanowili, 偶e nie otworz膮 lokali, bo liczyli na mi臋dzynarodowy skandal. Stare Miasto latem 1994 roku by艂o bowiem pe艂ne turyst贸w. I cho膰 prze艂om w 艣ciganiu gangster贸w nie nast膮pi艂 od razu, po raz pierwszy oficjalnie przyznano, 偶e to mafia wymusza haracze. Koniec gang贸w by艂 ju偶 tylko kwesti膮 czasu. 

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Links for June 2, 2024

  • The simplest productivity advice. From @OrphicCapital, on Twitter

my capacity to follow through on the goals/intentions I set increased exponentially the moment I started writing "what's the smallest next step I can do right now?" on top of my goals list

  • How much of what 'everyone knows' is fake? @Gwern at Twitter

If you ever feel confident about what you 'know' about the Islamic medieval period bc you "just love reading Wikipedia", you may want to know that in 2010, a crazy person spent 2 years falsifying hundreds of claims of Islamic invention, everything from p-n junctions to capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Jagged_85/Evidence#Edit_pattern

He was banned in 2012, but it's unclear how many falsehoods were left, whether he was using any other socks or anon IPs, why, what he has spent the past 12 years doing, or how far his claims have been carried by citogenesis or fellow Islamic ideologues ...

    • Nir Shafir, "Forging Islamic science", Aeon
      Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How? 
        There aren’t many books left in the old booksellers’ market in Istanbul today – but there are quite a few fake miniatures, sold to the tourists flocking to the Grand Bazaar next door. ...
      Some images, on occasion, state that they are modern creations, with the artist signing off with a recent date in the Islamic calendar. Others are more duplicitous. The forgers tear pages out of old manuscripts and printed books, and paint over the text to give the veneer of old writing and paper. They can even stamp fake ownership seals onto the image. ...
      With these additions, the miniatures quickly become difficult to identify as fraudulent once they leave the confines of the market and make their way on to the internet ...

Links for June 6, 2024

 Ben Southwood at Twitter :  In the 2000s we discovered an amazing tool to literally bring inventions from the far future forward to the pre...