- 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 ...
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