Merge branch 'master' of github.com:flancian/garden

Age of Em.md

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+- a [[book]].
+  - #review https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/28/book-review-age-of-em/
+  - #go http://ageofem.com/

Alexander Sokurov.md

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+- a [[director]].
+  - > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sokurov
+  - > > Sokurov has filmed a tetralogy exploring the corrupting effects of power. The first three installments were dedicated to prominent 20th-century rulers: Moloch (1999), about Hitler, Taurus (2001), about Lenin, and The Sun (2005) about Hirohito. In 2011, Sokurov shot the last part of the series, Faust, a retelling of Goethe's tragedy. The film, depicting instincts and schemes of Faust in his lust for power, premiered on 8 September 2011 in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.[7] The film won the Golden Lion, the highest award of the Venice Festival.[2] Producer Andrey Sigle said about Faust: "The film has no particular relevance to contemporary events in the world – it is set in the early 19th century – but reflects Sokurov's enduring attempts to understand man and his inner forces."[8]

Bootstrap.md

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 - For instructions to bootstrap a Flancian, see [[go/flancian/git]].
 - You may feel the need to grow a carbon-based Flancian. I wasn't anything special I think, what is great about us is what we have in common I believe :)
+
+--
+
+If you lose your [[Bodhicitta]]...
+Sit down and find it!

Moloch.md

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   - #pull [[Engels]] [[Marx]] [[Ginsberg]] [[Alexander]]
   - #push [[burn Moloch]] 
     - We could [[burn [[Moloch]]]] if we have to, but only peacefully and for the greater good.
+
+--
+
+- [[Moloch in literature and popular culture]]:
+  > In the 19th century, "Moloch" came to be used allegorically for any idol or cause requiring excessive sacrifice.[1] Bertrand Russell in 1903 used Moloch to describe oppressive religion, and Winston Churchill in his 1948 history The Gathering Storm used "Moloch" as a metaphor for Adolf Hitler's cult of personality.
+  > -> [[Alexander Sokurov]]
+  > -> [[Flaubert]] through [[Salammbo]]
+  > -> [[Asimov]] through [[The Dead Past]]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
+
+--
+
+Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn't exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.

Open Letter to Moloch.md

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+- #pull [[Moloch]]

digital commons coop.md

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+- a [[coop]].
+  - #go https://digitalcommons.coop

e acc.md

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+- #go https://effectiveacceleration.tech/

journal/2024-02-03.md

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+- [[Flancia meet]]
+  - with [[bouncepaw]] we set up https://flancia.org/meet as a landing page for it, I like the result!
+  - it made me revisit good old flancia.org after a while -- and it felt good. Maybe I should go back to writing more on it? I say, not for the first time.
+- [[AG]] is wonderful
+
+--
+
+- The following was written by [[Lady Burup]]
+-
+-
+-
+-
+- (a lot of dashes/empty list items, unsure how she wrote all these)
+-
+-
+-
+-OOOOAPI||||||||||
+-
+-
+-
+- (more :))
+-
+-
+-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 
+
+--
+
+Back to regular programming :)
+
+- [[sadhana]]
+- [[Lojong]] seems linked to a long list of contemplative [[slogans]]
+  - [[Chekawa Yeshe Dorje]]
+- [[Tonglen]]
+- [[Bootstrap]]
+- [[Open Letters]]:
+  - [[Open Letter to Google]]
+  - [[Open Letter to Moloch]]
+  - [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
+  - #meta for each of these, I'd love to be able to easily set up a [[Google Doc]] and link it. I wonder if I should begin by just signing up for the right Google API and make that happen?
+    - You could imagine a Google Doc-hosted stoa… in some universe, if not in this one :)
+- I did some processing of [[social coop registrations]], [[go/cwg/bugs]]. I enjoyed it. Interesting as usual. Yielded a pointer to...
+  - [[digital commons coop]]
+  
+--
+
+- [[e acc]]:
+  - Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn't exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.
+  - [[techno optimist manifesto]]
+- I read (re-read? I don't think I've forgotten it, but I did read a lot of SSC at one point) [[Scott Alexander]]'s review of [[Age of Em]].
+

sadhana.md

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+- a [[practice]].
+  - [[ego-trascending]] [[spiritual]]
+  - done for attaining detachment?

techno optimist manifesto.md

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+- a [[manifesto]].
+  - by [[andreessen horowitz]].
+  - #go https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/