Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/27/else3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/20/else2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/13/else.html #freeculture #bookclub
Linux Sucks - Audio Book - Chapter 1
Listen now (5 min) | After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sita Sings the Blues https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/06/sita.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/30/occupy2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/23/occupy1.html #freeculture #bookclub
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We all strive to be like the others - more exactly, like the others, but better. (Chapter 2) Book Review: The End of Average - LessWrong
As a side effect of my post on boats I’ve now reserved a book about Vasa at the library, in order to clarify and correct the wikipedia article on it 😂
I realized this morning why I’m put off by super hero movies. They are fun, and I’ve always loved comic books, but the super hero movies of the last decade specifically, (I mean, beside being military propaganda) totally omit the potential future of any sort of utopia. They cannot envision their own undoing.
The stories are predicated on the super heros always needing something to be super against, despite having fantastical abilities to help usher in some sort of uto … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/16/lightbringer2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/09/lightbringer.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/02/affair4.html #freeculture #bookclub
“Linux Sucks: The Book” - Chapter 2
GNU, Minix, and the before times ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/25/affair3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/18/affair2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/11/affair1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/28/typhoon4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/21/typhoon3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/14/typhoon2.html Generations in a Nutshell https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/15/generations.html #rant #politics
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/07/typhoon1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Eroticature https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/31/eroticature.html #freeculture #bookclub
Important: LindyPress undergoing some updates
Although I haven’t announced in a video on the YouTube channel yet, I’m glad that there’s been a lot of interest in LindyPress.net. I haven’t done a video on it just because there are some details in the site coding we’re still figuring out, but books are already printing, shipping and arriving at some of your houses.
Just a couple technical notes:
- I switched the Stripe backend of the site over the week … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Headshot, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/24/headshot.html #freeculture #bookclub
The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net
For a while, I’ve hinted that I’ve been contributing to a project to reprint out-of-print classical and medieval texts that are of hidden value, sometimes even in their original languages. I’ve worked on this project for a while and now it’s live and you can browse the first five books available.
See the site at https://lindypress.net. All works have been reformatted in XeLaTeX so that … ⌘ Read more
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On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Headshot, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/17/headshot.html #freeculture #bookclub
I’m doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.
L’équipe Book Village - Book Village ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — La Chute d’Une Plume https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/10/plume.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 10-14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/03/solitudes3.html #freeculture #bookclub
The Weaving The Web Book by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 5-9 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/26/solitudes2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Decided to keep the smart-phone out of our bedroom and keep a note book instead. Already feeling lighter and fresher.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 1-4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/19/solitudes1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Boris Munchausen https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/12/boris.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The House https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/05/house.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Wilber & Co. https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/29/wilber.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Ficly https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/22/ficly.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — FSF Propaganda Videos https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/15/fsf.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 10-13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/08/moses4.html #freeculture #bookclub
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 7-9 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/01/moses3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 4-6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/24/moses2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Wanna Learn LaTeX?
I have a full video tutorial series on learning LaTeX, broken into small sensible parts, here.
What is LaTeX?Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 1-3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/17/moses1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Fellowship of Heroes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/10/fellowship.html #freeculture #bookclub
Livestream on PeerTube ONLY at 10AM New York time
As the title says, I’ll be livestreaming today on PeerTube only at this link.
I’ll talk about finishing my book reptinting project that you’re going to want to know about and perhaps “recent events” (several weeks late)
for example, on Richard Stallman.
I’ll read donations I get if you want to talk about other things.
If you haven’t already, subscribe to my PeerTube’s RSS feed to get up … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Dark Room https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/03/darkroom.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Valkaama https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/27/valkaama.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/20/spiraling4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/13/spiraling3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/06/spiraling2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/27/spiraling1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Audiobook not so great because they don’t pause automatically if I lose focus, books do.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Phill from GCHQ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/20/phill.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Wanderers’ Library https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/13/wanderers.html #freeculture #bookclub
Wanna learn LaTeX?
Wanna learn LaTeX? What is LaTeX?Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.
Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency whitepaper or even outline written by people who know what they’re doing is written in LaTeX.
If you want to see examples of documents made with LaTeX, you can see my Master’s thesis here or another paper here that shows some diagrams and other features you can have in LaTe … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Uncle Nagy’s House https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/06/nagy.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Continuity Drift https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/30/drift.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Biodigital, ch 53–end https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/23/biodigital5.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Biodigital, ch 40–52 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/16/biodigital4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Biodigital, ch 27–39 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/09/biodigital3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Biodigital, ch 14–26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/02/biodigital2.html #freeculture #bookclub
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@prologic@twtxt.net yep!some of the lexer is directly copied from monkey-lang. love that book series.
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@prologic@twtxt.net yep!some of the lexer is directly copied from monkey-lang. love that book series.
Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Biodigital, ch 1–13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/26/biodigital.html #freeculture #bookclub
Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. 52 things I learned in 2020. This year I edited another book, worked… | by Tom Whitwell | Fluxx Studio Notes | Dec, 2020 | Medium
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pepper & Carrot, ep. 1–6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/19/pepper.html #freeculture #bookclub
Some people on the LW team are increasing their Brier scores pretty hard right now bc of the number of orders for the books
Being misunderstood is a great temporary moat. I could write a book on this, but suffice it to say, I didn’t have confidence in my own vision until I took the time to really look at others and realized that the main difference between me and the average idiot was that I had bothered to look at the ideas of other idiots at all. It was like their entire ontology had become an ant farm. It was the moment I realized, I am a super-idiot. I only half joke, because becoming a super-idiot liberated me from the perfectionism and the addiction to approval that caused a stultifying and primal narcissistic fear of criticism. If you are struggling with this, take it from someone on the other side of it: It’s ok, you’re an idiot. The Strength of Being Misunderstood | Hacker News
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Monkaa https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/12/monkaa.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pratham Books, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/05/pratham.html #freeculture #bookclub
The new LW books :face_with_heart_eyes:
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pratham Books, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/28/pratham.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Journey to Thelio https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/21/thelio.html #freeculture #bookclub
There is likely no media that has not been altered by coronavirus. This is a perfectly clear and convincing argument for living text. Horvath had no intention of this sentence being haunting to the reader because she could not have predicted that the reader would be in the middle of a years long pandemic. The authors intention counts for less than half of the book\s ultimate meaning.
back. made waffles and hashbrowns. It was, so far, infinitely more waffles than what have appeared in this book
I have never read this book before, but I love waffles, and acdw describes it as Finding Yourself As a Pre Teen, the literary term for which I’m pretty sure is wafflesroman
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Elvie https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/14/elvie.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nothing to Hide https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/07/hide.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — MTF Sigma-5 “Pumpkin Punchers” https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/31/pumpkin.html #freeculture #bookclub #halloween
no lollygagging today, gotta read the Go book
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Drakes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/24/drakes.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/17/joneses4.html Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/10/joneses3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/03/joneses2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/26/joneses1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Probably career suicidal (never admit it in your application) but honestly the thing I’ve found helps is just not caring about work at all. It’s like the equivalent to acceptance in grief. Get the day done, look forward to the weekend, when you book time off make sure to book the following Monday. I’ll do the job as best I can for as long as I’m paid but if you think I’m here for any reason other than money to pay the bills you’re completely delusional. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout – by the age of 32 | Hacker News
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Bookdash Books, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/19/bookdash2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Bookdash Books, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/12/bookdash.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Endgame∶ Singularity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/05/endgame.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Virtuoso Prologue https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/29/virtuoso.html #freeculture #bookclub