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Do you have any concrete examples of what type of tech you have in mind that shares human values?
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This is crushing all of the parsers, except those that are purely Asciidoc. 😂 Need to work on them, some more. Just look at the raw Asciidoc source.
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This is the #bookstr macro I want to use for publishing all of the Great Works, so anyone interested should scream at me, now. (Or don't, and scream at me, later, as I am always around. 😂) I've been working on it, for months, by attempting to publish different `30040` structures and see how I would best-address the individual parts. Also, I've been reading a lot of citation pattern documentation. That's how I came to the conclusion to make one generic book macro, rather than something #Bible specific. #christian #catholic #biblestr
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The #bookstr 📖 macro is hierarchical. If you find a section or verse event, in the wild, you can just drop the section tags, to find the whole chapter, or the section and chapter tags, to find the whole book. This means you can always backtrack to the entire publication, from just one quoted line or paragraph. We are going to be having these tags in all of our publications, so you will be able to "Bible-search" and "Bible-cite" any of our books! I love books. Name checks out. 😎
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Some things: 1. *You have to scroll-right on mobile.* Unlike Jumble and Alexandria, Wikistr is an unapologetic desktop-focused app, and that's why it's cool. If you have a wide screen, you can open up lots of panels, and make some wider, and it turns into the document version of a Bloomberg terminal. Credit for this design goes to @fiatjaf. 2. The different Wikistr themes have different looks, help text, and *different relays*, for the document search and the social interactions. #Quranstr uses Nostrabia, for instance, whilst #Biblestr focuses on Christpill. The basic #Wikistr has been left secular. I am looking for a Jewish relay, but haven't yet found one, so #Torahstr uses generic ones. 3. All have light and *dark themes*. The light themes are so much prettier, but I know you will all use the dark ones. 4. All themes take *your personal relay list* into account, and share a few document relays, so you can just pick the theme you like and use that. 5. *We printed the Bible first because Gutenberg did* and he's the inspiration for our Nostr printing press. We will proceed to print all other open-license books we can find, including the Torah, Quran, classical authors, English literature, etc. They will all be searchable, with this mechanism. 6. This wikistr *can find and render kinds 300023, 30041, 30817, 30818, 30040*, and the comments are kind 1111 and you can vote at the top of the panels, using the up/down arrow buttons. Only kinds 30817/818 are in the left-most panel feed, to keep it uncluttered and true to the origins. The hyperlinks mentioned are: The original Wikistr, that I forked: https://wikistr.com/ Wikistr Imwald 🌲 https://wikistr.imwald.eu/ https://torahstr.imwald.eu/ https://quranstr.imwald.eu/ https://biblestr.imwald.eu/ GM
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These never really took off because we have kind 30023. Nobody cares, if a microblog has a typo.
It's worth noting that Psalm 42 is prayed by the priest and altar servers at the beginning of every Catholic Mass celebrated according to the old form (1962 and previous).
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Is it maybe in Psalm 123 or 125. The Douay has an off-by-one thing going on with some of the Psalm numbers. That translation combines two of the early psalms that are separated in other translations.
Is this on a public repo yet? I'd love to take a peek at the code.
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This is actually an expanded version of a previous post. There's still plenty of room for more expansion. Can add a bit, every year.
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They constantly say all Ukrainians are Nazis to keep the fighters motivated. You are dying nobly, to fight Literally Hitler. You aren't just running across a mine field into a cloud of armed of drones to capture 10 meters of mud in the middle of nowhere, just to scare out some little old ladies and unemployed drunks in a farming village.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but wars of attrition are the absolute horror for attackers because they are the only ones who need to continue to gain ground. In a weird, ironic, twist of history, the Russians think they're fighting Nazi Germany, but they're actually Kaiser Wilhem's Germany, and they have cleverly decided that it's simply too dangerous to share a border with the French. But they didn't want to charge directly into France, just weaken them, so they join a skirmish over Serbia. And then Russia joined the war and then England joined and then France joined and then the Germans made a surprised face. It took the Germans 4 years, 2.04 million dead men, and complete economic collapse, before they were willing to admit that it was all a stupid idea. Russia is on track to beat those stats. Never go full retard, Russia.
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They constantly say all Ukrainians are Nazis to keep the fighters motivated. You are dying nobly, to fight Literally Hitler. You aren't just running across a mine field into a cloud of armed of drones to capture 10 meters of mud in the middle of nowhere, just to scare out some little old ladies and unemployed drunks in a farming village.
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The state has always been the pinacle of all evil throughout history. The center insists it is the only legitimate source of law, taxation, courts, and armed force. From Vercingetorix to Makhno, the state apparatus murdered and executed all true leaders while using heresy/rebellion/banditry/extremism to convert political centralization into moral necessity. Remedies: 1. Exit over voice From nomads to frontier settlers to digital communities, liberty survives longest where people can leave. This is already articulated by Étienne de La Boétie: Tyranny persists because people continue to participate. 2. Polycentric power (no single vertical) Liberty persists where power is fragmented, redundant and non-hierarchical. Examples (temporary but real): Medieval free cities Stateless borderlands (Scott’s “Zomia”) Early Swiss cantons Pre-tsarist Caucasia Certain pirate enclaves Short-lived federated revolutions (Ukraine 1918–21, Spain 1936) 3. Material independence precedes political independence Historically, people are free only when they are hard to tax, track, and conscript. That means: Control of food/energy Peer-to-peer exchange Low fixed capital exposure Self-defense capacity Political rights follow after, not before. 4. Technological asymmetry (new, crucial factor) This is new relative to most of history: Cryptography P2P networks Stateless money Censorship-resistant communication These restore exit at scale, temporarily reversing the state’s legibility advantage. They do not abolish the state — but they raise the cost of domination.