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  1. Comment on How do you journal? in ~talk

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    Always fun to see another emacs user out there. I wanted to comment on the part where you said you pull out something from your journal entry to a wiki that’s a little more organized. I found that...

    Always fun to see another emacs user out there. I wanted to comment on the part where you said you pull out something from your journal entry to a wiki that’s a little more organized. I found that using org-roam I could pull something out of my journal into a wiki then use org-roams linking capabilities to link the node I pulled out of my journal back to the original journal entry.

    I find it’s only real value is novelty, but I enjoy when I stumble upon a link to a journal entry in my wiki. Gives me a quick excuse to go revisit a random day in my past.

  2. Comment on Signal’s president Meredith Whittaker on what’s next for the private messaging app in ~tech

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    Support for accounts without needing a phone number.

    Support for accounts without needing a phone number.

    6 votes
  3. Comment on The coronavirus killed American exceptionalism in ~health

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    I live in South Korea and I can feel the death of American exceptionalism here. Some of my non-American friends have altered their opinions opinions of the US in a less than positive way. I’m...

    I live in South Korea and I can feel the death of American exceptionalism here. Some of my non-American friends have altered their opinions opinions of the US in a less than positive way. I’m often having to attempt to answer questions such as “Why isn’t America taking this seriously?” “Why is it being called the Chinese virus?” “Why are there fat guys with guns protesting right now?” Essentially it went from the US is a great place to the US being a weird and messed up place.

    Also this article really strays from the topic of the death of exceptionalism and moves more into recounting trumps partisan warfare

    13 votes
  4. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Concurrently reading 3 books at the moment: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee One of the more 'different' Sci-fi novels that I have read. Has an odd melding of sci-fi, pseudo-magic systems based on...

    Concurrently reading 3 books at the moment:

    Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

    One of the more 'different' Sci-fi novels that I have read. Has an odd melding of sci-fi, pseudo-magic systems based on math, a futuristic civil-military uprising. The math system is so loosely described that it may as well be magic; math is used to change to local effects of physics...quite odd but interesting.

    The New IPA by Scott Janish

    I'm a professional brewer by trade and trying to keep current with changes. Scott Janish has a really enlightening book if you're into brewing and the modern hazy IPAs

    The 48 Laws to Power by Robert Greene

    Heard some controversies with the book and that made me curious to read it.

    3 votes