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Hyperborean Monster (Ten Tribes Ice Flavor)

Nock computing evolved from the old Internet just as the immune system evolved from the froth of mortal single-celled combat. It is being work-hardened into a lethal intellectual weapon: true memetic sovereignty. Mining is almost a distraction, the goal is so audacious.

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Normies LOVE the musical "Lame-Ass Rabbles".

Proof-of-work doesn't have to be wasteful. Nockchain replaces Bitcoin's hash grinding with zero-knowledge proofs: Miners still compete under Nakamoto consensus, but their work verifies transactions and applications. Let's break it down.👇 1/

Sidney Rigdon (George): The preachers are arguing that the Book of Mormon has anachronisms, Joseph! Anachronisms! I am aware that we have a lot of work to re-translate the Bible but they're driving me nuts! Joseph Smith (Jerry): The nerve of these learned doctors. Did you know that they can't even read that "Elohim" is plural? And don't get me started on their denial of gifts of the Spirit. Emma Smith (Elaine): Get out! Your elders are dribbling tobacco juice all over the floor during their lessons. How do you say "spittoon" in Hebrew? W. W. Phelps (Kramer): Joseph! Someone just rolled into town with two mummies. (With raised eyebrows and in higher pitch): And some papyri!

I call my life a Gesamtkunstwerk, but technically it's Gesamtkunstwerk's monster.

Documents from a different age: a project for senior students at Groton School was to publish a full text of Catullus (1973) and Horace's Odes (1977). George Goold, then at Harvard, edited the Latin; his Catullus is the single best text ever published (300 copies by a 6th-form!).

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL NAWAPA

The underappreciated elegance of the cursor as a technology. Persistent cached attention.

Adding BLESS THIS MESS in block comment to every file I make from here on out.

Going to whip a few more articles into final form this weekend. I think we can have a proof copy of volume two issue two before Thanksgiving, but the Christmas publishing and shipping season will likely be insane.

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If You Could Hie to R'lyeh "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."

When a politician says, "I should follow the rules, and even if I lose I'm still morally right," what they mean is, "the immediate consequences of disobedience are worth avoiding at all costs."