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Are they good? What tracks do you recommend?

Same here. Pinch zooming is now my best friend though.

Great reference. Thanks for that. I’m reading it right now and it’s pretty good!

Don’t get me started. The thesis, antithesis, synthesis is Hegelian only in the sense that Marx was a leftist Hegelian. For that historical dialectical movement is actually a Marxists’ material reinterpretation of Hegel’s teleology of the Absolute.

Yes, you could argue that Marx is simply Hegel under a different guise, and that thesis, antithesis, synthesis is just an explicit reformulation of Hegel’s ontological dialectics. But then you might as well say that the whole western contemporary philosophical tradition is in some sense Hegelian as every known philosopher since has been trying to overcome Hegel. Which, in some sense, is true.

In any case, this will only prove the Hegelian fanboy point: aufhebung, bitches!

For life. That is. If you’re non-Hegelian.

Otherwise you become a kind of know-it-all as anything and everything that is raised for or against your Hegelian Weltanschauung is necessarily ontologically subsumed into the historically inherently determined dialectical self-manifesting and self-fulfilling recognition of one’s own liberty which is nothing other than the unavoidable individual instantiation of the greater collective coming to terms conscience of the Absolute. Aufhebung, bitches!

Well, he gave two of them away.

I would say you’re actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there’s no right or wrong state of language.

That’s why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.

(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )

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Documentary.

Thanks for the necessary XKCD. First time reading that one.

Well, to be honest, I won’t be THAT guy, nor am I crazy to bring back the rotary disk.

Thanks!

And no, I’m not serious. Just reminding that technology, like everything else, changes.

But I loved that project! Made me smile thinking how creative people are.

The rotary disc on phones!

Not being open source is the great… sin for me. Note taking is an investment in the future, and betting on a closed source platform is a big no no—for me, that is.

I know the content is safe in Obsidian, since it’s just Markdown files. But the workflow? Not so much.

And I know the developers behind Obsidian have their reasons to close source it. Nothing against that. But since that’s their way, it’s not my way.

Please, I don’t want to be rude, so don’t take me wrong.

I think that’s not accurate. Trillium is not even an outliner, let alone a block note taking app. I think you’re mixing trillium with Logseq.

My memory may be failing me, but I think trillium has been around longer than Roam Research.

And yes, it’s a great open source note taking app!

Logseq user here too.

However, for a quick, transitory note, I use Kate or, more recently, Xpad. Only then I transcribe the content to Logseq. Why?

Because while Logseq is great as an outliner and for network thinking, it’s as graceful and agile as an elephant.

The gist of what I’m saying is: for now, and for me (hardware might be playing a role here, but I don’t think so) Logseq is a good note database. For quick typing, I have to use something else.

Got my first smartphone in 2017. My first dumbphone in 2008. Late to both parties.

My aside:

In every community I see this. There are always folks trying to narrow the community to some cut and dry descriptors—which for them are always obvious.

Sometimes the jab is perhaps intended as a joke. But to my reading it’s always a trope, namely the tired fallacy of taking a part as the whole.

Either way, it’s myopic. In any internet community, we’re always bound to narrowly see what’s happening. Because:

• We can only see the posters, never the lurkers—which far exceed the former;
• Posters, by virtue of taking the time to post, are most often than not highly opinionated;
• Our reading is always selective. We’re either misguided by the way the comments are sorted, by our mood at the moment, by chance, or simply because we’re really bad at reading;
• Our reading is always biased. Either by our mood, our current situation in life, our upbringing, our milieu, whatever;
• the list goes on and on and on.

This results in a very reductive view that, although very teasing because very personal and idiosyncratic, is ultimately an exercise in futility. To those already biased, it simply supplies them with fodder to confirm what they already believed.

From afar, it’s just noise. Any view on what the community is is but a poor reflection of what the community ultimately is.