White Pill: I’ve had a thread by my friend - bookmarked to use here for several months, and I think it’s time to put it in. The thread is concerning Sir William Marshal, the first Lord Pembroke.
He served 5 different kings, was undefeated in tournaments, and helped to negotiate the Magna Carta. As I remarked in a section above, I feel like the move away from the Renaissance Man (jack of all trades) and to the “specialist” class has been a massive net-negative for the West as a whole.
I am, however, starting to see signs emerge in the greater consciousness, sentiment, and now physical examples of people beginning to show themselves to be those of many interests & talents, like “the greats” who built the world as we know it.
The current long-form post & pod that I’m working on touches a bit on “the greats and masters” of science and art who would be laughed out of the room by the “respectable consensus-building establishment” of science, academia, and art today...
White Pill: I’ve had a thread by my friend - bookmarked to use here for several months, and I think it’s time to put it in. The thread is concerning Sir William Marshal, the first Lord Pembroke.
He served 5 different kings, was undefeated in tournaments, and helped to negotiate the Magna Carta. As I remarked in a section above, I feel like the move away from the Renaissance Man (jack of all trades) and to the “specialist” class has been a massive net-negative for the West as a whole.
I am, however, starting to see signs emerge in the greater consciousness, sentiment, and now physical examples of people beginning to show themselves to be those of many interests & talents, like “the greats” who built the world as we know it.
The current long-form post & pod that I’m working on touches a bit on “the greats and masters” of science and art who would be laughed out of the room by the “respectable consensus-building establishment” of science, academia, and art today...
After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. This ability to mix the public and the private, as well as the ability to use bots to engage with users has proved to be problematic. In early 2021, a database selling phone numbers pulled from Facebook was selling numbers for $20 per lookup. Similarly, security researchers found a network of deepfake bots on the platform that were generating images of people submitted by users to create non-consensual imagery, some of which involved children. Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian vehicles in the capital city of Kyiv thanks to a public tip made through the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Ukraine's top law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes.
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