#tolstoy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tolstoy, aggregated by home.social.
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12/08/2026 - 20:36
#DeepStateMap🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have liberated #ZelenyiHai, #Novokhatske, #Hrushevsk, #Tolstoy, #Zirka, #Yalta, #Piddubne, #Myrne, #Voskresenka, #Sichneve, #Voronne, #Ternove, #Berezove, #Stepove, #Kalynivske, #Pryvillia, #Zlagoda, #Rybne, and #Krasnogirske.
🇺🇦 The enemy has been pushed back in #Novopavlivka, #Novogeorgievka, #Novomykolaivka, #Novohryhorivka, #Zaporizhzhia, and #Pryvilne
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Plant-based foods can provide everything we need to thrive, and they're far more accessible than many people realise. 🌱
There's no justification for using animals for food - or for any other purpose. 🐮💚
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What I read under this is everyone is tired of being fucked by corporate America.
It's taken the dem public longer to get there, but they are starting to flip.
Gaining support is great, but has another edge, as Dems are seeing.
A deep dive on the demographics, beliefs, values and experiences driving this would be fascinating.
14-day gift read
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Pages I return to...
#books #classics #tolstoy #quotes #booklover #booknerd #reader #readingcommunity #bookstodon -
“The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior”*…
The geocentric universe illustrated, with the sun and planets revolving around the Earth. Interestingly, the illustration above was created in 1660, a few decades after Galileo popularized the fact that geocentrism was completely inaccurate. (source)Alan Jacobs quotes from Freeman Dyson‘s epic 1998 book, Imagined Worlds…
It often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes.
Jacobs goes on to observe…
The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.
See also: “Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? – Our surprisingly Napoleonic twenty-first century,” in which Erik Larson unpacks Dyson’s thinking and reconciles it to the world of 2022 (when Larson wrote the piece).
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As we contemplate culture, we might spare a thought for Jack Kilby; he died on this date in 2005. An electrical engineer, he made a– if not the— foundational advance that moved us into the age we’re now navigating: the integrated curcuit (or as we know it, the chip).
In mid-1958, as a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, Kilby didn’t yet have the right to a summer vacation. So he spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design known as the “tyranny of numbers” (how to add more and more components, all soldered to all of the others, to improve performance). He finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the management: a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached. Kilby pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave– proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he had solved the problem.
Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later). Kilby has been honored in many ways for his breakthrough, probably most augustly with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby’s first integrated circuit
#AlanJacobs #chip #culture #ErikJLarson #FreemanDyson #history #integratedCircuit #Napoleon #Science #Technology #Tolstoy -
Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Tolstoy
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If you are able to see all the consequences of what you are doing, then what you are doing is not very important.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 6.2 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83808/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #actions #causeandeffect #consequences #effects #foresight #selfawareness #triviality #unimportance
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Right now, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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In 20 minutes, the Signum Quartet plays #Tolstoy #Janáček and #Kaprálová in #Schwetzingen https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/the_signum_quartet_plays_tolstoy_janaek_and_kapralova_in_schwetzingen/92049/ #wch
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As Tolstoy suggests, our dietary choices are deeply intertwined with our moral evolution. Choosing a vegan lifestyle is about aligning our daily actions with a higher standard of ethics and non-violence. 🙏 #tolstoy #inspirationalquotes #enlightenment
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#Tolstoy 's #Posthumous #Revelation as the Key to His Final #Mystery - #AI - #Investigation #channeling #esoterics #spirituality #shame , #pride , #communion , #mercy , #literature
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For all of her ghastly faults, Constance Garnett's translations of #Tolstoy include comically frequent repetition of the phrase "hateful and loathsome."
That's it. That's the post. It's already in the public domain, but here I give it to you anyway:
"Hateful and loathsome."
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14/12/2025 - 12:11
#DeepStateMap🇷🇺 The enemy occupied #Tolstoy and advanced near #Yampil and in #Siversk
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mY nAtIonALiSm is GoOd NaTioNaLiSm - Jesse Welles
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@CFord noted
#alttext "Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, a slavish submission to those who hold power. Patriotism is #slavery.
Leo #Tolstoy "The kingdom of God: and peace essays"
Or, as Mark #Twain said: (#Patriotism is) 'The last refuge of scoundrels'.
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The #Aussie giving War & Peace a 'bogan' remake
"Just then, Prince Andrei rocked up to Anna's joint. He was the pregnant sheila's hubby. Like his missus, he was pretty good looking himself."
Those lines are straight from a new translation of Leo #Tolstoy's epic novel #WarandPeace, set in the world of Russian high society in the early 19th century.
Except this is a "bogan" version translated by #AnderLouis, the pen name of a Melbourne IT worker who moonlights as a writer.
He's poured a metaphorical can of Australian beer over the novel by converting Tolstoy's prose into a lingo that wouldn't sound out of place in the popular Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim.
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SERRC-artikkelissaan Ljiljana Radenovic pohtii Knut Hamsunin Pan-kirjan onnettoman luutnantin pyhyys-kokemusta Charles Taylorin kosmisten kytkösten teorian kehyksessä, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/knut-hamsuns-pan-cosmic-connections-from-within-ljiljana-radenovic/
#serrc #hamsun #pan #transcendence #holy #connection #sublime #transcendent #myytti #myth #mythical #numinous #nature #luonto #kirjamastodon #tolstoy
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Big #Tolstoy fan, just read "The Kreutzer Sonata," and ... blechhh
Actually my Tolstoy fandom is now thirty-odd years old now, and may have exceeded its shelf-life.
Could be midlife, could be the current world, could be mood.
Or it could be that Tolstoy was (in) a super uptight pervert (phase when he wrote it)?
