Fixpoint

Inquiring minds have asked of me to please shed a bit more light on what this Republic thing and that Popescu fellow in particular are all about. Is there more to it than the ravings that first meet the eye, of sluts and slaves and scandalous sexual predations and every "ism" and trigger word known to man or woman? What's the value I see in it that keeps me coming back? And what's the plan for this world domination thing anyway?

I gave the most accurate response I could, if not the most helpful: see, all you gotta do is read a couple thousand articles in multiple languages averaging maybe a thousand words each, a couple times over, and likely a bunch of the imported cultural environment and extensive chat logs besides, and then all will become clear! At least as clear as it can be so far. At least I think it will. But what would I know, I'm a long ways from being there.

Well great, so couldn't I at least give an executive summary? Not exactly an easy task either. Short of that, here's an attempt at picking some of the especially interesting, informative or significant articles on Trilema from my reading so far, a map of sorts of enticing entries to the rabbit hole.

The very unfair process that articles went through to make this list was as follows:

1. I extracted an initial set of 957 items from my presently accessible browsing history, using some CLI magic.⁽ⁱ⁾
2. I narrowed the list to those where I believed I recalled something of the article, going off the title alone. This brought it down to 424.
3. I further selected based on roughly the above "interesting, informative or significant" standard in my subjective perception, again by memory from title alone.⁽ⁱⁱ⁾ I also ended up skipping some that would have met this by way of having especially horrified me; not sure if I've done anyone any favors thus, but there it is.

The ordering within each publication year is merely alphabetical (because I can't quite see a pressing need to do it better in this context).

Enjoy... if you dare. What can I say, it's not for everyone.

2012

• Anonimity, or the urban versus rural dispute.
• GPG contracts
• Probably the hottest business idea of the moment in BTC...
• Strategic superiority, a saga
• The Bitcoin Drama Timeline
• The crime of being American
• The politics of Bitcoin
• The problem of too much money
• Why it's not actually in your best interest to allow a hired third party to speak for you in criminal proceedings
• Why S.MPOE is worth more than MtGox

2013

• A deal can be anything.
• A very unfair perspective.
• And Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked
• And now I shall be off scarfing smoked salmon and fresh apple pie seasoned with free market tears, or Why a collection of confused retards does not amount to a free market.
• Anonimity : not for the poor.
• Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility
• Bitcoind : not quite ready for prime time
• Check your progress!
• Digging through archives yields gold
• How to airgap. A practical guide.
• How to live to be rich.
• How to process Bitcoin payments cheaply and easily
• MPOE-PR, almost two years in the swamp. An anthology.
• Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket
• Noob MP, or how it all began
• RIPple, the definitive discussion.
• S.NSA first product - The Cardano
• Some basic discussion of charity
• Stage n: Bitcoin exists.
• The disadvantage of teaching people the alphabet and nothing more is that you have to somehow put up with a bunch of retards that can now express themselves in writing.
• The linguistic mark of cultural failure
• The prosecution of sexual activity
• The story of Pointless and Witless
• The wonder of inflation
• Things that matter these days ; things that don't matter these days.
• Time for Europe to repeal the US-backed AML crap.
• What the drug trade is, how the drug trade works and why Silk Road didn't work and didn't matter
• Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz
• You're gonna have to learn that variety speak

2014

• A complete theory of economics
• A conceit, or the importance of blogging
• Fatlogic
• Georg Ritter von Flondor, and what his unhappy life can teach us
• Guidance : There Is No Such Thing As Bitcoin Taint.
• Hey, stupid women ? We need to talk. Smart women don't want to be with you anymore.
• Interacting with fiat institutions, a guide
• La Serenissima and personal sovereignty
• Let's pretend...
• Modern medicine and the benefits of democracy
• O hai let me verify your identity!
• On The Superiority of Monarchy (or, adnotations to Why the Worst Get on Top)
• Pushing the soft tender flesh of a friend against the sharp rotating blades of the immutable machine.
• So the Dollar Vigilante scam ring is going to jail.
• Strategic thinking as an exercise
• The bezzle-USD and the tide-USD
• The elitism memory hole effect
• The forum and its implementation.
• The idea that Bitcoin is a sovereign...
• The mobile "revolution", or what consumers have come to expect
• The psychology of the bagholder
• The sins of the group of posers behind the so called "Bitcoin Foundation"
• The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as "cryptocurrencies"
• This is me being completely spaced out
• Weak sauce
• What happens when you add a drop of sewage to a bottle of fine wine ?
• What interests me in a project
• What the WoT is for, how it works and how to use it.
• Why Dogecoin is a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is a contemptible piece of shit, why anyone who ever worked for it will be dancing in the street for nickels and why Kevin Rose is a fuckwit. Plus other considerations.

2015

• A lunatic with a bloodied axe could be ringing at your door!
• A new software licensing paradigm
• [Artifexd] A better ircd [RFC]
• Basic Bitcoin Competency Certification
• Causes and purposes
• Curriculum Vitae
• Etica Mircea
• Here's what they don't tell you when they bring you those papers to sign
• I think you drastically overestimate the military importance of nuclear weapons.
• If you go on a Bitcoin fork, irrespective which scammer proposes it, you will lose your Bitcoins.
• New MPEx fee
• No Such lAbs releases V for Victory.
• Ok, so what is Bitcoin disrupting ?
• On the Elaine Shi and Andrew Miller scam ring
• Recursive Dunning-Kruger
• The genetics of intelligence
• The greatest failure in modern legal history, the story of Joshua Dratel
• The problem of the state.
• The triviality of slaying the surviving socialist beast
• What disruption actually means
• Why "representative democracy" doesn't work and doesn't make sense
• You know what gets no airplay ? Unflattering truth.

2016

• And now the story has an ending.
• BitBet final settlement
• B,TMSR~ Block Cipher Competition
• [G]ossipd design document
• I am firmly against universal franchise.
• I don't think you understand how credit cards "work".
• Ideological History of the Republic
• Modernism ; and traditionalism
• Please stop using DNS already, and other considerations
• Republican Thesaurus with Vocabulary and Dictionary!
• Strategic superiority, another chapter in the endless saga
• That's right, time to move on. Please do. Bitcoin is really not for you.
• The mathematics of scamming
• The Megawatt standard
• The Most Serene Republic's list of rogue states, unrecognized goverments and criminal syndicates
• The sad state of Bitcoin code
• The V Manual Genesis
• The war with the "press"
• To the DAO and the Ethereum community : Fuck you.
• Unicode is fucking stupid - the definitive article.
• xkcd

2017

• I fucking love science, or why "global warming" wouldn't produce "superhurricanes"
• Is it still rape if I write "science" on my penis first ?
• The boundless burden
• The New and Improved Republican Glossaurus
• The practical costs of hallucinated freedom
• Time to get out, by the way.
• TMSR-RSA spec, extremely early draft
• Why is "fighting corruption" the pantsuit callsign ?

2018

• Patriarchy vs matriarchy, the straight dope.
• Pushing the soft flesh and so on against the so and so blades of the immutable machine etcetera, second installment.
• Technology and Governance
• The problem with christians

2019

• A nickel's worth of clues
• "Being an engineer", the mental disorder
• Christos Ballas ("TLP", thelastpsychiatrist.com) archive
• Closing statement for No Such lAbs (S.NSA)
• So what is the man saying ?
• The Freenode issue

2020

• The slap and human dignity

Fin.

1. You know Firefox keeps this in a SQL database, yes? Because they told you about it in the manual, and documented the schema and all? [^]
2. At times I was overpowered by the temptation to go check, with the inevitable expenditure of time on re-reading which, useful as it can be, I hadn't planned on getting drawn into just now. And while my shiny tools got this down to a minimal "this button to keep, that button to skip" flow, they were entirely powerless to speed up the thinking. [^]