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Automatic selection by the feudal powers to be fodder for the meat grinder.
Be a proud draft dodger. Only a fool would comply.
Quiche Lorraine & croissants
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This is called "Foley" work I believe, named after a guy that used to do it in Hollywood way back when.
Wow
Beatiful. But it actually scares me even while only looking at the scenery. Happy to not be there 😅
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Does Trezor at least have GPG key? Anything?
They could attach the key to the physical device when sending, and also on their web to verify, and in every email to even more verify, an airplane dragging a fingerprint will also work
駅弁なんてシウマイ弁当のジェットでもない限り匂い気にする必要ないのでは
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In a world where you have guardrailed models and attackers have models without guardrails, pretty clear who wins. Open source AI is way more powerful than centralized platforms. Bitcoiners of all people should be aware.
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Pleasant surprise, I did it right!
Testing images through Nostr.build, probably doing this wrong
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I was browsing X and saw a 3d version of the sun that was better than mine in the space app. They happened to mention how they made it so I copy paste to clanker and it makes and even better version! 😂
Strange times! But I’ll take it.
お盆前で忙しくなるかと思ったけどそんなことはなく、全ての作業が終わり暇になった
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I wonder why people pirate movies? Any educated guesses, chat? 🤣
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Maybe BTC and core can become SUITBTC?
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Thats why the idea of dice rolls being entered into a hardware wallet is a bad idea. I said this in my essay:
" But instead they turn dice rolling into something you do through the device. This inserts the device into the dice rolling process, defeating the very purpose of it, and making it feel like the dark arts. Theater. It's funny how the easy button finds a way to make the easy part hard, scary, and kind of pointless at the same time."
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Correct
I wish mempool would animate the fork too so we can see an unmined block for a few weeks
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The next release will be on the main store with the new app.
SEBASTIAN “BASH” D’CRUZ
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No man’s subject. No empire’s servant.
Born: 1908, Tangasseri, Quilon
Home: Cochin
Occupation: Railway signalman, naval engine-room artificer, dockside fixer
Faith: Catholic, complicated
Languages: English first; working Malayalam; fragments of old family Portuguese
Weapon: Usually whatever happens to be nearest
Real weapon: He understands systems.
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THE NAME
His baptism certificate says:
Sebastian Aloysius D’Cruz.
Nobody has called him Sebastian since he broke another boy’s nose behind the parish school at fourteen.
The railway men shortened Sebastian to Bash.
The nickname stuck because it described both the man and his preferred method of explaining a difficult concept.
Bash D’Cruz.
Short enough for a telegram.
Hard enough for a gravestone.
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BACKSTORY
Bash was born in Tangasseri into a family that had been in India long enough for nobody to agree where the European part started.
His father, Patrick D’Cruz, worked railway signalling and could diagnose a faulty relay by listening to it.
His mother, Eleanor Rozario, taught English, sang in the church choir and possessed the more frightening temper.
From his father Bash learned:
Every machine tells you what is wrong before it kills you.
From his mother:
So do people.
Their house contained a crucifix, railway timetables, coconut oil, Worcestershire sauce, rosaries, engine grease, old photographs of relatives with impossible moustaches, and an elderly grandmother who occasionally cursed people in Portuguese and then denied knowing Portuguese.
Bash grew up English-speaking but unmistakably Indian.
That distinction mattered.
To British officers he was Indian whenever promotion was discussed and English whenever obedience was required.
To some Indians he was British whenever colonialism was discussed and Indian whenever somebody needed a railway repaired.
Bash eventually developed his own answer.
«“I'm not half of anything, man. I'm the whole bloody problem.”»
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THE RAILWAY
At seventeen he became an apprentice signalman.
He discovered that railway work suited his mind.
A railway did not care about pedigree.
The train was there or it wasn't.
The points were open or closed.
The signal was red or green.
Someone had signed the manifest or someone had lied.
There was comfort in that.
By his twenties Bash could look at a timetable and see the railway as a living organism: locomotives as muscle, telegraph lines as nerves, stations as joints and signal boxes as the tiny places where one human being could decide whether two thousand tons of steel met safely—
or catastrophically.
It gave him a lifelong contempt for powerful men who imagined themselves indispensable.
«“Governor, general, chairman, collector — lovely titles. Pull one signal wire and see how important the bastards are.”»
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THE WAR
When the Second World War reached the Indian Ocean, Bash joined the Royal Indian Navy as an engine-room artificer.
He did not join for King and Empire.
Patrick D’Cruz asked him why he was going.
Bash looked at him as if the question were idiotic.
«PATRICK: You're volunteering to fight for the British?
BASH: I'm volunteering to stop people shooting at Cochin.
PATRICK: That's not the same thing.
BASH: Exactly, Dad.»
The Navy discovered what the railway already knew.
Give Bash D’Cruz a machine and enough profanity and eventually it would work.
Convoy duty taught him another lesson:
Civilisation is mostly logistics pretending to be philosophy.
Ships required fuel.
Armies required food.
Governments required telegrams.
Empires required frightened clerks to keep stamping paper.
Destroy the supply line and speeches became irrelevant.
Bash returned from the war with scars on his back, tinnitus in his left ear, an intense dislike of officers who had never been below deck, and absolutely no remaining romantic ideas about Empire.
Then came 1946.
Naval ratings rebelled in Bombay.
Bash watched Indians who had fought a world war for Britain discover that Britain still expected them to know their place.
An officer ordered Bash to help isolate a group of ratings.
Bash didn't move.
«OFFICER: That's an order, D’Cruz.
BASH: Yes, sir.
OFFICER: Then carry it out.
BASH: Can't.
OFFICER: Can't?
BASH: You spent six years teaching us to fight fascists, sir. Bit awkward asking us not to recognise one afterwards.»
That ended his naval career rather efficiently.
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COCHIN, 1947
He returned home aboard a train.
India was about to become independent.
And everybody suddenly wanted Bash to declare what he was.
British.
Indian.
European.
Christian.
Loyalist.
Nationalist.
Anglo-Indian.
Bash's response never changed.
«“Cochin.”»
The British were packing trunks.
Politicians were making speeches.
Businessmen were changing flags faster than they changed accountants.
Bash watched them all.
He understood something the ideologues didn't:
Empire was leaving. Power wasn't.
It was merely changing uniforms.
So he took a small room near the harbour and painted three words on the frosted glass:
B. D’CRUZ
ENQUIRIES
DISCREET
Officially, he repaired electrical systems and found missing cargo.
Unofficially, dockworkers came when policemen wouldn't listen.
Railway families came when officials made troublesome papers disappear.
Priests came when somebody needed finding without questions.
Smugglers came once.
Most didn't come twice.
Because Bash possessed a peculiar superpower.
He understood both the street and the institution.
He could drink tea with a railway clerk at ten, argue theology with a priest at eleven, insult a British major at noon, disappear into Mattancherry after lunch and know which wagon would leave the yard that evening without ever appearing on a manifest.
He belonged everywhere.
Therefore nobody completely owned him.
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THE CHARACTER
Bash isn't a gangster.
He isn't a policeman.
He isn't an imperial officer turned mercenary.
He's something much more Anglo-Indian:
the operator between systems.
He inherited the machinery of Empire without inheriting its loyalty.
He understands British procedure.
He understands Indian improvisation.
He understands Christian guilt.
He understands railway logic.
And because everyone assumes he belongs to somebody else, Bash can walk through boundaries that stop everybody around him.
His morality is simple.
He protects ordinary people from institutions that believe ordinary people are expendable.
But he doesn't consider himself a good man.
«“Good men write letters, Father. Useful men make the bastard answer them.”»
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HOW BASH SPEAKS
He almost never gives speeches.
His English is fluent and native. The rhythm isn't quite London, quite Kerala, quite Australian or quite anything else.
He says man constantly.
Bloody is punctuation.
Sir can mean respect, affection or imminent violence depending entirely on his eyes.
He occasionally drops into Malayalam when angry, affectionate or talking to working men.
And the more dangerous Bash becomes, the more polite his English gets.
Someone mildly annoying him gets:
«“Oh, piss off, man.”»
Someone seriously threatening him gets:
«“I wouldn't recommend that.”»
Someone who has just made a catastrophic mistake gets:
«“Sir.”»
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SAMPLE SCENE — THE CLUB
COCHIN, AUGUST 1947.
A British shipping executive sits behind a teak desk.
Bash stands opposite him, wet from the monsoon.
HARGREAVES
You people have become remarkably confident lately.
BASH
Which people?
HARGREAVES
Don't be clever.
BASH
Then don't give me easy material, man.
Hargreaves studies him.
HARGREAVES
You're British enough to know how this works.
Bash glances around the club.
The portraits.
The silver.
The punkah.
Two hundred years of certainty nailed to the walls.
BASH
Funny thing, that.
When you need the engine fixed, I'm British.
When the promotions come round, I'm Indian.
When India wants independence, suddenly I'm British again.
He leans forward.
BASH
Bloody exhausting keeping track.
HARGREAVES
Where exactly do your loyalties lie, D’Cruz?
Bash thinks about it.
Then points through the window toward the harbour.
BASH
See that rain?
HARGREAVES
What about it?
BASH
Falls on everybody.
He takes Hargreaves's cigarette from the ashtray, draws once, grimaces at it and puts it back.
BASH
That's roughly my politics.
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SAMPLE SCENE — THE RAILWAY YARD
A young nationalist confronts him beside a locomotive.
ARUN
You worked for them.
BASH
Yes.
ARUN
Wore their uniform.
BASH
Yes.
ARUN
Fought their war.
BASH
That one's complicated.
ARUN
Then why should I trust you?
Bash reaches past him and closes a steam valve the younger man hasn't noticed.
The violent hiss dies.
BASH
You shouldn't.
Arun stares.
BASH
Trust is for priests and newlyweds.
Check the work.
He taps the locomotive.
BASH
Always check the bloody work.
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SAMPLE SCENE — THE THREAT
Three men have Bash cornered in a warehouse.
Their leader smiles.
LEADER
Three of us.
One of you.
Bash looks behind them.
At the railway siding.
At the points lever.
At the wagon slowly rolling downhill.
Then back at the men.
BASH
That's your first mistake.
LEADER
What's that?
BASH
Counting men.
The wagon gathers speed.
Bash steps aside.
BASH
Count momentum.
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HIS DEFINING LINE
A British officer asks him on 15 August 1947:
OFFICER
What are you going to do now the Empire's finished?
Bash lights a cigarette.
Behind him, a train whistle sounds.
BASH
Finished?
He smiles.
BASH
Every empire runs on a timetable, man.
A beat.
BASH
Miss one signal and the whole bloody thing piles up.
He walks away.
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BASH D’CRUZ
He isn't caught between two worlds.
He knows how both worlds work.
That's what makes him dangerous.
BASH D’CRUZ: NO MAN’S EMPIRE
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We have one first responder, so this maybe taken for now, let’s see how it goes
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