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On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 at 20:56, steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Pieter - > > I was born during Apartheid in South Africa, and those were truly dark > times. It’s painful to say, but my people did terrible things to others — > and there’s no excuse for it. Still, I’m deeply thankful that things didn’t > end in disaster. In fact, considering how bad it could have been, we were > lucky. > > Thanks for the personal reflection and the story of the twins... I'll have > to look into them. I think your autobiographical reflection helps *me* > understand the stylization of your optimism. We each have our own (Pess or > Opt or Hybrid) I suppose. > > A great (if painfully dystopian) romp through "coulda been worse" is the > Draka <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domination> series written by > Santa Fean Steve Stirling (SM Stirling) who I still occasional discover > writing away on his laptop at Joe's Diner (seems to be there several > days/mornings a week in the same booth?) > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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