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[Antonio Escohotado](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_), one of my dearest intellectual heroes, died today 😢

He was a true erudite, a polymath, and a free soul.

He devoured the classics, opposed dictator Franco, was the fiercest of Communists, pioneered the hippy revolution in , travelled the world, studied and experimented with most drugs known to mankind, changed his views, lectured , taught himself a few languages, became the most articulate , wrote the definitive tomes on a variety of scientific subjects, changed his views again, and shared it all along the way.

What I admire the most, though, is that he read everything under the sun. Primary sources, secondary sources, biographies, commentary. And he seemed to remember it all. set out to deeply understand something — be it , , , — and damned studied every single relevant page there is about the subject, tirelessly, for years, until he emerged with the most robust of opinions about the topic, and a comprehensive view in the form of a new .

I am very inspired by him to always freaking read the classics, and the sources.

And I have always lamented that his fame in the English-speaking world wasn't commensurate with his many merits.

His last months were the chronicle of a death foretold: he chose to leave, and did so in his own terms, with dignity, in his beloved Ibiza.

I went to see him at public events here in a couple of times. He was a giant, some unfortunate views or quotations notwithstanding.

I miss him already.

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For a long time I thought were unusually egocentric and annoying in our obsession with our own trade and tools: we dedicate inordinate attention to designing, rewriting and tweaking libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc _for our own, and our peers', usage_.

But most recently, I've realised that also love to discuss and criticise the ; often write and sing about and other ; so many seem focused on and its tools (as opposed to their object of study); etc.

Perhaps we are not so unique after all…

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@francistein @Lucasdepicher @Mastoporra

Era un verdadero sabio. Es una pena 😢

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This is more or less how I spend the I earn

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

LOL every god damn time!

@funny

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Happy ! This year focused on “better relations between & ”.

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interactive taxonomy — very handy:

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Four years ago…

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#Olive harvesting season in #Spain
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@freemo Indeed! Some of these olive trees have been sitting here for several centuries :)

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Code review IRL

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I always thought that helicopter parenting was when your kid screwed up, you take 'em up in a helicopter and tell them that if they screw up again, you'll push 'em out.

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I know it's very much frowned upon nowadays, but I've resolved to adopt a “helicopter ” style with my children.

That's when one jumps on a helicopter and flies away as far as possible from their , right?

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@niko hey, what happened to the old service `bird.nogafam.es/ID/rss`? Moved, or discontinued? Thanks!

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@digital_carver Fixed. Thank you!

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@freemo My bet: he blocked you, or this whole instance (or his instance blocked ours) because you are obviously a right-wing supremacist who runs this node where incels threaten the identity of minorities.Or something of the sort.

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@freemo OK, I trust your judgement, so that's good to know about that person.

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A list of I (try to) listen to — or have listened to in the past — in case it's useful to someone out there!

tripu.info/podcasts.html

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