Joarvarndt
Joarvarndt
Joar Alexander
My name is Joar Alexander Pablo von Arndt. I am a European from Stockholm, Sweden, the child of a journalist and a visual artist, and currently a full-time student doing my bachelors. I am studying political science at the Swedish Defence University, a unique blend between a civilian university and a military college.
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I have a few different computers. Those machines have different capabilities, form factors, portability, hardware, and software — and yet I still want to do roughly the same work on them. While most of the work I do is with text —...
I am not “on” social media. Both in the sense that I don’t have accounts on them, but even when I do I do not use them. As I have briefly mentioned earlier this has some minor consequences, but I will not discuss them here. Instead I...
Table of Contents The Question of Over-regulation Digital Protectionism? Capital Union Infrastructure A European Stack Conclusion Europe is in a bind. While we posses advanced manufacturing and research, we have somehow been unable to...
Table of Contents Using business cards Designing the face of the card First draft Second draft Third draft Fourth draft Fifth draft Sixth draft Seventh draft Eighth draft Designing the back of the card Design one: Just keep it Design...
It is apparent to everyone that social media is distinctly a different experience today from how it initially developed. It has become a form of mindless consumption instead of a social space where one interacts with other genuine...
Table of Contents A definition What characterises technique? Should/can you do anything about it? In recent time I have noticed a considerable number of academic, policy, and popular works that have all covered parts of the concept of...
I’ve recently read not just one, but two different blog posts arguing for roughly the same thing. To summarise them; You have a finite amount of time to learn new things, and so you should not only focus that time toward learning things...
Table of Contents What is the value of land? What is digital land? Taxing Digital Land Downsides What is the value of land? Adam Smith divides the economic forces into three areas for, the profit obtained from labour, that from capital...
Table of Contents Dynamically updating Github profile Creating the README Using Github workflows Conclusion Dynamically updating Github profile Github has a functionality where the README file in a repository with the same name as your...
Table of Contents Why Chinese? How to Study How I Studied Thoughts on the Language The Future This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my visits to the mainland of the People’s Republic of China in the summer of...
Table of Contents Introduction Obstacles to Travelling on the Mainland Differing Technological Ecosystems The Scale of the Great Firewall The Chinese People Conclusion This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my...
Table of Contents Introduction The General Economic Environment of the Mainland What is Deepseek? The Risks of American AI Strategy Conclusion This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my visits to the mainland of...
Table of Contents Why would you want web browsing in a text editor? The Emacs Web Wowser (eww) w3m Non-text based Xwidgets EAF Why would you want web browsing in a text editor? Emacs has a tendency to try and absorb all user-facing...
Table of Contents Introduction What is meant by the End of History? Russia The United States of America The People’s Republic of China Conclusion Introduction Francis Fukuyama is probably the person most connected to the concept of “the...
Table of Contents Functions Side Effects Conclusion Programming languages (and their users) are often grouped into two main intellectual schools of thought: Object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming. These two schools...