Funky grooves from all around, homelab ideas, the dawn of everything

Music

• Ernesto Holman’s Ñamco:
  • Progressive bass-forward jazz rock fusion full of surprises and indigenous sounds from Chile
• Salin’s Rammana:
  • Funk nouveau from Thailand

Tech

• Homelab plans:
  • Self-host Gitea and Zulip
  • Wrap up migration from Google Photos to self-hosted NAS with Backblaze file sync
    • Last time I tried this, I ran into some issues with reconstituting from Google Takeout

Woodworking

• My table saw is in good enough shape now for most tasks, but I really want to follow these instructions to get it set up properly

Other

• Thanks to Libby, I’ve been listening to The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
  • These are my thoughts so far:
    • It is a sprawling, well-cited, and inclusive analysis of human nature based on actual anthropological and archeological findings and science.
    • The book is an essential counterbalance to the prescriptive, less-founded, and unfortunately popular narratives that tend to be somehow all be subtly reactionary and conservative in their approach (Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah-Harari, etc.).
    • TDoE manages to steer clear of platitudes and dictums about the inevitability of one form of government or social stratification, and instead it provides a wide variety of examples of the human experience from time immemorial.
    • I find fascinating how the same evidence can be interpreted in different ways, and the complexity involved in piecing together the lives of people from so long ago.