Joar von Arndt

A major Anglo-Saxon power begins a war far away from home with the help of Israel and without the support of its allies.

How does advanced AI impact cybersecurity?

Table of Contents In-buffer completion Jump to definition and references Syntax checking Conclusion Language-server-protocol (lsp) is standard to communicate information about a current programming project to an editor integration, powered by a “language…

Earlier this year I wrote Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything in a more positive manner surrounding this topic.

Figure 1: My view of Liberty Square (自由廣場), as well as the National Concert Hall (right) and National Theater (left) from atop the steps of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall.

Table of Contents Nuclear Strategy for Individuals Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes Diplomacy Studying at the Swedish Defence University gives you an odd way of thinking, where everything can be modelled through the lenses of nuclear strategy, international rel…

I have found a peculiar delight in encryption, and particularly in using pgp-based asymmetric cryptography.

Fragments on Eccentricity The concept of fomo has always alluded me.

Table of Contents Two Definitions The Consequences of Digital Artworks Industrialised Production Two Definitions Figure 1: The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer Art has always been one of the most central aspects of human lives.

Table of Contents What is post-historical society?

Nuclear Fusion Will Not Give Us Infinite Power Table of Contents How Nuclear Power Works Why It Will (Not) Fail Conclusion, or Rather a Punchline Energy is perhaps the most important input of industrial society.

Or the Liberating Fear of Betrayal What is trust?

Russia is not a great power.

Thus was written for Chinatalk’s Essay Contest on Economic Security, and was originally submitted in 2026-02-24 ad (and thus before the Iran war).

One of the first use-cases I found for llms back when Chatgpt first released was automating the creation of citations, or rather the transformations of citations structured in one way into .bib-files that can be used to create a wide variety of uniform ci…

This post contains spoilers for Apple tv’s Pluribus, a really great show that you should ideally watch without having read anything about it.

Table of Contents Introduction Human Development The (Fourth?)

Writing this in 2026 ad (234 AdR), crypto is solidly in a “winter”.

Table of Contents Introduction Early Developments and the Dictatorship The Totalitarian State Fascism and Totalitarianism Socialism Democracy Religion Conclusion Introduction The spirit of the age that we currently finds ourselves in is one of rapid change

Table of Contents Introduction Fonts Microtypograhy Improving the footnotes Embellishments Initials Ornaments Colours Paper format Conclusion Introduction As a political science student, writing is a daily activity.

Table of Contents What are the qualities of text?

Table of Contents The Map and the Territory Moving around Hold Move Support Convoy Turns Country Strategies England France Turkey Russia Austria Italy Germany I hosted a game of the board game Diplomacy during December–January of 2025–’26, as usually host…

My girlfriend recently bought a Framework 12 laptop1 with a correspoding stylus and, influenced by my ravings about the power of gnu Emacs, wants to take handwritten digital notes on it for her engineering and mathematics classes and then organise them in…

Table of Contents Introduction Revolutionary Notes Implementation Introduction After initially starting to use Emacs back in high school merely for programming, I naturally began to use it for other tasks such as document preparation and note-taking.

I have a few different computers.

I am not “on” social media.

Table of Contents The Question of Over-regulation Digital Protectionism?

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 two: Adding some simp…

Table of Contents A definition What characterises technique?

I have recently read not just one, but two different blog posts arguing for roughly the same thing.

Table of Contents What is the value of land?

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 username will be di…

Table of Contents Why Chinese?

Table of Contents Introduction Obstacles to Travelling on the Mainland Differing Technological Ecosystems The Scale of the Great Firewall Experiences of China Rules The Physical Environment Conclusion This is part of a series of posts written during or sh…

The Weakness of American AI Strategy Table of Contents Introduction The General Economic Environment of the Mainland What is Deepseek?

Table of Contents Why would you want web browsing in a text editor?

Table of Contents Introduction What is meant by the End of History?

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.

Table of Contents The nature of Email Email as a Social Medium The nature of Email In an increasingly interconnected and technologically sophisticated world, our capabilities for communication and diversity of ways to do so also increases.

Table of Contents Why Emacs?

Table of Contents Philosophy Fonts Inspirations Static website generation Sidenotes Small caps Hosting I think every personal blog that is somewhat custom built should have documentation written on its design philosophy and implementation.

This post was written as an examination in the Premodern History of China, a course I took at Stockholm University, and is available as a pdf here.

Nuclear Weapons in International Security Similarly to this earlier post, this was written as an examination at the Swedish Defence University.

Techniques and Strategies Regarding Strategic Resources This text was originally written as an examination at the Swedish Defense University (Försvarshögskolan) for the course in Economic Security in Competition, Conflict and War and is therfore available…

Diplomacy Today is a python program and corresponding flask application that serves and hosts an early-twentieth-century-style newspapers generated from the turn orders of a game of Diplomacy hosted on backstabbr.

I am by no means an expert on Ellul, I have merely read three of his books (Presence in the Modern World, The Technological Society, and The Meaning of the City) But in trying to communicate his influence on my thinking, I have inadvertently written many…

Table of Contents How this page is structured Fiction Miscellaneous Bret Easton Ellis’ Works The Sprawl Trilogy Non-Fiction Miscellaneous Economics Philosophy Jacques Ellul Society History How this page is structured This is my current reading list, and c…

An analysis of the depiction of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in Victoria 3 The video game Victoria 3 is a historical, and often times ahistorial, 4X grand strategy video game by Swedish developer Paradox Interactive.

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