Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between February 22, 2022 and July 22, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “recent protests in Kazakhstan”; “I am now out of Russia, and on to Almaty, Kazakhstan”; “Kazakh President Proposes Reforms To Limit His Powers . I know nothing about Kazakhstan”. It most often appears alongside China, Russia, Ukraine.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: February 22, 2022
- Last seen: July 22, 2022
Appears In
- Links For February
- 22
- Links For April
- Every Bay Area House Party
- Your Book Review: The Society Of The Spectacle
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- Russia (3 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (3 shared issues)
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- Consensus (2 shared issues)
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- COVID (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- Google (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (2 shared issues)
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- nostalgebraist (2 shared issues)
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- Polymarket (2 shared issues)
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- Putin (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
29: Russian nationalist blogger Anatoly Karlin on why Putin wants to invade Ukraine. Short version: partly emotional nationalism, but partly rational calculation that as Russia tries to leave the Western way of life and go it alone in some kind of cultural/economic sense, it will have better odds of self-sufficiency with an extra 35 million people in its sphere of influence. Related, and excellent: how Russia thought about the recent protests in Kazakhstan.
I am now out of Russia, and on to Almaty, Kazakhstan. The people here are quite anti-war. I fly to Dubai in a bit. It was surprisingly difficult (and expensive) to book a ticket out of Moscow after all the airspace closures.
13: Kazakh President Proposes Reforms To Limit His Powers. I know nothing about Kazakhstan, so let me know if this is just meaningless propaganda, but at least superficially it looks like a combination of the protests this year and (speculatively?) the loss of Russia’s credibility have done some good here.
Inline links: Kazakh President Proposes Reforms To Limit His Powers
“Definitely! Lots of people in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, stick to their traditional ways of life. All they need is a charismatic leader to unite them.”
Another major theme is the emergence of the Eternal Present. Pseudoevents [10] come and go in rapid succession, everywhere and then nowhere at all. Social media has only accelerated the turnover. The news cycle generates nonstop whiplash. Yesterday it was Covid, today it’s Ukraine; tomorrow both will be memory-holed. Last year’s news has already vanished without a trace. Whither Kazakhstan? Afghanistan? Who knows and who cares?
Inline links: Pseudoevents, Afghanistan