Astral Codex Ten

Lviv

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Lviv

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Lviv is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between March 01, 2022 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson”; “The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson”; “He visited Lviv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Irpin, Kherson”. It most often appears alongside Kyiv, Ukraine, Aachen.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 5
  • Issue count: 5
  • First seen: March 01, 2022
  • Last seen: October 13, 2025

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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.

Ukraine Warcasting
March 01, 2022 · Original source
The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson. This question gives the Russians two more months than the last one, so it’s surprising that they’re at about the same probability. Maybe everyone expects Russia to go for Kyiv first and take longer for anything else? Or maybe they’re assuming everything stands or falls together.
This is the guy who wrote Coup D’Etat, a handbook for attempting coups. He is a famous international relations and geopolitics theorist, has served in the IDF, speaks six languages, and has written a book on the military strategy of the late Roman Empire. I read his coup handbook a while ago and was very impressed by him. Luttwak correctly predicted that Russia would have a hard time invading Ukraine with its current troop numbers, but incorrectly predicted that, because “Putin is not a fool”, they wouldn’t try. When everyone else expected Russia to win instantly, Luttwak was the only person I saw arguing (again and again) that conquering Ukraine would actually be very hard and Putin might fail. He deserves honor and glory for that strong, public, and accurate prediction.
Your Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
June 10, 2023 · Original source
This winter a friend of mine, an American living in Europe, went to Ukraine with a humanitarian mission. (Here’s a twist for you, dear reader.) He visited Lviv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Irpin, Kherson. He was shelled a few times; he now can recommend a hotel in Kyiv with “the best bomb shelter in town”. His reasons for going there in the first place were dark. The results, however, were miraculous and heart-warming, and align very well with everything said above. His story could have been a nice coda to this review. However, his story is also much bigger than this review, and it is also his, so I will not elaborate more than I already have. He will tell it in his own time and in his own way. And for now, if there are any darling buds of trust sprouting between us, dear reader, you’ll just have to trust me on this. Because for an actual coda I chose something much more grim.
Meetups Everywhere 2025: Times and Places
August 29, 2025 · Original source
Contact: Anton Contact Info: antonx451[a t]gmail[period]com | antonx451 on Telegram Time: Saturday, September 20th, 05:00 PM Location: Franyk Podil Coordinates: https://plus.codes/9G2GFG78+W6 LVIV Contact: Rudra Contact Info: [plus]380930375255 Time: Saturday, October 18, 10:00 AM Location: skif stadium ,tsetnerivka street , lviv , lviv oblast , ukraine . I will be wearing white cap Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8GX6R3M6+QMH
Inline links: https://plus.codes/9G2GFG78+W6, https://plus.codes/8GX6R3M6+QMH
Contact: Rudra Contact Info: [plus]380930375255 Time: Saturday, October 18, 10:00 AM Location: skif stadium ,tsetnerivka street , lviv , lviv oblast , ukraine . I will be wearing white cap Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8GX6R3M6+QMH
Inline links: https://plus.codes/8GX6R3M6+QMH
Open Thread 401
September 29, 2025 · Original source
1: Meetups this week include Ankara, Bangalore, Dallas, DC, Delhi, Denver, Hyderabad, Istanbul, LA, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, San Francisco, Zagreb; see the meetup post for more information.. And late additions Aachen, Lviv, and Malaga have been added to the list for October.
Inline links: the meetup post
Open Thread 403
October 13, 2025 · Original source
1: Meetups this week include Auckland, Hamburg, Houston, Lviv, Oxford, and Warsaw - see the meetup post for more information.
Inline links: the meetup post