Memphis
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Memphis is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between April 10, 2023 and June 27, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, USA”; “it was usually either Memphis or Thebes”; “Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis”. It most often appears alongside Rome, Australia, California.
Metadata
- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: April 10, 2023
- Last seen: June 27, 2024
Appears In
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2023
- Meetups Everywhere 2023: Times & Places
- Book Review: Cyropaedia
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
- My 2024 Presidential Debate
Related Pages
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- Rome (5 shared issues)
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- Australia (4 shared issues)
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- California (4 shared issues)
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- Manhattan (4 shared issues)
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- Philadelphia (4 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- ACX MEETUP (3 shared issues)
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- Alex (3 shared issues)
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- Alex Hedtke (3 shared issues)
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- Alex Liebowitz (3 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.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, USA Contact: Michael Contact Info: michael[at]postlibertarian[dot]com Time: Saturday, May 13th, 01:30 PM Location: French Truck Coffee, Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium. 1350 Concourse Ave, Memphis, TN 38104 We'll be at a table with a sign that says ACX MEETUP on it. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/867F5X2P+QHC Notes: We meet monthly and we have a Discord: https://discord.gg/3C74kCmsD9
Inline links: https://plus.codes/867F5X2P+QHC, https://discord.gg/3C74kCmsD9
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, USA Contact: Michael Contact Info: michael[at]postlibertarian[dot]com Time: Saturday, September 9th, 1:30 PM Location: French Truck Coffee, Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium, 1350 Concourse Ave #167, Memphis, TN 38104. We'll be at a table in front of French Truck Coffee with an ACX MEETUP sign on it. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/867F5X2P+QJJ Group Link: https://discord.com/invite/3C74kCmsD9
Lots of ancient civilizations started as city-states, and - even after reaching imperial glory - were still in some sense city-empires. Rome, Carthage, and Babylon are all obvious. But even the less obvious ones still fit the pattern. Assyria was centered around the city of Assur. Egypt shifted imperial centers over the dynasties, but it was usually either Memphis or Thebes. So what city did Persia start out as? What was the urban seed of Cyrus’ conquests?
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, USA Contact: Michael Contact Info: michael[at]postlibertarian[dot]com Time: Saturday, April 6th, 1:00 PM Location: French Truck Coffee in Crosstown Concourse, Central Atrium, 1350 Concourse Ave #167, Memphis, TN 38104. I'll be at a table with a sign that says ACX MEETUP Coordinates: https://plus.codes/867F5X2P+QHW Group Link: https://discord.gg/yEGcbv4VPe
Inline links: https://plus.codes/867F5X2P+QHW, https://discord.gg/yEGcbv4VPe
Trump: I’m against wokeness. I believe in Western values. I believe in the heritage of Greece and Rome - but Rome more than Greece, because it was further west. But most of all, I believe in the values of the Aztecs, because they were most western of all. I believe that in 959 AD Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror, insulted Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, who cried blood for the next fifty-two years. Her tears extinguished the sun and killed everyone on Earth. In his mercy, Quetzalcoatl the Winged Serpent descended to the Underworld, where he stole the bones of the last men, and dipped them in his blood to create a new human race, and Huitzilopochtli, the Left-Handed Hummingbird, ascended into heaven to became the new sun. But his sisters the moon and stars grew jealous of his light, and they launched attacks upon him nightly. Only the nourishing blood of men gives Huitzilopochtli the strength to resist their assaults and shine anew each morn. Should the fountain of sacrifice ever go dry, the sun will go black, and the stars will fall upon the world and consume it. Callouts on social media are a form of flower war, and its losers are therefore set aside for sacrifice. In this, I agree with Joe Biden. But we cannot merely consign fallen celebrities to shame and penury. We must give them to the Sun. We must place them atop the mounds of Cahokia, atop the Luxor in Las Vegas, yea, even atop the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, and plunge obsidian daggers into their still-beating hearts, that the dawn may come anew.