Protesilaos
Protesilaos
I am a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house I built myself which I affectionately call “the hut.” I spend my free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around my house. My background is diverse and reflects my intellectual curiosity as well as consistently high work ethic.
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beframe enables a frame-oriented Emacs workflow where each frame has access only to the list of buffers visited therein. In the interest of brevity, we call buffers that belong to frames “beframed”. Package name (GNU ELPA): beframe Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/beframe Change log:...
Comme hier, je vais faire «alla prima» comme toujours l’exercice d’inscrire les parole d’une chanson. C’est encore une opportunité de pratiquer la longue française. Cette fois je suis sûr que l’artiste existe. Stromae est Belge. Son chanson avec le titre «Alors on danse» est mélodique et profond: nous dansons pour...
The following are comments I made in a recent private talk. I am writing a summary here since the topic is of interest to a wider audience. The technology case versus the business case Machine learning, large language models, and agentic computing have reached a point where the technology case has strongly been made...
In these “interpretations” I typically pick a Greek song, translate its lyrics, and then do the philosophy I would have done anyway. Put differently, I am using music as a starting point for a comment that might turn into a discussion… A failing tactic, for sure, but I digress. The reason I pick Greek songs is to...
Ceci est un petit exercice. Je vais inscrire les paroles de la chanson avec le titre «La dernière valse». La chanteuse s’appelle Julien Moreau. C’est le première fois que j’écoute son musique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHGDi89hBZw. J’ai chercher à l’Internet pour savoir qui est (ou était) «Julien Moreau» mais...
I read the story I wrote this morning: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-09-15-blue-room/. It is a publication about so much more than a room.
The blue room draws you in. It offers the refuge you seek. Its material construction diffuses all noise. You are neither disturbed nor distracted by what transpires in your midst. Such is the comfort it provides. Days do not matter within its confines. What was, shall be. Time loses its meaning when all you can do...
Hello Einar, I am writing this as a public letter in response to the blog post you published on 2026-09-13 with the title An apology to Protesilaos Stavrou and David Wilson. I accept the apology, though I think there is no need for one. I would personally not delete anything. Instead, I would add a link on top to...
For the present article, I have picked a seemingly bizarre song from the vast corpus of Vasilis Papakonstantinou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv28XE7tGJo. Palm trees is written and composed by Apostolos Boulasikis. All of the songs I have heard from Apostolos are surreal in the images they evoke and profound in...
Streets of Rage 4 is a game that hates you (spoilers below). I do not mean the general “you”, the one that keeps your defences down because of how impersonal it is. No! I mean you in particular who is reading this. I know your name, where you live, and have already talked to your parents about this. But before I...
This is an excerpt from my journal. By “beauty”, I am not referring to my Apollonian looks and disarming modesty. No full body naked selfie for you today. Sorry! The Middle East is a place where cultures meet. Milieux which can be understood as distinct may also be seen as blending into each other. In Cyprus where I...
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