A short bio

I'm Karam. An 21-solar-year-old homo sapiens individual living on the surface of the solid crust of a planet called Earth. I'm a huge fan of minimalism and simplicitiy (in all areas of life). I'm a firm advocate for postgenderism and gender abolition. I'm also a big fan of the free culture philosophy (and enthusiastic opponent of "intellectural property" altogether, let alone other kinds of property that encourage hoarding).

I'm currently interested in:

• Linguistics in both formal and natural languages
• Music theory, classification (genres) and composition
• Psychology and psychiatry (especially neurodevelopement disorders)
• Everything about drugs (especially psychoactive ones)
• Politics and economics, and the philosophy thereof
• The scientific method and the philosophy of science (and not metascience)
• Metaphilosophy, epistemology and ontology
• Logic, metalogic and the philosophy of logic
• Foundations of mathematics, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of mathematics
• Processology (computer "science"): Algorithms and computation theory
• Cryptography and information theory (encoding, compression, formats, etc)
• Computer security (especially in the software side)
• Low-level programming, engineering and networking

My hobbies include, but certainly not limited to:

• Hacking around complex systems like computers and whatnot
• Spending whole nights reading entire wikis/blogs/websites etc
• Learning languages (both formal and natural)
• When in the mood, reading books/manga, watching TV series and movies, retrogaming, and playing board games with friends (especially chess).
• Listening to music: Here's my recommendations

Education

Most of the education I underwent was informal (and most of the time it was self-taught). I don't really believe in academic certificates; they're just pieces of paper that virtually prove nothing beyond passing a bunch of exams in a specific school. Moreover, most people go to school mainly because they're not in a position to decide for themselves what they should really learn, often due to lack of control over their lives (read decisions). Personally, I have a not-very-nice history with schools and the modern globally-propagated system of eduction, mainly because they involve those kinds of things that humans initiate as a way for an ultimate goal but eventually turns out to be an ultimate goal in itself, say, they miss the whole point of it. An example of this includes exams and grades.

So, if you appreciate skills and experience more than do you worship virtual numbers and overrated licenses, then just keep on reading.

Skills

Just to finalize my rant about schools: I want to point out that "general" life skills are rarely (if ever) taught in school. Now let's go next.

On the communicational side, I can (and do) read, write, listen, speak and scream in the following languages: Syrian (native tongue), English, Arabic (the only thing I really learned in school, which is a dead language anyway), a little bit of Kurmanji (Kurdish), Japanese and French. I have worked on translating English-to-Arabic artifacts, and sometimes the other way around.

On the technological side, I have a good understanding of the mechanisms of GNU/Linux operating systems and Unix in general. I don't make a perfect sysadmin but I can call myself a good poweruser. Besides that, I also do programming. My favorite language currently is Python (very likely to change in the future). I also occasionally program in PHP and Javascript. I have some experience in Object Pascal because it was my favorite language back in the days. For an overview, you can see my Git repositories at Codeberg.

CV

I decided to write a CV to summarize some (practical) bits of this page in a Capitalism-friendly manner. You can grab a PDF version from here.