finally doing some beach reading, on this last weekend of summer "a thought-provoking meditation on family, parental love, morality, and artificial intelligence" and Sirens, I'd add. 25% in and it's very good

Yes to all this, but also: Remember that the genius of America at its best is precisely that is the place where politics doesn't have to dominate every aspect of your life. Our national proposition is that we are free to live peacefully however we want, without permission or

"If you let the algos convince you the other side is evil then you have been psyopped."

why doesn't anybody claim to be lower upper class

a good First Principle: Don't Play Power Games unfortunately anything can become a power game. and increasingly, everything seems to be primarily a power game just having awareness of this can give you some mental distance and the choice to not play

the only winning move is not to play

the visceral aspect of it really can't be overstated on the same level as watching the Challenger shuttle explode in real-time, or seeing the second plane hit the twin towers and watching them fall some things change everything

today in everything is 5d-chess (and/or a psyop), a take: ABC "fired" Kimmel to gin up outrage between Trump/MAGA vs normies & to get a boost in viewers when JK "gloriously returns" Tuesday it was never about oppression or free speech, just business as usual

"they believe they're in a race to build a Digital God"

pregame Derek Jeter: Snell is going to dominate this game Blue Jays: two of the first three pitches over the outfield fence

This chart is color coded by presidents. You're not voting your way out of this.

the word mortgage is literally French for "death pledge", originally meaning that you pay towards the loan until you die, and then the lender takes back the properrty

- dispatch from the not too distant future: "remember that game called America? I had like almost a million points in that game before the servers crashed and we all moved on to the new game. it seemed fun at the time, but not sure I want to replay it again"

Hard to believe it’s been 21 years since this classic: “E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying To Give Out Over The Phone” by Michael Ward

highest laughs per character of anything I've ever read on the Internet

I don't have followers I am entirely unknown-unknowns

maybe a reboot is what we all need [zodfon@career] $ uptime 14:26:55 up 11132 days, 9:44, 1 user, load average 0.82, 0.62, 0.54

as self-proclaimed Sec of War, I'm ok with any infraction he commits being considered a war crime he rolls thru a stop sign = war crime he jay-walks = war crime take a penny without leaving a penny ... you make your bed, you lay in it