Legacy religions emerged as powerful adaptive systems within a particular environment They helped people to discern what matters—and how to live in right relationship to self (others) and the world But the world in which these systems evolved no longer exists And legacy

It’s never too early in the week to admire one of the holiest inventory poems that Anne Carson ever wrote. “God has the book of life open at PLEASURE”

I will never give a Fuck what the temperature is in Cupertino

Whoahhhhh! Videos showing the shaking from the M8.7 earthquake that hit off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia 😱👀😱

You know some real shit’s going down when Jack Tripper pulls a handgun on a motherfucker in the Brady Bunch house.

Hi there! Friendly neighborhood volcano here. If something is shaking your home and things are falling off the shelves, PLEASE, FIND COVER AND PROTECT YOUR HEAD. You can keep recording once your squishy little brains and other bits are safer from injury!

The government is literally not collecting actual inflation data anymore. They’re just estimating what they think inflation is. They “suddenly” changed this in May 2025. Right before the tariffs started getting collected. How much more obvious can they make it for you guys?

I genuinely think if you went to the nearest costco and took everyone in there, employees and shoppers, and replaced everyone in US congress with the costco people, we might have a real chance at turning this country around

“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths

Great show.

Sweet spot.

My friend Joseph wrote a great op ed on why the framework around AI and how it trains and what the law says needs to be changed if we don’t want a self inflicted dystopia. hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

I hope we all survive this and can some day sit around and laugh at how truly insane these people were.

The Buggles’ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ and Pat Benatar’s ‘You Better Run’ were the first two music videos to air on MTV

That they called it Showrunner is such an FU to all the humans who work so creating shows. That this article refers to the viewer as the “creator” is an insult hard to phathom. Guild negotiations are next summer get ready to strike.

Hey @Grok, which world leaders fired, arrested, or killed statisticians for presenting data they didn’t like? Give me three examples. Keep it short.

It's honestly so simple. Just heal your family trauma, regulate your nervous system, break your addictions, process centuries of cultural trauma, repair your attachment style, reparent your inner child, and develop a spiritual practice that dissolves the boundaries between self

When are the CEOs going to stand up to him? THESE are the assholes we’ve been complaining about having all the power & control of democracy for decades? If we’d known they were such pussies, we should’ve taken them down decades ago. Titans? FFS

Back to Chautauqua Institution and the National Comedy Center next week!! Excited to see Jon Stewart and Bill Murray at the festival. I’ll be hanging out at the Carlin exhibit mid-day Sat 8/9 & Sun 8/10. And teaching a course at Chautauqua Institution tickets.chq.org/searchclasses.…

If my day dealing with airlines’ delays, missed connections, and rebookings is any hint of how companies no longer believe in humans solving problems and THIS is the great promise of the future by the tech bros, we are in for a very frustrating, dismal, inefficient future.