The person who named Lapus Lazuli doesn't get enough credit.

For feasting; against self-indulgence

Fit for a strong guy, strong for a fit guy. Optionality.

People with just one tattoo. You don't see that much anymore.

People with one pant leg rolled up to mid calf. You don't see that much anymore.

Everyone likes making AI generated images but no one likes looking at them.

Has anyone tried muting "AI, A.I., etc."? Does it mute practically everything or is it the saving grace it portends to be?

Never read a book recommended by someone who is in a book club. Anti-models. Time is too precious for status-reading.

Great clickbait on the newsletter fold today by the Lindyman. Well played.

Endurance training does not lead to greater strength but greater strength does lead to endurance. That's an asymmetry. (Barry Ross, Underground Secrets to Faster Running)

Payoff Space newyorker.com/culture/office…

Understanding Media (McLuhan) has an insight almost every paragraph, but University as implosion and akin to young people rushing behind the medieval city wall is striking.

Reading chapter 8 of Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan and thinking of Chances with Wolves. I'm the transmitter, I'm the tower... I'm a human radio station.

Can't listen to country music on a Monday in the 4HL. Too poignant. Too filled with longing.

Hoping Andrew McLuhan doesn't listen to the latest from Joe and Jordan. Peterson saying that MIT "just videotaping lectures" is a different medium (and message) to his "tightly edited", "background-image-filled" videos proves he doesn't know what a medium is.

"*whispered unfounded rumour*, pass it on" - You don't hear that much anymore.

If 'out of the heart the mouth speaks' I am sad to report (after an altercation with my brother-in-law) it was hate in there all along. Damn.

Girls with scars from cutting, that's something you (or at least I) don't see much of any more. (Praise God)

Extracting tribute from the vassal states of your network Kingdom in exchange for protection. Lindy.

Have gathered so many good writers on substack that I don't need twitter anymore.