Rogan: We’re some sort of an electronic caterpillar that’s creating a cocoon. And we don’t even realize what we’re doing. And we’re about to give birth to some technological butterfly. Musk: Yeah. My novel in a nutshell. Joe Rogan podcast w/Elon Musk simonandschuster.com/books/Project-…

I didn't expect the Vikings to make this game an homage to the 1986 Bears defense.

Jung believed that the God of religion was dead because we had killed him with too much piety. We had made God shallow, narrow and good. This served to stifle and suppress the vitality of God; the divine life had been depleted by too much moralism.~David Tacey

One test of the quality of a mule, a farmer told me once, involves jumping around in front of them and waving your hands and trying to startle or scare them. The really good mules just stand there and watch the show, mule-like. I aspire to that.

23 and Me are getting very specific in their genetic questioning. But in a way not specific enough. Are we talking Sabbath or Megadeth? I want to contribute good data but this is a complicated question.

This is a travesty. Ann and Conrad have built a business that brings equitable wages, creative, ambitious culinary experiences, beauty, and delight to a city that desperately needs all those things. The forces that want to destroy rather than build have them in their sights.

This is an absolute disgrace to our city. Ann and Conrad have added so much to the Twin Cities, and have always done so with total integrity and conscience. That this has happened is shameful.

Proud to share that my latest Unfurling essay was picked up and republished (with some slight modifications) by the good folks at Tangle News. Show your face and say what you mean: readtangle.com/otherposts/sho…

Everyone of influence has become invested in perpetuating our division and the more they exclaim how the enemy is not like you, the more they gain from our separation. They will push people already on the edge of the cliff of reasonable disagreement over into hardened disdain.

There are a number of extremely compelling + important news stories happening today. Leading this morning's digital edition, above the fold, with a story about "crave-worthy" gas station food is inexplicable. The Minnesota Star Tribune

The psychological concepts of projection and the shadow are so sturdy and explain so many of our feelings and opinions. It would be great if they were more common in our public and private discourse.

I am begging Jeremy Olson of the Star Tribune to have any curiosity at all about the thousands of people who have healed from long COVID, and what the methods they used suggest about the mechanisms at play in the condition. startribune.com/five-years-lat…

This shows the resentful, pandering, unserious nature of the Democratic Party today (which I once supported). The governor of MN, in another state during a looming budget crisis and shocking corruption in his agencies, expresses glee at the stock devaluation of American industry.

How Ozzy and Oasis held a burial service for the analog age and why your next favorite record might have a machine heart. quintonskinner.substack.com/p/electric-fun…

I wholeheartedly recommend Eddington; its tone of horror comedy captures the 2020s in a very astute and entertaining fashion.

For the love of all that’s sacred, can each person at the table get their own drinks menu instead of having to share one? This would revolutionize everything.

I wrote a thing about Friday. tcbmag.com/platt-day-of-e…

The longest month of the year is the last week of January.