Find something, anything, to be fundamentalist about, ideally something very, very old, because there will be no truth out there soon, none, just an endlessly shifting, windy phantasmagoria. So find a mast and lash yourself to it. Heck, even classical herbalism will do.

A really smart animal is very aware of what it is doing, it enjoys life 🐦‍⬛

Cormac McCarthy on God (he apparently changed his mind about the existence of God on a daily basis):

This is Tehran. Let that sink in. You are watching a revolution unfold live while the world’s media stays dead silent. Legacy media has become nothing more than a propaganda machine, because what news could possibly be bigger than this? Fox News CNN

"'AI' is not your friend. Nor is it an intelligent tutor, an empathetic ear, or a helpful assistant. It can not 'make up' facts, and it does not make 'mistakes'. It does not actually answer your questions. Such anthropomorphizing language, however, permeates the public discussion

Tough Iranian female protest Rap. It also good.

True numbers can still mislead if the framing skips base rates, denominators, sample quality, and alternative explanations. "Misinterpretation dominates lying: It’s 41 to 1. The misleading thing, the misinterpretation, is actually the bigger problem.” ~Annie Duke

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the

In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not for neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.

Why isn’t this the front page of the New York Times?

“Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back”.

— Franz Kafka, 1912

One of the best protest signs I've ever seen #FreeIran

Stephen Pleasonton--one of the coolest dudes you've never heard of

One of the strongest arguments for teaching classic literature is simply this: If students are never asked to inhabit minds from other times and cultures, they will confuse their own narrow historical moment with universal truth. The canon is an antidote to chronological

If you want to understand how far we've fallen, this was popular culture. Mainstream popular culture watched by millions.

— Homer, the lliad