"Something is using us to make itself."

Remember the story where somebody opens a portal that lets in unimaginable otherworldly evil? Then you see the news. AI proving uncontrollable. Yet still they race for beyond human intelligence. Leading towards a door nobody knows what’s behind. Building city sized data center temples for it. They are summoning something. You don’t feel it?

Peony Lane at Thanksgiving #2 @Ben Justman🍷

Did not want to squat today. But I did it anyway. Alone, in the basment, in silence. For glory.

Ever wonder how many lists you're on?

Thrift has been systematically attacked in modern society to separate people from their money. Thrift does not get the publicity that wealth does, but they are opposite sides of the same coin. Thrift is power.

The more you look at freedom, the more everything starts to look like slavery.

A rat is to the scientist as the public is to the technocrat.

To those wondering why so many bitcoiners are Christians (or so many Christians are bitcoiners?): "to look into the Holy Scriptures... and what I saw there is something not disclosed to the proud or laid bare to children; one must stoop to enter, but it is lofty within, and veiled in mysteries. Such was my character at that time that I could not enter; I could not bend my neck to follow its path." - St. Augustine: Confessions The parallels are hard to ignore. I don't know what this means.

Dangerously close to convincing myself to go dumb phone + desktop only.

Is everyone creative?

It’s very disheartening when you present a problem to someone (like this week’s most egregious overstep of the surveillance state, or the brokenness of the monetary system) and they just look at you. They did not know this info before you told them, but somehow there is still no reaction. They just simply don’t care. There is no spark, no fight. The system did its job on them perfectly. This is how we lose.