“Too many of us are unwilling to risk discomfort by deeply embedding ourselves in the lives of the poor we claim to serve. The far-off poor are thus a convenient alternative to the local poor: not only can we convince ourselves that they are objectively more needy but they are also near-impossible to directly interact with. This allows us to delude ourselves that there is no need to get our hands dirty, to work, to love.” Johann Kurtz Leaving a Legacy

How do I convince all my favorite creators to leave youtube? YouTube is unusable now.

"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.