Real-talk for just a minute here, friends: I know not of a single "sovereign" individual in this universe. Not one has existed free from the constraints of some governing power. There's no such thing, and any notion otherwise is self-delusion. You are subject to a governing hierarchy, both on earth and in Heaven. Not even the King of the British Empire is sovereign. Never was.

Big, awful, oversized frames for glasses are back from the 1980's, and I just want to say: no, kids. No.

One of the better criticisms of the state of modern AI I've seen in a while.

32 years ago on this date. I was 13, about to turn 14.

I just updated Brave and I'm stunned. All windows returned to their proper desktop positions in MacOS. This one small thing is the best development I've experienced technologically speaking in years.

Nostr will never be awash in normies. There's simply too much coin talk here, and BTC is normie repellent. Any kind of crypto talk works better than bear mace. You don't have to like it, but that's reality. If we're talking marketing, we have to keep hammering away at the free and open nature of this network. Some people still care about that, and we need them. That's the sell, along with your own normie content. Nostr's best bet, since the bear mace ain't going away any time soon.

Really, AI is just like Web3, except with a lot more VC behind it. And like Web3, there will come a moment where we step back and say, "So this is it, huh? This... this kinda sucks."

We laugh and joke, but... yes. It's real-life content, eh. That's what brings 'em in. Bloviation about Bitcoin ain't exactly going to do it. View quoted note →

As I watch political conversations from the sidelines, it amuses me that we're back into the Neocon grindset: if it betters America, violent intervention in foreign affairs is actually good. Amusing that MAGA's non-interventionism is now in tatters, and we're essentially standing in Dick Cheney country again.

There’s no such thing as a morning person. There are simply those without the fortitude to stay up late.

Ss. Pius and Athanasius in one week. I am still amazed that anyone says yes to being a bishop after reading about those guys. I reckon they say, “How bad could it be?” before it gets awful. Happy weekend all!

GM. Around these parts on Friday, that entails office work leading in to visits to the homebound. Have a blessed one out there good people, and slide on in to that weekend.

A cleaned up version of "How to Make an Awesome Confession."

How to Make an Awesome Confession — Addendum

Just learned of David Allen Coe’s passing. He wasn’t a perfect guy, but none of us are. An outlaw who did the genre proud.