happy new year fam ✨
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"When modern people assume that we have made so much progress over ancient or nonindustrialized cultures, they forget this point. It is far, far better to understand a central truth with the whole of oneself than it is to know many things only with the mind.
When one knows only with the mind, and the feelings are not integrated into the knowing, then the knowledge one has becomes harmful. Technology without ethics is the result of having knowledge without developing the instrument of ethical perception, the feelings.
As it was said long ago, "The mind is for seeing what is true; the feelings are for understanding what is good."
—from 'Money and the Meaning of Life' by Jacob Needleman
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Fountain has got to get rid of this font 😅 that is not an 'R'
i love Fountain Podcasts too much to see their product tarnished with this doodly coating of illegibility
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"The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death. The Warrior knows the shortness of life and how fragile it is.
A man under the guidance of the Warrior knows how few his days are. Rather than depressing him, this awareness leads him to an outpouring of life-force and to an intense experience of his life that is unknown to others. Every act counts. Each deed is done as if it were the last.
The samurai swordsmen were taught to live their lives as if they were already dead. Castañeda's Don Juan taught that there is 'no time' for anything but meaningful acts if we live with death as 'our eternal companion.'"
—from 'King, Warrior, Magician, Lover' by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette
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the new Fountain logo/font sure is something 
i hate that it was chosen to be called bitcoin "mining"
of all the metaphors
i ran a lightning node for 1.5 years. managed channel liquidity regularly, reopened force-closed channels a couple times...
anyway, not doing that again anytime soon. will check in again in the future and reevaluate
Phoenix is a great option in the meantime. (don't keep more value on it than you'd be comfortable carrying as physical cash in your meatspace wallet) https://phoenix.acinq.co/
most resistance to the idea of homeschooling almost always comes down to socialization. "I knew a homeschooled kid once and you could tell, he was socially awkward" etc.
fact is, most of "school" when you're young is really just daycare + obedience training.
when you're learning new things about math or science or literature or geography you can't be socializing. socialization occurs outside of academic study. learning requires focus and attention and *no* socialization, even for adults.
play a sport. join a club. enter a competition. play games.
i went to school to learn subjects but it was all my time spent outside of the classroom that i learned people.
"but they have good intentions" is in the same pool of irrelevant and dangerous rationalizations as "but it tastes good"
do you know how many things taste good that are terrible for your health and wellness?
do you know how many things were done with good intentions that led to disastrous consequences?
idgaf about "intentions." nice people make terrible decisions all the time
anyone serious about bitcoin has to turn a lot of blind eyes to their iphone. the only things you're allowed to install are what the app store permits you to. apps have to be "approved" first.
i've seen a lot of apple apologists strongly defending their preference and the reason is never freedom, control, sovereignty, independence, responsibility, or values: "it's so smooth!" "it just works!" in other words, aesthetics & convenience.
when push comes to shove re: separating money from state, the choices you'll be forced to make by your government will be a lot harder than leaving behind some aesthetics & convenience. maybe start practicing now.
Michael Crichton’s 1983 book ‘Electronic Life: How To Think About Computers’ has moments of defiance that feel at home in a cypherpunk screed 🤘 (he also included code he wrote in the appendix)
“Do it your way, and have all the fun you can.”
if you think you're saving the planet by driving a battery-powered car, you are not
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neil-ainslie-a701554a_this-is-a-tesla-model-y-battery-it-takes-activity-7137416037318189056-luTf/
Nearly all men are slaves, for the reason that the Spartans gave for the servitude of the Persians: because they didn't know how to pronounce the syllable no.
—Chamfort
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anyone see the new godzilla movie?
i just heard it's pretty epic (which was shortly after hearing that it existed at all lol)
dentists are always on your case about flossing but they never send you home with floss do they. just a shitty toothbrush and a tiny Crest.
Neil Postman published Technopoly in 1992 and it's still one of the most prescient books i've read
right up there with The Sovereign Individual (1997)
cybertruck is marketed as some sort of apocalypse disaster vehicle but relies on a reliable electrical grid and charging infrastructure to function
k
resist the tiny tyrannies. the small overreach, the little regulation, the innocent tracker
a permissioned surveillance state is normalized gradually. oppression doesn't happen all at once in one totalitarian go.
it's the accumulation of all the microtyrannies you allow that eventually ensnare you in the end