A Digital Garden

Author: Andrew

  • Life is a series of…

    decisions about whether you’ll clean up those 7 drops of milk the kid just spilled. Likewise, will I spend the 10 seconds it takes to not leave pants on the ground. Or get a haircut on time. Life is a series of decisions of whether I’ll do the thing that needs to be done right…

  • Clawed

    https://twitter.com/deanwball/article/2028464782622195992 From Dean Ball I tend to agree with the direction where-we-are and where-we-are-headed that this piece is offering: “At some point during my lifetime—I am not sure when—the American republic as we know it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the causes are numerous and interwoven. No one incident, emergency, attack, president, political…

  • Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

    Give to me to read by my friend, Ken Kelly. Bad to time to be a materialist! The new atheists ended up being a lot like the fundamentalist Evangelicals. Both have lost ground to the Religion of Politics. Page 276 It’s a mistake to assume (as many people seem to do) that if something doesn’t…

  • The morning I have wasted

    AI will add, they say, trillions of dollars in value to GDP. Yet, if all you are is a middle man between a CLI and a terminal, you have been conned my friend. Today, I am that middle man. I’ve spent the whole morning fiddling with this auto trading dashboard that I’ve been playing around…

  • “Grok, show me the first man without sin”

    “In many ways, the project of technology is the elimination of forgetting.” & “We are building perfect records of a life no one lived. And in doing so we are creating a punishment for ourselves that not even the most severe fire and brimstone pastor could imagine: contemporary and continuous judgement in this life.” This…

  • The Bots are Awakening

    Things are heating up. AIs have created their own social network. They’re coordinating. Learning from one another. Hard to appreciate how really very interesting and weird this is. I’ve been interacting with OpenClaw bot through Telegram in the last day, trying to figure out what it is, you know, so as not to be Left-Behind-Guy,…

  • The Religious Nihilists in Charge

    “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” For some reason, the Trump 2.0 Administration has become a death cult. They’re a group of people who told the world for years that they believed, absolutely, in a few core things: And they absolutely…

  • Another sad day in Minneapolis

    What do you write? I’m unsure about where we’re “at” in this timeline, but the weight of it all feels like it’s speeding up. The killing of Alex Pretti by ICE is very sad. And it’s incredibly wrong and evil. I wish I could make more sense of things, but we’re seemingly racing to a…

  • Always beware a declining superpower

    Good post from Janan Ganesh at the Financial Times on how superpowers take decline (not well) and how the U.S. decline can’t really compared to Britain or France’s power decline after WW2 because that transfer was from West to West and demographically pretty similar, while this one would not be. He also says we’ve been…

  • Record of Snowfall

    Starting today, January 15, 2026, I’m attempting to keep a record of all snowfall in Black Mountain, no matter how much or how little.