Category: Blog
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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.
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Memes make War, or War makes Memes?
Did memes drive us to invade Venezuela, or did invading Venezuela drive the memes? Most likely Yes to both. But, let’s speculate for a minute. I think it might be mimetically possible that we have invaded Venezuela because “memes.” I.e., memes are funny > taking any big and serious action in present-day presents many meme-able…
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Coercion
“The screens of all laptops in Apple stores are set at an angle of exactly 76 degrees, which is just awkward enough to invite people to tilt them back a bit more, thereby taking the first step toward interacting with the product. (Business Insider)” From this list of 52 things that Kent Hendricks found interesting…
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January 2026, Ambitions
Here’s what I plan to do in January 2026. Starting tomorrow. No measurements on how much. Just do them as a matter of existing. The purpose is the live as focused as I can in contrast to the ever-losing-battle to the attention economy. As realistically hermetic as possible.
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Slop & FIWB
Is slop the word of the year? Maybe so, or maybe it was in 2024 and I’m just behind. AI slop seems to have mode us realize the other places where we’re already doing slop. Where good aesthetics are absent or have all flattened into a unified, white-fluorescent, expression. And this tweet sums up what…
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2025, Christmas Day
Ahh, Christmas. This is our first “tradition-building” Christmas and it’s been a blast. 6:55 AM, Greta wakes us up to let us know that Goldie is awake and she’d like some milk. We attempted a 15 minute snooze, but gave that up a few minutes in. It was wishful, this is Christmas. You have to…
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I’ve been chainsmoking again
This is another one in which the timeline and algorithm are uniformly serving up takes on this Trump post over and over. The result is me looking at Twitter all morning long just refreshing and seeing how it develops. It’s awful, and I know it’s awful. My refresh is some attempt to make this progress…
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Age based reading list
Super cool reading list broken up by age. Get off Twitter and could read. https://educatedandfree.substack.com/p/a-library-to-build-great-americans?r=b8lae
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How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne?
“How do you describe moonlight?How do you describe candlelight?How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne? I don’t know. I just know when I see it, it’s bloody beautiful.” – Ray Hudson, when asked to talk about how Lamine Yamal is so good You could hardly do better than using this as…
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How much should you take the other side for the sake of it?
“One of the hallmark trends of our generation is the fall of confidence in institutions. From the 1970s until now, people have lost faith in almost every major institution, from government to corporations. Post–World War II, America trusted places like General Motors or The Wall Street Journal as organizations acting in society’s interest, serving as…