squishing chaos

We are the product, caught in a mosh with the algorithm. The technology is getting better every day because it’s in a near continuous upgrade cycle. Our upgrade cycle, however, takes millennia. We are a mechanism evolved to operate in the Stone Age and we’re still waiting on our first major upgrade. Until then, what…

What a mess we’re in. Federal agents are killing Americans and the political desks at the major newsrooms are glossing it over. Sometimes they’re even trying to blame the victims to keep the narrative going the way they like. These treason weasels and their sycophants are going to extraordinary lengths to keep us under control…

“I don’t vote. They’re all the same anyway.” Bullshit! Democrats and Republicans operate from completely different mindsets. One side believes government should help people who need it. The other side exists to protect wealth and extract everything they can from everyone else. Democrats feed people, provide healthcare and other benefits; they want to educate people.…

“Have a blessed day!” If I said that you were smarmy, what would you think? That’s what I thought. Piety seems to be everywhere lately. At the grocery store checkout, on bumper stickers, in casual conversation…But what is it really? It actually means respect or regard for God (or parents), and it’s how people are…

So I was looking at my notes with a bunch of quotes and statements and I ran across one about a commonplace book. This was after I started reading Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. He traces these books back to 14th-Century Florence merchants who were using small ledgers to record…

Amazon doesn’t care if you know they’re screwing people over. They’ve made it too hard to shop anywhere else. They have triple the injury rate of Walmart, a quarter of their workers are on food stamps, and there’s forced labor in their supply chain. None of this is secret. We all know it. But we…

Ross the cat in Max and the Banjo Ferret spells it out: “Be a house cat. Break stuff, puke everywhere, howl in the middle of the night like a batshit banshee, and still get fed. It’s like a free pass for outright douchery.” This is the life of a domestic cat: radical autonomy with no…

For hundreds of years, churches were places where people learned. Priests were the scientists, scholars, and thinkers of their time. They saved knowledge, helped us understand more, and saw no problem between faith and asking questions. The same people who ran the churches were also mapping the stars and studying medicine. But something changed when…