Is there a name for that style of male singing that’s kind of over the top, baritoney grunge? Eddie Vedder is definitely an early example (see “Yellow Ledbetter”) but the style was brought to perfection and therefore killed by Scott Stapp, the singer for Creed. Today I was listening to Amoreena, the Elton John song, and Elton’s got a bit of that heya yeaheeyeah too. I wonder how far back that goes

This here is a belated GM because it’s Sunday and you gotta take it shlo

GM Watching dogs wrestle is just as fundamental to human civilization as staring into a campfire.

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Salman Rushdie did in fact get married again. Fiat lies everywhere on this page 😆 View quoted note →

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Mayonnaise with pickles is where it really is, dog. If the pickles are spicy, you get salt, fat, acid and heat in two ingredients. Put it on meatloaf and you’re done son.

Dig what @ODELL said about fractal “gradually, then suddenly” moments nested within each cycle.

25 years ago today, right at midnight, my uncle cut the power to the cabin my whole extended family was staying at for the Y2K new year’s. My grandma went nuts. She had stocked up a bunch of non perishable food and supplies and was a Y2K true believer. All of us kids were completely flabbergasted for a few minutes. My uncle seized a once in a millennium opportunity for a practical joke and got us all. Absolutely legendary.

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Going Nostr only for 2025. I think it’ll help mitigate the noise of a bull market, for one thing. But outside Bitcoin land, in the context of the general news, I’m fully expecting it to provide me with that feeling you get when someone you live with is watching a show that you’re not watching and you look over their shoulder every once in awhile and wonder what the hell is going on. “Wait, so who is that guy again? And why does he matter to the story?” Pretty pumped up to just live my life, read books, write more and play guitar.

But what does it mean to buckle swash

If societies always develop oligarchs, this is the most transparent bunch the US has ever had.

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It’s hard to do consistently, but I try to think about major media outlets as the dial on a gas stove. If they turn the knobs on a story, the flame gets bigger, even to the point of being too volatile and out of control. Russiagate is a good example of this. If the outlets turn the gas down though, the flame can barely survive or even die for a given story. Examples here abound, even in the last couple years alone: Hunter Biden’s laptop, the Butler, PA Trump assassin, etc. All I know about the Luigi Mangione and NJ drone stories are that the gas is being left on for both stories.

Before listening to Jeff Booth: “I’m gonna sell 10% of my stack at X price, buy myself something nice.” After: “Every red cent I pull out of the current inflationary system and put into Bitcoin is a donation to the front lines of the Denominator Wars and a gift of my time-energy to humanity in its entirety that also purifies me.”

I think sometimes about how virtual reality, if or when it arrives, won’t be something we log into or turn off and on. It’ll be more like the a blended version of the Matrix, wherein a factual thing actually happens but then almost immediately narrativizes so that our experiences of it are mediated, shaped, guided, prescribed. Narrative planes taking off from the airstrip of reality, we’re all 10,000 feet up without really thinking about it

Wait so Satoshi came back, but he 3D printed 21 gajillion ounces of gold in El Salvador instead