you can just live wild and free

still laughing after learning there were fitness influencers, lifestyle (look how rich and hot i am) influencers and political commentators in the Greco-Roman world. And that this gave rise to the Sophists, “how to be an influencer” influencers who would charge a fee for advising people on how to be more popular and get elected. There is no new retardation under the sun. 🌞

well... TIL, Philostratus. The social commentator who dunked on the fitness and lifestyle infloooencers of the 3rd century Greco-Roman attention economy. There is nothing new under the sun.

til, the battle of Morgarten. Where 1500 farmers lured 9000 trained, armed Knights into a narrow pass between a mountain and a lake, and pushed rockslides and rolling logs down on them destroying the entire army. Giving birth to Switzerland. 🇨🇭

@David II so did that gada turn out to be more in the well meaning but unuseful, or actually useful category?

this generation seems increasingly shallow and arrogant to me. it lacks the humility to see its own shortcomings and failures. Everyone is an expert, and knows nothing. its kinda bumming me out. gonna need to narrow inputs and change focus.

go deep enough into your rabbit holes that normies have no idea what you’re talking about

just had a weird insight rabbit holing in ancient greek writing style. The Apostle Paul's letters are an insight into what an intelectual giant he was. The letters to different places, different city states and cultural paradigms were written in those rhetoric styles, logic frameworks, and cultural paradigms. No where is this more evident than in the comparison between Romans and Ephesians. One being written in a legal structured, point by point "therefore" logic, and the other being writen in Greek Parataxis, "and, and, and, compounding greek logic style. Each letter was written in a culturally relevant way, using cultural references and thinking those cultures would understand. Which adds weight to his statement, "i have become all things to all men, that by all means, i may save some."

its kinda weird that LEDs havent had a larger impact on fashion.

the thing about AI i find most interesting is not AI. Its the human marketing trying to convince potential customers it is a superior intellect. And how many scifi bros buy it hook line and sinker.

til,

Magna Graecia - Wikipedia

wrote a little elisp function which outputs the stdout of a shell script to a dynamic block in an org mode document, then wrote little bash functions which cycle through psalms, proverbs, and John based on the day of the month, or year. the dynamic blocks update when the document is opened, and new chapters appear each day in the foldable headings. thinking of more cool things to output into a self updating daily reading document.

someone wrote a State propaganda bot for nostr, to spout mainstream media at us 😂 @npub1gy63...wygj

this is Eva Vlaardingerbroek. A few days ago, she called the prime minister of the UK bad names on twitter. Today she received a letter from the UK banning her from entering the country. Because the government of the UK are pathetic, corrupt, sissyboys who cry when pretty girls call them names. 🤓

@npub1t3gg...l5g4 is a good dude.

couldn’t get a clear shot but the sky from the horizon upward is a really cool looking gradient from cyan to magenta to yellow to silver…

if the normies knew how many times i’ve cleaned my dishes with soil and sand, theyd try to stage an intervention.