when what your country makes is weapons and surveillance technology, and the government consists of parties competing for who gets to loot the treasury, you live in a failed state.

til, Umberto Eco wrote several books where the first chapter was designed to chase away light readers.

the title of Umberto Eco’s lecture, “On the ashes of post modernism, a new realism” is a welcome idea for me today as i do real things.

Corbett used to do these film and literature reviews back in the day. Glad he is bringing them back.

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i realized today that zombies are real. the people that move from scandal to scandal, looking to turn legitimate expressions of anger into manic anger bandwagons for an opportunity to express their zombie madness. they’re like reevers always looking for opportunities to attack, and destroy. never fall for the lie that zombies are your friends because they temporarily seem to agree with you. they will eat your face off later. you cant be friends with zombies 🧟‍♂️

lots of smug sounding comments i could offer about personally preferring old Librebooted and air gapped thinkpads with OpenBSD and Electrum wallet. but its pointless and insensitive in light of the very real losses

if i lived somewhere with rice paddies and old farming methods, i think i might eat egg fried rice with wild herbs and fermented pepper sauce every day for the rest of my life

peoples attitude changes when they go back to posting on X

cant say i ever expected to ponder using a gravel driveway to increase surface randomness for dice 🎲

i ate 3/4 of a tub of chocolate covered raisins. and im not sorry.

i wont be joining cold card lynch mobs.

ive determined butter and hotsauce are high on my personal Mazlow’s hierarchy

A 12 book per year book club would be pretty cool on nostr. maybe stand alone npubs for different genres… has anyone successfully implemented polls on nostr?