Quick - name a war that the Pentagon has “won” in the last 30 years.

“sometimes magic is just being willing to invest more energy into an idea than anyone else would deem reasonable.” - Teller

Arnold Kling talking about AI reminds me of NOSTR as well- ‘When someone in 1994 commented on my first web site “Congratulations: you’ve set up your lemonade stand on the moon. Now you just have to wait for the astronauts to get there,” it was almost certain that the astronauts would get there, and at what rate they would be followed by the civilian population.’

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Get educated on how much of higher education has been captured by political grift. My latest substack.

Lower Education

Go big on making 'higher ed' much smaller.

My last substack post hit ~5k views with help from NOSTR. Many thanks. New post up today exposing the grift that higher education has become. Would love your feedback.

Lower Education

Go big on making 'higher ed' much smaller.

Broadway. SEC Tournament. Roll Tide.

Everybody worships. What do you worship?

It’s not you vs. them. It’s you vs you. “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

So on brand… “A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

ETH’s continues their up and to the right dominance.

@Bauzen - early session at the gym this morning. Couldn’t stop thinking - take your bitcoin off of exchanges.

I remember once during a bible study with my brothers at the height of covid, someone mentioned “uncertain times”. An astute brother said “times have always been uncertain”. We fooled ourselves that certainty had arrived in our little corner of the universe. I often reflect on this when facing a hard task or period of time - volatility is truly vitality. If we ever thought differently, we were lying to ourselves. Let’s get out there this week and make some order from the chaos.