I have been a shade since I entered this world, and I don't even have the comfort of weeping for the living from Hades!

Listening to the intuitive folk of the inestimable Diane Cluck

Our enemies are all around us, and in so many futures they prevail. But I do see a way. There is a narrow way through.

Congrats Spain, and thank you

21st century internet-poisoned master Hakuin arguing that the silent illumination heretics reduce the quest for awakening to aura farming

Drinking some coffee sludge to empower my mind

Jazz? Now for real, make it jazz. Swing and improvise asif your life depends on it.

Was somewhat suspicious of Raimon Panikkar until I learned that he was personally expelled from Opus Dei by Escrivá for "disobedience"

whatever happens, an incredibly Weird (in the original sense) situation

The Odyssey was great. Fantastic anti-war movie. At moments sublime, at others a little heavy-handed, but gets my full recommendation

I love every state in this "teeming nation of nations" ...

I think Troy Jackson can pull it off

I pledge allegiance to the world

This blame and aggression around Canadian smoke is just a little glimpse of the climate conflicts to come as the earth's balance continues to shift in unpredictable ways

Decided to look through the last issue of the Theosophical Society's "Quest Magazine" and perhaps unsurprisingly it's all-in on AI psychosis, articles about using AI as daimon to access the world's wisdom and LLM generated "conversation" between "Blavatsky" and "Krishnamurti"

Listening to Trump's democracy-killing speech with Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the background

I remember when I could still at least get excited by the novelty of the polluted air

To me, the most egregious use of LLM text is when it's formatted in all lowercase and with a purportedly "casual" style. I remember that eigenrobot postrat pervert talking about doing that a couple years ago and the practice has evidently spread widely

“The United States has observed a concerning convergence between violent far-left and anarchist networks and other violent extremist actors, including violent pro-Iranian and antisemitic networks, as well as militant anti-tech and eco-terrorist movements."

I'm having a chip installed in my brain that gives me instantaneous recollection of the entire Chinese Buddhist canon

The elves are planning their revenge on humanity for what we've done. And I don't blame them

never allow yourself to hope … hope is a mistake

Darkness over the whole earth. It's up to Spain now.

ENGLAND!

Foxconn suicide nets in Texas. This century will continue to deliver to us dark and terrible wonders