shouting into the void (8 years experience)

using my newfound time wealth to speedrun a bunch of reading, either to revisit or for the first time cracked Leah 2026

played with this old school phone tree / CYOA from Phone Losers of America and had to share with you all

may i be all of which i am capable ❤️‍🔥

spent the evening reading ‘Humanity’s Last Exam,’ a compilation of 2500 questions across dozens of subjects (mathematics, humanities, natural sciences) the goal is to create a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge and to serve as a final closed-ended academic benchmark for AI

it is 2000. i got the new issue of 2600. i was up all night on the computer. it is 2026. i got the new issue of 2600. i was up all night on the computer.

Boards of Canada fans are randomly receiving cryptic VHS tapes first album in 13 years? here’s one of the tapes, provided by a fan online:

stop asking "how do I make more money" and start asking "how do I behave like a vessel that an ancient trickster god would enjoy watching reality through?" Claymore

spent this afternoon in conversation with Dr. Shira Chess about the occult, psychedelic, and counterculture origins of the internet. we chatted far-and-wide: cyberdecks, terrance mckenna, zines, the invisibles, and more def check out her new book, the unseen internet - you vagrants will LOVE it

Sam should do an interview with Isaac Chotiner to clear this all up

i’ve led growth / GTM at AI-first startups and mid-stage firms since 2018 if you want to talk shop (free!) about bringing an App or tool to market, marketing science/measurement, growth/expansion, etc, 🚨let’s setup a call!🚨 DM me and I’ll shoot over my Calendly

pretty sure I scooped the last one on the eastern seaboard

the pleasure of the intellectual artifact - books as materia first: loving to read and loving books two separate but related phenomena (this took me a shockingly long time to truly grasp)

a suggestion: find brilliant, thoughtful people get them together to discuss brilliant, thoughtful works - literature, poetry, art, comics, opera, the pāļi canon together, explore the brilliant, thoughtful beauty in the world this is what we’re meant to do want to join?

‪cognitive security is the name of the game, from now until eternity ‬

made a considerable investment in my future today (bought two computers)

online store selling cormac mccarthy AI slop streetwear gott im himmel, why must i suffer so

wearing my favorite bone-plated warrior goddess wolf hoodie today and feeling very brave 😌

It’s cool and good to say “i don’t know enough to have an opinion.” partly because it’s true, partly because it keeps you from looking like an asshole, and partly because it’s permission to others who badly need this behavior modeled before issuing a very stupid declaration and doubling down on it

The Invisibles is an alchemical vessel: its not a comic about magic, it IS magic - an intentional working crafted and put into the world by Grant Morrison. reading the series is an initiatory experience

sorry cormac

magic is a “way of looking” that develops and masters the skill (and it is a skill!) of identifying these levers. all things (businesses, relationships, etc) are systems, and all system have levers that can be manipulated to optimize towards particular outcomes

Sie müssen schlafen aber Ich muss scrollen

our lady of the mushroom cloud, we pray for your intercession

this has piqued my interest www.atomikafest.com

my favorite mudra? karmamudra infinite bliss for the benefit of all beings 🪷

i run the best reading groups you’ve never heard of

mercury cazimi sigil signet, a perfect gift to celebrate and close our first sabbath together thank you all of you for everything ❤️‍🔥

this evening, i cross the threshold into the inaugural sabbath of my practice communion abundance pleasure gratitude joy will and - love let me be all of which i am capable

delighted and excited to wear this gift from my honey ❤️‍🔥

forever upsetting my haters by wanting nothing to do with them

they’re dating 😌

jerkcity is still as funny as it was in 2001. somehow. in 2026. unbelievable.

developing a kind of weird crush on my Ghost in the Shell personae; this is like some PKD-tier myth of narcissus

how i feel now that my (ancient) laptop is reformatted, my keyboard setup, and claude code is installed 👾 time 2 build

pleased to report jerk city has still got it

we’re gyremaxxing and the falcon is mogging the falconer!

don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t go to for advice

made ramen so spicy i made little noises while eating it 🥵

stuntin on these hoes w blank key caps and bronze switches just like a real hacker

just another day farming loosh at the loosh farming factory

adventure without risk is disneyland

may need to learn leather working so i can outfit myself with all the little harnesses and accessories i want

It does not matter whether you (or I) believe in […] magic. The occult is baked into the power structures of many digital practices such that it underlies the functions and utility of the internet in invisible ways S Chess, The Unseen Internet

we’ll be in nyc and boston frequently but irregularly over the coming year, and want to meet up! who wants to go for a walk? get coffee? go to a museum / psychedelic sangha / dinner, drinks or lunch? up to chat magic, AI, sabbaticals, startups, literature, UFOs, art, 90s hacker culture, whatever~

know yourself. self-interrogate. survey the depths of your inner landscape think about things. don’t do anything else - just think. imagine. make your imagination rich and unfettered you cannot perform alchemy if you don’t know the elements you’re working with

The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does. Terrence McKenna

simple, powerful guidance on a good life from @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social 1. get away from cruel people 2. greet trash with silence 3. do not humiliate people

delighted to enter this new phase of life from now on, thursday sunset through friday sunset is designated sabbath - no compensated labor; no screens instead: embodied practice rest sex ritual art all glory to the gods who walk beside me let them receive my works as devotion

wear the perfume - one for morning, one for evening; one for nighttime, in bed. hang art on your walls, embed it in your body. wear the boots. the leather perfecto. the wallet on the chain. get the occult tattoo. cut bangs. new glasses. lip color. put the patch on the bomber jacket.