The confidence with which people tell others what to do, think, etc., just astonishes me. I had that sort of reckless confidence up until my mid-twenties. What happened (or maybe didn’t happen) to these other folks?
Webinar speaker: “All I can say is stablecoins are here to stay.” Ah, the argument from inevitability, the last refuge of all technologists. But we know that all this is the result of the choices of those with power. If they cared about something more than money, all of this could end tomorrow.
You and I are not voting on what will happen by having an opinion. The world has never worked like that, and it definitely doesn’t work like that in the Trumpocene.
Gonna give Kagi News a try for a while. I like that it’s updated only once a day, and you can choose which categories of news you get. Comes from a variety of sources. The format is also cool: you can just read the story summary, or you can read further with all of the sources and background.
One of the highlights of the late season here in the garden is the woods purple. It’s also one of the originals from when we first started in 2020. It almost glows in the sunshine.
Nietzsche argued that Christianity is a slave morality—an argument best exemplified by Chik-Fil-A. 😄
Remember the video I shared about Suzanne Lupien a few days ago? Well, there’s also one about her bread baking that is even more beautiful.
🎵 I’m proud to be an American / where I know there’ll be a fee 🎵
Acting in trust
From the latest essay by Rhyd Wildermuth: Again, worlding is what we do and is not dependent on what we believe. This make the question not “what is true?” but rather “what do we include?” We already live in a world full of gods and spirits, but for the disenchanted mind, these are so distant in the background and so excluded from our consciousness that we can say “they don’t exist” without any feeling of falsehood.
Hobbit Day thoughts
It’s Hobbit Day, as all civilized Shirelings know. Specifically, it’s Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, as well as the autumnal equinox. I recommend shepherd’s pie and persimmon pudding, which is how we celebrated yesterday. (Leftovers today!) This morning I’m listening to the Weird Studies episode about Conan the Barbarian, mostly in preparation for an upcoming post. Of all the wonderful Weird Studies episodes, by the way, that is one of my favorites, both because it was a fun topic and because it bring back memories of one of my road trips, travelling between Corydon and Leavenworth.