There are a few signs that my iPhone is nearing the end of its life, so I’ve been thinking about the Light Phone lately. Today I was discussing it with Rachel and she suggested turning my iPhone into something like a Light Phone to see how it goes. I took her advice. Turns out, I didn’t end up with exactly a Light Phone equivalent, but it is drastically different than it was.
My worldview is more aesthetic than rational—and I’m fine with that, since no one is looking to me for answers about anything.
Adam Kotsko: “That time I unexpectedly stopped ruining my own life” I’ve found Kotsko’s writing helpful for many years now—but I was never a fan of his relentless sarcasm. I’m glad he’s getting over that. It’s depressing how many good, intelligent folks are ruining their lives with social media.
Reading this by Alan Jacobs brought back to mind a question that occurred to me as I was reading Kingsnorth: why haven’t we seen something like the Timber Wars or Luddite machine breaking over data centers? I’m sure the answer is complicated. I wonder if leftists aren’t as worried about Big Tech?
James Bridle points out that solar panels are getting cheap enough that they’re being used as fencing in places. I still worry about Michael Moore’s argument that renewable energy is just as resource intensive as fossil fuel energy. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Universally beloved IU football coach Curt Cignetti just signed a massive new contract, one clause of which stipulates that if universally hated IU president Pamela Whitten is not in her job, Cignetti’s buyout is cut in half. Keeping her job by holding the football team hostage. Classy.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching on helping hungry ghosts is very good. Finding a way to compassion for your parents when the relationship has not always been good truly is as important as he says.
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.
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.