“I saw the best minds of my generation nuked by incendiary Iran-backed propaganda on the Internet, overcome, emotionally conquered, brainwashed, scrolling through the twitter streets at all hours, looking for an angry fix.

Empty-headed ‘freedom-fighters’ burning for the dark culmination of machinations they could never hope to understand, swayed, cowed by tiktok videos, inspired and levitated by verifiably false information, their minds a borderless morass of moral inversion.”

-Allen Ginsberg 2024

BREAKING: China starts military drills around Taiwan, with planes and ships encircling the island.

Now that's smart 😁

If you think you’re the cleverest guy in the room, you may well be, but then you have to ask yourself:

What kind of intelligence and at what discipline(s)?

If you don't ask yourself those questions, then you're probably not the cleverest guy in the room.

I bet it's the Jewish son in law behind this.

Nope, no overarching pattern. I just kinda do rough groupings. That way when I get anything new I don’t have to rearrange the whole thing. But I’ve always loved that scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack’s character claims to be organizing his records “autobiographically,” so my half-joke with my wife is that someday I’m going to do that

New digs, new shelves #bookstr

This was a joy to read. BTAS was super formative for me too, and I loved Batman Beyond. I just discovered Justice League with my kids (5-10) and we were blown away by the storytelling. Can’t wait to watch Unlimited, and will appreciate it very much with this perspective.

Imagine if we’d ever actually gotten the Batman Beyond movie that was greenlit with Michael Keaton.

All hail the Timmverse!

This is kind of the dichotomy, since we are so self-aware of it now. Some people grind their whole life and on their deathbed wish they grinded less. But to reach peak impact, it takes unfathomable grinding. The best grinders are often not the best parents, friends, or lovers.

I grinded through college and then for like 15 years, always doing three things at a time. Achieved a lot of professional success, and more then I thought. Right now I’m purposely like, “I’m going to grind less for a bit, and pay attention to some of those old folks who die saying to grind less”.

Undergrads!

I think this show was too deep for me as a kid. I bounced right off it, but I ate up Batman Beyond.

Good catch :)

The real Satoshi is the sats we lost along the way.

Still blows my mind that the worst bitcoin mining FUD is from commentaries--scientific journal articles that are advocating for a certain POV--and not novel research. Mora et al., with figures removed, is probably only a page long.