Maple Tree, by Sakai Hōitsu, 1809-1828

The world is stranger and more mysterious, magical, complex, and terrible than is taught in school and college and portrayed by mainstream media.

antitrust enforcement is goated when oligopoly in the food supply chain is no longer the vibe

an evil person likes something, a good person does not. sometimes the opposite. herein lies the nature of conflict

my life is changing. trying to document what i love as if i'm seeing it for the first time, or the last. grandma peeling garlic, frying fish

I got stitches the other day and after my old Austrian doctor sewed me up like a ragdoll he made me promise I wouldn’t pop them, lest I “open pandoras box”, and each time I’m about to do something haphazard I remember his command and do not

most attractive male hobbies: - something you enjoy

industry messaging increasingly frames AI development as an existential global power struggle. advocates of this view must acknowledge that if China sees Western AI dominance as a serious threat, it could preemptively seize Taiwan I wrote about it here

discovered yellow

on honking. the honker should be subject to the same noise in his car that he asks everyone outside of it to endure

begrudgingly highlighting what 126 other kindle readers already have

getting a bit of a protect and prohibit vibe from this agenda

breaking: service created to disrupt industry realizes why industry works the way it does

Navajo weaving of an Intel Pentium, 1994

catholic guilt is congenital and no one in the generational trauma camp is honest enough to say it