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Paying Attention: A Case for Contemplative Autonomy
1 Jul 2026
Ontology of Folksonomy
14 May 2026
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags - Clay Shirky
14 May 2026
Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out
11 Feb 2026
Are Antistate Libertarians Hypocrites Re: Voluntary Agreements?
26 Jan 2026
Is the current State just an enormous and (highly dysfunctional) "ancap voluntaryist enclave" already, and libertarians are actually the NAP-breaking enemies of civil agreement?
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
24 Nov 2025
Accept and manage bitcoin payments | Square Support Center
12 Nov 2025
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
6 Nov 2025
Since ChatGPT launched, job openings are down 30% while the stock market is up 70%. One economist says the true culprit isn’t AI, but monetary policy | Fortune
3 Nov 2025
Run a Nostr Relay as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD
24 Oct 2025
The money has been removed from the currency
19 Oct 2025
Government currency used to be money. The money has been siphoned out, but the currency hasn't changed.
Give me AI slop over human sludge any day
7 Oct 2025
The Revolution Was
5 Oct 2025
Interview with LNTXBot Creator Fiatjaf
2 Oct 2025
Why We’re Drowning in Conspiracy Theories
19 Sep 2025
The troubling decline in conscientiousness
9 Aug 2025
What Nicotine and Beer Stocks Say About America’s Guilty Pleasures
8 Aug 2025
Can “Bitchat” Build A Free Internet With Bitcoin?
8 Aug 2025
Paleo and Hierarchy; Optimization Target Misalignment Across Scales
3 Jul 2025
The grain-based diet emerged not because it was best for individuals, but because it was best for controlling populations
Paleo and Hierarchy; Optimization Target Misalignment Across Scales
3 Jul 2025
The grain-based diet emerged not because it was best for individuals, but because it was best for feeding and controlling populations
Another Currency Debasement Analogy - Home Square Footage
1 Jul 2025
Coming at you with an additional YASDA - Yet Another Simple Debasement Analogy. This time using physical space as a reference.
On the Theft of Human Time
26 Jun 2025
A meditation on an 1899 gold coin reveals the palpable, indisputable truth of how our time is stolen from us and what the world would be like if that were otherwise.
The CPI is a Lie: Keeping Up With Inflation Means Downgrading Your Diet
27 Feb 2025
Inflation heavily penalized the maintenance of a healthy diet. Each decade saw such a diet get relatively more expensive, especially for categories like red meat and dairy. In contrast, Americans who embraced cheaper substitutes and new, processed foods managed to keep their food spending growth below the inflation that a healthy diet would incur. This behavior-adjustment – switching from costly whole foods to economical processed and alternative foods – has been a key reason the reported CPI for food rose more slowly. But it obscures the fact that quality of life has dropped and health has declined.
Cholesterol misconceptions
21 Dec 2024
There's a good chance you don't understand how cholesterol works. (Disclaimer: I may not, either)