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2026
“Hope is fear in disguise.” — Sam Harris
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From observing the people I work with, so many of them appear to be beset by a constant stream of excessive overreaction to the smallest...
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As is often the case whenever I try express a thought, there’s always someone who’s done it so much better… From The Shoelace by Charles...
Rewatched The Firm last night for the first time in about 30 years. The director Alan Clarke was an absolute genius. His film Elephant changed...
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RSS is my jam
As of writing I subscribe to approximately 100 or so RSS feeds, 70ish of which are personal blogs and the rest are a mix of...
“Trying to awaken is like pulling on a door that’s clearly marked push.” — Barry Magid
I find it extraordinary that the coverage of Apple’s new MacBook Neo has somehow manufactured the myth of ‘the Mac almost anyone can afford.’ Particularly...
“Plants don’t attend plant improvement seminars.” — Sam Goldfinch, Rebel Spirituality
In debating the nature of LLMs, we may be inadvertently exposing more about the fragility of our self-conception than about the limits of machine cognition.
“The meaning of being alive is just being alive.” — Alan Watts
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“If you want to find the treasure, like a pot of jewels at the end of the rainbow, look no further than your normal experience....
“I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory...
Choice and chance are the same thing.
“The only actuality is here-now, this immediacy or present-ness, this aliveness, this ever-changing present experiencing right now, this one bottomless moment. This is where the...
The Rose of Nevada
Saw Mark Jenkin’s third feature, The Rose of Nevada last night. A gritty yet dreamy vision, shot on 16mm film with an entirely overdubbed Foley...
