I come from a line of alcoholics. Alcoholism is the white man's disease and an affliction known to the poor and the rich, the intelligent and the criminally stupid. It seems especially pronounced in northwestern Europe, and people with ancestral roots in this region have spread the love
This week, I've applied my energy to observing states, mental and physical. Video and audio were canceled on my devices, so there was just Noble Silence. Time for practice, reading, and doing chores. I was feeling under the weather and ended up taking a half day from work.
Charles Upton, The System of the Anti-Christ I've been reading Charles Upton's book, The System of Anti-Christ, since we here at the Tangle are all about the arrival of the Man of Perdition. I have an interest in the Anti-Christ because, while I
Dreaming is the product of the monkey mind, the rattling and noise of a frenetic animal's inner world even during deepest sleep. Give its products no thought, for if you are deluded in waking time, imagine how much worse it is in sleep, when mindfulness, awareness, and perception
I have been engrossed in alternative media coverage of the first dump of Epstein documents. The more scintillating bits involve the very wealthy fussing over grape soda, pizza, and beef jerky. At this point, we know from the context of exchanges that these are code words for other things. As
One of the pressures on us cattle is security. Particularly, computer security. We need to be secure. Knowledge is everything, and we can't leave all our secrets exposed. In the last couple of years, companies have ramped up investment in securing their cloud infrastructure, on-premises environments, and
In a recent blog post on AI, I mentioned that humans would never be allowed to go free-range. I also mentioned the tax harvesting the state requires to function, and the problems of people abandoning downtowns and local businesses to stay home and work. One of the fringe benefits
I met the announcement of ChatGPT around 2022 with fear and dread. At last, we would have a tool to replace the white-collar class. In fact, whatever was left of the middle class. I didn't use it at first, nauseous at the thought of being out of
Buddhism is the way of negation. This I am not, this is not me, this is not mine. A millennium or more before the rise of via negativa theology in the Christian Church, Shakyamuni set out a path for the complete cessation of suffering that was subtle, hard to comprehend,
The black pill can be the white pill. In theism, god is said to turn evil into good. In non-theistic traditions, the truth is similar, but you have to do the work. There is not a god, hidden or otherwise, to lead you from the bramble-choked path to
I've been a remote worker for over a decade. I have been blessed to work for companies where remote first was the regnant philosophy for hiring and promotion, long before Covid. Software companies and consultancies had an advantage because they could embrace non-traditional work arrangements for several
I've been editing my December 2024 post on anti-Christ. I discuss the place of Bitcoin (BTC) in society at some length. Fixing grammar, typos, whatnot got me thinking about an update. The Beast never sleeps. Sometimes I don't either. It's closing in on