Jung’s great crime was not that he was wrong. His crime was that he was right in ways that couldn’t quite be contained within the confines of contemporary methodology. He dared to suggest that perhaps the human psyche was more akin to Dante’s Divine Comedy than to a mechanistic flowchart. One can hardly imagine a more grievous offense against our current intellectual orthodoxy.

So this is where I’ve landed: I’m using generative AI, probably just “dipping my toes in” compared to what maximalists like Steve Yegge promote, but even that little bit has made me feel less excited than defeated. I am defeated in the sense that I can’t argue strongly against using these tools

Mali's macros and scripts for Sugarcube 2.36.1

The concept of crafting a digital personality came with the internet but it mattered way less in our totally separate real lives then. Today these two worlds are deeply entwined

A decision, once acted upon, always changes your trajectory. And for fighter pilots, decisions come at Mach speed. To make quicker ones, pilots train like professional athletes, doing rep after rep until important decisions are intuitive and instantaneous.

In 2017, as Bitcoin approached its first $20,000 peak and Ethereum enabled a new wave of tokenization experiments, Mat Dryhurst published an essay that captured the revolutionary potential many saw in blockchain technology.

Best press for linocuts and woodblocks

Self-inquiry begins when we “turns away” from objects and turns back toward the source. One “turns back around” and “introverts.”

Early mental signs of the semantic apocalypse. Which, I believe, follow neuroscientifically the same steps as semantic satiation. A well-known psychological phenomenon, semantic satiation can be triggered by repeating a word over and over until it loses its meaning.

I feel sad for Miyazaki. (Isn’t the whole point of Ghibli style’s appeal that it’s carefully and painstakingly created by human artists?). Jay – No

If you visit a Bengali household during the festive season, or any special occasion for that matter, chances are you will be treated to a platterful of traditional Bengali sandesh in many intricate designs like fish with individual crescent-shaped scales, ribbed, fan-shaped scallops, mango, and lotus flowers.

the main headline here for me is that only 0.14% of total on-chain transactions are designated to be illicit or criminal. Sure, of course, it may be billions of dollars but, when you consider the total cryptocurrency values today is around $3 trillion, it’s small beans. Sure, it’s $40 billion, but that’s just 0.14%**.

Jubensha is about distributed cognition and group sensemaking – acquiring information, discussing it to develop intelligence, and making decisions. Sensemaking is a part of many forms of gameplay, but in Jubensha, it is gameplay.

By mid-1995, the internet was impacting mainstream culture — which tech magazines and academics had begun calling cyberculture.

I've been thinking a lot about this: why does every app, tool, and platform seem to be adding a chat interface?

The transformer is rarely considered as a linchpin of today’s technologically interdependent world, let alone as a key to the even more electrified future. But it’s a device that’s essential to powering almost everything, and these days it’s not that easy to obtain. Replacing Heathrow’s charred transformer — or the countless others destroyed in storms, fire and floods on an increasingly volatile planet — will not see a quick fix.

I've added a new content type to my blog: notes. These join my existing types: entries, bookmarks and quotations. A note is a little bit like a bookmark without a link. They're for short form writing – thoughts or images that don't warrant a full entry with a title. The kind of things I used to post to Twitter, but that don't feel right to cross-post to multiple social networks (Mastodon and Bluesky, for example.) I was partly inspired by Molly White's short thoughts, notes, links, and musings.

The truth is that like all artists, Leonora Carrington never ceased to make art until the end and inadequate curatorial research and lack of dedicated literature has contributed to the delay of acknowledgment of her long and varied career.

The U.S. Air Force announced on Monday that it intends to build two landing pads on a remote island in the Pacific. It wants to land rockets there as part of a test of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard program, which involves shooting rockets into space loaded down with supplies to ship stuff around the planet faster.

These shorts are a great catch thanks to built-in UPF 50 that protects your skin from the sun and a pocket perfect for your phone or favorite beverage.