If people do not challeng you anymore, you are fucked. “none of that stopped him from making one of the dumbest decisions any leader has ever made, because he was arrogant, because he’d gotten away with so much for so… Read More »Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
“Denník N Mon, Apr 13, 2026 Slováci sú takí spokojní, pritakávajú aj ďalší. Prídavné meno „spokojní“znamená v ukrajinčine aj poľštine „pokojní“– a keďže ide o podobné slová, Ukrajinci žijúci na Slovensku ho používajú v tomto význame. „Slováci nie sú takí… Read More »Ako nás vnímajú ľudia z Ukrajiny
Reading literally changes how we see the world. “Eventually, after repeated prodding, he said that while he’d never personally been to Siberia, ‘Tadzhibai-aka who died last year was there. He said that there were bears there, but he didn’t say… Read More »Reading is magic
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
And leads to strange results.
“The most interesting thing about the Moon is us.”
Usually we deceive ourselves. “We are systematically deceived — not primarily by external temptation but by our own affections, which dress themselves as reasons.” https://tantaman.com/2026-04-06-jesuit-formation.html
I am always surprised how many people do not understand this. “Models do not (broadly speaking) learn over time. They can be tuned by their operators, or periodically rebuilt with new inputs or feedback from users and experts. Models also… Read More »The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
This is why virtue signaling is dumb. “virtus, channeled by the other virtues, leads to admirable deeds” https://acoup.blog/2024/03/29/fireside-friday-march-29-2024-on-roman-values/
More of this. “Christina Koch became the first woman to travel to the vicinity of the moon. The last time humans went to the moon, women could not have their own credit card” https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and