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  • Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

    “We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

    The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

    Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

    Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

    At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.


  • It’s as if these people don’t understand that, yes, I actually want to help create a better place by being a good person.

    My first impulse towards someone isn’t a cold calculus of thought about use and transaction.

    It’s insane how the current mythos inculcates that selfishness into people so much, you will see everyone walking around claiming selfishness as the foundational core trait of humanity… Completely ignoring that it’s our bonds of community that are our real strength in nature.

    The dying older generation has a point, though they attribute it to the wrong thing. They point to the downfall of the church in society as what made things go worse…

    It wasn’t the religion directly. It was the community that was, in some ways, making things better.

    I just want to live in a world where people are taught these things: critical thinking, creativity, compassion and community. If you want a 5th “c” for physical activity like we probably should, “calisthenics” could be the last.










  • The original 6

    The House trilogy

    The Butlerian Jihad

    Hunters of Dune

    Sandworms of Dune

    After a first read through, I started just reading them chronologically.

    I know there’s at least one more trilogy that you can throw after The Butlerian Jihad. I found it more forgettable than the rest of these.