Going to leave you with this tonight:
The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cates, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
I cannot stress enough what you're signing onto by staying on this site after tomorrow. This is just one piece of the new Terms of Service. You've agreed to let Musk SUE YOU FOR MONEY for violating the terms of service no one reads.
I think what makes Bluesky attractive right now is that people just wanna fire off thoughts in chrono order without ads and weird people in the replies.
Very kind of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to become government officials while remaining in their executive roles at companies that either do business with or have regulatory conflicts with the government.
From the incredible blog Chinese DoomScroll:
If you ever see a disaster in China where exactly 35 people die, it's because 36+ means the mayor gets fired. It's fascinating in a horrifying way how authoritarian systems always develop their own unique post-truth quirks.
He challenged Jim Crow in court and won—only to disappear 3 months later, never to be found. This is the world my parents and grandparents had to survive. It’s heartbreaking that mainstream American Christianity (evangelical & mainline) turned a blind eye/supported Jim Crow.