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I recently had my world turned upside-down—or perhaps right-side up—from contemplating a work I had never read carefully: St.

The internet has gone from annoying to unusable.

Mainstream science is overrated.

The Blindspot The standard modern scientific worldview cannot admit miracles and cannot admit the paranormal.

Below I am here giving voice to a conversation in articles on the subject of consciousness originally published by the New York Review of Books and in John Searle’s book The Mystery of Consciousness.

Hume’s Parallel David Hume has often been quoted for his “Is” vs.

I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.

There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz (here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

I am a well known Docker-non-respecter.

I’ve been meaning to write about Paganism recently.

The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”

Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all…

It should actually be a point of optimism that centralized technology tends to destruction while decentralized tech can survive pressure… Some highly attentive people might have noticed that LandChad.net lost one of its articles: that on how to set up a w…

How to shamelessly win arguments.

Nietzsche, in I forget which book (probably Genealogy of Morals), noted that moral philosophy is kind of the opposite of other sciences.

Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech.

The title explains it all, you don't even have to read.

What are XMPP and Matrix and what makes them special?

What does freedom mean?

How to do magic tricks...

As I said in other writings and videos, no serious cryptocurrency can function in real life which is not also a truly private cryptocurrency.

The Biggest Problem with Cryptocurrency Most normal people hear the word "cryptocurrency" and assume that means that they are "cryptic" or "private," but that's actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequen…

Artistotle, a medieval depiction.

Table of Contents What is LaTeX?

People have quoted me as saying that.

To put it in other words...

Every piece of software I write I license under the GNU Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) unless I have forked it from something else.

A parable on the Logical Positivist “interpretation” of scientific models.

Physics has a reputation of being a uniquely "scientific" field.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with science, reason, knowledge etc.

Firstly, once you reach basic competency in Linux, different distributions don't matter.

The ideal ThiccPad If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.

I get asked a lot about learning languages, so I have a few comments about it here.

I've said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas's audiotapes.

Latin was the first language I learned and has probably been the most useful.

Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.

I've made a couple very useful command-line accessible Bibles for a quick and scriptable lookup of Bible verses and passages.

This page is just for minor pointers on lesser studied languages that I don't have enough to have on their own pages.

It's not a huge secret that I'm somewhere in the high echelons of the red-pill, however you define it.

Now onto the second point I didn't get to in my post yesterday: politics only matters so much when you're a slave.

If you keep up with my random asides in videos and elsewhere, you might know that I'm extremely disappointed with the current state of institutionalized science.

Recovered from my old web files.

I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia.

This is an article recovered from my old site.

This is a blog post which I wrote years ago, far before I had a well-known internet presence.

This is a restored old article from my site years ago.