Fungi: Web of Life, narrated by Björk, is coming to non-IMAX cinemas across the UK via the Demand platform. These scheduling screenings will only go ahead if a minimum number of tickets are sold. Please book & share if you are keen! uk.demand.film/fungi-web-life/

“War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms…

'War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.'

--Paul Valery

Why did a highly successful and respected psychologist abandon his prestigious practice to become a student of a mysterious, unpredictable guru? And what does the dream diary he kept tell us about this? Find out this summer. simonandschuster.com/books/Maurice-…

“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”

—Charles Baudelaire

I've come to recognise that moment of twilight where even Hooklanders who claim not to be superstitious say: 'I must hurry home.' The tipping point when the failing light seems to wake things you know you'd never meet in daylight. A moment of teeth and shadows. – #MattAdams , 1982

Chögyam Trungpa on thoughts during meditation: “ You might have a thought of assassinating your father, or you might want to make lemonade and eat cookies. Please don’t be shocked by your thoughts. “

Wicked sense of humor that guy.

Jean-Paul Sartre once remarked that he would rather read detective stories than Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein would have agreed: his favorite reading was Detective Story Magazine.

But for me, the big moment came when Khan described tech monopolists as 'too big to care.'

What a phrase!

Since the subprime crisis, we're all familiar with businesses being 'too big to fail' and 'too big to jail.' But 'too big to CARE?' Oof, got me *right in the feels*.

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Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are *a feature*, not a bug. Google *prefers* those results to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product:

theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117…

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I tried it. It was *magic*.

No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated *pages* of spam in Google results? Fucking *pristine* on Kagi - the right answers, over and over again.

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'You haven’t always been the mug you are today, bogged down by circumstances, work, and thirst, the most disastrous of servitudes … Do you think that, just for a moment, you can revive the poetry in you?

--Louis-Ferdinand Céline

It’s an auspicious day when you walk into Trader Joe’s and they’re playing King Kong! Followed by Love is the Drug!

The Kinks - King Kong (HQ) youtu.be/PY7meKW8UZI?si… via YouTube

He’s still alive.

Final Words ✨

“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for…

I’m asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.

We look at the world once,
in childhood. The rest
is memory.

—Louise Gluck

People who take aspirin, drink coffee, and use tobacco, have a much lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease than people who don’t use those things.

— Ray Peat

The American people do not want to see hundreds of thousands of people starve.

The American people do not want to see small children bombed to death while they sleep.

The American people do not want to continue funding Netanyahu’s cruel war.