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"To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value, and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?"

Simone Weil

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"There are all these stories from the '90s, when this is first starting to come out, where it's: maybe it's a bad thing that we all know when everyone else is online and we can all chat to each other in real time and we're developing expectations that the other person will get back to me just as fast. And this is stuff we're reckoning with now."

"So are you telling me that because of AIM I now have Slack? ...goddamnit."

youtu.be/dQEmD0i8Gn0?t=1501

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"An encouraging scene reportedly unfolded at a local Kroger supermarket Monday morning when a local woman’s existential horror at the wealthy elite selling off humanity’s future was successfully sublimated into yelling at a cashier."

theonion.com/existential-horror-at-wealthy-elite-selling-off-humanit-1849716566/

Existential Horror At Wealthy Elite Selling Off Humanity’s Future Successfully Sublimated Into Yelling At Cashier
The Onion

Existential Horror At Wealthy Elite Selling Off Humanity’s Future Successfully Sublimated Into Yelling At Cashier

FISHERS, IN—An encouraging scene reportedly unfolded at a local Kroger supermarket Monday morning when a local woman’s existential horror at the wealthy elite selling off humanity’s future was successfully sublimated into yelling at a cashier. Sources confirmed that Teresa Baker showed an astounding capacity for diverting the mounting psychological torment of her inability to realistically better her life in any material way due to forces well beyond her control into a six-minute tirade at a young cashier for the store being out of the kind of milk she wanted for the second consecutive week. While the mother of two was reportedly aware on some level that she was taking out her frustrations with an increasingly opaque and authoritarian system on a person who had absolutely no power to change it, she was able to triumph over these pangs of conscience by gathering her subconscious anger at the dissolution of social institutions by venal financial elites and displacing it onto a person she could actually confront without fear of retribution. Similarly successful were several bystanders in the checkout line, who sources confirmed were able to channel their own existential dread at the prospect of doing anything that might put at risk their ever-more precarious hold on what few creature comforts they did possess into making no effort to intervene. At press time, the deep-seated angst over living under a system that wants to make all human relationships transactional was successfully sublimated into apologizing to the screaming customer for the milk.

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Vote for Walter aka Asshole aka Trickster Pigeon

moderncat.com/entry/walter-49892/

Walter - Contest Entry #49892 - Modern Cat
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Walter - Contest Entry #49892 - Modern Cat

Walter is chaos. Has broken the most things ever. Wakes us up at 5:00 AM by knocking photos off the wall or running his paw on the air intake vent like a wall harp. Definitely vote for him. He owes us at least this award. Also, I love him. Walter was found as a 4-month-old kitten in an empty home after his previous family moved and left him behind.

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"Faster runners won’t guarantee a faster team.

"And faster coders won’t guarantee a faster company.

"Like a relay race, it might be worth giving some thought to the relationships and interfaces between people."

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/collective-speed-isnt-the-sum-of-individual-speed/

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Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed

I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we…

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"Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience:

"An opinion dismantled by reality.
"An artifact torn apart by the real world.
"An idea destroyed by its own shortsightedness.

"Wise people I’ve met seem unhurried. I don’t think it’s because they’re slow thinkers or actors. I think it’s because they’ve learned that important things take the time they take, no amount of urgency changes that."

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/speed-not-conducive-to-wisdom/

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom

Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence)…