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newresplendent.bsky.social
local man. into uap/parapsychology, and where the hell we’re going on this crazy train
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Back on this app after a very long holiday. Very excited for this upcoming year - hopefully starting a medical services business based on old Soviet research. Oh, and UFOs too. That should be fun!

People lament the lack of traditional culture nowadays. Media is disposable and vacuous, everything is just remixing old things, there is nothing new. And like, I get that. But I also see the modern era as the era of scrapbooking. Pulling out images, memes and archetypes and reinterpreting them.

No, it's not a "distraction". It never is, you are just uncomfortable with a topic.

Me waiting for Elder Scrolls 6

I think that the dysfunction of our current age (around social cohesion, failing bureaucracies, loss of power felt by the individual) are a kind of memetic bottleneck/great filter for us as a species right now. The implications of this century will be felt for the next few hundred imo. 🧵

Mars is haunted 🙂

Some books I’ve been reading/re-reading that have inspired my current worldview. I’m toying around an outline for a longer essay that grapples with these ideas.

Does anyone have the actual prediction made by Cliff High in 2009? I am… skeptical, to say the least, but I love a good prophecy

Fresno feels like I’m stuck in a time warp. No past, not future. It’s like the Langoliers straight to TV movie

Been spending thanksgiving at my Nigerian gf’s house. The vibe of people living in the, well, living room and kitchen with a stream of local music videos going on the TV is a lovely communal vibe. Reminds me of the balkan households I spent time in growing up.

SLC’s vista is insanely pretty.

The first wave of NSFW bot accounts has hit my follow list, regrettably