Did you know that philanthropy actually sucks? And that relying on money from billionaires to fund science just keeps us locked in the systems that make things so bad?

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Like, there’s definitely a disapproving tone in some parts of this article, but I can’t help but nod and agree.

This analysis applies neatly to the daily lives of secular monks. A feeling of “mundanity” and “diurnality” pervades their existence: The practical conduct of everyday life defines the scope of human existence, with daily affairs, tasks, and projects all shaped by habits. There is no world but this one, no day but today, no self but the one knitted together in this perishable mind-body composite.

Each Calvinist is ascetic inasmuch as he exerts rational, “constant self-control” over himself, so that by means of active supervision, “constant thought,” he can direct his will. His object is the calling, a “mundane occupation” through which he can exercise his will for the sake of God’s glory. He produces fruits, and those fruits might be a sign of God’s favor.

via: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

I’m picking up what bro is putting down, but I can physically feel him hiding behind his facts and hedges. The fundamental problem is that he’s at a crossroads with his politics: he has a libertarian bent yet believes individuals and society as a whole are making a fundamentally poor decision. The question is if he’ll defect from the former to truly advocate for changing the latter.

We don’t have a politics of what works so much as a politics of what older citizens won’t notice. All human beings…

I’m at RubyConf this week, and it’s great! I recently read that lobste.rs is now running on SQLite. One part from the post caught my attention:

Date: 2026-07

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