How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading I read 186 books in six months. Here's how.

For those who are interested in rediscovering the joys of reading, I wrote a step-by-step guide:

bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/how-to-rek...

Sagan felt that the dumbing down of America was most evident in the rejection of science and the growing ignorance of history, art, literature, music and the humanities. If we're to reserve course, we need to revive mass education and literacy.

From your lips and fingers to the Universe's ears.

FOR THE LOVE OF WHISKEY SOAKED FUCK MUFFINS CAN CONSERVATIVES PLEASE STOP CALLING ANTIFA A TERRORIST GROUP WHEN IT’S LITERALLY JUST PEOPLE BEING ANTI FASCIST AND THAT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE FASCISM IS BAD.

This Is Fascism

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

If you can afford a retirement account, do it. To hell with the grind. Get a boring or weird little hobby. Make time for your friends. Stop caring about cringe. Watch bad movies. Read silly books. Fuck vocational awe. Treat yourself. Tylenol and advil are your new besties. Wear good shoes.

History is like science and free speech. It doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree with it, it exists for you to listen to it.

Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.

I sure wish the NYT, WSJ, Wapo and all the networks would double or triple their tech reporting staffs. This is a huge story and people need to understand how screwed we are

www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Education is the enemy of fascism.

TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES:

If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.

Maybe read it twice, even

The age of enshittenment.

What "they" don't understand is that our resistance to what they define as "hard work" very rarely has anything to do w/ the work being "hard." It's about us feeling controlled, trapped, or "in trouble"-- all of which frequently trip a combination of "freeze" & "fight" in us.

I don't care what happened in the past-- you are not "crazy" or "terrible." You're an imperfect human who did what you could w/ the information & resources you had at the time. That's not an "excuse;" that's reality.

Grace over guilt & do the next right thing.

yes, at least in my experience, the AI skeptics are the most tech-savvy people in most cases, while the AI enthusiasts are the least.

I'll say it explicitly: ADHD is a neurotype.

ADHD isn't a disease that we caught one day. ADHD is a lifelong, congenital, genetic difference in neurological development.

ADHD changes how and when we develop cognitive and executive function, and it changes how we view and interact with the world

tweet saying you can't read Proust because your brain is cooked by screens

No. Ignore this. You are capable of reading books again. The brain is highly malleable and you only need a few screen-free weeks to recover your focus. You will be amazed how quickly the hunger for reading returns. You will be inhaling words

Happy times in Auschwitz

DNA from Prehistoric Proto-City Reveals 'Surprising' Signs of Female-Centered Society An unprecedented study reveals maternal lineages, female-centered practices, and a “surprising shift” in a 9,000-year-old settlement associated with a goddess cult.

DNA from Prehistoric Proto-City Reveals 'Surprising' Signs of Female-Centered Society

🔗 www.404media.co/dna-from-pre...

How indeed?

We need a return to analog culture: handwritten letters, seeing films in the cinema, reading books, in-person visits, time in the outdoors. We weren't meant to spend our whole lives online. The joys of tangible living are something no one can take from you.

meme format where a man from an anime is looking at a butterfly and asks if it's a pigeon, but instead the man is Americans, the butterfly is labeled "basic human rights” and the quote is "is this communism?"

probably a good time to bring this back

Iggy Pop to Anthony Bourdain: I’m still curious. You seem like a curious person.

Anthony Bourdain to Iggy Pop: It’s my only virtue.

Iggy Pop to Anthony Bourdain: Curious is a good thing to be.

Iggy Pop: It seems to pay unexpected dividends.

“Be open to experience, be willing to try new things, don’t have a rigid plan, accept random acts of hospitality without judgment or fear, don’t be afraid to wander, don’t be afraid to eat a bad meal, if you don’t risk the bad meal you never get the magical one.”

Anthony Bourdain (6/25/56 – 6/8/18)

From one time Prof G Pod guest @timothysnyder.bsky.social 👇🏻👇🏻

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.