kevin chu

The thing about truth is that it’s immutable. Trying to dissolve it is like trying to drain the ocean. Sure you can nibble around the edges but eventually some combination of politics (best case), economics (bad case), or physics (worst case) returns everyone to reality.

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NE view from the intersection of Cass St and Front St in Traverse City with Traverse Bay and Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2025-11-30 23:06:05 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Traverse City: 27.81 F | -2.33 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNW at 16.106 mph | 25.9 kph // Humidity: 66%

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Though the provenance of the belief is questionable, I have always liked the idea that you are not truly gone until the last time someone speaks your name. With this in mind I will sometimes speak a name, just to myself, and take a moment to remember someone so that, if only in me, they live on.

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

pixelated sunset, reflected on sea and over the black outline of a cityscape. sky is shades of orange.

fujitsu habitat, screenshot, fm towns (1989) www.mobygames.com/game/21889/h...

glad it was.. satisfiable 😎

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

why did the logician go to IKEA? to buy some truth tables

Halleck Ridge,
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A brown and white cat snoozing atop boxes of fire logs in a hardware store.

🐈 Debbie the cat.
🛒 Aubuchon Hardware (Sudbury, MA)

this is what the fear litany means when it says you have to face your fear and let it wash over and through you so that when you turn to face the path the fear laid, only you remain

painting of a capybara with cold clothes and a sandwich and an old camera

capybara who likes sandwiches

are ya us-east-winning son

a red t tetris piece with legs is running towards a man, holding a bunch of flowers on a beach. text: tetris is back smaller text: if you love it then, you'll love it even more now.

tetris worlds, print ad, imagery (2001) archive.org/details/nint...

rip john philip sousa you would've loved mitski

YouTube video by United States Marine Band SOUSA The Liberty Bell - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band

day of days to hear the liberty bell march come on the radio

radio show host: it's happening all over the country. people are rising up, making their voices heard, and doing their part to... support classical music radio during the KUSC fall donation drive

youtu.be/x7FD9PNpfpo

In my personal life I have moved away from thinking of people as stupid. Instead I just think of people as "incurious," where the Doing of learning has become something they are too tired, scared, or proud to pursue. Curiosity is, I think, the greatest human virtue, the Doing of learning.

Serial Experiments Lain is better than Everybody Loves Raymond.

Two hares, one brown and one white, sit beside a stream looking up at the moon.

'Hares and Autumn Full Moon' - Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese Edo period.
#FullMoon #tsukimi #JapaneseArt

Studio Ghibli fell in love with this film and gave its director a movie deal. Master animators like Yuri Norstein call it a favorite.

Its name is Father and Daughter, and we've explored its story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

scribbles of snoopy

that beagle

it's slow horsin' time

it’s important to do things for your teenage self every so often, as a way of staying on speaking terms with the person you used to be

Embrace the Zugzwang Lodge: 49 As Above, So Below

Another 7Eleven moment

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, to whom it occurred to say this is mine and found people sufficiently simple to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors Mankind would have been spared by him who, pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had cried out in kind: Beware of listening to this impostor; You are lost if you forget that the fruits are everyone’s and the Earth no one’s. jean jacques rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (trans. Victor Gourevich; 1755)

Two bunnies are sitting on a small blanket on a rooftop, looking up at the stars- except that they are in a bright-lit city, with old-fashioned architecture, so it's unlikely that they see any actual stars. Nevertheless, they point up at the sky at the stars that might be there

Daily bunny no.3069 thinks they see a star

The biggest problem adults have when they try to learn math, isn't the math but their pride.

They don't want to go back to wherever they're actually having trouble, wherever it that is. That'd make them feel stupid, it can be embarrassing.

"I already know ___ I don't need to do this"