Hugh

OK! Pleased of your interest. Be forewarned I have a range of obsessions which include chess, maths and neuroendocrinology. You mention safety and I think of how games provide a bunker to which a brain can retreat. Curious how we have evolved public, social gaming.

I hypothesize.
Seize the size of the thesis,
make the silly scary marks on the wall,
point to other scary marks scrawled on the wall
when we first came for the wisdom.

Don't forget human trafficking. A huge chunk of our economy depends on trafficking: sex slaves, athletes, skilled labor, unskilled labor, the list goes on and on. If those slaves could escape, the whole oligarchic structure would collapse and drag us into a recession of immense proportions.

No, don't mind at all.
Freecell is a solitaire card game.
My fascination is in the shuffle.
52 cards yields 52 factorial arrangements, which is roughly 8 * 10^{67}. Surprisingly, most games are winable.
The structure of the game, moreover, induces a dopamine
addiction.

This seems noteworthy, especially given that someone in the current administration had a Russian codename. What say you, Krasnov? 🙄

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

23,000 wins. Haven't lost in years. Starting to forget what it feels like.

Within a year the SCOTUS will announce the south won the Civil War!

ABSOLUTE FUCKING NONSENSE.
3 YEARS ARE BETTER LIARS.

YouTube video by The Last Theory Electrons are black holes in the hypergraph with Stephen Wolfram

Really fascinated by the neurobiology of thinkers like Wolfram. He teeters on the edge of OCD in a somewhat scary fashion. Has this Sisyphean vision of ultimate enlightenment after eternal labor and "technical advances"...
youtu.be/quTFa4UyFSQ?...

@laloalcaraz.bsky.social

YouTube video by David Tyson Equinox Garden Party

youtu.be/4QgCsVrCPLw

Ok, great, let's do it! And aren't you missing a few more?

Well, I've no evidence but I've noticed that lot of those who expected the big guy to lay down the rap on their righteous heads have fallen silent... so maybe they raptured or maybe they just hope others will think they have and be mighty jealous because they missed the boat.

Nauseated by narcissists and tyrants?
I was as well until I learned that the nausea
was the result of my own fragmented
narcissism, projected onto a more culpable
and high-profile persona. Now I grieve for
those tyrants trapped in intolerable shame,
control slowly slipping from tiny fingers.

YouTube video by Jung To Live By Jung’s First Steps to the Archetype | The Jung Project Ep.1 (Free)

First one is free.
youtu.be/of9Bzm2Z62I?...

When your family’s on the line, you remember people matter more than party lines.👇

And our military mandates vaccines, and folks travelling globally used to get a recommended list of preventative injections. I mean I'm no rabid germ theorist, but vaccines seem to provide protection against many of these powerful pathological proteins and their guiding amino acids.

I think chess fascination stems from the 'familial' dynamics of the characters.
A winning king is the one you want in the endgame, the one who hurls to the center of an dwindling battlefield to occupy the breach, to protect, deflect and teach the enemy respect in bold and surprising moves.

Apparently his granddaughter,
who planned her wedding ceremony
in the Goat Rocks Wilderness
near Pacific Crest Trail,
intended to marry 3 men simo...
A Triumvirate of Husbands.

YouTube video by The Interview Arundhati Roy: How to Survive Authoritarianism | The Interview

The powerful voice of Roy has arrived in a new book: Mother Mary Comes To Me. It's about her mom and all the rest of us as well. Dangerous truths beautifully explicated, a must read for me.
youtu.be/7AB300pI6JA?...

When Vance doesn't denounce him, what will happen?
@mrfishcartoons.bsky.social

TACO and the Bear

YouTube video by David Tyson 2030TestKit

youtu.be/z1iv8pp-XdY

Indulging in my other hobbies:
On page 629 of The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann, 1924, translated most
excellently by John E. Woods.
Hilarious and terrifying inspection of the
intellectual climate in those years preceding
outbreaks of industrial apocalypse.

And, yeah, chess...