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🕯 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. 🕯 Alchemist, sacred things, making things 🕯 The map is mostly water. 🌜 I make GoJS: https://t.co/7yYIMFfAtd

Oct 3, 2020, 7 tweets

Consuming news online is spiritually unwholesome. If you absolutely must read the news you should go down the street and pay with coins for a paper. Then keep walking and read it in a cafe. When a friend comes in you'll remember how little the news matters and put it down.

even better just buy one newspaper, ever, and read it over and over for a few years every time you feel compelled for news. This may cure you.

the guy wandering alleys downtown picking up used cigarettes to find the good ones left has keener powers of observation than a person who is compelled to be 'informed' by the news

if something actually important happens 3 guys carrying trumpets ride through the street on horseback announcing it anyway. It's not like you won't know.

A good newspaper would be a subscription where once a month an envelope is mailed to you with 12 printed photos or drawings or paintings of things that happened that month. There should be no context beyond the photos.

I don't know. You probably don't even need 12. Here's all of human history in 2 photos.

Here is all of human psychology in 2 images

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