Gardener, farmhand, Oregonian, treasuring life, kind friends, kind food. "A friend to all and an enemy of none." @agrariansharing @unitethepoor
@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 2/ This isn't stupidity or bad faith speaking, but professional deformation shaped by thinking in first-order terms—the engineering frame—rather than of second-order effects—interpretation succumbing to a phase shift in the invisible habitat constitutive to sense-making itself.
@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 2/ Twitter's not the place for describing complex technical specifics, but the evidence is plainly clear that AI is creeping into the scaffolding of nuclear-use decisions faster than governance is creeping into AI—just one of a mess of factors leaning "hot” in the nuclear stack.
2/ All this can still remain conceptual, of course. We can describe "interpretive canopies", "spectator distance", and even “fourth-wall apocalyptic theology”, enjoying the thrill of self-implication as an aesthetic effect. The wall breaks, we applaud—then return to our seats.
2/ McLuhan maps the physics of the Cloud Event: how the whole ontology of experience is rekeyed. Teilhard names the direction of that shift: collective mind converging toward a single center. Together they describe a transition that is simultaneously technological and revelatory. 
@RizomaSchool 2/ The Beatitude names cruciform logic of reality, the strange coherence of a world held together by love: those most stripped of bargaining power stand closest to the heart of reality. The point of maximal vulnerability becomes the place where divine presence presses closest. 
@ThinkingFaith 2/ Bridging religious gaps is epistemically fraught. The effort strikes at the heart of being, colliding with dense cultural particularity, entrenched loyalties, and the incommensurability of worlds forged in tension—each bearing their own truth claims, histories, and stakes.
@gilduran76 @WIRED 2/ Clearly, for Thiel, theology is just one organ: the whole body is control. First as 'metaphysics' (deny death with techno-immortality), then as politics (conjure a katechon to “hold back” chaos), then as infrastructure (surveillance, predictive policing, platform capture). 
2/ In effect, the development has been powerfully accelerated by state actors positioning social media governance not as content moderation or free speech fault lines, but as extensions of national security strategy requiring a new form of control, namely, infrastructure capture. 
@NatureSchoolSU @WifeMamaHome @RizomaSchool Breaking the Spell. The demonic complex runs on parasitic coherence, immunized to resist exposure. It can’t be beaten within its own logic—hence its air of inevitability. The Unveiling arrives upstream as pure meaning—a higher coherence the Spell can’t compile or withstand. 1/22 x.com/nick_routledge…
@CTmagazine 2/ Our prophets universally affirm a Day inaugurated by God alone. Yet this only deepens our predicament—if we cannot know when redemption arrives, and our very knowing hinges upon its light, then waiting is not a passive interim but the very structure of consciousness itself. 
@lukeburgis 2/ The scapegoat mechanism works because it obscures this fundamental matrix of being. In that concealment, no logic of justice appears more unified or self-justified—and no desire more blind to its own hostility—than the sanctioned violence of the false sacred cloaked as true. 
2/ The Cloud is not neutral. It is the infrastructure through which worldly power cloaks itself in metaphysical authority. Who is seen, who is shadowbanned. Which narratives gain traction, which disappear. The suffering counting as 'real,' and what gets rendered as noise. 
@PageauJonathan 2/ At first glance, these two figures could not be more different. The trickster reveals what is hidden by disturbing what is settled, exposing the idolatries we mistake for absolutes. A sacred form of epistemic rupture, they clear space for something more true to emerge.
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2/ This is the story of a barefoot farmer, #NundRishi, who lived among Kashmir’s poor, spoke their idiom, and shared heaven with his hands. What he founded wasn’t a sect, but a way of being. Cosmology made flesh. Revolution without theory. Holiness incarnate with mud on its feet. 
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@trippfuller 2/ Scholem, too, was no beer pong lightweight. The first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he founded the modern academic study of Kabbalah. Benjamin's lifelong friend and collaborator, his "The Messianic Idea in Judaism" also shapes The Shift. 