Let's talk about chef's knives for a second. I want to think through something.

Most people's kitchens are stocked with a knife block full of stainless steel knives Stainless is a good material for knives; it can be made pretty sharp, and is hard, so it holds an edge for quite a while.

However, because it is hard, it cannot be sharpened by hand -- neither with a stone nor a hand-sharpener; and most certainly not with a honing rod.

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country.
1/n Deciduous trees spend all Spring taking nutrients out of the soil to make leaves, which photosynthesize all Summer and Fall

Wow ok so someone messaged me tonight bemoaning the fact that he missed the opportunity to buy a talismanic copy in a leather wrapper and, lo and behold, it is true. One week into the crowdfund, the "Thirteen Moons" edition of 13 is sold out ...

https://twitter.com/touchmoonflower/status/1615368368454004739

and we are nearly double our initial funding goal.

So, with three weeks still to go, we've decided to do a second "New Moon" edition of 13. These will be signed and named as with the Full Moon edition, but under the secret dark of the New Moon.

I have always thought that "ego-death" is terribly over-dramatic -- what we want is just to peak around the edge of the ego at the vast space it normally conceals

but what is the ego anyway?
↓ And even before we approach that, what is "death"?

The notion of ego "death" as a goal of psychedelic experience is owed I believe to Timothy Leary, who made it a central part of his psychedelic interpretation of Indian and Tibetan philosophy.

Software is eating the world -- the economy is dematerializing.
What are the physical effects on living human beings?
🧵 The effect is that every year we spend marginally more of our waking time inert, staring at screens. Often in chairs, spines collapsed; or slouched on sofas, cpus heating our gonads.

do yall ever wonder if everything is really upside down even though it appears right-side-up gravity is the structure that grants verticality

upward is always outward

to grow is to grow away while retaining intimate contact