shouting into the void (8 years experience)

sports betting is eating the world

dude they’re still around … and advertising in 2600

using my newfound time wealth to speedrun a bunch of reading, either to revisit or for the first time

cracked Leah 2026

@synoisia.bsky.social !!

played with this old school phone tree / CYOA from Phone Losers of America and had to share with you all

may i be all of which i am capable

❤️‍🔥

anyway you should read this if you want to feel the strange kind of fascinated, vertiginous feeling that’s also present when reading Westinghouse’s ‘Book of Record’ placed in libraries around the world in 1939

arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14249

spent the evening reading ‘Humanity’s Last Exam,’ a compilation of 2500 questions across dozens of subjects (mathematics, humanities, natural sciences)

the goal is to create a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge and to serve as a final closed-ended academic benchmark for AI

David! yes, I remember you - I’m doing more substack posting these days and rolling out a few projects. delighted to get your message here

it is 2000. i got the new issue of 2600. i was up all night on the computer.

it is 2026. i got the new issue of 2600. i was up all night on the computer.

RIGHT

Boards of Canada fans are randomly receiving cryptic VHS tapes

first album in 13 years?

here’s one of the tapes, provided by a fan online:

stop asking "how do I make more money" and start asking "how do I behave like a vessel that an ancient trickster god would enjoy watching reality through?"

Claymore

imagine hating yourself this much, live on television

yesssssss

spent this afternoon in conversation with Dr. Shira Chess about the occult, psychedelic, and counterculture origins of the internet. we chatted far-and-wide: cyberdecks, terrance mckenna, zines, the invisibles, and more

def check out her new book, the unseen internet - you vagrants will LOVE it

Yes

Sam should do an interview with Isaac Chotiner to clear this all up

a tidy summary of the last 8 years:

* $400MM acquisition, employee 3, 12+ consecutive wks of 10%+ WoW growth

* $250k —> $9.8MM in 2.5yr, grew an adv analytics/AI retail/CPG platform

* $180k —> $2.2MM, in 18 months at a specialty analytics firm

* $450MM —> $1.7BN, insurance tech

i’ve led growth / GTM at AI-first startups and mid-stage firms since 2018

if you want to talk shop (free!) about bringing an App or tool to market, marketing science/measurement, growth/expansion, etc, 🚨let’s setup a call!🚨

DM me and I’ll shoot over my Calendly

pretty sure I scooped the last one on the eastern seaboard

ITS SO GOOD. You’re going to love it - can’t wait to get a trip report after you’ve read it in this edition

it defies explanation and it so successfully one-shotted Harold Bloom that he wrote what’s basically a fanfic, Flight to Lucifer, and then desperately tried to get it pulled from the market after publication)

(by David Lindsay, illustrated by Jim Woodring) is really something -
very strange and beautiful
(nb, if you haven’t, that novel is just bizarre, psychedelic, expansive, gender non-conforming; kind of a proto-Left Hand of Darkness meets Jung meets Victorian steampunk

it’s clear that there’s a clear division between books as entertainment (utilitarian, paperbacks) and books as artifacts of beauty

Beehive Books published hard-back, slipcase reissues with spectacular illustrations. their edition of A Voyage to Arcturus

as our library of small-press works has grown (everything from an early press of the holy books of thelema to hand bound chapbooks), focused mostly on the occult, esoteric, arcane, hermetic -

the pleasure of the intellectual artifact - books as materia

first: loving to read and loving books two separate but related phenomena

(this took me a shockingly long time to truly grasp)

a suggestion:

find brilliant, thoughtful people

get them together to discuss brilliant, thoughtful works - literature, poetry, art, comics, opera, the pāļi canon

together, explore the brilliant, thoughtful beauty in the world

this is what we’re meant to do

want to join?

‪cognitive security is the name of the game, from now until eternity ‬