Turns out diaper boxes and baby wipes boxes are the best size for packing books.

Found this cool book about hermeneutics at the used bookstore.

Husserl’s motive for doing philosophy is not primarily a theoretical motivation, but a practical, or more precisely an ethical one. —the ethical striving for a life in absolute self-responsibility. (2/2)

Zahavi: Husserl differs from traditional foundationalism. Husserl takes adequate and conclusive truth about the transcendental dimension as a regulative ideal, attainable only in an infinite historical process. (1/2)

Through studying Husserlian intersubjectivity and non-foundationalism I arrived at the ideas of regulative and social epistemology.

I mean personally I let my wife and kids live in poverty for far too long so I could sit on my ass reading big books and speculating.

It’s utterly delusional to chase a supposedly prestigious title, phd, get into massive debt, live in poverty, with the greatest likelihood that one will be unemployed at the end. I think it’s just a cultural artifact that is collapsing on itself at this point. It could change for the better, though.

I decided to bail on the enterprise as I watched friends lives spiral downward as they pursued grad school and academic institutions flailing from their own vanity and decadence. But I do recognize there is a little good in it.

Yeah, I think this is true. But also a lot of academia is just intellectualism and sinecure seeking. And a lot of phds don’t actually know very much at all. It’s kind of a credential industrial complex. But I also recognize the truly good academics who do real work.

He still doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. He’s early 40’s. He’s kind of floating around a strange abyss of emotional and family fallout from things never working out. His family suffered greatly.

A close friend got a phd almost ten years ago and expected to get a tenure job and gave up after a few years of bad instructor positions. His mental health went downward and still to this day, years later, hasn’t fully emotionally recovered from the fallout of not getting an academic job.

Am down and out with a virus. Second time i’ve been sick this year. I haven’t had a fever like this in years.

I like the themes of this novel.

Just gonna drop this here. Next time you meet your relatives at Cracker Barrel, you can look really smart by quickly winning the peg game.

I really thought today was Friday.

Speaking of Butlerian Jihad, I really hate going into small business coffee shops and seeing laptop people at almost every table. Kick them out and don’t provide guest wifi.

Ken Archer on Phenomenology and AI--California Phenomenology Meetings YouTube video by Susi Ferrarello

Phenomenology and Butlerian Jihad Friday

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We’re having us a little family LEGO build day.

Finally picked this up after it was recommended a few years ago by a respected meditation facilitator and therapist I know.

THERAPISTS, what do you think of this stuff: Levine’s work, and somatic therapy? Good? Useful? Interesting? Too New Agey? Let me know.

William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (EXCLUSIVE) In an excerpt from William Shatner's new book, 'Boldly Go,' the 'Star Trek' actor reflects on his voyage into space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021.

Something like this happened to William Shatner.

“It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness.”

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Splashdown. Now Comes The Greatest Danger Apollo astronauts suffered much after their lunar encounter. Will those on Artemis?

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Merry and Pippin to Frodo:

Pippin: “What’s he doing?” Merry: “He’s leaving the book group. He’s going to actually finish the book… on his own.”

Wow, stunning! Good color choices.

One of our longtime neighbor families moved out. I barely ever talked to them, but today something feels missing, like someone died, and I also feel fomo and a great impulse to change life because we’re ready to move out, too. The long hot summer of moving cross country draws near.

Dang; sorry. I gave up ever trying to see a Warriors game in the Bay Area. It’s Hunger Games expensive.

Yeah, I’m wondering if once I get settled back in my muscle memory will kick in and I’ll just start “lordy tawkin like I’m from that there hollar ovair yonder.” Of course I’ll be newly immersed in North Carolina variety which has its notable distinctions in intonation and vowel sounds.

Just had a long phone call with nana about family heirlooms and the southern accent disappearing.

No one is “training ‘an’ AI”. This is intentionally anthropomorphic language because they want to believe all these software and electronic toys are living, thinking, agent beings. It’s an ideology and a worldview. No, you are programming software, buddy.