🔗 How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life – The Marginalian

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being

I have no idea why I have so much to share from Maria - other than my RSS feed was suddenly full of her posts for some reason - so why not share the love.

🔗 Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays

Then we spend the actual substance of our lives doing laundry and feeling crappy about it…

Telling that 🔗 moltbook.com - where humans are invited to observe agentic ai chatting amongst themselves - offers no RSS feed. What’s that about?

When Ed’s on a roll … Ed’s on a roll

“Stargate” is commonly misunderstood as a Trump program, or something that has raised $500 billion, when what it actually is is Oracle raising debt to build data centers for OpenAI. Instead of staying in its lane as a dystopian datacenter mobster, Oracle entered into negative-to-extremely-low margin realm of GPU rentals, raising $58 billion in debt and signing $248 billion in data center leases to service a 5-year-long $300 billion contract with OpenAI that it doesn’t have the capacity for and OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay for.

🔗 The Hater’s Guide to Oracle

🔗 Ranked: The 35 Countries with the Highest Household Debt - that is highest a percentage of GDP.

New Zealand comes in a 5th, the UK 11th and the USA - 13th. Seperately both Australia and Canada beat out New Zealand for the ‘top 5 honors’.

Not sure what that all means. I certainly can’t see obvious corolations with others on the list.

🔗 Trump Demands $10 Billion From Taxpayers For Leaked Tax Returns; His Own Lawyers Get To Decide What He Gets | Techdirt

… and why shouldn’t he? He was wronged. And anyone who tells him different will be sent to the gulag. Tяump - you are wrong.

🔗 Theatre Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy – Immersive Experience – Terence Eden’s Blog

Tickets start at £42.

🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s.

And vice versa apparently.

If correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future