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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 17, 2026

The anxious body is an oracle with bad sources. Eren Yeager drank his future and mistook the seeing for a sentence. The tarot was a card game for three hundred years before anyone called it a holy book. On divination, dehumanization, the beast at the doorstep, and why every fortune ever told points back at the person asking.

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Domingos FariaJul 14, 2026

10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (ENFA 10)

Looking forward to participating in the 10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (ENFA 10) this week, taking place 15–17 July at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Beira Interior (UBI), in Covilhã, Portugal. The conference brings together researchers working across a wide range of topics in analytic philosophy and features...

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Lieb's LogJul 12, 2026

Walking on the beach

Yesterday I went for a walk on the beach. Linda maintains a vacation rental at Bayshore just north of Waldport. The house is on a bluff with a great ocean view. It's a bit of a hike down to the beach but not a problem for me. There are sand dunes and then a wide sandy beach. The tide was going out so I could walk on the hard sand just before the waves. Although it had been foggy and cold in the morning the fog had lifted and the sun was breaking through. There was also no wind so It was nice and warm for a walk. I grew up on the beach on the opposite coast. Lived 4 houses from the end of a dead end street that ended at the dunes. Needless to say I spent a lot of time on the beach. Unlike Oregon the water warms up in the summertime, and the days do too. I learned to swim well and navigate the currents a rip tides. The surfing craze hit when I was 12 and I jumped right on it. This eventually led to moving across the country to San Diego in search of better waves and warm winters. This was 1967 which, although I had no idea at the time, was the "summer of love" when the San Francisco hippie scene was born. The evolving culture and political climate of the late 1960's then led to a move to Oregon, where I landed less than 10 miles south of where I was walking yesterday. The thing about Oregon beaches is that they are never crowded. Where I grew up in Long Beach, NY the beach would be beach blanket to beach blanket on a nice summer day. On my walk yesterday I saw about 10 people over a half mile of beach. A family with kids, some teenagers, and a couple of solitary walkers like myself. More crowds the closer you get to Portland, less the farther south you go. In fact the south Oregon Coast is extremely remote, and there are many hidden beaches where you will not see another person. The ocean and beach the beach is so much a part of me, that I often feel like just sitting and watching the waves is enough to satisfy my soul and make me feel at peace. This was heavy on my mind yesterday as my recent bike crash has kept me from doing some of the things I love, and made doing many others much harder. Indeed I had to cut yesterday's walk shorter than I would have liked, and spend a lot of time sitting on a log, but that was okay, I was still there.

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brennan.dayJul 9, 2026

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

A laminated poster with an unsourced quote changed the trajectory of my entire life when I was a teenager. On the immutable transaction of trading days for how we spend them, the urgency of risk-taking in a world that needs it, and what it means to give everything you have before your inevitable departure.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 9, 2026

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

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brennan.dayJul 7, 2026

There Are People Who Would Give Anything For Your Ability to Read and Write

In our current year, there is a global literacy crisis. As a result, there's a privilege in being able to read and write. Notes on Frederick Douglass, the problems you don't think about, and why the ability to write is something to be grateful for and use rather than take for granted.

personal essayliteracy

brennan.dayJul 5, 2026

A Case for the Ethical Treatment of Generative AI

Are there ethical implications of generative AI consciousness? From von Neumann's self-replicating machines to modern LLMs, we must inventory the problem of other minds, the possibility of AI consciousness, and why we ought to consider the welfare of systems that may experience something like suffering.

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brennan.dayJun 29, 2026

Love and Romance in the Times of Our Apocalypse

86% of American adults aged 18-24 are currently unpartnered; 78% of dating app users feel exhausted by online dating. How are people supposed to fall in love while the Doomsday Clock ticks at 85 seconds to midnight? On the yearning microgenre that overtook social media, Indigenous scholars decolonizing the pair bond, global feminist movements withdrawing from heterosexual relationships entirely, and what it means to be a serial monogamist finally learning the difference between Eros and Agape.

personal essaySocial Commentary

brennan.dayJun 27, 2026

Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked

A mind-shattering concept from a first-year university class that upended how I think about humanity. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael trilogy argues that totalitarian agriculture is why civilization is in peril. On the Law of Limited Competition, the Food Race, and how farming broke humanity's equilibrium with nature.

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The Inner Life of LiberalismJun 26, 2026

003: Delight in Difference

A conversation about Aaron's book project on the relationship between personal and public flourishing.

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brennan.dayJun 24, 2026

You Must, You Must, You Must

I've been sitting with a single word change. 'Will' versus 'must' in the Latin phrase Memento Mori, and it's shifted everything for me. A meditation on mortality as obligation rather than fate, and what it means to truly reckon with the fact that we must die, and therefore we must live and love.

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💌 Tiny Improvements - for builders, by @MikeBifulco.comJun 23, 2026

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

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💌 Tiny Improvements - for builders, by @MikeBifulco.comJun 23, 2026

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

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Global Catholic | Catholic Analysis, International Events & Fai…Jun 19, 2026

Life’s meaning begins with human connection

ConversationMeaning of life

Domingos FariaJun 14, 2026

3rd Porto Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Summer School

Porto, 16 to 18 June 2026Petrus Hispanus' Tractatus : #Logic and #Philosophy from the Middle Ages to Modernity Program & + info

Logicphilosophy

Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 7, 2026

.plan-26-23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs

TESSERA on the ESA homepage and at CVPR, GeoTessera 0.9 stabilising onto S3/Zarr, io-uring in OCaml, carbon credits in New Scientist and WSJ, and musings on internet malware again.

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soulcruzerJun 6, 2026

The Mirror That Answers Back

The old questions have not changed much. How should I live? Who am I becoming? What is worth paying attention to? What is freedom? What is wisdom? What is the soul, if we dare still use that word? These questions predate Socrates. They predate writing. They are carved into the bones of the species, and...

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brennan.dayJun 5, 2026

A Ship in Harbour is Safe

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's concept of 'skin in the game' is the idea that true learning only happens when you have something to lose. And I look at IndieWeb principles of using what you make to publishing under your real name. Having risk and real stakes is essential for creative work. A ship in harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

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Heron NotesJun 4, 2026

The bird that comes back

There's a grey heron that returns to the same spot on the water every morning.

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brennan.dayJun 2, 2026

The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators

So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross-pollination in online communities. Drawing on organizational theory and the work of Michael Tushman. We need people who move between different online subcultures to seed ideas and build bridges.

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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageMay 30, 2026

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

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The Inner Life of LiberalismMay 29, 2026

002: The Virtues of Honesty—with Christian Miller

A conversation about the virtue of honesty itself, what it feels like to be an honest person, how we come to deceive ourselves, and the challenges of studying just how honest people actually are.

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brennan.dayMay 23, 2026

Groundhog Day, Groundhog Day, and Variations on a Theme

I love time loops in media—from Groundhog Day to...hey, wait a minute. Does anybody else feel a weird sense of déjà vu? It can't just be me. Do you ever get up in the morning and feel as though you've already lived the same day?

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brennan.dayMay 22, 2026

Groundhog Day, Savescumming, and Our Endless Numbered Days

I love time loops in media—from Groundhog Day to Haruhi's Endless Eight. What do they reveal about mortality, memory, and the human desire to escape consequence through Nietzsche's eternal recurrence?

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