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A transcript and audio of MLK’s final Christmas sermon (part of the Massey Lectures).

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny.”

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It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. Did you ever stop to think that you can't leave for your job in the morning without being dependent on most of the world? You get up in the morning and go to the bathroom and reach over for the sponge, and that's handed to you by a Pacific islander. You reach for a bar of soap, and that's given to you at the hands of a Frenchman. And then you go into the kitchen to drink your coffee for the morning, and that's poured into your cup by a South American. And maybe you want tea: that's poured into your cup by a Chinese. Or maybe you're desirous of having cocoa for breakfast, and that's poured into your cup by a West African. And then you reach over for your toast, and that's given to you at the hands of an English-speaking farmer, not to mention the baker. And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
December 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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cowsay --dangerously-skip-permissions
January 6, 2026 at 1:29 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
Nicholas "If-Claude-Had-Not-Coded-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned" Barbon
January 2, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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dystopiabreaker.xyz
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
hal-r.bsky.social
invisible cities is a great book. if you can't find a copy feel free to read it in gif form here
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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atwilliams.bsky.social
americans, like mushrooms and tofu, take on the flavors they are cooked in
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
finally got around to reading licklider's "man-computer symbiosis" (worrydream.com/refs/Licklid...). shorter than I thought and very fun, feels prescient wrt LLMs. and at times hilariously 1960-like
worrydream.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
I'm feeling nostalgic for max pooling
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
my favorite part about EU5 so far is that it groups staten island with the new jersey province, not the new york province. they really did their research for this game that's exactly how it should be
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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eikopf.com
they should invent a computer
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
I've started referring to taking modafinil as "popping a daffy" but I'm not yet at the point where I then start talking like daffy duck
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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buran.space
Rockwell docking port
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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vgel.me
you're telling me swedenborg

- consumed large amounts of caffeine and nicotine
- was interested in vegetarianism for moral reasons
- had poor fashion sense and a fucked up sleep schedule
- advocated for evaluating the effectiveness of charitable giving
September 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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ponder.ooo
you shouldn't be allowed to be secretary of war without getting neutered like a dog first
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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ponder.ooo
uphold autumnal thought
September 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ponder.ooo
the homie with an unusually substantial need for electricity
September 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
hal-r.bsky.social
come on man that's too much
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
asking an LLM its favorite token
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
my "the evolution of technology" book really showing it was published in 1988. or rather the weird use of past tense and "appeared" here might be an edit to water it down in the 1996 reprinting I have
September 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
Reminded of Rorty:
"Here is one iteration of what we might call Richard Rorty's utopian vision: "My sense of the holy"-in contrast to Gianni Vattimo's emphasis on the Incarnation—“insofar as I have one, is bound up with the hope that someday, any millennium now, my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. In such a society, communication would be domination-free, class and caste would be unknown, hierarchy would be a matter of temporary pragmatic convenience, and power would be entirely at the disposal of the free agreement of a literate and well-educated electorate.” If this is vision, what is the strategy? "I have no idea how such a society could come about. It is, one might, say, a mystery."
September 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
hal-r.bsky.social
they did not just put canadian folk-punk in my "old-time ragtime mix" on spotify. I didn't even realize this shit was algorithmic until recently and now their algorithm is eating volumes of shit I didn't think possible
September 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
I loooove hitting ctrl-C to halt things
September 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
hal-r.bsky.social
I wonder if I can get deep research to read a bunch of banana bread recipes and give me a synthesis of the best methods
September 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM