Most of us worry sometimes about death and the afterlife. Most of us don't think about it in terms of eels.

But the 4th-Century BC poet Philetaerus was not most of us. “Fear death," he warned us. "For when you are dead, you cannot eat eels.”
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The tiktok ban is interesting because I am sad about losing that community, yet also sad that I am going through tiktok “withdrawals”.
Will be interesting to see in the coming years the entrenchment of the human mind into our social media and what that will mean for us as a species

Will will be much better off in this country when we realize what divides us isn’t left or right, but up and down. Wealth inequality in america is propagandized as a virtuous thing—as though these barons are promoting vast philanthropic work. The reality is much more despotic.

@davidpakman.bsky.social first bluesky post, how about a free copy of echo machine😏