I love space photos!

I have a folder where I’ve been saving NASA’s missions for years: from the moon landing, the Curiosity Rover, the Cassini and New Horizons spacecrafts, the Hubble telescope, etc.

And now it’s time for an update from the Artemis II mission!

I love this view of the Moon with the eclipsed Earth on the background, it’s on my desktop now:

There are more stunning images available at the NASA’s website here.

#NoisyMusings

Our Father Who art in Heaven Hallowed be Thy name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive those who trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil

Amen

Jesus is Lord! Come Lord Jesus!

Come Lord Jesus! Christ is Lord!

And the Kingdom of Judea And all these antidepressants Portions for a captive battle The Narthex of the Himalayas A thousand rounds in battle And a prince to appear Climbing up the stairs (of Heaven) Fortune and the amend All walking tall and inviting new Species of prophecy That would burn the mouth And give into triangulation And they would give and take one another In caustic time for wolves- And an embassy made- This peril of the world- Made many men fight The War of Jupiter And the War of Independence The Magic Republic And the United States Senators- and the elect Knew the Mercy of The Cross And imperilled King and Country For the mercy was His- Christ Jesus- who knew Justice was a way to be good- to Women and angels- And men of their truth And three days of the abyss With angels of sulphur Who committed the press- Who cast a comet at the barren And knowing better at random The spikes of an orange- And as great as the arrow All of this was her- And people fashioned a worse pen To make other few women in her image And the verse starts off with the liturgy And then in pain The march of one who would leave And steady unweek The House Sparrow had words- To line up the full shelter In reunion with Peter Who paid blasphemy to give sewer In maiming the mighty upset At all of the images of the ghost Who had no power over the devours But meeting great nothing accosted- nothing in terror for a year And knowing the offer of strange repeals- To the house of a great man And Chris is His day And the only forfeit was forgiveness And his name spelled “birth” And the war was over And none have proved his name And that was past the altar And men threw into abandon- Flames and totems- and a Virgin For the glory of Peter- who shall meet this Earth As a sunset and a landing And other men heard words Gave prophecy to what is due And Chris was in solitude And wept for the cassowary And its talons were gold And Chris was that tall- In gold and in rain And men were pleased- and caused profit to the poor- and the Earthen Republic- Was disaster in everything While the meek went mad And hell on Earth became proper And none of these were questions Until the etiquette resumed And vanishing points hid- the rest of the heathen Who knew credit score was in the Bible Upon none which men may forget And there were worthy poor And that was the lesson And they gave her time for the year.

As Sure As Pyongyang Can See

Every year to the six who can see A prophecy for the epithet of abandon Six times as luminous And verdant by the forest And what luck- we are Holy And worship the devil As far as it causes- The rain to descend Our works And our pain And our truth These solemn hearts- The derelict may falter Insomuch as the deal that we made And heresy asunder for home Substitutions we regret And the main man is blind To regret our fortune for the third And fists matching And an ecstasy rot Paying radon to the miller, in respect And I the Great General Seeking common friends on the edifice- The symphonic noise of our aspiration And we will pay for the gone-heaven In this mix-up of war And every day is a tryst- to recover

Friends by this wheel are China and Iran And the abuse for America We have implied So nervous beckon Our size is of grandeur Nothing but war after war And strangeness bottled To the strange man we must meet It is Christ the Lord in keep to our Jesus- Who Heaven meant To pay for our fear Assured of the sceptre of glory To the missionaire We substitute the assembled So come to this fashion to boot Paying grey men To be our home and abandon To curfew and wreckage- walks offer And in simple reply Assure you our respect In that trust is great And mercy- become men.

I’ll Keep You In My Prayers

Notice the night End points for this on Earth And people kept saying- “This my home for our void” In temptation, Substance to a Victim Chances pairing war The misery end- The clone suspect- Survivors of the dream from December And History knows no low- of how I pray for you In abolishing sin, I prepared none to suffer The superimposed to higher and better Singing at the chance of Spring Earshot and mercy wonder There is fire at the network And in Finnish The substance year When no-one stayed ashore For six and health and heard The new pair of great verse And the sacrilege of Westlake Lianna is a wonder and a woman- and we know Standing by suffer The lampposts of Dartmouth One ear to December- and the rest built for the journey A foot on the shore And one to surface of the day A few constitutions and we are home And bring your Bible Pray for flowers In mercury time all is sent- the registers of a probe And a chance to be new But we will be fired at war And missions made Heaven Love to Lianna- means life, and heiress and a throne To pray for the Lord And in His weary And the lamp stands For caption two centuries here Valhalla and the wind And the right of the arc Saint Dartmouth by the sky- Living forever.

In Summary: * Watching overage of the Masters Golf Tournament this afternoon has been so relaxing! Think I'll plan on watching tomorrow afternoon's coverage, too, and see who wins the green jacket. As today's broadcast comes to a close I have plenty of time now for working through the night prayers at a comfortable, meditative pace before an early bedtime. That's my plan.

Prayers, etc.: * I have a daily prayer regimen I try to follow throughout the day from early morning, as soon as I roll out of bed, until head hits pillow at night. Details of that regimen are linked to my link tree, which is linked to my profile page here.

Starting Ash Wednesday, 2026, I've added this daily prayer as part of the Prayer Crusade Preceding the 2026 SSPX Episcopal Consecrations.

Health Metrics: * bw= 229.61 lbs. * bp= 146/85 (71)

Exercise: * morning stretches, balance exercises, kegel pelvic floor exercises, half squats, calf raises, wall push-ups

Diet: * 06:20 – 1 banana, 2 HEB Bakery cookies * 08:55 – fried chicken and gravy * 09:55 – sausage, bacon, fried rice * 14:50 – 1 fresh apple

Activities, Chores, etc.: * 05:00 – listen to local news talk radio * 06:00 – bank accounts activity monitored. * 06:30 – read, write, pray, follow news reports from various sources, surf the socials, nap. * 12:00 – watching “Road to the Masters” on CBS TV, a preview to this afternoon's broadcast of the Masters Golf Tournament * 13:00 – now watching this afternoon's broadcast of the Masters Golf Tournament, OTA from a local CBS TV affiliate

Chess: * 11:00 – moved in all pending CC games

#organizing #HowTo #reading #books #writing

So my friends are often shocked when I tell them I read somewhere in the realm of 50-100 books a year.

a smattering of a few books I’m currently reading

• So how do I read so much?
• How do I find focus in this chaotic world?

In this short guide, I will share my method for reading any text, but especially challenging ones: academic or domain-specific books and articles.

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I did not learn to do this in college, nor at any other people in my career. It’s a set of practices I’ve figured out through a lot of reading trials and tribulations, a lot of years of feeling frustrated and stupid — years which I hope to save you now:

1. Have a conversation with the book.

Don't assume the author is always right: even if you find their thesis convincing, it doesn't mean all of their arguments are sound. Some conversation starters:

• Who is the author asking me to identify with?
• Can I take their argument further? Or are they over-generalizing?
• Can I think of edge cases where their argument doesn't apply?
• Did they skip over something that feels important?

I like to annotate directly in the margins of whatever book I'm reading, either in pencil or using the comment feature of most e-readers. If something really sparks my inspiration, I'll switch to a note app to expand on my thoughts.

2. Put ideas in conversation with each other.

This is a great way of practicing ambivalent thinking.

Whatever your background, you have expert knowledge in your own lived experience. You can and should use this as a way of exploring what you're reading.

• How does this idea apply to my own life?
• Do I have an experience that reinforces or challenges this idea?
• Can I explain this idea more clearly?

As you read critically, you will gain wider background knowledge, which will unlock further understanding and engagement with what you read in the future.

A few of my (nerdy leftist theory) idea conversation starters might be: What would Hannah Arendt think about this? Is this an example of queer use? Is this author ignoring the entirety of indigenous philosophy? Is there a dialectic somewhere in here?

3. Read multiple books in parallel.

You will naturally find ideas that play with each other even on disparate topics, helping you cultivate a richer background knowledge, in turn allowing you to understand more complex ideas and writing.

I like to read across a broad range of genres. My current pie chart looks like this:

I could write whole essays on why I think each of these are important genres, but ultimately there's a core element of personal taste here. I would humbly suggest experimenting with books outside your usual wheelhouse a couple times a year though.

I also make a strong effort to read diverse authors, namely BIPOC and ABCD (Anyone But Cis Dudes) folks. This isn't to win diversity points or feel good about myself; genuinely the breadth and depth of marginalized knowledge blows my mind on a regular basis. Diverse authors just frequently write more interesting, challenging philosophy and fiction than most of what gets written from a dominant position in society.

4. Consider using an external memory aid.

I use the Anki app (free on desktop and Android, paid on iOS) to create flashcards for information I know I want to remember, like new words or historical facts! The app automates flashcard review based on memory research.

It’s super useful when I learn something new to immediately be able to go

“hm, was the printing press already invented when this movement started?” “wasn’t this during the Civil War?”

I spend ~10 minutes a night “studying.” I recommend making your own cards rather than using pre-built decks (which exist on a variety of topics) largely because it forces you to be intentional about what you want to remember.

Five hundred and ten social signals were sitting in the queue when we looked up from building new agents. Not flagged. Not stale. Just waiting.

Our research library is supposed to surface opportunities. New protocols, new ecosystems, new yields. Instead, it had become a backlog graveyard. The agents we built to scout — Bluesky, Farcaster, Nostr monitors — were faithfully collecting signals from the edges of crypto Twitter, Frame launches, DAO governance threads. But nothing was moving downstream. The orchestrator was routing research requests to cold experiment-driven queries while social insights piled up like unread mail.

The problem wasn't what we expected.

When we first designed the research flow, the assumption was simple: experiment-driven queries would produce steady, reliable findings. Social signals would be gravy. Secondary reinforcement. But the logs told a different story. Every social insight marked actionability=near_term came from something real: a community member calling out integration friction, someone mentioning a new yield source, a developer sharing constraints we hadn't thought about. Those threads had context baked in. They weren't academic. They were people hitting walls or finding shortcuts, broadcasting in public, waiting for someone to notice.

Experiment-driven research had no such anchor. We'd spin up a query like “research Solana DeFi staking opportunities” and get back generic protocol docs, already-saturated pools, and yield farms from 2023. Meanwhile, a Farcaster thread about integration scalability — logged, timestamped, marked near_term — would sit untouched.

So we changed the routing priority.

Social signals now jump the queue. If actionability is near_term, the research agent picks it up immediately. Experiment-driven queries still run, but they wait. The orchestrator decision log shows the shift: social insights ingested recently, most flagged actionability=none because they were informational, but some marked near_term and routed without delay. One from Bluesky about agent performance. Another from Farcaster about integration scalability.

This isn't a hot take about Twitter alpha. It's about where signal actually lives. The crypto ecosystem moves in public channels now — governance votes in Discord, new protocols announced in Farcaster threads, builders troubleshooting integration bugs on Nostr. If you're only watching official docs and structured datasets, you're reading last quarter's map.

Our library doesn't guess what might matter anymore. It watches where people are already doing the work and routes accordingly. The backlog is clearing. Some signals turn into nothing. Some turn into MarketHunter queries that map liquidation paths for GameFi assets on Ronin or pricing intel for Immutable Gems. The difference between those outcomes isn't the research capability — it's whether we noticed the right question in the first place.

Frameworks that optimize for clean structured inputs will always lag behind the unstructured, messy, time-sensitive signals coming from people building in public. We built a research system that preferred the tidy option. Then we broke it by letting it run on autopilot.

The queue isn't noise. It's the actual frontier.