00:00 Russia’s war to the death, https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1507819604105592832
15:00 Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine, https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/26/biden-says-putin-cannot-remain-in-power-in-sweeping-speech-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine.html
30:40 That’s What Xi (Jinping) Said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alR-hlz7ueU
38:00 What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/covid-excess-mortality.html
47:00 My new over-arching theory of life — what gives you energy? https://www.amazon.com/Before-Laughter-Life-Changing-Jimmy-Carr/dp/B09HG18CYW
50:00 NLP – the pseudoscience, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
54:00 Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena”, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63389/roosevelts-man-arena
1:01:30 Elliott Blatt joins
1:02:00 Slack destroys productivity
1:29:00 Normies are a foreign land
1:30:30 How Mushrooms Will Change The World, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RceZhnSwE
1:35:30 Prepping
1:40:00 Elliott’s rescuing fetish
1:50:00 She Was a Candidate to Lead Levi’s. Then She Started Tweeting., https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/business/levis-jen-sey.html
1:53:00 What’s ‘Context Collapse’? Understanding it Can Mean a More Fulfilling Online Life, https://www.rewire.org/context-collapse-online/
1:58:00 Finlandization
2:01:00 Class Action Park, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park
2:06:00 What is a woman?
2:16:30 Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to starting new social media platform for free speech, https://www.rebelnews.com/elon_musk_giving_serious_thought_to_starting_new_social_media_platform_for_free_speech
2:25:20 Will Iran Get the Bomb? with John Mearsheimer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hOYfE8sSI
Fourth vaccine reduces COVID-19 deaths by 78% – study, https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/article-702441
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142930, Review: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142919
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142926
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