Doug Wesney

@GrimGriz Ummmm…huh…ummmm…I dunno…

Please generate a YouTube thumbnail without words based on your impression of me from my posts on X.

@SteveSkojec @kalezelden That’s not Costco Steve!

@kalezelden I sense a bigger discussion looming (I tried to get Grok to put me in the meme but the results were disturbing)

I've been thinking about the "Butlerian Jihad," and I do not think that describes me. But then I asked myself: what if it were called a Butlerian Crusade? Still doesn't fit. But I get the impulse.

@GRMead3 SaaS, tokens, coal mine scrip…

I once managed at an estate sale to get my hands on an entire library of Lewis Mumford. Most of them were out of print at the time. Only about half are now available on Amazon. The man was a unique polymath and a genius observer of social development, technology and the way in which modernity is merely the latest flowering of truly ancient modes of human collectivity. An innovative thinker. Out of print merely means they have little current audience. When they are needed will they be available?

@GRMead3 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

Sir! I will not stand for this disrespect of the good Empress of Blandings! May her oinks never cease. Certainly, I cannot stand for it in these loafers with a glass of what was formerly a very happy whisky bathed in a loving soda bath, now drier than sands of Libya, like my tongue.

@DurhamWASP Jeeves series is gold…

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” P.G. Wodehouse

@walasavagephoto @kalezelden

@kalezelden Wasn't this the plot of Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge?

Did you know Anthropic embarked on what they called Project Panama in which they purchased large quantities of rare books, cut off the spines, scanned them, then confetti’ed them? Physical and metaphorical villainy.

@Sophiologist_ @vin05004 But this is worse because we’re HURTLING rapidly, you see…

I am once again asking you to recognize what a fraud this hustler is

@SteveSkojec "Designed by LoveFrom."

I know people are talking about how ugly it is (I just think it's kind of meh) but what I'm more mystified by is that they shot an entire commercial of a Ferrari in which it has as much motion as a paperweight. People just get in and out of it and it never leaves the driveway.

@annielcrawford Very surprising to see this as I'm doing similar file cleanup with electronic files, and Michael Horton, David Wells, and Modern Reformation magazine all came up this morning! Link to your article: modernreformation.org/resources/arti…

I’ve told some of you that the first argument I had with Mr. Man was about whether or not postmodernism contain some truths. I’m organizing our file drawer today and I found the article which sparked the debate and led to our joining the Boar’s Head Tavern.

@kalezelden @SteveSkojec Infinite regression in progress...

Look @SteveSkojec, I was caught monitoring while being monitored!

@malcolmguite A Blessed Whitsunday to you, @malcolmguite !

from Book 1, Stave V Over the head of every knight they saw a tongue of flame alight, and as they gazed around in awe it seemed that each the other saw more fair and comely than before, as though in Heaven’s light. #GalahadandtheGrail

@jeff070 @grok It is INSANE that these numbers are running BILLIONS.

@grok Include Pep's financial net spend at Bayern and Barca.

- If City is stripped from their titles because of their charges, wpuld that change your view on Pep? - If you include net funds spent between Pep and SAF, would that change your view of Pep? - With Pep poor track record of man management, would it change your view?

@stephencrotts @malcolmguite NOT HIGH ENOUGH! 😉

Galahad and the Grail is #50 in all books on Amazon today @malcolmguite

@kalezelden @RealJoeWeil In my mind's eye can still see the olive drab Selectric on which my Mom typed my Dad's PhD thesis for Cornell. Paper, carbon paper, onion skin paper. I can even smell his pipe!

@RealJoeWeil It really is. Overlooked in our digital world. I love this stuff.

Analog technology innovation is extremely cool

@malcolmguite @colemanglenn NOT HIGH ENOUGH. 😉

@colemanglenn It’s in the top 50 now!

#58 now!

@BayouHuguenot G. B. Caird's 1954 Chancellor's Lectures at Queen's University in Ontario was similar. Caught this in 2023. Pre-dates Heiser by 40+ years...

Gerald McDermott in *God's Rivals* was writing about the Divine Council in 2007, almost ten years before Heiser. Yet Heiser invented this.

@annielcrawford @kalezelden Lewis quotes Milton’s Comus: “…and backward mutters of dissevering power…”

"Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years." - CSL, "Weight of Glory

“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. **The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters of dissevering power’—or else not.** It is still ‘either-or’. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in ‘the High Countries’. In that sense it will be true for those who have completed the journey (and for no others) to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere. But we, at this end of the road, must not try to anticipate that retrospective vision. If we do, we are likely to embrace the false and disastrous converse and fancy that everything is good and everywhere is Heaven.” C. S. Lewis’s preface to The Great Divorce

@NorthwestLine @PageauJonathan

In a way, it's kind of a take on "Brave New World" and AI, where you are sucked into The Singularity, not by overt force, but rather through literal seduction and subversion. Oh, and thanks again for a wonderful Symbolic World Summit! Everyone is enjoying the Symbolic World coloring books I bought as gifts. You need to get Heather to do a coloring book or two...

An Exploration of Modern Dysfunction: What Pluribus is Actually About (link below) In this video, I look at the symbolism of the recent TV show, Pluribus. There's a lot of speculation about whether it's an allegory for AI, the internet, totalitarianism, or resisting tyranny. But I would argue that it's not allegorical at all, rather it's an exploration of a deeper ontological problem: the relationship of the one and the many, the inside and the outside, sameness and difference.

@GrimGriz King king!👑 👑

we know the owls aren't what they seem, but are the Bat Men?