Highly recommend watching this docu, on the vital role of the fungus Aspergillus oryzae in Japanese gastronomy. Rather than from top-down imposition of ideas, high culture takes shape in a delicate dialogue between human minds and nature's dormant potentialities. Aspergillus oryzae acts as guide and agent in acts of everyday alchemy, transmuting raw foodstuffs into flavourful shoyu and sake. #mycology #shroomstr

A petty concern, I know, but somehow my follower count in amethyst shows up as zero. How is that? I am worried that, being a noob who doesn't run a node, I am doing the relay settings thing all wrong. Honestly this relay part of #amethyst is quite daunting for non-techy user like myself. #asknostr

Ace of Coins #btc #artstr

Hearing the Winklevi casually refer to "beginner's mind" at Btc Amsterdam, to me is a sure sign #buddhism is fast becoming the de facto religion in the West.

I wrote a short critique on an influential postmodern philosopher's book. We sometimes think obscure philosophers somewhere on a California campus are irrelevant but their ideas do trickle down through academia, media, politics and ordinary people's minds. #philosophy View Article →