N-gated Hacker News21h ago
🎉 🚪 Exit Google, Enter Enlightenment! Wow, who knew abandoning the Big G could lead to a revelation worthy of a blog post nobody asked for? Apparently, trading Gmail for a "clean inbox" is akin to discovering fire in the digital age 🔥📧🙄.
https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/ #ExitGoogle #Enlightenment #CleanInbox #DigitalRevelation #BlogPost #HackerNews #ngated
Leaving Google has actively improved my life

In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...

a personal site
DesertFOX1d ago

Today, about 20 minutes after 6pm ... I have achieved enlightenment! I also topped up the oil and coolant. Well, it's something! 😉

#Enlightenment #Car #LowBeam #CarParts #Skoda

N-gated Hacker News3d ago
💀 Wow, a riveting read on ancient zen wisdom, where the only #enlightenment you achieve is learning to enable #JavaScript 🍪. Truly, the death of meaningful content online! 😂
https://www.secretorum.life/p/japanese-death-poems-part-3 #ancientwisdom #onlinecontent #zenhumor #HackerNews #ngated
Japanese Death Poems (part 3)

by haiku poets

Secretorum
Mighty Vibrations Records3d ago

DEHN - Enlightenment (Original Mix)

https://tube.wtmo.cloud/w/15nM9z1m6zSAdYpWHYTTcA

DEHN - Enlightenment (Original Mix)

PeerTube
N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🧙‍♂️✨Ah, the miraculous strength of lighting a candle every morning. Who knew that pretending to meditate while sipping overpriced coffee could change your life? BBC really cracked the code of existence: wake, repeat, achieve enlightenment—tomorrow we'll learn how to breathe! 🌬️🎉
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210914-how-rituals-help-us-to-deal-with-uncertainty-and-stress #miracleofmorningroutine #enlightenment #coffeehabits #mindfulness #selfcare #HackerNews #ngated
The surprising power of daily rituals

Rituals come in many different forms and are practised in cultures the world over, but why have they become such an important part of our lives?

BBC
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD6d ago
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1677, the #Dutch-#Jewish philosopher & pantheist/monist #BaruchSpinoza died. A pioneer in #HigherCriticism for scripture, #Spinoza's work in #ethics & #ontology inspired #Enlightenment deists & scientists, as well as later perspectivists like #Nietzsche.
Toni AittoniemiFeb 19

David Wengrow provides a crushing reading of the narrative of “Western Civilization”, as a centuries-long project of justifying, continuing & deepening enslavement and unfreedom.

As we slip back towards referring to mythical structures instead of actual archeological facts rooted in science, this interview is a must-listen to cut through the propaganda!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEJ8WAiHRE0

#westerncivilsation #fascism #racism #empire #colonialism #capitalism #history #anthropology #enlightenment

David Wengrow: The History of Human Civilization | Doomscroll

YouTube
ohoh.storeFeb 18
Less is more - image: Claudia Rannow

Do you ever notice that, despite long conversations or lots of writing, your message doesn't get across? Try sending a postcard. It takes very little effort, but it brings great enlightenment.

Claudia Rannow works as an artist in Berlin and Vienna. Her use of materials is diverse and surprising. She turns everyday materials into jewellery, gift packaging, ornaments and utensils, such as handbags. She also makes drawings and photographs street typography and small still lifes.

#aphorism #postkarte #postcard #cartespostales #postkaart #cartepostale #zeghetmeteenkaartje #postcardsfromtheworld #postcrossing #webshop #postcardexchange #happymail #postkartenliebe #giftshop #botschaft #schreibmalwieder #snailmail #communication #kommunikation #neon #enlightenment #statement #postkartendesign #aphorismus #lessismore #schneckenpost #neonlight #neonsign #leuchtbuchstaben #slogan #typography #typografie #typographylove #streetphotography
Coach Pāṇini ®Feb 17

“Dreher often invokes the experience of fourth-century Romans, who could not see that the ageless pagan world they’d inherited was at an end, and that they were on the verge of a radically new and less stable era.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/rod-dreher-religious-conservativism-jd-vance/685732/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNP-WSIyBxw63MEqs7jfKkXg

#history #Enlightenment

Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

The Atlantic
ohoh.storeFeb 17
Euer Kapitalismus kotzt mich an! - image: Ulf Winkler

Do you ever notice that, despite long conversations or lots of writing, your message doesn't get across? Try sending a postcard. It takes very little effort, but it brings great enlightenment.

In his workshop in the village of Briescht, a village in Brandenburg, Germany, Ulf Winkler prints images on wood and marble.

#aphorism #kapitalismus #capitalism #postkarte #postcard #cartespostales #postkaart #cartepostale #zeghetmeteenkaartje #postcardsfromtheworld #postcrossing #postcardexchange #happymail #postkartenliebe #giftshop #botschaft #schreibmalwieder #snailmail #communication #kommunikation #enlightenment #statement #postkartendesign #aphorismus #schneckenpost