http://dorion-mode.com From the abyss, life. From silence, music. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:10:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the recent northern spring equinox, the power had been out for a couple of hours en el barrio silvestre, though we were able to maintain net connections via battery backups ((It occured to me that during the imminent global economic depression innovative pimps will peddle portable backup battery packs ... http://dorion-mode.com/2026/03/how-do-you-say-il-capo-di-tutti-capi-in-yiddish/ I'll lead from the roots with the etymology of person : person (n.) from Latin persona "human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "a mask, a false face," such as those of wood or clay, covering the whole head, worn by the actors in later Roman theater. ... http://dorion-mode.com/2026/03/how-to-be-a-person-online-the-rsa-algorithm-and-the-web-of-trust/ I started drinking kombucha tea about a decade ago and brewing my own in 2020. It's made by combining tea, sugar, a symbiotic colony of yeast and bacteria (SCOBY), aka medusomyces gisevii and allowing the passage of time during which, the SCOBY consumes the sugar and produces acetic acid, glucoronic ... http://dorion-mode.com/2024/10/how-i-homebrew-kombucha/ If you fail to spend enough time laughing at stupid children, you will spend all your time going to war with stupid men. A big part of my early adulthood consisted of listening to Stefan Molyneux's Freedomain Radio podcast. Lessons learned there instructed several pivotal decisions in my life. For example, when ... http://dorion-mode.com/2024/05/philosophy-is-laughter/ On November 2nd, 2019 Diana Coman kindly invited me to come out of the shadows. I'll do my best here to abide her counsel and not beat myself too black and blue. It has taken me 1646 days, or 4 years, 6 months and 3 days or approximately 240511 Bitcoin ... http://dorion-mode.com/2024/05/coming-out-of-the-shadows-finally/ For our September Junto we're returning to Teka Pizza. We've been inspired to create the Junto from reading Benjamin Franklin, whose Junto was a group of twelve that met in private and were dedicated to mutual betterment. JWRD's Junto is also dedicated to mutual betterment, but doesn't have headcount limits in ... http://dorion-mode.com/2023/09/junto-picking-the-lock-of-your-silly-con-valley-provisioned-digital-cage-and-getting-started-owning-your-computer-is-easier-than-it-seems/ I made a trip out to the Darien recently to scout out a Teak plantation which is of interest because Panama offers residency visas if you invest in forestry. I've been living on the Isthmus since 2013 and have had permanent residence since 2014, but I decided to do some ... http://dorion-mode.com/2023/08/darien-mode/ The first article in this chat systems analysis series covered Signal and for the tl;dr crowd the conclusion reached was : Signal's marketing claims of being a secure chat protocol don't hold up under scrutiny. In practice it's a closed protocol built atop a centralized platform that infantilizes, disables and ... http://dorion-mode.com/2023/08/chat-analysis-the-ever-enduring-irc/ The body of my text possess EXTRA STRENGTH, power-lift the powerless UP outta this towerin' Inferno, my ink so hot it burn through the journal, I'm blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle... ((... you want to know how to rhyme ? You better learn how to add, it's simple Mathematics... from the mighty Mos Def.)) This ... http://dorion-mode.com/2023/08/chat-analysis-cutting-through-the-noise-signal-emits-to-show-you-dear-read-how-cancerous-it-is/ Intro : Mediocrity is not a lack of intelligence. Mediocrity is intelligence entirely dedicated to self-preservation. When I came back to Panama in August 2021, following my strategic retreat to Vermont ((Where there's less zombies and I had more guns, you know, for protection against the zombies.)) in March 2020 ... http://dorion-mode.com/2023/07/the-root-of-our-dispute-is-i-value-substance-over-form-and-thus-manage-to-learn-and-grow-while-you-cling-to-form-and-thus-dwell-in-mediocrity/