What is Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Yes, I have been listening to Nietzsche. To lectures about Nietzsche, I mean. Not that I have started following his philosophy.

The final batch of FBI documents concerning Kevin Mitnick got released, and sent me down memory lane. Kevin gained notoriety as a hacker in the 80s and 90s, breaking into government and corporate data systems.

I’m busy writing the sequel to Bravour, so forgive me if I can’t pump out links at the usual rate. Today I rolled out of bed and fired up my feedreader, just to find new stuff to share.

I’m having trouble coming up with ideas for this week’s newsletter. Trump blots everything out like a black sun of shit. Like, seriously, why bother with anything else? It’s hard enough to keep track of his bullshit on a day-to-day basis. Read on for something else, I guess.

Recent events led me to revisit WWII history and the 1930s. Operation Bagration, D-Day, the Battle of Stalingrad - all kicked off by a man who liked doing the Elon Salute. As it is now called. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.

This week started with The Sun telling me that women will have more sex with robots than men this year. Ok, so it was a forecast from 2016, but who’s to say? Boston Dynamic’s Atlas is already capable of rearranging objects autonomously.

Pixel art painting inspired by pictures of Gaza and Ukraine. It’s a bombed building. Surrounded by pink undamaged (sorta) ones. With some mist in the background.

I listened to another episode of hopwag on Monday, this time about the Cappadocians. What is the Holy Trinity, is Jesus the Son of God? Are they of the same essence, or is Jesus God in a different mode. All that stuff.