After a multi-year experiment trying to self-host my blog I’m giving up and going back to micro.blog. While it was a fun side-project, the fact is that it got in the way of posting, and I’m tired of that. I don’t have the self-discipline to maintain a blog engine myself, so I’m not going to.
Yosemite National Park California November 29, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/20
ISO: 2500
Exposure Compensation: -2
Yosemite National Park California November 29, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
Yosemite National Park California November 29, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/400
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
Swall Meadows California November 23, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 85mm F1.8
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/1000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
Bishop California November 23, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 85mm F1.8
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/2500
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
Alan Jacobs nails it:
Warzel errs here in assuming that when people in MAGAworld make
declarative statements, and endorse or amplify the declarative statements
of others, they do so because they believe those statements to be true.
They don’t; nor do they believe or know them to be false. In my judgment,
truth and falsehood do not at any point enter the frame of
reference — such concepts are non-factors, and it is a category mistake
to invoke them.
In MAGAworld, declarative statements are not meant to convey
information about (as Wittgenstein would put it) what is the case.
Declarative statements serve as identity markers — they simultaneously
include and exclude, they simultaneously (a) consolidate the solidarity of
people who believe they have shared interests and (b) totally freak out
the libtards. That’s what they are for. They are not for conveying Facts,
Truth, Reality — nobody cares about that shit. (People who call themselves
Truth Seekers are being as ironic as it is possible to be.) Such
statements demarcate Inside from Outside in a way that delivers plenty of
lulz, and that is their entire function. In that sense only they
articulate a kind of dark gospel.
October 14, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/2000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 14, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/250
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 14, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/200
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: 0
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 125
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter Speed: 1/20
ISO: 1250
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/2.5
Shutter Speed: 1/2000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/3.2
Shutter Speed: 1/8000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1250
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/200
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/8000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: 0
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/1600
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
October 13, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/2500
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
