I edited the intelligence cycle graphic from Wikipedia and generated this butterfly effect graphic with Google Gemini (I'm shocked at the throughline of weather science between Lewis Fry Richardson, John von Neumann, and Edward Lorenz). We share the same environment and people talk: criminals and attorneys, everyday people on the ground, content creators, journalists, teachers, faith leaders, professionals, clubs and associations, researchers, neighbors. It's the mass intelligentsia. We do some work and talk about it, sometimes publish it. It stays disparate until someone or some algorithms string it together. I follow my curiosity trying to make sense of it all as I live my life and surf the web. I try to avoid secrets, but sometimes they matter.

Attempting to dispel some of the apophenia and theories I see, I think the Bilderberg Conference is nothing more than a selective group of western leaders that talk about macroeconomics and the transatlantic West under the Chatham House Rule which means what is talked about can be shared, but who said it must be kept secret (Chatham House is a British invention that is open to membership applications from the public, and the Council of Foreign Relations is American and invite only). Humanity is still growing into the shoes of a globalized internet. I am personally concerned about the weaponization of academic research. I condemn complete freedom and anarchy. For some industries, there should only be a front door.

Innovation is creatively destructive. Small businesses can disrupt monopolies with intelligence. I have been educated by the stories of François Xavier d'Entrecolles’s exposing of the secret of fine china (porcelain) and Pierre Poivre’s ending of the Dutch East India Company’s monopolistic exploitation of the people and resources of the Banda Islands. The French School of Economic Warfare and the Jeune École are interesting. Competitive intelligence and Michael Porter's teachings on strategy seem particularly useful for setting prices.

Having read about strategic lawsuits against public participation lawsuits, I am concerned about the American Rule of legal fee shifting. It’s asymmetrical lawfare. The Transnational Litigation Blog has me wary of forum selection and international arbitration clauses. My porcupine defense strategy is to move to foreign courts that lack the American Rule. I'm sharpening my quills: maybe the attorneys and I can ride the tramvaj together to the courtroom in Zagreb.

We are all connected in this environment. Butterfly effects emerge from our anthropogenic activities. I think about Ubuntu's "I am because we are" and the importance of collaboration moreso than great people. In the complexity of our relations is where my faith, hope, love, and charity emerges.

The history of the Aramaic word "Ephphatha" ("be opened") spoken by Jesus to a deaf man (Mark 7:34), His parable of the Grain of Wheat, The Bible moralisée, and The Book of Divine Works are powerful. Inspired by Pope John Paul II’s call to breathe both the Western and Eastern churches as one set of lungs, and Pope Leo XIV's call for full communion with the Orthodox Church, I am reading Anna M. Silvas’s translation of The Rule of St. Basil in Latin and English.

Every possibility is only a series of events away and time is simply a measurement. I am thankful that I am fortunate to have intelligent and loving friends, family, and a home.

I learn best through peer-to-peer hermeneutical dialogue, an internet connection, and staying skeptical, critically examining Google Gemini's responses to my questions (Socratic method) and prompts. Using ontology (what is real?) and epistemology (what does it mean to know?), I self-study and, through post-structuralist perspectives, I piece together information as fragments of the truth. I am curious about both the humanities and the sciences. In science (e.g. geology and crystals), we try to interpret the world. In humanities, we are interpreters that try to interpret other interpreters. I study math best by learning about the history of the people behind it and what they were working on (I recommend A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer & Uta C. Merzbach). I believe in creationism, that we are anthropic observers living in a fine-tuned universe, the symmetry and subsequent asymmetry of baryogengesis, emergent gravity, abiogenesis (from dust to dust [Genesis 3:19]), the hologenome theory of evolution, and the law of increasing complexity. I love reading research from the Santa Fe Institute and I wish to see the bison on the prairie at Fermilab someday. Jennet Conant’s book Tuxedo Park and Ananyo Bhattacharya’s The Man from the Future are great. John von Neumann was a mad genius. I condemn his pursuit to weaponize the weather. Weather modification (e.g. cloud seeding) can be used virtuously. I worry about the technology being used sinfully. Environmental conservation is important. I wish for our reservoirs to be surveilled by seL4 & RISC-V equipment and for the modernization of the geospatial data analysis and monitoring of our environment. I am worried about our biological exposomes (the effects of what we're exposed to) and environmental pollution.