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Back to Twitter Wars 2 →🏆 Champion: @venividinotavi
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i used to be a delivery driver. today my sister tells me that she was talking to her friend's brother and he said that SIX YEARS AGO a pretty girl delivered him pizza and he still hasn't stopped thinking about it. she showed him a pic and it was me
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@JormJohn hm that's a bit pricey for me
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I was trying to get my 16 yr old sister to hang out with me instead of her friends by saying blood is thicker than water. Then she tells me, "the blood spilled in battle is thicker than the water of the womb". bro WHAT
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my least favorite part of genesis is when noah, after being the last righteous human and only one worthy of being saved from the flood, gets drunk and passes out naked in front of his kids
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It doesn’t really make logical sense but upon investigating my experience, I realized that if I go deep enough, confronting every aspect of reality that I’m resisting means confronting my own death
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Bringing my teenage sister to a fractal Boston dinner tonight. Start em young
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I wanted to save people but now I realize I can only love them https://t.co/8qUe8m3hiJ
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another funny story from my delivery driver days is that once i wore sandals and a customer said "if i tip you will you use the money to get your toes done" https://t.co/EBH8UAEBXP
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Academic philosophy be like “how many different ways can we argue over arbitrary reifications while simultaneously ignoring the self evident characteristics of reality imbued in our own experience”
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I was posting my intimate spiritual thoughts for like a year getting 3 likes, then I post something that contains the word “pretty girl” and go viral. This is the world we live in
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i met this guy over the weekend and he said he worked for a startup that makes an ai that guesses whether people's insurance claims will be approved or denied. i said "oh that sounds kinda evil". he literally replied "yeah it's pretty evil". what
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i am now the lowliest soldier in the tpot wars @Prigoose
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I used to always take the midnight bus between NYC and Boston and wonder why my commutes were so cursed and unhinged. Anyways i am now enjoying a very comfortable and civilized afternoon ride
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It’s a great day for NINJUTSU
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it's astounding the degree to which i thought the way to do anything was to pile on more tanha
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first viral tweet giving me a fighting chance in the tpot wars https://t.co/7Jfxj20OVk https://t.co/zo8N63tavP
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A guy I know was having such a hard time letting go of his books that he paid me to give him emotional support and pack them up. Anyways if anyone else in NYC needs this service lmk
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Riding my dad’s XL men’s bike that I inherited and attempted to feminize all over brooklyn https://t.co/Bu8kww8gey
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@aaaronwill @venividinotavi Try to catch up to me
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“The vitamin” was just love bro https://t.co/hTy6BywtS2
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Success! she loved it https://t.co/YKNDRAKQKt
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When u guys wear a skirt do u pull it up or down to use the bathroom
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So done with consumerism I’m learning to sew https://t.co/v4w0O7Vs33
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@WystanTBS Wystan I can’t help but notice you have had ONE woman on your podcast in four years
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@SpiritDirtbag Tragic but return to faith is even more beautiful than never having left
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Today is a great day for KIRTAN RAVE @janitachalam
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Many are saying this https://t.co/Bh8QFvbixf
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Be still and know that I am Dog https://t.co/inQmcxeyXp
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Colors I associate with each borough Queens: 🟣⚪️ Brooklyn: 🟤🟠 Manhattan: ⚪️🔵 The Bronx: 🟢🔴 Staten Island: 🔵
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@tasshinfogleman What about this one https://t.co/IQ1JYnOag4
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NYC BHAVACAKRA. anyways pu tmrw https://t.co/o3iVK9rerU
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@WystanTBS Just wear ur monk outfit dude
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@Prigoose did you tell her about the goddess?
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if i had a nickel for every time someone called the cops on me for walking on the street without shoes i'd have two nickels
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@davidshimel maybe there's a lesson here about forgiveness actually
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@Philip2Phl99 No idea but I’m abt to start working in spiritual support in medical rehab/hospice this fall so I’ll figure it out
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@SpiritDirtbag i was once trying to find a prayer in arabic and put it how i heard it phonetically into chatgpt (basically gibberish) and it actually worked
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@TylerAlterman Welcome back!
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@aaaronwill Never would have done this but thanks
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@nopranablem Yup apparently the song “rock a bye baby” is for mothers to help channel their rage in a healthy way through singing about an infant falling to their death ??
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The brooklyn orthodox jewish population is single handedly keeping the minivan industry in business
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@tasshinfogleman Same. Feels like a healthy attachment bond in my life
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@christineist what do you practice?
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thus determining the future of humanity
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@michaeltong_ My first! lol https://t.co/rncYiKHxQ1
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@wordrotator @tasshinfogleman
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@Offadare Gravity and grace is one of my favorite books
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@corbindreams I’ve been doing ideal friend! Mostly with an image of my dad when he was my age in the army lol
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@mrmarstoday @WystanTBS
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@vividvoid Can u run it in nyc? lol
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@Prigoose HELLOOOO
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@venividinotavi you guys are really doing this just to be 3.5 million points behind me for second place
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@fishpresskeys i will be waiting 📩
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@tasshinfogleman Pleased to be reading a book now from the spinoff branch of said library
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Or really just looking at the three marks prob is more accurate
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@__drewface Yeah I think she’s coming in a couple weeks
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@__drewface Sure! Lmk if u want her contact info
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@funplings Ny is not in New England
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@QiaochuYuan Was it good
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@brimmingvessel No I have Samvega
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@AlexKrusz What do you attribute the change in heat baseline to?
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@AlexKrusz how?
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@TheHeadless235 When I was a kid I read a biography of Picasso and this was a detail they gave abt this childhood of how he immediately stood out as a great artist
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@tasshinfogleman lol i used to pretend my crush or someone was coming over when cleaning
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@michaeltong_ is this ai
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@janitachalam I had a radio show in college
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@tasshinfogleman omw
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@funplings @mesopissed This is so beautiful!
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@rotundrutabaga what book r u working with?
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@WillBamberg Lfg
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@_space_punk_ By far the best one I’ve seen
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@Prigoose ladies sewing circle??
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@WystanTBS Yo can my nano banana have image creds please.
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@davidshimel Don’t be fooled she is lethal
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@tasshinfogleman @vals_pals_ No freaking wayyyyy
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@SpiritDirtbag If this is a reference I don’t get it
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@Philip2Phl99 21st century ken kesey
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@zencephalon @tasshinfogleman https://t.co/nunAu7UYw9
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@owlthatissuperb @visakanv Wow did that give u any psychological complexes down the line?
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@funplings Haunting even
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@tasshinfogleman A home with a lending library in her name!
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@rotundrutabaga Damn I forgot Covid was a thing
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@SpiritDirtbag Aren’t they divorced?
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@adavya_sharma He was 57 so I hope not
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@QiaochuYuan did u already know that or were u particularly inspired to read the "blood is thicker than water" wikipedia page
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@pav_light WHAT WAS THIS LINE FOR i saw it on the way to tea
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@adavya_sharma wait did your company do this too?
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@venividinotavi YOOO KHRAUNGBIN SHIRT?
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@funplings @aaaronwill @venividinotavi one banger i guess
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@aaaronwill all the noises destroyed our eardrums
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@WystanTBS God bless this hot mess indeed
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@tasshinfogleman Just read on earth we’re briefly gorgeous King killer ofc I’ve been returning to a lot of childhood faves like phantom tollbooth, liesl and po Cormac McCarthy james Baldwin and Jack Kerouac also authors I rlly like
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@pav_light Would love to join
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NYC is ideal mother Jerusalem is ideal father
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@tasshinfogleman Yours!
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@funplings Stop
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@vividvoid @WystanTBS Nice lmk if u need logistical/admin support (Wystan can vouch for my retreat management experience)
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@eleventhturning in the darkness hearts aglow
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@__drewface Sounds great
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@FractalAuth @richardludlow That will get us awakened surely
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@richardludlow This is psychic power denial
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@SpiritDirtbag Good news for the fourth precept
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@IkkyusDen Many such cases
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@QiaochuYuan wdym
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@tasshinfogleman yes! i am a big fan
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@adavya_sharma plastic labs
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@richardludlow i said it SOUNDS evil, expecting him to counter with the company's virtuous mission. but he didn't
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@michaeltong_ No way
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@adavya_sharma @tasshinfogleman Come back bro ur room is empty (sorta)
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@WystanTBS @ethanwnel Yooooo ethan
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@chrislakin Incredible
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@tasshinfogleman So excited to be back!
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@corbindreams It helps me feel connected with some aspect of him since it doesn’t always feel that way in person. Plus it helps to imagine what a really constructive and healthy friendship would be like. Like IPF but more symmetrical
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@corbindreams Truthfully I had a ton of resentment towards him for being extremely aggro when I was younger. it was helpful for forgiveness to imagine him when he was my age and being in active combat. Then I realized I actually rlly liked hanging out with him in this way
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@tasshinfogleman Loveee this one
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@this_is_silvia woah
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@wilplatypus A very nice serpent directed me towards a delicious snack
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@christineist Same
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@affrodiziac_ True. But the logic is post hoc
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@funplings It does look like you
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@funplings @majamediaco Same
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@SpiritDirtbag Hahaha yes I decided to stop being an anon lurk!
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@PhaentGames Wolfwalkers was the first one I saw and I cried for an hour on a plane
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@adavya_sharma Stfu
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@funplings Wow accurate
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@WystanTBS aw
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@oryx_wren Yeah that’s a great lens. I think I’m just particularly sensitive to alcohol leading to misconduct and thus was repulsed
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@davidshimel too soon bro
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@QiaochuYuan ohhh wow. deep idiom lore
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@danielgolliher Liberal arts applications?
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@WystanTBS The last time ever??
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@TylerAlterman Can’t resist anything with Blake art
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@adavya_sharma Certainly possible tho
for my 18th birthday my girlfriend (who was a few months younger than me) invited me over to her place "while her parents were gone" 😏 when I arrived she left the room and my best friend walked in dressed as Chris Hansen and said "What did you think was going to happen here?" https://t.co/RJRSFSmAGe
I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era https://t.co/6c5b3Z0PgD
the secret to flirting is that if she likes you you can basically say whatever the fuck and if she doesn't even the smoothest line won't do shit
i used to be a delivery driver. today my sister tells me that she was talking to her friend's brother and he said that SIX YEARS AGO a pretty girl delivered him pizza and he still hasn't stopped thinking about it. she showed him a pic and it was me
In NYC, IMAX 70mm Odyssey tickets are so in-demand that they're basically just running the theater 24/7 now https://t.co/Oc1kgZJU1t
omg im so embarrassed,,, the abyss was actually gazing at its friend right behind me 😬😬😭
@chaotictransfem I am confident I could engineer a measurably better life along every quantitative axis and still be left longing for what could have been
binary search https://t.co/LUYsO1eZh4
This is such bitter loser behavior holy fucking shit, you gotta be completely cooked to think this is a flex https://t.co/eXruYXiify
every chair is a cuck chair when you're not having sex
BESTIE: ooooh third date tonight, you know what that means ME: (nodding) failing the penultimate layer of the survivability onion BESTIE: ME: fourth date he kills me https://t.co/ADPPtFiwVl
psa to sensitive young men: as long as you're respectful about it, this is how most women feel when you ask them out even if they say no https://t.co/3KwuulqQ1j
I put LotR on in Italian to see if Gandalf refers to the Balrog with the formal or informal "you" in YOU SHALL NOT PASS it's the informal, which raises a second question: is it because he doesn't respect the Balrog or because they boyz (both maiar)
*taps the sign* https://t.co/0KrgEuRyrx https://t.co/TuVacHu74P
hot girls are necessary part of a thriving city ecosystem. hot girls inspire ambitions and call you to transcend. Hot girls make the world go round. A city without hot girls is like a sky without stars https://t.co/sXPUfVmQrN
every time https://t.co/ONvY9LxIHu https://t.co/Dj2OrP7hAi
“why can’t we have this” and the images are of jared leto’s villain lair from blade runner 2049 which conveys to the audience that he is a power-hungry narcissist who builds replicants because he craves having total control over an infinite source of disposable bodies with no rights whose labor he can extract in perpetuity for his own enrichment y’know what actually, you’re right, every office in sf should look like this
in grad school i used to compulsively download interesting-sounding textbooks from libgen and sort them by subject in calibre. read almost none of them. it flattens the incentive landscape in a weird way to have invisible digital access to everything. very unnatural. the human animal yearns to come across a book organically by combing through the shelves of a library or bookstore and being struck by the physicality of its cover like our ancestors foraging through the bush for delicious treats
when i was at cambridge a professor was teaching algebraic geometry and offhandedly made some claim that was not clear to me i asked "is that obvious?" he says "yes" i asked "is it obvious that it's obvious?" he pauses for a few seconds and goes "...no" https://t.co/b5eV4r6NEO
it's common advice to dumb down your vocabulary to reach a wider audience. I wanna know who's elevating it to cut more people out. who's using words that were only written down once in the 1400s and once in the dictionary. who's writing at a 75th-grade reading level
the mark of a good streaming service is an iconic show/movie that you can't get anywhere else netflix: kpop demon hunters hbo: succession united states library of congress: Silent Footage of Liza Minnelli's Third Birthday Party as Filmed by Famed American Lyricist Ira Gershwin https://t.co/ARhr9FLymY
if you are autistic, which famously involves deficits in understanding social interactions, i do not recommend developing an elaborate theology of social relations in which autistic people are Good and neurotypical people are Bad. i recommend developing psychic powers instead
@itsyaboidougie one of the funniest things I've been a part of and I had nothing to do with it
https://t.co/EvE1DxAveH https://t.co/1tjPxawcKA
@NathanImago gdi you're right. they shouldn't have used nerf guns
this is a very sobering read. main thesis is in section 5: > Our conjecture is that a modern society makes the third child expensive and childlessness cheap, even when GDP per capita is only a fraction of the frontier (i.e., the U.S. level). Children are expensive because a child must be equipped to function in a world of formal knowledge and credentials, which takes years of costly investment (Restuccia and Vandenbroucke, 2013, Doepke and Zilibotti, 2019). At the same time, children are no longer productive in the household, not even for smaller chores, having been replaced by “engines of liberation” such as the electric appliances now available even to poor households (this idea extends the intuition in Greenwood et al., 2005). Modernity also imposes tight career schedules, set by large-scale organizations, that collide with the biological clock and with the kin networks that used to share the work of raising children (Adda et al., 2017, Compton and Pollak, 2014). And modernity makes childlessness cheap, because an impersonal society imposes next to no penalty on those who have no children: pensions and health care do the work that sons and daughters once did (Boldrin et al., 2015), and lineage counts for little. > Goldin (2026) pushes this line further with an argument about a growing mismatch between genders. Modernity also changes gender roles unevenly. Women’s opportunities expand rapidly through education, work, and greater independence, while expectations about housework and childcare often change more slowly (Goldin and Katz, 2002, Goldin, 2021). This is particularly true as economies shift toward services, where women’s comparative advantages are better rewarded (Ngai and Petrongolo, 2017). The mismatch operates at both the extensive and the 18 intensive margins: more women remain childless, and mothers have fewer children on average. > This argument is attractive because it explains why East Asia and now Latin America have such low TFRs. These are the societies where the gender mismatch is largest.19 It also suggests an intriguing possibility: societies with highly unbalanced gender norms start with very high TFRs, as men impose their preferences (Ashraf et al., 2014), and end with very low ones, as women resist (Doepke and Kindermann, 2019, Doepke and Tertilt, 2018). A paradoxical reversal of demographic fortunes. ... > In short, modernity in its current form seems largely incompatible with replacement-level fertility.
This is sincerely the most romantic story I’ve ever read. I haven’t googled it. I hope it’s true, I hope it’s real, I hope they live long and happy together https://t.co/zQIyxxOLYM
bro. a beer. a female beer
It’s gonna be real funny when the first Chinese models start triggering the Claude watermark detector
Imagine having the moment you unlocked *thinking* on camera: https://t.co/C6FhDNP8aK
@Flydie_Lwood oh, he'd been practicing
I have started putting bounties out for evidence when people try to spread lies about Pangram on Reddit https://t.co/m5WLAxp8vJ
I can't date someone with a creative passion unless I legitimately like/respect what they make. I was insane to ever think it could be otherwise
we should bring back cutely ironic punishments that echo the nature of the wrongdoer's crime for example, whoever replaced the twitter photo grid with the carousel could be drawn and quartered
“I don’t like you, and here’s your permit” is the essence of a pluralistic, small-l liberal society. https://t.co/f9B7Y8dCd7
fucking her for company secrets. call that inside her trading https://t.co/TS5aJtLDZI
thank you @NYC_DOT for fixing this! concrete barriers installed, problem solved ✅ https://t.co/RpGgpFNXqH https://t.co/ZXTntNOiID
He just whiffed that thing outta the cup so swiftlt with his hands in his pockets. Elite display of a degen skill. While wearin slacks, at that. This is the most attracted I've ever been to Tom Holland. https://t.co/lS6Uw628Pk
my current thing is doing chores lovingly. keeping love in my heart. remembering that the task in front of me is an act of love and for who. romanticizing domesticity, they call it
@pissvortex duvall-like
it blows my mind how my friends who parent enter a different timeline... it happens very quickly. they have 1 kid, then the kid is 2 years old, then they have another kid, and all of a sudden they have a whole family and household and they’re moving through a different set of moves while people who don’t have kids are still getting drinks
if you believe this you are going to own yourself for no reason. that is not what people mean by "oversharing." let me say it in the most autistic way possible: oversharing is when you have not established common knowledge that the other person wants to participate in the computation you are attempting to enroll them into participating in. it is a failure to understand basic human protocols for establishing trust, rapport, and common ground. the message you are communicating when you overshare is "i do not understand how relationships develop gradually over time as we mutually discern how much and in what ways we can and want to trust and rely on each other"
Oh, this breaks my heart. This woman needs to be in a facility. Which is what her lawyers are trying to enable. Meanwhile her doctors want her to go to jail so she doesn’t successfully sue them for irresponsibly over-prescribing while she went deeper into psychosis You probably don’t hate the medical industry enough. Like yeah, modern medicine is a miracle and a marvel, but from the bottom of my heart, fuck every physician whose concern for their patients is barely-disguised-contempt that leads to listening too little & prescribing too much
we’re all going to learn that the way someone treats AI predicts the way they treat anyone they have power over, btw https://t.co/KLtob5TO8k
walking by a math department and lobbing a golden apple that says: ✨"Round to the nearest integer: 0.49999999..."✨
@tyyler47 crazy and im sorry but also i read this as “cumming all over me google” at first and i was totally baffled
Whenever I read the term "looksmaxxing" (m2m transexualism) I recall this classic 4chan comment https://t.co/uXunbkbRzd
@mishapathy but on the flip side: if she already likes you, you basically cant screw it up!
https://t.co/8a6RmKKJPf
@marshmarigold i agree because i think if he really was trying to cheat on her, why would he even tell her about it
A variant of this: human-verified writing started 5000 years ago and ended in 2022 and NO ONE talks about this https://t.co/YV3RwA3ysd
You get one pangram release before everything from this model gets classified as AI https://t.co/2rQgbD3iyj
it turns out lots of very clever people tried thinking from first principles already, in detail, for thousands of years, and that’s how they came up with second, third, etc. principles, which correct the failures of first principles https://t.co/7f2FjlsFep
it jut keeps happening https://t.co/7LNyYNHmhD
Gorgeous girl wearing a very short yellow dress & kitten heels walking up the subway stairs and her impeccably dressed boyfriend walks carefully behind her as a shield for her ass, which is so close to out
In my view we have a few different tiers of verifiability 1) programatically verifiable (near-free) - games, coding, math, cybersecurity, chip design 2) real-world verifiable (cost-or time bounded) - sciences: biology, chemistry, physics -physical world: material science, energy, aerospace, robotics, agriculture, pharma -forecasting: trading, weather 3) verifiable with human preference - writing, design, comedy, charisma, persuasion I expect most low-hanging fruit in (1) to be solved very quickly. Not sure how much longer before more solved math conjectures are simply uninteresting. I’m least certain about chip design being in this category, perhaps we hit a ceiling and require physics or materials breakthroughs to continue progress. My guess is we will quickly run into the limits of how well we can simulate each domain in (2). The time-bounded nature of real world verification may be the reason we don’t hit fast takeoff. Sim2real remains an elusive problem to solve when real-world data is limited. Part of the reason I don’t expect to live multiple hundreds of years is simply that I expect pharmaceutical progress to be time-bounded by the physical world. I expect the items in (3) to never really get solved to a superhuman degree, as success relies on an ever-shifting plane of cultural preference. People adapted to “good” AI writing and became annoyed at new stylistic tics that, in a vacuum, are not necessarily bad.
grateful i grew up before i could access an internet filled with vicious gender / dating discourse, back in my day you just watched romcoms and listened to love songs on your ipod and you were like "hell yeah being in love kicks ass i hope i get to fall in love someday"
my contribution is that it's very weird that the sun and the moon are the same apparent size in the sky, the consensus appears to be that this is just a coincidence but that strikes me as wildly unsatisfying. seems to me there ought to be an anthropic explanation and my schizo theory is that eclipses are somehow necessary for the creation of civilization, like they provide some kind of crucial stimulus to insight or creativity or something. here's sol riffing off of this
confusing that people interpreted this as a status hierarchy. part of my motivation for going into math was that every other field seemed too *hard*. math was the only field where i could make sense of everything in my head. always resonated with this von neumann quote: https://t.co/Er8AY11mVZ https://t.co/onBl9ac62A
was at this hippie event in boulder once, one of the top 5 most beautiful women i've ever met in my life told me she'd sped up the healing of a broken bone months faster than her doctors believed possible by meditating on it every day https://t.co/9c994OkhoC