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Back to Twitter Wars 2 →🏆 Champion: @venividinotavi
🏆 Champion: @Liface
🏆 Champion: @funplings
🏆 Champion: @__drewface
🏆 Champion: @qiaochuyuan
221 posts · 202,500 points
4,600 points
during parkour @ fractal all these new affordances in your environment are pointed out to you - "you can jump off this bench, you can go under this railing" etc. @maximumnewyork also does this but with new york city govt. I want more people in different domains to do this
3,400 points
few things I've learned from the fractalU parkour class: - constraints (e.g. only use one foot) reveal new ways to navigate your environment - you can always find ways to play at the edges of your own risk tolerance - there's crazy alpha in doing stuff you've never done
3,300 points
i've been doing morning pages again but doing it with eyes closed and typing as fast as possible and this seems to facilitate receiving transmissions
3,100 points
I'm hosting a kirtan rave this wednesday evening in brooklyn! come through https://t.co/dQ2QiPjhoy https://t.co/OnxNvK1HR7
2,800 points
I did it! https://t.co/YJApdxZDAV
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my goal is to talk to 10 random people this week
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met someone who likes to sing harmonies at our dreamlining event and we ended up singing lithuanian folk songs together by candlelight yesterday 😌 such a cool experience
2,500 points
I Gained Theory Of Mind in 2026
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I am very afraid of having my mind polluted by ideology bubbles (I feel particularly susceptible to this as it has happened before). The best hedge I know is to talk to and befriend as many people as possible from different information spheres
2,400 points
I wanna write about the kind of party I would like to attend. I think it would be fun to dream about the details
2,300 points
I was complaining about being too much of an idea guy and my friend went on a rant about how dreaming is an essential part of the creative process and one of the most beautiful experiences we can have
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i'd like to watch someone scroll their timeline while narrating their internal experience out loud
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I love seeing the aesthetic imprint of my friends' inner worlds
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I remain concerned & confused about this https://t.co/64l71KLJyW
1,900 points
I just feel good when I gaze at trees. I gaze at trees often, and I think about these words from @TVachaW and @relic_radiation: https://t.co/vI3EtxeA32
1,900 points
at the last festival we went to my friend wore a skirt that she had sewn a bunch of slinkies onto. she said it helped her echolocate while twerking
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compassion, courage, honesty @desertgodhead @fishpresskeys i enjoyed our conversation on virtues and i want to discuss it more
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i find the perennial nyc vs sf rivalry funny
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@strangestloop @desertgodhead @aaaronwill @venividinotavi @rendroid1 @JackKrone @mradul_swapnil i've been having a lot of fun, twitter wars + vibecamp helped me feel like I belong on twitter and we're all friends here
1,800 points
like I have this optimization impulse to just get everyone to figure out what they all have to offer and exchange resources transactionally, but I think in reality to create a flourishing network you have to plant many seeds, make it fun to engage, create conditions for trust https://t.co/8WBPECjQUl
1,800 points
under the brooklyn bridge, great place for a popup rave or silent disco https://t.co/kU2UM5xDIU
1,800 points
the best party i've been to was in SF where they rented a mansion and musicians & artists created different worlds in each room
1,700 points
realizing I have no idea how to think about money and the role it should play in my life
1,700 points
I've been thinking about this a lot. context shapes whether you connect with something: your mood, the quality of your attention, the atmosphere around you.. I could love or hate a song depending on where or when I heard it, and what other songs I heard around it https://t.co/C4fhzhjbNL
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my favorite part was when we were chanting and the first bass drop came in and ppl started bobbing their heads appreciatively https://t.co/IQNu9XNfd5
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talking to a bunch of people and sharing tacit knowledge seems increasingly valuable
1,700 points
"gonzo journalism" but you're just going around your neighborhood talking to people
1,600 points
i'm water-like and fill in the cracks of people when i'm with them but its hard to be solid and repel bad people or assert myself. i've never exited a conversation or started a conflict. this makes me catnip for narcissists any advice on how to get past this
1,600 points
it's funny, I've spent the last 10 years carefully stamping out all the poetic, romantic, intuitive aspects of me to fit into the perfectly analytical & cerebral mold that I thought I should aspire to. only to wake up and find that I've forgotten how to listen to my true antenna
1,600 points
All I Want To Do Is Be Outside
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curation is hard
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whoa @desertgodhead is killing it https://t.co/KVeoL36lm1
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I want a party that is so attuned to your senses that it induces synesthesia
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@pav_light yes! @Prigoose and I got inspired by the edge city agent-based coordination idea. we want to try this with the fractal community
1,600 points
i like the way these vines have grown up this wall https://t.co/EBqsNsIUwE
1,500 points
follow the fuck energy
1,500 points
everyone is just some guy
1,400 points
if you want me to engage with something, send it my way.. i'm ready to print out your essay and read it with a highlighter or listen to your song in a dark room with headphones https://t.co/8LXN3EMfew
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5/10 so far. mostly asking people random questions about the environment or what they're doing. all interactions were either neutral or surprisingly pleasant https://t.co/YJApdxZDAV
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I get on a caffeine-fueled manic high every morning and text a bunch of people and start like 15 new projects. been in this mode for the past several months. it's been fun but I wanna be serious now and actually finish one thing at a time so I can get real feedback
1,400 points
i wanna find the nastiest beats and sing sweetly over them
1,300 points
had a manic phase after this. friend said I was giving kanye https://t.co/TTpvZhOfoy
1,300 points
grateful for my fellow travelers
1,300 points
very strange how half my infosphere is freaking out and the other half has never even heard of what the former is freaking out about
1,300 points
making things that are imbued with a sense of grandeur feels like an act of reverence for life itself https://t.co/hGpItqm54n
1,300 points
I came up with a name for this, 'bass goddess' https://t.co/ffsOlnfZe6
1,300 points
I notice it's becoming less and less cool to not have a sense of taste & aesthetics https://t.co/RVbLbQHfFE
1,300 points
one time I was ocd spiraling in the car, convinced I had left the stove on, and claude comforted me by reminding me that there are many other ways that things could go catastrophically wrong at any moment so don't bother worrying about this one
1,300 points
e.g. when I host social events I can't just let people talk idly, I have to impose some sort of activity or constrain the way they communicate https://t.co/OK6qScIEFJ
1,300 points
it makes sense that trust is an important precondition for coordination. rather than trying to engineer our way around the need for trust with platforms or protocols, can we create better conditions for trust to form?
1,300 points
there is yearning for more beauty not only in our built environment but in our experiences of faith through art and collective effervescence
1,200 points
all my loved ones are learning their enneagram types. like a marvel cast we will assemble
1,200 points
my favorite of @Liface's rules of good social skills is "You win many more hearts playing the curious and thoughtful midwit than the lecturing genius" https://t.co/RF7qcNOr3c
1,200 points
@Prigoose scheming about running a 'find your life project' residency through fractalU
1,200 points
I can tell when I want something for inauthentic reasons when I'm romanticizing the shape of the thing rather then having the shape emerge from some other, genuine pull of curiosity
1,200 points
if you're at a concert or on a dancefloor one of the best things you can do to have a good time is figure out where to position your body relative to the speakers. the sound quality can change dramatically depending on where you are in the room
1,200 points
group singing will save us
1,100 points
according to one friend I am undefended and infant-like. according to another there is something in me that is asking for permission to exist. I'm not sure what to make of this. maybe this is what they are pointing to? it doesn't feel like there is something there to protest
1,100 points
greenwood cemetery is gorgeous https://t.co/B1EeiDqD1Q
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and would have some element of absurdity to make it easy to slip into different characters
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want to set aside dedicated time to engage with my friends' creative outputs
1,100 points
life path option 1: girlboss life path option 2: witchy kirtan lady option 3: ???
1,100 points
what if you had a radio station for your community. like one big walkie talkie
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I am cringe bc I can get too academic / dreamy about stuff. I also have an allergy to being seen as normal so I do stuff in unnecessarily weird ways
1,100 points
i aspire to be both a romantic dreamer about the future and someone who fucks around and finds out
1,100 points
creating templates for social infrastructure, something that can replicate itself, seems like a good thing to do. my friend did this with the NY philosophy club and now it's wildly successful and has moved to multiple cities
1,000 points
feeling happy. went to a bodega and made extended loving eye contact with a dog
1,000 points
excited to do more small-scale social gatherings with curated groups. earlier this year @patxnoir 'tapped' me to join their tribe and it led to some really cool experiences and connections. find your tribes 🧙♀️
1,000 points
I spend a lot of time staring out the window
1,000 points
there is infinite complexity to fall into wherever you look
1,000 points
it was computer induced https://t.co/68AjoIlV7T
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the 'engineering problem' actually seems to be figuring out what social mechanisms want to be created, which can often themselves be simple. I still keep coming back to fractalU as a great example of this, it's a notion doc in the right context that creates immense value
1,000 points
@pav_light I was gonna suggest the rose reading room but then I realized that's what the image is of
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nathan fielder is my spirit animal and a big inspiration for the absurdist in me. 'smokers allowed' was a work of genius and I think about it often
1,000 points
on a sacred quest to cure my autism
1,000 points
I wanna build an essay to experiment pipeline
1,000 points
@Prigoose I've been using boardy and its actually pretty good. I could imagine something like that for fractal
900 points
there is an aesthetic world that is roaring to come out of me and i see it in my friends eyeballs too which is why it makes me mad that we're not all just _going_ for it already
900 points
most of the people i know are good, impossibly good, but I do encounter evil sometimes as it passes through them and i've known evil intimately before. what are we to do with it
900 points
I need to learn how to locate my anger.. it currently takes me days to know if something bothered me, and even then I experience it only vaguely
900 points
read more primary sources https://t.co/Hnai0lUwer
900 points
one of my great joys this year was discovering that you can reach out to people you admire and ask for coaching / mentorship
900 points
can't believe we don't use our whole bodies to interact with the internet yet
900 points
I know it would involve different zones / worlds of some kind and would engage all of the senses
900 points
feels like I'm doing a speedrun of the adolescence I never had
900 points
often the difficulty with getting started is not knowing what actions you can even take
800 points
when I am walking in a crowd, and especially when I can see many heads bobbing into the distance, I get the acute sense that this is God Walking
800 points
the objects you surround yourself with matter, they weave themselves into your experience. this little django and big billie holiday have formed the texture of october for me https://t.co/eKEnEu5Q1z
800 points
if there is one thing i'm devoted to it is rhythm
800 points
I will now attempt to befriend the void
800 points
me & my friends tryna seed new religions
800 points
I can't wait to have my mind back
800 points
I think about this often https://t.co/7A8ldh4F1Q
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curators can create new worlds by understanding this
800 points
to be a cyborg is to extend your cognitive and physical system in novel ways. experience fun like you never have before https://t.co/vsQPYLaENP
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villager is one of my favorite DJs. their music feels like what it's like to be in new york: gritty and industrial, with an organic hope https://t.co/Gr5PCX3NqU
800 points
@pav_light more broadly, I feel like the progress and abundance communities have a lot of great thinkers writing about ways the world could be. they call it 'intellectual entrepreneurship.' I want to collaborate with people to try these ideas on small scales and then write about the results
700 points
it’s glowy outside the energy is dripping down me like candle wax
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@Prigoose whoa! I will try it
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there are not many spaces to experience beauty or whimsy in ordinary life and i think this is what a good party or concert or museum can do for people.. but ideally its in your living room too, the feeling of awe of light pouring through stained glass flickering candles etc etc
700 points
I think reading literature can very well amplify madness.. I remember reading the bell jar in high school and it introduced me to a kind of melancholy I hadn't known before
700 points
the idea of a 'haunting' is so appealing to me.. seems to capture the spirit of the numinous, of being taken by something mysterious & slightly dangerous
700 points
@puheenix you like to sing right? would love to sing harmonies sometime!
700 points
@VarunGodbole @majamediaco I think people who create beauty have aura. Pete has mad aura
700 points
@relic_radiation I am deeply resonating with this
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@Liface do you have thoughts on what makes a good mission statement / values? I've always felt like mission statements of organizations i've been in have been too generic
700 points
there really is something spiritual / unifying about bass music. needs to be explored more
700 points
@tasshinfogleman do you have any stories or examples of what that looks like :)
700 points
organizations are people
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still like 90% overthinker but we're Working on It
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@fishpresskeys curious what are your avenues for doing this?
700 points
I carry many of your spirits with me, parasocially
700 points
i can't sing in english for some reason. the only thing i can do in english is schizo rap
700 points
what was once quiet desperation is now deafeningly loud
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thinking about that first hot week in spring when sex was in the air and i experienced salvation in the club
600 points
i have many looking glasses but someday I will embrace Reality in its bareness
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@Prigoose :o I thought maybe you were type 8!
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i am acquiescent like a dewdrop
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@Liface @reducesuffering I think you embody the virtuous form of it
600 points
seems that meaning in life is always conducted through The Others.. knowing them, loving them, helping and seeking salvation through them
600 points
often feel vulnerability afterburn after exposing myself publicly. coming to accept this sensation as growing pains
600 points
i want to make a bop-it for musicmaking
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@sophievision @bryan_johnson I probably have this too, what are the consequences of having dry eyes?
600 points
@fishpresskeys that was a journey!! i love it
600 points
my love is no longer abstract
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@Tharin_P what are we to do, friend?
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@sophievision lmaoo
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@relic_radiation The underlying spiritual belief now like ‘Reality cannot ever completely be known, and in fact the same complexity that gives arise to us is what also causes us to be eternally mystified by Reality. Living is joyful engagement and relinquishing control to this uncertainty’
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@relic_radiation The idea that models are useful insofar as they provide interaction pathways is really appealing because I think ‘knowing’ is achieved through embodied action, and a model can reveal affordances for action.
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@relic_radiation But now my belief is that reality is infinitely complex and models provide a way for our minds to be able to apprehend complexity
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@relic_radiation so I used to not be able to fathom the distinction between models and reality. my belief was something like ‘the spiritual quest is the sequential attainment of all knowledge.” Sort of like this: https://t.co/tx4baCldU2
600 points
@majamediaco I love it, am enjoying following along
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@christineist it would be cool if you could leave reviews / vouch for fractalU classes (or events more broadly)
600 points
@tasshinfogleman same 🥹
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this is the role of a DJ or a professor or a party host. they create a world for us to bathe our attention in
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@brimmingvessel wait did we know each other in sf :o
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@pav_light "stop journaling" agreed, it is too seductive for thinkers
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@aaaronwill i'm trying to curate the songlist for this music event
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@seanta___ I am trying to avoid scenes with no below-the-head communciation
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@christineist I agree, SF made me ugly, then NYC forced me to confront my lack of style
600 points
@fishpresskeys I'd be down to go to more jams & gigs!
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@nihilautomnia it did. now I remind myself everything's always hanging by a thread
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@pav_light have you heard of Roost? your messages take the same amount of time it would take whatever bird you choose to reach your friend
600 points
@zencephalon what do you do in particular for recovery?
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@christineist how do you ensure that it stays high trust?
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@lorenz_system excited to try!
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@lorenz_system godspeed!
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@patxnoir YES. I dream about this often
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i like these crunchy sour candies. it is like eating chips and candy at the same time https://t.co/MU0HxKcTOk
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let's have more dress codes
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@Tharin_P the aunties will forever be auntie-ing
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'frothing at the mouth' is such a delightful image. i often feel this way
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it is time for more whimsy and more sincerity
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I do wish for us to be able to talk to the gods
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it is and always was social for us <3 much of what we do is gossip and other random social games dressed up in different costumes
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this is part of the reason I avoided twitter for so long. but the deeper anxiety here is like 'it is just beliefs all the way down and there truly is no capital-t Truth to tether myself to'
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I gaze at trees to revive my slop-weary eyes https://t.co/mMQ1KaewA4
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@Liface yess a plan is already in the works :)
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@Prigoose I really like vouching!
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gossip is fun and important
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maybe it was about art all along
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time to get overcaffeinated and do my daily haunting
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@StellarFloat I did! thank you <3
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@sksq96 i mean it’s somewhat related but I was talking about humans haha
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@cosmictealatte miss you too <3
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@Prigoose @puheenix wait me and @amerial_writes were literally recording a podcast in there the other day
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@Prigoose I'd love to help, also I know @sksq96 was working on something like this
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@funplings lol i'm not sure
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@snnneee a lovely image
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@aishdoingthings oh god
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the feeling of october to me is this haunting vocal that comes in at 8:08 https://t.co/DkuIkYZGK8
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@StellarFloat I sincerely hope so
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I guess I'll turn my bourgeois impulses towards social games https://t.co/LwfcDxOIsq
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@sophievision @bryan_johnson :o
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@seanta___ lmaooo
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@array_hog i think you influenced me
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@kailajlim broad shoulders posture straight is key
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@mradul_swapnil unclear yet 🤔
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@chihuahuapilled yes please
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@relic_radiation It’s a very enneagram type 5 way of looking, if you’re into that sort of thing
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@pav_light the sign said it was closed but the door was unlocked haha
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@fishpresskeys <3
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@tasshinfogleman would love to
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@zencephalon this is powerful
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@pav_light i was in this loop for many years
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check out the Qualia DJs if one is interested
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re: absurdity I want to host a 'slice of life' party where there are ambient microphones around and there's a spectator section where people can watch other partygoers interact
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@julianboolean_ that's cute :)
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@lorenz_system yes exactly!
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@aaaronwill I usually try to go center or front middle
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@Duderichy noo it can't be
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@mradul_swapnil @desertgodhead it's https://t.co/cO0p1NwrFu
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watch this before sleep tn https://t.co/vPYPEOW7w5
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i just have a strange relationship to words in music. like i like the sounds of words more than i like the meaning of them
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we need hip-hop & trap. where is it https://t.co/zgEpm3WMmj
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I’ve made so many cool Indian friends this year
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@desertgodhead sick what kinda radio show
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@tasshinfogleman I eventually want to be able to talk to and befriend anyone. Right now it's like I'm living with these invisible barriers constraining whom I can and can't interact with
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@mradul_swapnil yea you seem good at that
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@Liface hahaha I just get very triggered when I overhear two people (that I know are much more interesting) larping as normies bc they don't know each other and haven't been given the right prompt
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@pjtoye what do you usually approach people with?
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@VarunGodbole kirtans in east village and raves in brooklyn
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@zencephalon I agree and I think of optimism less as prediction and more as a willingness to look for paths forward
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@Liface :o i'd like to get there
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@christineist I really resonate with this "creating events allows me to explore certain unarticulated desires, dreams, and obsessions that have manifested in a latent and limited way in my daily life...the mind can interact with the world in a playful way"
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@theJayAlto i feel this
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@katecholamine :o
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@signulll I'd want to host & attend more phone-free events
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there's an event idea brewing here
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@QiaochuYuan whoa
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@aaaronwill say more? what's the vision
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@swappysh the People
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@Tharin_P lmao
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@mradul_swapnil 🥺
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@desertgodhead thanks for coming!
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@funplings the autism
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I think what helps is imagining my head as an Ear for thoughts
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@neallseth we need something like this for nyc
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@___Atin___ I want to learn this
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UK garage also makes me feel like this. what a blessing it is to have ears 👂 https://t.co/V2f4K7W6Ez
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@aaaronwill that's genius
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
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@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!
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@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