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34,300 points
To all my people who consider me a high-maintenance friend, i'm sorry. My brain was rearranged by this article and now I'm much more nosy about your lives, I send many texts, ask to meet and jump on calls constantly. I will carve out space and time for friends whenever they want, because I want the tail end to be much longer https://t.co/ckDBlGOBZw
6,200 points
You know in old cartoons how you can always tell which item is about to be interacted with? Our daily life can feel like that, with most of the environment looking/feeling "dead", except the few objects we decide to touch. But EVERY object in our awareness can be interacted with, and it's an easy way to increase an overall sense of aliveness and presence if we choose to perceive them as "available".
4,500 points
Seems like emotions can be chosen to some degree. If I hold a tiny, soft intention to feel a certain way, without forcing, it starts to happen. E.g. holding a gentle intention to feel gratitude evokes a memory or recognition of something to be thankful for. More suggestions 👇
4,400 points
Had the best time at @Casa_Tilo for 5 days in July, just chillin' and working in a mostly empty house while they were between events. I left my phone in a drawer for the majority of my stay. @RichDecibels and @LombardoNati are awesome hosts and I think of them and their house as an oasis in the desert I can come back to and rest.
3,600 points
gf follows this page "weratedogs" on IG that shares videos of the top 5 submitted dogs every week, and it always starts with "the dogs were good again this week, here are our top 5..." so I started sending her a message "the gf was good again this week, here's my top 5..." followed by a list of my favorite things she said and did in the last week. would recommend!
3,000 points
🌳🌳🌳 Scrolling checkpoint! 🌳🌳🌳 Take a breather and tell us one thing you're grateful for. 😄
2,100 points
the body often synergises much better if we ignore that it's composed of parts. e.g. imagining i'm just made of skin and everything inside is a single, homogeneous gooey substance if i want to move my arm, i just place the skin/shell out into space, and let the internal goo reconfigure itself however is necessary same for more involved movements like sitting down on the floor and getting up
2,000 points
playing long games with friends https://t.co/fuAYGNOcAM
1,900 points
has anyone here learned a new language mostly through practicing "comprehensible input"? if yes, i'd like to hear how you organize your studies, find relevant materials, and how you practice spoken production
1,900 points
I've been playing with surrender as a non-stupid life strategy (see Sasha's Substack in the first comment) for a few months and I didn't expect it to lead to an obsession with amateur radio. 🤯
1,800 points
Can't remember where I saw this, but the concept of a permanent, uninterrupted self became a lot less sticky when someone said it's a reference pointer, like "here" and "now". "Here" means the place I'm sitting right now, but it'll mean something else if I move to the kitchen or fly to Zagreb. "Now" is this moment in time, but it'll be a different now in 10 seconds or next week. In the same way, "self" just means "present moment subjective experience" and it changes all the time.
1,600 points
This works with somatics/embodiment as well. Remembering "there's a whole body here" brings it all into awareness at once, without needing heavy-handed body-scanning exercises. https://t.co/0sgtm83iPs
1,500 points
Michael exemplifies the best of what you want in a teacher. He's both big picture and detail oriented, clear, precise, great on video, practices what he preaches, and cares deeply about the student. The material of the course itself is true to the source material, field tested, enriched with Michael's experience in other traditions of inner work, and filled with great pedagogy. I'm having a lot of fun going through the new iteration of the course and would thoroughly reccomend it!
1,500 points
i would like to summon an abundance of training partners to practice all the movement shit i'm into. where are you hiding?
1,400 points
J.J. Gibson talks about "affordances". What possibilities does this object or situation afford me to do? Parkour people talk about developing "parkour vision" and seeing the possibilities of the environment for climbing, jumping, vaulting, etc.
1,400 points
Is there a resource like this for the work of Eugene Gendlin? Not just Focusing but his whole philosophy/approach? @AgotaDubi
1,300 points
anime can subtly condition us to expect any sort of development of the body to be flashy and explosive, bursting with energy but in reality it often requires sensitivity, refinement, and tuning into subtleties. you notice it clearly if you delve deeper into yoga, qigong or any somatic discipline
1,300 points
Now that the first Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie is out on Crunchyroll, I can finally go rewatch Tanjiro drop some fetters 😂
1,300 points
Big fan of this guide! It's pretty much a perfect pedagogic resource for how I want information to be structured, ordered, and presented. 👌 https://t.co/k6fdi8bvbL
1,200 points
this but the moss is the incomprehensible intelligence of the cosmos experiencing itself through you and things somehow work out https://t.co/Xm3KyC2zMT
1,200 points
Reclaiming my attention span by reading a whole book chapter in one go 🫡 https://t.co/VYVzS6XshW
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I tried to shift my practice towards Vajrayana and Tantra like the cool kids, but it wasn't the right fit, at least not yet. So I oriented back towards samadhi and I'm enjoying sitting practice much more. I'm listening to a Burbea talk and his way of explaining things makes the world go softer and my heart more open. His words create a vibe that's what I can best describe as melt-y. 😂
1,100 points
the kind of autist whose special interest is geoguesser is a terrifying new demographic there's a dude on insta who finds people's exact coordinats from e.g. a photo of a featureless cliff on the coast broski, tf you mean "that's obviously greek dirt"???
1,000 points
@exgenesis There was a bowl of Georgian kharcho I had at a foodie place in Zagreb once and I still think about it 8 years later
1,000 points
Holding an intention to be more settled and calm. Holding an intention to be more open and aware. Holding an intention to feel more energetic. Holding an intention to be excited about a task. Holding an intention to be more enthusiastic about something. Give it a shot!
1,000 points
@m_ashcroft talks about "could-ness", as in "Could I respond or act in this situation?"
900 points
I started reading about it and was hooked. Now I'm taking an exam to get a license and will be ordering some gear. I never would have chosen this, it just appeared in my life and I feel like I can't resist. 😂
900 points
I was basically watching Andor, reading The Expanse, and playing ARC Raiders and realized hmmm there's lots of shit here that works over radio, but I don't really know how the technology works or what it's applications are today.
800 points
@innerpathing @zencephalon @maebichka they're also much easier to play with if you just wanna fuck around and add a bit of weight to e.g. some calisthenic or unstructured movement one of my favorite examples (illustrative, not instructive 😄) https://t.co/qJHlJgdsiy
800 points
@nadiainthought If I'm alone, I usually play awareness games while training to make it more interesting. E.g. practicing Alexander Technique, feeling my whole body at once, moving from the center/dantien etc.
800 points
@nadiainthought Making it a social thing e.g. going with a friend or hiring a PT always makes things more fun for me. Having a coach/teacher I like and admire is especially motivating for me, because I get to absorb their vibes and knowledge as well!
800 points
@_brentbaum how make taste good without lots of sugar?
800 points
@RichDecibels Where to subscribe for algo updates??
800 points
https://t.co/IrjQPwgtkR
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"try anything else that isn't locking your mouth to the Try Harder feeding tube and guzzling guilt" https://t.co/7a1zy3zqpB
600 points
@rikardhjort Nice, thanks! I imagine comprehensible input creates enough context that can then get better organized by some more guided materials?
600 points
@univrsw3th4rt That's really useful, thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
600 points
@RichDecibels 🙋♂️
600 points
My biggest bottleneck is mobility, due to a desk job and injury history. If I could hit a decent pancake stretch and bridge, it would unlock a lot. Re: application, to get better at wrestling, parkour, and acrobatics. Also, an aerial flip and a 30sec handstand would make me very happy. 😁
600 points
@nadiainthought It's worth testing whether you prefer 1:1 (coach, buddy) or 1:N (e.g. a class). I respond really well to 1:1. And then learning what kinds of teachers or training partners I prefer etc.
600 points
@nadiainthought I also enjoy having a physical notebooks for tracking exercises and making the pages look nice as I mark sets off + using a decent timer/app. Gadgets like an Oura ring or chest strap for cardio. These are only 1% improvements but hey, any port in a storm 😄
600 points
@zencephalon @Prigoose I do the same! 😁 My mentors are always so inspiring. I also try to meet at least one new teacher per year. Cheng Hsin this year!
600 points
I emphasize again not forcing anything to happen. Just hold the intention and let it build on its own. Relax and be curious about what might happen as you continue to hold the intention. 🌀
600 points
@khaaags Hah! We're few and far between. 😁 I've read ZBB twice and am working my way through The Art of Mastery + this one ☝️ I'm actually going to a Cheng Hsin training camp this month!
600 points
@RichDecibels 🫡
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@RichDecibels Nice! Reminded me of this: https://t.co/WYHfyl0BRI
500 points
fold and unfold the body like a single, versatile piece human origamy what animates a skeleton in a videogame? let it animate you as well, just bones moving around easily end the tiranny of "muscles"! embrace the goo!
500 points
I wish popular media hid genuine contemplative practices and skill development instructions into the narative. Kid me would have eaten that shit right up!
400 points
@rikardhjort ah got it, thank you!
400 points
@babieswithb may the bodyworker gods bless you
400 points
@zencephalon indeed! ☀️
400 points
@tasshinfogleman https://t.co/FuYj8yhcCe
300 points
@alchemist_digi hello friend, what are you training?
300 points
here's one where he found a guy from a photo of a payment plus scrolling through his IG follows https://t.co/4pZD6zI8o6
300 points
kinda cool that you can write 500+ pages on NOT knowing things
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