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Judah: based on what though? Nihal: Thinking hurts. I don’t know.And this is the critical departure of all other optimisms! St. Paul, and Christ, do not preach restoration of ‘balance’. We aim not to return to the Garden, or return to the womb, as it were, but to welcome a sparkling new order that puts our origins to shame, and scorns the ideal of ‘balance.’ What is the telos of the Buddhist? Nothing returned to Nothing. The Taoist? Nature returned to Nature. And for the Esquimaux and Crozier? A monster returned to satisfaction. It’s not that we overcome the monster; we learn to live with it. We live with it until it dies because of the sick souls of the white man, the true alien in the land of the north, then we, the colonizers and imperialists, are the monster, the terror, kept appeased with offerings of more land and finer riches. I don’t say this to bemoan this move as some outdated progressive saw. The trope itself reveals the same sort of naturalistic eschatology as the Esquimaux myth! The progressive cry of liberation is precisely an immanent Return to Nature.hihelphello (OP): I legitimately learned how to sing when trying to do a Cameron Winter impression. Cameron’s voice to me is like Billy Corgans voice in a way. they are very emotive in a unique way that is a bit jarring at first. I was fuckin around with my brother after i first heard geese. i was doing a cameron winter impression and while I kept doing it I noticed my voice didn’t hurt like when I tried singing before. like now I just try and sound like cameron winter and then change my annunciation to be more natural to me and I’ve discovered my voice. I’ve been writing songs for a long time and I’ve never been able to sing them until now. thank you Mr Winter and your wobbly voice whocanwetrust47: actually same here. his voice is unique and deep in a way that’s more natural to me i guess, and even though over this past 6 months ive grown away from that impression it was basically impersonating him that helped me shy away from straining my voice like i used to. hihelphello (OP): Like it taught me how to be loose in my voice, when I’m singing I like to be completely relaxed and the only muscles I’m using are my diaphragm and like my legs for standing lolThere’s a particular type of joy that comes from running companies that you fully control, and this year, I got a taste of what that felt like. The joy comes from the following things: 1. You get to pick who you work with. If you are wise, you will pick only those who are competent, who have excellent character, and who you enjoy associating with. 2. More importantly, you can cut out from your life people who you do not want to associate with. This reads like an unalloyed good, but it really isn’t: there are tradeoffs. About which, more in a bit. 3. Given the above two things, you can go into the world together and prove that certain ideas you’ve noticed actually works. And since this is business that we’re talking about, you can do this in a way that makes everyone wealthy. In exchange for these properties, you make the following tradeoffs: You give up on opportunities — potentially very lucrative opportunities — that involve people you do not want to associate with.iPhone home screen at 1:33. Screen Time widget: 5h 5m. Spotify widget: The Habit by Arthur Moon. Things widget, Today: Reply to Kobie’s email; Decide on singing practice routine for cook…; Tell Jihad and Shashank about Interact exp…; webcraft.joodaloop.com; Create new ABJ layout idea. Apps: Echo, NetNewsWire, Mail, Substack, Bear, Safari, Telegram, Retro.…(chart showing surge in Gen Z sports betting; blurry photo of woman bound and gagged in dungeon, bottom text, “Now I can finally chill”; headline, “Why Young People Aren’t Saving for Retirement”; viral GIF of woman falling down hole), caring less about living their values (YouTube thumbnail: “I TOPPED A COP?!?!”; post, “some of you mfs acting like Messrs Homo and Gayguy”; condom use down among 18–24yos; “TheeSoberGirl Relapses: ‘I Got Bored’”; pop star publicly apologizes for publicly apologizing: “I’m sorry . . . to myself!!”; stand-up clip, “Imagine a pedophile with executive dysfunction. Just no kids at all”; video of pundit fatally shot on college campus, caption, “bro let out a yelp”; supercut of teens repeating phrenological misinformation), and turning to nihilism and hedonism. (Report on Gen Z “doom spending”; fake ad for 2-in-1 Gun Hat, “It’s Right by Your Mouth!”; low health bar added to photo of dead biker; event page, “When Global Warming Reaches 1.5°C We’re Smoking Crack”; podcast clip, two girls: “Why are we talking about history when we’re reborn every day? We need to be feeling the angels . . .”; podcast clip, two guys: “You’re not me. I’m not you. So what are we doing here?”; glitchcore lyrics, “take the stripes out my drink imma die tonight / put MORE stripes in my drink imma die tonight”; credit card debt reaches all-time high; trend report on “moneycore”; Prada-branded noodles sell out in an hour; Cheetos-branded hojicha-flavored vape sells out in an…Andi (@Nexuist): (the most beautiful offline European woman you’ve ever seen making her first Threads post) we live in a society with SMART cars and DUMB drivers 🤣🤣🤣Reminders: burn out and don’t touch a computer for six months (15/01/24)judah (@joodalooped): i know the Substack people love to celebrate that long form is alive and well but looking at the feed there i’m starting to wish it wasn’t. there is a brevity to a tweet thread that trumps every 4k word self-indulgent rant that doesn’t even tell the truth by the end The Artist fka mycelium: I have such a hard time reading substacks. There is rarely any payoff, even among people I like reading here. The design & interface makes me take it less seriously also judah: EXACTLY RIGHT. on both counts, no payoff + depressing interface The Artist fka mycelium: “you should write on substack” “why haven’t you restarted your substack” “all the best writers are there” [missing out noises] .. no! I need beauty and craft and context !shako (@shakoistsLog): Talking to a friend who works more than me: buddy, it’s called life. It’s called joy, time with family. Nature. Talking to a friend who works less than me: at a certain point in every man’s life he needs to step up broTaylor Swift as blurry jpeg (31st May 2023), next to a heavily compressed photo of Taylor Swift. her political economy, for some reason. Confidence: N/A. howling my aesthetics. Topic importance: 3 / 10. Argument: 1. Taylor Swift is treated as an auteur musician but is patently not one. The borrowed ingenuity of a creative staff of dozens helps her seem large. 2. But presenting as one is a backdoor vulnerability for audiences and music critics: it gives her machine the heft and seriousness of the outcast singer-songwriter tradition. Its collective output is recast as one authentic voice, An Artist. 3. Various other tricks are employed (false intimacy, the tabloid engine, the girlsquad) to further superstimulus. 4. She is remarkable in nonmusical ways: in polymorphous emotional appeal, brand management, business sense, iteration, and the use of critics to increase her fame, righteousness, and fan engagement. 5. I’d shut up if the machine just had a different name which acknowledged that its products are the creation of many people, or if its figurehead were less lionised, or if people stopped putting its products in the place of art music.@ratlimit: cw sa ok tl so be fr is sa rp ok if im an xx nb ?? my bf or so or we is an nb yt tw so ik it is up to me to do it if we do do my nc rp bc he is xy so if we do an xy on xx nc rp it mb nc nc ie fr sa. oh ya to me he is my he bc we do bf on gf rp, my 2c is it is ok bc tl dr im nd XD1997 FORD FIESTA (@skooookum): When I say “Reddit Object”, this is neither praise or criticism. Not unlike the word “lindy”, it’s merely an objective designation. Here are some more examples of Reddit Objects: (a French press, a rice cooker, a white sedan, wool hiking socks, a cast iron skillet, a multitool, leather lace-up boots) SIN in NYC (@singularitttt): Instagram Object (an orange Dutch oven, a pink all-in-one pan, a pink weighted blanket, a plush bag charm, a pink Stanley cup, a black ruched shoulder bag, a lighter, a Dyson Airwrap)anjali: agentic slides Judah: angelic slides Judah: agentic slides a.k.a claude crocs anjali: tweet thatAs for most people’s reviews saying they wept like a baby because the story was so sad… it reminds me of someone’s comment on Grave of the Fireflies. Lots of people also thought that film was super sad, but one person noted how the sadness in the movie is like a jump scare in a horror film — it’s too obvious. The film is trying too hard to make you feel things that it comes across as forced rather than natural and subtle. That’s why I thought the ending of Tale of Princess Kaguya was infinitely sadder than Grave of the Fireflies. And that’s why I didn’t feel sad at all reading The Kite Runner. It was too forced, trying too hard to be a tear-jerker, which only made me roll my eyes.“Just because the iron is hot is not a good enough reason to strike,” he says, chuckling. “You can’t just be striking blindly. You’re going to make a pancake if you strike too much. It’s still metalworking—a delicate profession, despite what they’d have you believe.”bunny (@dismantledusagi): Shit like this geniuely helped me stop self harming because I dont want someone to look at me and think of this meme mr online (@Absolunar): (wojak drawing of an emo guy with cuts on his arms, flanked by two razor blades, wearing a shirt that says “GUYS LOOK I CUT MYSELF”)machine gun kelly: travis kelce: April Clark (@autogynefiles): (blushing)You have the biggest carbon footprint of anyone I’ve been withdinosaurs (@dinosaurs19…): how it feels to say “some would argue” when im the some who would argue (painting of a wolf peeling off a sheep mask)Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv): how i’ve come to think about it since having a kid (image of nested wooden puppets pulling each other’s strings, labelled from largest to smallest: ENVIRONMENT, mind, body, mind, body) yatharth (@AskYatharth): a “want to want” is something your mind wants. a “want” is something your body wants.°ᕮᘐ✦ᘓᕭ°. (@cyber_l0ser): miso soup is so cute like yes ur sooo soup !!Why did the confirmation bias folks get things so wrong? The answer — which is a bit of an open secret — is that the entire field of cognitive biases and heuristics is built around a flawed methodology. The field conducts experiments by administering toy problems to unskilled test subjects (undergrads, mostly) in artificial lab environments. All the cognitive processes demonstrated by the participants in these studies are then labelled as ‘reasoning errors’ or ‘biases’ whenever they result in the wrong answers. And make no mistake: these cognitive processes are real; the vast majority of them are reliably replicated in lab study after lab study, over the course of decades. But if you study practitioners solving real problems in naturalistic environments — problems that they have actual expertise in — you will find that all the same cognitive processes that result in ‘reasoning errors’ on lab tests are suddenly deployed in ways that produce excellent performance. This has been the finding of the Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) branch of applied psychology — which Klein helped start — in study after study, ‘bias’ after ‘bias’, for the past 30 years.shrimpgod23: @themostslickrick because it’s an absolute beautiful song dood. But you can be free, and still come home that’s alright.Open Safari tabs: India’s AI Wedding Buffet (Generous Portions, Political Economy Heartburn) by Shruti Rajagopalan; Approaches to tenancy in Postgres by Simeon Griggs; Transit | Case study by Noman Ijaz; chinese creativity (a visit to china pt.3) by Spencer Chang; Before Women Could Choose Divorce, They Chose Poison on Medium; “Wholesale Transfer Pricing” and the “Free Parking” Business Model.The famous Project Xanadu UI/UX is a “science fiction interface”, like the 3D gesture interfaces in the Minority Report movie or the virtual reality of Snow Crash: everyone looks at them and is dazzled and wowed by how cool they look, except they are a terrible idea which would be a misery to use and give you “gorilla arm”. You try out a prototype or mockup, and almost as soon as you start using them, you realize that no, this isn’t workable and you have to throw it out completely.KANYE WEST (@kanyewest): Stop takin this social media shit so serious 🦆🚗 look the duck bigger than the car nun of this shit real 🤦🏾‍♂️Open Safari tabs: apartment birds; Understand - a novelette b…; Simon Peyton Jones - Wikipedia; BORN TO DIE CHORDS; Sensemaking as the Heart…; GREEN EYES CHORDS by C…Open Safari tabs: Webcurios 12/06/26; A Graph-Based Firebase; Handmade Seattle 2023 by Carl Sverre; Where the Wild Things Are (Looking at Picture Books); Wet-bulb temperature - Wikipedia; Longreads + Open Thread by Byrne Hobart.Open Safari tabs: Byline: Structured Identity…; Stuart Breckenridge; The Man from Earth; Morality without skyhooks by Lionel Page; You should not open a door and see someone pooping by Adam Mastroianni; St. Joan and St. Thérèse: A typology.In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative Love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together, each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions; when four or five of us after a hard day’s walking have come to our inn; when our slippers are on, our feet spread out towards the blaze, and our drinks at our elbows; when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freemen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life—natural life—has no better gift to give. Who could have deserved it?Black Hole, Charles Burns. I. In a recent episode of the (excellent) Weird Studies podcast on the (excellent) graphic novel Black Hole (1995), J.F. Martel asks why mutants and the medium of comics have had such a love affair over the years. His tentative answer: because comics evolved out of the doodling of bored adolescents. “It’s so easy when you draw a little man with a little hat and a moustache to give him a tail or horns. The medium invites a kind of amorphousness, a delving into the way that anything can become anything else.” To put the idea in slightly more formal terms, we might say that all mediums lend themselves to the exploration of certain adjacent possibilities. In the case of comics and animation, this adjacent possibility is morphological variation.Open Safari tabs: All tomorrow’s parties. — E…; Dear Steve Lemay; Brunello Cucinelli – On my…; On Self-Respect – Alex Bur…; Recursive Ordering by tantaman; Mechanical sympathy by Vicki Boykis.Napoléonos I Tritharsaléos (@Brumairian): The reason why this is a good observation to make, and why neither chasing nor continuous maintenance should be required of a friend, is metaphysical. Friendship is love of the mind, and minds exist in sequentiality rather than temporality, so no communication for several months should not change it because that time isn’t logged only events are. If someone tells you that their friendship requires maintenance, they don’t love your mind they love something lesser than that about you. Most likely this is some utility that you provide for them. j (@meadandjuniper): Or they are anxiously attached / insecure / desperate for you / etc and see you not paying attention to them as a threat to their self worth. Don’t ask me how I know this Napoléonos I Tritharsaléos (@Brumairian): This actually isn’t a different thing. If your attention is vital to their self-worth, then you are actually an economic asset to them and they don’t really love you at all. Maybe they aren’t even capable of it.Manav: I’m actually “affirming the will” at this point Manav: I actually LIKE AI for all of this because it is the first pole in modernity that a thoroughgoing humanism can react against Manav: Humanism has been dying Manav: Too in the water Manav: Too boring Manav: Humanism is to rage against something Manav: We were in the thymotic arc of reinventing fascism so we could rage against it humanistically again Manav: We probably still are but AI has poured petrol all over that shitTwo. There’s a way of talking to people without talking to them, a way of talking to the air, to yourself, to the memory of your ex from five years ago. You can carry out an entire argument for a solid hour without once taking in the presence of the other people in the room, and those people will spend the whole time wishing they were on their phones instead, except for the one guy who’s doing the same thing back at you. There’s a kind of sex that amounts to masturbation using another person as a dildo, and there’s a kind of conversation like that too.Open Safari tabs: What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?; “This cognitive load is invisible…”; Max one weird thing; The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem (Chris’s Corner); Core dump by QC; What do executives do, anyway? (apenwarr).josephgcruz: Is this serving the music ? bellaamatthews: @josephgcruz absolutely not, serving my insta feed tho


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