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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 I don’t say this to bemoan this move as some outdated progressive saw.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 !Judah: unrealistic demands Friend: My guy if I don’t be making the unrealistic demands then you won’t be making the unrealistic supplies Friend: Or something like that I was sleeping in classFriend: YOU MOUSY MAN Friend: SADISTIC RAT BOYBy contrast, the body’s adaptability has always been easier to recognize, as we’ve noted. One of my favorite examples of physical adaptability involves pushups. If you’re a relatively fit male in your twenties, you may be able to do 40 or 50; if you can do 100, you can impress your friends and probably win a few bets. So what might you guess is the world record for pushups—500 or 1,000? In 1980 Minoru Yoshida of Japan did 10,507 pushups nonstop. After that, Guinness World Records stopped accepting submissions for the number of pushups done with no rest periods and switched to the most pushups performed in twenty-four hours with resting allowed. In 1993 Charles Servizio of the United States set what remains the world record in that category by doing 46,001 pushups in 21 hours and 21 minutes. Or consider pull-ups. Even relatively fit guys can generally do only 10 or 15, although if you’ve really been working out, you may have worked your way up to 40 or 50. In 2014 Jan Kareš of the Czech Republic did 4,654 in twelve hours.Lyrics: Look, I’m on my grind, cousin, ain’t got time for frontin’ / Sensitive thugs, y’all all need hugsBook page from Viktor Frankl: an elderly doctor, depressed after his wife’s death, is asked what would have happened had he died first. “For her this would have been terrible.” By surviving her, he has spared her that suffering. “In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”Sketch in a drawing app: two birds in cowboy hats, one holding a gun, standing guard over a figure lying in a bathtub.TL;DR 1. The single biggest asset that side projects and “nights and weekends” businesses have on their side is near-infinite runway. 2. If you have near-infinite runway, your largest risk is yourself: you get bored, you get demotivated, you get distracted, etc. 3. If you’re sufficiently patient and disciplined, you can wait out the competition and rely on slow, compounding growth. 4. This doesn’t work forever, but “five years of slow growth” is often the difference between a side project and a lifestyle business.kyle (@ipsumkyle): tryna be like this, just in our bag & genuinely growing together while being each others biggest flex. some fuck everyone else type shit. (photo of Paul Erdős going over a problem with a young Terence Tao)Cool bug Fact’s: The highest honor in journalism is being murdered by the CIAolly (@ollyrobot): dudes talking about their best friend that they’re crushing on be like “oh yeah i know shes not like the uhh like the hottest girl obviously but you know wistful there’s just like something about her idk man just like maybe its her elbows idk”Spotify playlist “kscope”: Old Yellow Bricks by Arctic Monkeys; Shut Up and Dance by WALK THE MOON; Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts; Beggin’ by Måneskin; We Don’t Believe What’s on TV by Twenty One Pilots; Floated By by Peter Cat Recording Co.; Mr. Brightside by The Killers.Drawing of a red Swiss Army knife with a chainsaw, piano keys, a pencil, a stopwatch, a fork, grapes, and a branch of marshmallows folding out of it.once and future wife (@wife_g…): 4yo struggling to understand the concept of being sad about the result of a soccer game: “but how can you be sad? i’m right here and i love you”Slightly off topic but here’s an important example: say you yell every day at an/your eight year old girl for sloppy homework, admittedly a terrible thing to do but not uncommon, and eventually she thinks, “I’m terrible at everything” and gives up, so the standard interpretation of this is that she has lost self-confidence, she’s been demoralized, and case by case you may be right, but there’s another possibility which you should consider: she chooses to focus on “I’m terrible at everything” so that she can give up. “If I agree to hate myself I only need a 60? I’ll be done in 10 minutes.”34/ The latest faddish business book doesn’t exist in isolation. It is part of what Walter Kiechel called a “literary industrial complex” knowledge stack going back to Peter Drucker and Alfred Chandler in the 50s. 35/ This stack is what MBA programs teach, and what big companies model in their very bones. Whether you learn it in texts or through osmosis at your first job, it’s a “way of doing business” that’s a deep cultural skill/competence. 36/ Just visit a developing world business environment if you aren’t convinced this “business normalcy field” exists. The absence will be palpable. It will feel chaotic. 37/ You may think of it as crappy/medieval developing country culture of corruption, or unprofessionalism, or runaway bureaucracy, but it’s a missing normalcy field. Normalcy isn’t a natural thing, it has to be constructed and actively maintained.Pradyumna (@PradyuPrasad): i think i am very lucky to have a nerdy book loving girlfriend who likes staring at the stars the same as I do Max Alexander (@absurdlymax): Prad… I think she like likes you Pradyumna (@PradyuPrasad): she also send the cutest insta reels omfg!!!!!Judah: this is how u talk tbh Friend: REAL Friend: Sorry I can’t help it if ur da epitome of beautyJeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin): How am I just now learning about this guy (Wikipedia: Evander Berry Wall, a New York socialite, was dubbed “King of the Dudes”. He is pictured (1888) in the New York American newspaper at the time of the “battle of the Dudes”.) Zach Neeley (@zneeley25): did he win Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin): did he ever (Wikipedia: Wall was again proclaimed “King of the Dudes” in 1888 by the New York American newspaper. A journalist named Blakely Hall judged that Wall had won the “Battle of the Dudes” against Robert “Bob” Hilliard, another sartorial dude when, during the March Blizzard of 1888, he strode into a bar clad in gleaming boots of patent leather that went to his hips. Nevertheless, some historians still consider it was Hilliard who won that dude battle.)Product photo of an oversized green frog hoodie with a zip-up mouth on the hood and little frog feet on the sleeves.“Please, Aslan,” said Lucy, “what do you call soon?” “I call all times soon,” said Aslan. — C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderGTG3000: Okay, so the problem with linear algebra is that people write things in weird ways and then wink at you knowingly.Chris (@CMccafe): To wake, to rise—to rise, perchance to grind.Tripp is on a random walk (@Tjdriii): If I was a traffic cop I would make sure to give all the cute girls tickets. Extra if they cry. You’ve all had it too easy for too longOrpheo (@OrphicCapital): (at a job interview) them: what are your greatest strengths? me: it’s impossible to psy-op me. I’ve been exposed to too much information as a child. I’ve studied too much. I’ve worked too hard. My perception rolls are off the charts. The longer you talk to me, the more you expose yourself. The more energy you spend trying to convince me to accept your offer, the less energy I use to consider it. My theory of mind uses hyperdimensional pattern matching to see what you’re hiding and what you’re coping for. Your slightest change in vernacular triggers my mkultra cogsec firing pins. It’s impossible to psy-op me.Lack of tissue renewal in human adult Achilles tendon is revealed by nuclear bomb ¹⁴C. Katja Maria Heinemeier, Peter Schjerling, […], and Michael Kjaerzou bisou bisou where… (@lilgrap…): social media has been bad for feminism in a lot of ways but not this. this was a revolutionary text. this saved lives PeaceToCombat (@FabDLT_): “Eww she fuck the weed man for weed”- a bitch that’s fucking the Text man for Texts“Fixing Adolescence” as a Cause Area? - EA Forum. Adolescence comes with substantial suffering for a large fraction of humanity.Hariharan Jayashankar (@notsocialfatman): This is S Chandrasekhar, astro physicist and nobel laureate reflecting on his career in the later part of his life. And honestly it’s a bit scary/worrying (book excerpt summary: even late in life he still worries whether his papers will be accepted, and wonders why he shouldn’t spend the rest of his life reading Shakespeare. He expected that moderate success by his forties or fifties would bring security and contentment, and never found them; it is not clear to him that single-minded pursuit of science at the expense of everything else is justifiable, least of all for his wife.)Brihaspati: If a book exists in PDF on the web somewhere, I estimate a 90% of chance of finding it by at least one of the following four methods, which altogether take only a few minutes if you’re practiced at it: 1. Search library.nu. 2. Search Library Genesis. 3. Search Scrapetorrent. 4. Use a custom Google search and keeping clicking through links until you find a filesharing site link for the book - one that isn’t broken yet.Max Kreminski (@maxkreminski): great art tends to have the feeling of “cutting through” some “shallow” level of perceptual filtering to convey a “deeper” underlying sentiment/message. but the filter is adaptive & seems involuntary. techniques that once cut thru it become widespread, become cliché, stop workingmetakuna (@m…): “be pleased to inform her majesty, that the white ensign flies along the union Jack in South Georgia, God save The Queen” would go hard before the drop in da clubCall hang up: Siri can help you to hang up a call completely hands free. Just say “Hey Siri, hang up” (participants on the call will hear you). You can enable this feature in Settings.darpyu: the repugnant conclusion is that you have spend too much time studying philosophyskooks (@skoooookum): Jordan Peterson: courage… he never asked for this… he’s in the middle of nowhere. he’s a purple dog in the middle of nowhere. (Starting to cry): he is just a dog, and he struggles. With his demons, his loneliness, his cowardice. (Breaking down) and we – we just laugharch villain (@deepfates): Soft launching my object level beliefs by clicking the ❤️ button on scissor statementsRachel (@tolstoybb): I wish every man smelled like pool chlorine Rachel (@tolstoybb): sorry this was for th circleJudah: although what if Judah: i brought the wock back from poland Judah: what they gonna do thenDigital Gn… (@digitalg…): So people say to me “Fuck me Daddy” and I think, well OK there’s a couple of mysteries in that statement. What do you mean by “Fuck”? What do you mean by “Me”? What do you mean by “Daddy”? And you say as the receiver “Well we already know what all of those things mean” but when y…Delicious… (@Delici…): Approximately 8% of women have “Osama knee” (close-up photo of a knee that looks like Osama bin Laden’s face)“Well, feminism has emasculated men.” Really? A girl did that to you?Pnørm (@paleonormie): The real cause of antinatalist sentiment among college educated urbanites is that they are addicted to larping as the aristocratic elite and it simply isn’t possible to maintain that charade when there’s a child in the mixRenault (@I_am_renault): toughest date I was ever on was with a French girl who would hit me with killshot insults from out of nowhere like “you talk about your future with the uncertainty of a young man but you are not a young man” and all I could do was repeat her in a Pepe le pew accent. it worked.Jason Harrison (@nominalthoughts): “another day of not using y=mx+b” and that’s why you’re making barely above minimum wage at 25bowser (@browserdotsys): zoom backgrounds are such a great opportunity for people to be weird. guy on a call right now has a picture of himself as his bg so when he’s on a call he always has a slightly larger version of himself looming behind him. very powerfulMauv (@ThatsMauvelous): schopenhauer on women “It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.”Email: One of your readers, Marc Andreessen, believes your writing is worth paying for. They have pledged a subscription, which will be activated if you decide to turn on payments for your publication. Pledge: $80 / year.linkshund (@linkshund): “Women get bored with Leonardo DiCaprio about when they hit their mid-20s” is an objectively funnier explanation.I found mine in my junior year of college by disappointing my professor in a sociology of science class. I despised that class because it made me read stuff like this: (a quote about “the god trick of seeing everything from nowhere” and “the cannibal eye of masculinist extra-terrestrial projects for excremental second birthing”). I secretly hoped the professor had assigned some academic gobbledygook as a test, and I would pass it by showing up to class and declaring, “This week’s reading was a bunch of gobbledygook!” and the professor weep with joy. “You are the professor now,” she would say, “Finally, I can move on.” And she would ascend into the heavens, her earthly mission completed.This is how I imagine me and my followers…. all up on the grind an workin with each other for da bag (collage of dressed-up Polo Ralph Lauren teddy bears)spencer_oddrick: Bach had mad projects saved on ableton, just didn’t drop em. He couldn’t get the eq right. matttfoster: I actually heard that Bach gave up on releasing music because his snare always sounded like garbageTwitter community “a little box for joodah” by olly (@ollyrobot): this is joodahs little box. 1 Member, 0 Followers.teenage.engineering manual page: a grid of every screen on the TX-6 mixer’s tiny display (tempo, solo, mute, equalizer, compressor, chorus, reverb, delay, tape presets, synth waveforms, drum synthesis, DJ mode, battery level, factory reset, and an easter egg), each with a one-line caption.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 genuinely 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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