Twitter Logs Week 1 2025
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some great and terrible fears about the future as it exists today, re: thought rot from AI
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i hope you meet people with intentions as pure as your own and i hope to travel to all the places you’re curious about and i hope the restaurantss you go to have your favorite drink and i hope you alays have good dreams when you sleep and i hope the life you live is a fulfilling one
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This is true. Technology diminishes skills. Everything is a tradeoff People have a hard time writing legibly by hand now because they type all day. Using dating apps means you don’t recognize flirting signals. Constant reliance on GPS navigation diminishes a person’s spatial awareness and map-reading skills
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Mate, tell me ya pronies
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got my copy of@jposhaughnessy’s Two Thoughts and it is full of bangers upon bangers [book]
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To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
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it’s funny how much of a crush or attraction is held in the initial suppression and then mini explosion of mutual confession, after that depending on the validity of the feelings much momentum can fade
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it is precisely the impulse to fix things, that anxiety about things being broken, and brokenness being bad, that makes everything worse. the galaxy brain frame shifts are like, 1, brokenness is ok, and 2, nothing is broken actually
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i don’t think my friend hated me or wanted me to suffer or feel pain or anything like that. even the “worst” part of him, I think, wasn’t trying to be abusive, but was trying to assert his own dominance. it was his insecurity that brought us together, and it also disfigured us
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and looking back I see that it was complicated. a multi-part framework makes it easier to process. I think a part of him did genuinely care about a part of me. and those two parts were great friends. but a part of him was also a vicious, vindictive asshole
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Really can’t stress enough how much you should read Byung-Chul Han, in my opinion the most interesting thinker of our times [book]
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You can only ever know another individual if you meet them in open dialogue – if you treat them as unfinished, as capable of surprise.
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You can resolve a LOT of human disputes without knowing anything about the object level because many human disputes are about their neurosis/not feeling safe/chasing status etc. (this is good news)
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No it’s true. Cold temps are not linear. Under 30 degrees fundamentally alters behavior and society. People are miserable all the time. They retreat to staying at home. The outside world becomes like a jail. Above 30 is basically the same as 70 or 80.
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Casual sex isn’t about hedonistic pleasure as much as various anthropological safaris…. Vulnerability studies of yourself and other, seeing interior design choices around your city… Witnessing The Penis that drives someone’s behavior. Owning a secret piece of them forever
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Everyone knows intelligence is attractive, but another truth (that men deny) is that it’s harder for a smart lady to find a good husband. This is because, and we all know this deep down, you want to be able to look up to him
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Inside every human there is an American dying to get out