Twitter Logs Week 46 2024
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this is a slightly weird thing to say but this picture of Krishna and Radha from my mum’s Facebook stopped me in my tracks because it seriously reminds me of my wife and I (body language)
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people often forget to suppress themselves when they’re busy channeling somebody else
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Byung-Chul Han on the disintegration of time, cuts deep
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What it’s like when people fall in love via Twitter
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It is wild how much skin there is and how much u can rub it on other people’s skin . Most people v unimaginative in this pursuit though and only rub the popular spots. If yr really a skin enthusiast you’ll go for 100% completion.
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i expect male and female preferences to further dichotomize the better we get at making addictive bespoke media feeds (the most addictive app for women looks very different from the most addictive app for men, and both such apps drastically change preferences over the long run..)
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Hello, my name is Gabe Broussard, and I am looking to meet the love of my life.
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“i shall find the door… if it takes me the rest of my life.” - Bob Dylan in a short book called Tarantula, which was published 50 years before Dylan won the Nobel prize in Literature.
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i’ve been saying this since at least 2018– even if twitter were 99% bad (which I don’t think it is), if you can find the 1%, and focus on that, it’s a phenomenal amount of upside
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Need a social media that’s like Instagram except 0 algorithms. Just something that everyone pays for and joins with the guarantee of not getting fucked by ads and algorithmic traps. Digital villages
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Players vs. NPCs can be distinguished by people who question the rules of the game vs. those who play by the rules given to them and assume that someone else is keeping track of these rules, making sure they make sense and are optimized for their thriving
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i feel like aesthetics are an underrated aspect of truth seeking not because beauty = truth but precisely because it doesn’t, and if you don’t get your fix of beauty somewhere, you will keep falling for things that are wrong but beautiful
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it’s gotten more often now, that i think, alone in my apartment, what the fuck am i doing as a living alone in these sheet walls? where is my family? why am i not with them? why am i in this foreign land?
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Here’s a piping hot take: It’s normal for parents to want to have grandchildren someday because it’s the only way their children will fully grasp how much they love them. Please excuse my earnestness I’m so embarrassed.
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I found my rhythm when I realized that even the steps backward are part of the dance.
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I had a very high-trust relationship with my ex-boss. he said this gently and kindly and it’s stuck with me: he said something like “Visa, if you’re leaving to run away from your problems, you should know that your problems are inside you and will follow you everywhere you go”
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the fastest path to being perceived as a “genius” (commonplace hyperbole) is to read books that your peers aren’t reading. this will not be a universal perception, but it’s nonetheless a very strong effect that’s amusingly underutilized
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The village tavern is full of merry drunks who claim to be adventurers. Some might be telling the truth, but that’s unlikely, because of the Lemon problem. The best place to meet fellow adventurers is beyond the village gates, on the road, where the merry drunks don’t dare tread
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Thinking about the adage “if a man writes you a sonnet, it means he loves you. If he writes you ten sonnets, he loves sonnets.”
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“TRADERS LORE: life is about the increment. When one takes a hit, suffers a personal/collective setback, must not look back. Losers look back. Look ONLY ahead &, when back in the saddle, you’ll get encouraged, even thrilled by the slope/improvement (1st derivative). Stock vs Flow.”
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holy shit dangerous professional voice works so much better than being nice or being angry
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schizo or geinus
this clarified/reinforced several things for me
if you wanna do interesting work you kinda have to cloister yourself away from “the public” at least partially, so that you can simmer and stew
deviance is context-dependent, so even a normal person can seem insane or genius