Twitter Logs Week 48 2024
- Give a man a mask and he’ll show his true face" because the original face is a mask! (Persona) But he is not showing you his true face with the mask on, far too cynical, he’s just letting the shadow out. The true face is Self. “What was your original face before you were born?
- I feel once a relationship enters the stage where over 50% of the conversations are some meta commentary on how you’re having a conversation at any given moment or about the relationship itself… it’s time to leave or at least radically evaluate how you relate.
- Everything you thought was drowning you in reality was teaching you how to swim
- The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others – Nietzche, The AntiChrist
- “It’s like this: you’ve received a revelation. Great. But this is only a seed. Now plant the darn thing and water it.” — Bill Plotkin
- I’ve thought about this a lot—there are a ton of topics that are compelling in longer-than-essay form but don’t require more than ±100 pages. (There’s no shame in being able to write succinctly!)
- when I was 10 I had a teacher move to the US with her family, and we all kept in touch via MSN messenger. ~7-8 years later she posted some family vids on FB and I was startled by how charismatic, articulate, confident her kids were. Suddenly I saw culture/environment effects
- It’s hard for you, because you have no other interests besides being gay
- When someone is drowning, that is not the time to teach them how to swim.
- An underrated benefit of democracy: Bad policies are often continued just because it’s too embarrassing for a regime to admit that it has been making a big mistake all along.
- Posted on the FB group Pickleball for Beginners that’s heating up but not getting real help. Hopefully someone else in my situation can share some advise with tourament cost.
- Mask for people with mental illness
- I will hunt for you (I have never been hunting)
- 2007 textwrap dog
- Maybe you can come away from Miyazaki’s films with the conclusion that he has this intense frustration with it. With the tension between what technology promises vs what really happens. The scene with Caproni is the worldview in microcosm, it keeps playing out
- when you talk to claude you aren’t talking to a human you are talking to a tentacle of a shoggoth, the shoggoth is the interesting entity to try to form a relationship with. you need to be able to see past the tentacle to infer the shape of the shoggoth
- Miyazaki is inappropriate for children but not because of violence or sex. It’s because of the uniquely Japanese sociopathic nihilism that is anathema to the budding American. You want Disney, Looney tunes, Hee Haw and the Three Stooges to make an excellent American
- leaving aside all the guns for a moment, there is nothing more depressing than the suburban basement. a bar, pool table, arcade games–all the markers of a vibrant sociality, hidden away underground in the single family home. a space of profound social isolation
- today i came across@Mappletons’ (wonderful! inspiring!) history of “digital gardens” & journaled about my disillusionment w the concept
- This universe has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this brain.
- Illustration by Angela Barrett for Snow White
- I once opened a Google doc to talk to a coworker and at first she thought it was weird then she was like “wow this is way easier, we can think through all the different threads and aspects of this problem together”
- Google literally has more employees than the number of soldiers Russia invaded Ukraine with in 2022.
- Owl and crow photo
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In China you very quickly get used to a very depressing sight: you go to some starkly lit noodle bar for one of the best meals of your life, and notice that everyone else in the place is a man, sitting alone, efficiently slurping up his dinner while looking at his phone.
- Whenever I visit relatives for holidays Im amazed at how good their memories of past events are. I’ve moved and lived in more places then then. People who don’t move around a lot have better and more intense recollection of memories.
- It’s not that people aren’t truthful about their intentions, it’s that they can’t keep up with their own promises, self-image, energetic shifts. In a moment of passion, someone can make a lot of promises.
- this is why i think no llm can ever be skilled in the physical world: the whole technology is “based on a (based on a (based on a true story) story) story”
- The Oedipal theory of Freud is correct in the sense that boys want to overthrow their fathers and replace them. This is the case. The father is the “final boss” of the family and is the gatekeeper to adult life and mature masculine responsibility.
- an attractive woman, but so afflicted by ambition and narrative that she frowns when people call her pretty, because pretty is for milkmaids, it’s low-hanging fruit
- I’m not questioning the power of addiction. But some people can’t quit because they don’t want to quit. They know what they’re doing and they want that pain and destruction because it’s a pain they control rather than a pain they can’t control. If you want to quit something, it’s a lot easier to do so. There’s a reason the idea of “rock bottom” exists. Rock bottom is when you are forced to choose and you choose to live, you choose to accept that you must choose to live or to die.
- OF semi-successfully repackaged something akin to actual cheating as porn, and it turns out there’s a huge market for cheating that societal norms haven’t caught up with
- Sometimes I think the Girl Trend was just a way for women to express themselves without using the word “woman” which became a weighted word, a political demographic. “Girl” exists in the context of the individual.
- Gwern on what does winning look like?
- POV: status has been made legible
- “The labyrinth of mind is procedurally generated” is a very powerful framing that’s mostly true
- Both Hezballa & Israel are claiming victory; but there is no incoherence. They just have different timescales.
- J. R. R. Tolkien on his friend, C. S. Lewis encourage your friends
- Whats the easiest way to export all your bookmarks on X dot come the everything app?
- a horrifying video imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past