i wrote a book about why it's so hard to know the truth (it's because all knowledge is fundamentally uncertain) you can read the first draft now, or sign up to receive updates to know when it will be published

@RosieCampbell i argue that truth is grounded in usefulness (to purposes). that's the core insight i argue for in my book

in a sign of how far the brand has fallen, today i saw a 100% polyester Banana Republic coat on sale at Costco

@AaronEstel okay, after first checking that this rate of flow is safe and unlikely to destroy the world, the answer is obvious: tears of my enemies

@chercher_ai ugh, yeah, this is one of those things that sucks people in after they get a taste of awakening. they immediately connect the experience to their metaphysical beliefs and start thinking that being one with the world offers immortality

zen practice is 10% zazen and 90% finding equanimity with the appropriation of the word "zen" to mean literally not zen

@yashkaf damn bitches really be out there fighting in the tanha trenches. god speed sisters!

@deepfates @bangerarchive oh hell no @bangerarchive is burning the commons. blocking!

🙏🙏🙏

@yashkaf as ever, men struggle to understand women, and women don't bother to understand men at all

@tracewoodgrains anything?

@Empty_America i mean honestly I'd probably be down to have kids if that was the deal

@nograsper since u been gone

@PiquantParvenu the real trick is to have an abundance of dumb ideas no one would dare make real

paying attention is expensive!

it's actively confusing when a term like "ethnic cleansing" has a motte and bailey baked into the definition there's a big difference between "mass deportations along ethnic lines" and "genocide"

@NoahTopper "congrats, friend, your life sucks! 😁"

yes i could also use chatgpt or gemini or grok i could also use bing instead of google lol