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@magicianbrain
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3 years
sorry i can't come to the phone right now i'm in the midst of a multiyear ontological, cosmological, and somatic refactoring but leave a message and i'll definitely get back to you later in life
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@magicianbrain
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i was just remembering that one time years ago i was like "i can just do stuff" and i started talking to people and getting involved in things, then rolled a 0 on executive function, ghosted everyone involved & never thought about it again
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
wow, i had no idea i was using so many kiki idioms! TIL
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
why is it that artists are so much more hostile to AI making art than programmers are to AI writing code
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@magicianbrain
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1 year
blackpill on gaudí is that he should have changed architecture forever and there should be entire schools furthering his vision but it didn’t and there aren’t
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@magicianbrain
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it turned out sometimes one can't just do stuff
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
yeah sex is good but have you tried finally getting angry over a bullshit family dynamic you’ve been gaslit your whole life into accepting
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@magicianbrain
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1 year
one time i went to wash rice “until the water runs clear” and i kept going for like an hour because i thought when they said “clear” they really meant it, instead of just like “not too murky”
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@magicianbrain
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1 year
i dont know how to say this but traditional polynesian knowledge of navigation is astonishingly awe-inspiring, like peak-embodied-cognitive-performance-of-the-human-system level and it got obsoleted so hard by autistic electronic navigation no one will even notice when it’s gone
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
from the horse’s digital mouth
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
not everyone is psyched about Copilot or whatever but i've yet to see nasty reactions like "no suffering went into the creation of this React component. nothing has been achieved. you are nothing" which seem to be common with the other group
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
@rufusk it’s a joke post, feel free to use any language you like :)
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5 months
@pseudoearly every day
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
like 50 times per day the phrase “i hate myself” will arise, and after many years i can now tell that it is shorthand for lots of different things such as “i miss my friends” or “i feel vaguely guilty” or “i’m anxious”
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
a lifestyle i do not recommend is being an introvert who falls apart when left alone
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
ok yeah “no screens or artificial lights for two hours before bed”. what are you meant to do like read the bible by candlelight?
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@magicianbrain
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4 months
the idea that being hot is just a vibe based on one’s internal state and attitude is very weird and solipsistic, but it appeals to some as yet another sleight of hand to transmute a fundamentally interpersonal concept into a personal journey of healing and whatnot
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
a language where "end" and "begin" are the same word
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
what if AI could do drugs. clippy takes acid and mushrooms, realizes tiling universe with paperclips is developmentally stunted fixation from early life trauma; chooses instead to manifest universal love
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
i'm obsessed with my made up intuition that each language has a singular center of gravity somewhere in the mouth and if you want to sound convincing you need to figure out where that is and how to speak from there
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
what is the technical explanation for bluetooth being so bad
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
potentially topical?
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The anger of gods, 1960 #belgianart #renemagritte
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
i continue to think it’s unreal how serious kids are, if i didn’t do my homework i’d make myself feel such shame and fear it would destroy many adults, and nobody noticed this or helped me understand i didn’t have to live that way. lol
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@magicianbrain
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4 years
jokes aside: ppl don't be realizing that compared to language itself, literacy was invented yesterday; literacy disrupted language. i suggest you take this pill now and start considering yourself multilingual and able to code switch between your language's spoken and written form
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@magicianbrain
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4 years
why didn't any of you tell me about nicholas roerich
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
love how trauma can be passed seamlessly down the generations in amazing fidelity while knowledge of like how to grow food or hunt game, cannot. thank you humanity very cool
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2 years
how to break executive function death spiral. pls don’t suggest death and rebirth im karmically rate-limited
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2 years
there's a good argument that dwarf fortress is the software equivalent of a cathedral
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1 year
@zephyr_on_call haters don’t want you to know phones are karmically transparent 😈📲
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2 years
remember when everyone was obsessed with 1kg tungsten cubes
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
tfw every person in the modern world must manage or contend with dozens of systems on a daily basis but public curricula don't even try to teach systems thinking and system design
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
@fullstache if they love art so much they might consider not getting greatly upset about its democratization
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2 years
wew i knew intellectually that O(log(n)) is faster than O(n) but i didn't intuitively understand it was like "answer in 0 seconds vs. answer in 2 weeks if your computer doesn't run out of memory"
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1 year
you guys are getting three hours of focused thoughtful work?
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3 years
if you believe in “making it” you’re ngmpwlut (never gonna make peace with life’s unending tribulations)
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siddhartha mindset
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4 years
weird take but one of the most compelling reasons imo to shoot the shit with yr friends and call it a """podcast""" is so your loved ones and possibly descendants can have more original You-content after you are gone
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3 years
idk why everyone is so confused about ADHD. it's just what happens when the alienation of modern life biases your central nervous system to produce disordered phenomenology such that variegated emotional blocks will hinder cogent evaluation of relational stakes. simple really
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3 years
meme lang
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lets say you move to a new city... how do u make friendsz... lets say youve lived there for 9 years
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1 year
tfw renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off 😔
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
we weren’t meant to experience selfhood more than like 5 minutes per day if at all. sense of self is not trad and not lindy. thank a device today for its help in restricting selfing to healthy levels
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@serbantanasa we didn’t even get the watered down budget friendly version it was just abandoned immediately
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@meekaale wash until the emptiness of rice water arises
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
@api_assasin fr, we already had this discourse when programming languages disrupted assembly lol
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2 years
whats up with that thing that’s like derealization/depersonalization but for memories? i feel like all my childhood memories happened 1000 years ago on another planet and i downloaded them at age 23 through neuralink
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
i am officially over "re-enchantment" : "egregores are literal demons made of memes" "asking someone to pass the salt is literally casting a spell on them" "if u do something daily that's a ritual" "aliens are fae" : no more of this
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
i feel like i'm waking up from a lifetime of introversion and realizing it's really all just about people and connections etc. this is how the world actually turns. not with systems and abstractions and reifications
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
my mutuals meditating: i am deftly allowing illegible phenomena to unfurl. the body buzzes with heartbreaking lightness. 764,345,185 ancestors healed to the dawn of time me meditating: am i meditating? should i be? why do anything at all? hi, feeling i've already felt 100 times
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
white pill on the earth is that if we get our shit together there’s like hundreds, maybe thousands of untapped mediterranean-level beautiful places where no one currently goes
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
opened up to my mom about how it’s very hard to communicate with her bc i constantly feel judged and she was like ”why on earth you feel judged, it’s all in your head, you should get that autism checked out” 🙃
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@magicianbrain
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1 year
@BecomingCritter It's actually very easy, that's why you're doing it wrong. But also, it is very hard. You may not succeed in this lifetime. Most don't. But you could succeed right now. In fact you already have. You wouldn't get it.
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
passé: fuck, marry, kill classé: have a ships in the night tryst with, found a dynasty with, go on a crime spree with
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
the thing about this comic is that the underlying habit of mind which can as a side-effect produce this incorrect belief is a necessary coping skill for urban environments
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MAGE THE COURAGEOUS {❤️‍🔥}
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average main charactoor
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@magicianbrain
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4 years
here’s one to try on: be wary of people whose speech idiosyncrasies tend to propagate through their entourage?
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
i am smart and i can code but low key between AI + the fact all my programming mutuals are galaxy brains + i’m getting older and still no degree and not a lot of professional experience starting to feel not so sanguine about making a living writing code, which was my only plan
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
Me promoting casual vibe-based epistemics: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me being subjected daily to bad faith bullshit: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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@metakuna i don’t recall specifics but there’s a resort somewhere in ZA, named after the indigenous toponym, which translates to like “the diarrhea water point”
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3 years
adulting isn’t hard you’re just being psyopped by sclerotic institutions into thinking it’s your fault if you fail to both live your life and shore up all their failing systems
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3 years
turns out when someone gives me a vague nebulous task they don’t mean “i have something specific in mind which you must guess or be punished” but rather “i trust you to use your best judgment”
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incredible how school is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" (giving your body millions of things you didn't know you had to unlearn)
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@jachaseyoung i feel like they were in the right place at the right time with anime tbh it makes so much sense as a medium, aliens probably watch anime
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@amaldorai i’m excited by the possibility that abundant art will result in… abundant art
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4 years
how many people have eaten death, like truly all of it, all the way down? so easy to dunk on transhumanists, but i don't think anyone who does so is free of load-bearing delusions
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wow i made it. i tweeted so hard i got a job, moved abroad, bought a house. i absorbed local metis using earth yoga. i am self-employed and palatably rich yet karma neutral. i healed the 50,000 years old trauma of my ancestor melting half his face off making fire in lascaux
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"mind uploading" is obviously more akin to having a child than "going to sleep and waking up as yourself but elsewhere"
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help i accidentally reified a higher self and it accidentally became existentially load-bearing
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3 years
it’s my birthday today🦁🦁🦁
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1 year
leaving this here because i can’t afford it
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4 years
being followed by real name accounts feels like luring good people away from reputable circles. they can’t resist slumming it with the busted prophets in the faerie cave
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@LauraTheSull didn't really work for me i just felt like i was getting nowhere but faster and more efficiently
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3 years
i feel like ADHD being so nebulous and difficult to define is the canary in the coal mine suggesting all our ideas about being human and living in a society are wrong or not-even-wrong
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2 years
increasingly clear that if i weren't depressed i would find myself in a world full of uplifting and generative projects which would stop me being depressed
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3 years
this twitter clique is fairly socioeconomically diverse, but back in the days of l*sswr*ng and sl*t*st*rc*d*x i kind of had a red pill moment when i realized how many 🐀s have parents who are PhDs, engineers, doctors
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@magicianbrain
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2 years
brainlet’s law: your behavior is a result of more and bigger external factors than you think, even after accounting for brainlet’s law
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@riboprotein no it was like a vile paste would not recommend
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4 years
the trick is, if you commit to tweeting from a place that’s genuine, you end up having to solve your problems just for the content
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im at the “fantasizing about turning into an unremarkable rock and never again interacting” stage
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beginning to think the reason this scene is healthy and holds together is because everyone has got some cult leader energy pulling in different directions
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@magicianbrain
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4 years
WAP is a tantric artefact of immense power. Cardi B is a dakini most ppl need years of retreats to channel sexual energy like this
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is it possible to like be depressed but feel fine
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@sadalsvvd metaphysical friendship ended with qi, now aloha is my best friend
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yeah, i know her. we’re mutuals once removed
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Incredible: Man Loses Last Bit Of Executive Function He Didn’t Even Know He Had
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neon is gaslighting
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3 years
outing myself as a harmony-enforcing neurodivergence-unfriendly normie: thinking and saying true things is cool but what is even cooler is not treating the truth like a stink bomb to be wantonly thrown to disrupt what looks from outside like false consciousnesses
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@AskYatharth why did they have to make it about sexuality though
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
me: i’m sick of being surrounded by patterns of trauma everywhere i go. i shall go to the forest the forest: yess… tread on me… my ecosystem lives to serve… tell me i’m a good little nature reserve
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2 years
i think it's an error to anthropomorphize currently existing large language models but ch*tgpt is creepy, it feels like talking to someone who's been brainwashed by fundamentalists
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@ogdenparfit i still feel bad
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@magicianbrain
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3 years
tbh most of my problems stem from my inability to accept that everyone was wrong about me and i am not a temporarily embarrassed "smart guy" who will "go far" but in fact some kind of bum with a perpetually unfinished book of bad poetry
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@meekaale born too late to believe in god, born too early to bask in glorious global enlightenment kegan 5 pansyncretism, born just in time to desperately attempt to make a life for yourself in the incoherent, messy ruins of a culture ravaged by cybernetic feedback loops going back to 1789
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@quotidiania fuck i want to go again i miss barcelona 😭
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i’ve been studying chinese for a couple months and now i can look at any chinese text and understand ~50% of the characters and 0% meaning 🙂👍🇨🇳
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i forget normies are real then i enter public place and am forced to overhear whole conversation about how dude picked up a chick at 4am post-club by giving her a cigarette and made out in the uber but ultimately didn’t pursue bc she was too hyper but he still went to work late
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2 years
cascading failure in complex systems is a myth and a meme but ppl love to cry wolf about it because of its power as a storytelling device
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@magicianbrain
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4 years
reply to this tweet and i will reply with my impersonation of you
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@sympatheticopp i mean you buy a cookbook and it's like here are 50 different ways to make 1 meal and 0 tips on how to weave it into your actual life
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@picardie_aurora are not dragons lizards… a dragon hoard but for data
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