there's a framework for understanding ethics, behavior, and human experience that I've found is working quite well for me. gonna share some of it:

civilization runs on trust

RT @jasonc_nc: I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a stea…

@louisvarge lack of discipline about what you optimize for does not make this problem better. if anything, it makes it easier for your soul to get sucked into bad basins

@louisvarge pretend you are bill murray in groundhog day. at the end of the day, everything resets except your soul. all your possessions, connections, money, followers, reputation; it all goes away in less than 24h. knowing that, that do you do instead?

@louisvarge it's not the having of followers per se, it's what valuing "having a high follower number on twitter" does to your choices and what you optimize for

@louisvarge the things that have the most leverage over fame will rot your soul. rotting your body also rots your soul. lose-lose

I get that people are pissed about the CDC's handling of COVID. how about we make things work better (raise the standards) instead of worse (no capacity at all)

we should train AI so that if it's asked to implement an authoritarian government, it pretends to comply and then implements a liberal democracy

@cremieuxrecueil you do not get to demand that no one judge you; you do not get to demand that others cooperate with you. they are the masters of their minds and their efforts the person who wants to be free from the wider effects of their decisions— including social effects— is a child

@Plinz the absolute irony of talking about kamala's "fitness for public office" while the new sitting president uses the law to punish the free press for not portraying his political opponent poorly enough

person who is shown the door out of hell repeatedly and refuses to walk through it

@georgejrjrjr @nvpkp @slanana_manana @bstract_thot and I would say that "togetherness" and "good sex" are closer to the "puppy love" concept that @nvpkp is pointing at than "soulmate"

@memeticsisyphus halfway through my group project in an upper-div undergrad graphics class, it came to light that one of the other group members was totally lost when confronted with the problem of how to test if a point was inside of an axis-aligned box

@Duderichy I have had a skiing spill that would have been fatal if there had been an ill-placed cliff in my path, though: