Joe Cecil

computer nerd. math enjoyer. 🐿 in the world tree. sometimes I write stuff.

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Had a great time at Fluidity Forum 2025 meeting new people and seeing again those I met in 2023. Already registered for 2026 and curious who I'll meet (again).

Missed some people from 2023 this year. Hope to see you next year.

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@tmewett5 one of us

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@sensefulronin What book is this?

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@jtcbrule Once, when I was practicing a tricky new figure with my dance teacher, she had me imagine I was 5 years more experienced and confident in leading it, then had me do it again. Apparently this helped.

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@strangestloop Sister Clare's Lover

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@Auduuse good to know about that, thank you! I'll have to look into that

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@Auduuse good to know! I never set up subs because email delivery seems expensive :P think I tried to hide it once but it is indeed visible... rip. thank you for the interest!

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@strangestloop lost to the sands of time :(

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A compositional approach to West Coast Swing

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seems like the structure is [propose goodbye -> ACK goodbye -> finalize goodbye]

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At a zoom meditation session recently, I had this exchange of goodbyes with the other person. We must each have said goodbye two or three times at least. I regularly end calls with friends this way too.

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What's really fun is when the call seems to be heading for a close, and you half finish the goodbye, then someone adds something and so you start over again.

Who's got a high score of goodbyes in one interaction?

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@jtcbrule Love the analogy and exchange

My cousin had an instructor in emergency medicine (who's also a coroner) that would not ride in a helicopter after Vietnam. "I've seen too many people die that way."

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@jtcbrule @Meaningness breakfast in Valhalla

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@tmewett5 Action as the ghost of desire

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@jtcbrule 2x2 of divine insight

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@assumptionfeast What a well-designed landing page. I feel like I'd be impressed if I were remotely in the market to pay for a factory full of robotic knife sharpeners.

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@sensefulronin I like those dominos. Curious if this sounds right?

[community with emotionally intelligent people] -> [positive influence, optionally-verbal] -> [guys healing their trauma] -> [getting their life together] -> [becoming wifeguys]

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Escape velocity is the clearer metaphor here

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starting a thread about Nadia Asparouhov's Antimemetics book before I forget

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Are antimemes things we want to suppress or things we want to remember and don't? Both?

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@teebarnettsays Is this a metaphor for "doing the thing"? Building the home?