alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social

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[alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social @Levviathor]

@wanyeburkett Nothing causes me more psychic damage than knowing that, even if I lived in the densest, most urban part of my large coastal city, car travel times will be faster and more convenient 90% of the time.

[Blendi @BlendiByl]

Realtime 3D diffusion in Minecraft⛏️

Thanks to @rehan_shei for his open-source project which made this possible!

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

They don't have trauma, they had a bad experience.

They don't need to process, they need to think about it.

They're not triggered, they're upset.

They're not self-regulating, they're calming down.

[Chris Nwabueze | UIUX & Front-end Engineer 🎨🖋️ @Chris_UIdesign]

I always watch this everyday and whenever I feel ashamed to ask for anything. It works all the time for me.

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

For the love of god, “the definition of insanity” is a “severely disordered state of mind involving loss of contact with reality”, not that other thing people constantly say it is.

[Rhyush @Resorcinolworks]

One of the very few posts that require you to print and attach them on a wall.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

This is hilarious

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

this is why episode 1 is the best star wars, review by @ethantgibson

[artsch00lreject @artsch00lreject]

God grant me the serenity to accept the things that are so over, the courage to say fuck it we ball, and the wisdom to know when we are so fucking back

[Tomás (in SF) Bjartur @BjarturTomas]

Every member of my family has a PhD in economics. We have a quaint, gift-giving tradition where we all sit in a circle around the Christmas tree. We each take out a crisp 100 dollar bill and gift it to the person sitting to our right.

[stockfish @trevorsaudi]

Watched this a while back and it helped me understand why i was not improving in some things i was learning about

[alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social @Levviathor]

@GeneralAntilles @atlanticesque Having small business owners and more foot traffic around actually helps a lot with this

[alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social @Levviathor]

@cafreiman this got tested during the pandemic chip shortage. new cars and luxury cars were backordered, so folks turned to the used market and bid those up. for about two years used car prices were DOUBLE the baseline. it was insane.

[lunamelie @lunasmoonshine]

@Claireindawoods my rage induced improvement

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I’ve grown increasingly skeptical of the liberal idea that you can engineer moral change through language. For example, I don’t think changing “homeless guy” to “unhoused person” actually means anything. At best, it’s a short reprieve before “unhoused” takes on the same connotation as “homeless.”

On a different note, if you say “wow, you really blindsided me there,” I don’t think you’re doing something especially harmful to blind people. I think this kind of language is just a natural consequence of having bodies and thinking in terms of embodied experience.

To be clear, this is not a defense of slurs, which don’t really fit into this framework. A slur like the n-word, when used as a slur, is basically just a combination of the concepts “black people” and “bad.” There isn’t much nuance there.

On the other hand, phrases like “you look like a homeless person” or “my apartment is so ghetto” do have linguistic nuance. They communicate states of experience within a shared social and embodied context.

To be sure, they do imply that someone would prefer not to be poor or without a home, but those are extremely normal preferences.

I don’t think there is any magical terminology where, if you get people to avoid certain words, they will suddenly think homelessness and poverty are good.

You could go back ten thousand years and I’m pretty sure the humans around you would agree that having a place to call home is good and not having resources is bad.

All of this makes me skeptical of the liberal obsession with inventing special words for everything. I think it reflects a mistaken view of what language can actually do.

And yes, a lot of it just reads as straight-up Orwellian, which is a bad look for the liberal project.

[alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social @Levviathor]

@constans I'm the most Ezra Klein brained lib you've ever met, and I've thought about joining the police.

[alex | TACO enjoyer | @wintersplinter.bsky.social @Levviathor]

@peterawolf I'm the most Ezra Klein brained lib you've ever met, and I've thought about joining the police, but it worries me.

[@Ima 🇺🇸💙🔬🔭 @imatweet25]

Here’s the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that Bari Weiss and CBS censored.
#BoycottCBS