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This is mostly an internal discussion as much as it is an external one. An alchemist in another life.

[am @SearchDiscern]

If there’s anything morally redeeming about me, I attribute it to my father

[am @SearchDiscern]

That he is an extremely principled man & lives that out honorably, that he is the wisest man in crisis situations, someone you want in your family when the world feels like it’s collapsing, is the greatest thing he could have given me. Not sure I could arrive at this without him.

[atharva. @arthextic]

the urge to observe and document. the urge to love despite impermanence. the urge to seek beauty in ordinary things and passing moments. the urge to feel joy, grief, wonder, longing, and everything in between. to experience and feel everything i can.

[am @SearchDiscern]

“technology is acting as a substitute for genetic quality”

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Every time we do some wacky nonsense like inject our kids with HGH to make sure they're at least 6 feet tall when they grow up, we are tricking natural selection

The girl who thinks she's reproducing with tall-guy genes might actually be spreading dwarf midget genes without realizing it

Obviously this isn't new - women do the same thing with makeup, diabetics use insulin to trick us all into thinking their genes would survive without a massive industrialized supply chain, etc

But the longer this goes on, the more clear it becomes that technology is acting as a substitute for genetic quality

If we ever forget how to do technology for some reason it's gonna be pretty over

[Tao Lin @tao_lin]

I like doing things that make me stop thinking about things besides what I’m currently doing.

[am @SearchDiscern]

Photography is reading

Filmmaking is writing

[Seed Oil Disrespecter™️ @SeedOilDsrspctr]

Ladies & Gentlemen, the Baby Boomers:

[am @SearchDiscern]

I’m looking for you in every room I’m in

[am @SearchDiscern]

“The Truth has a tendency to prevail”

[am @SearchDiscern]

I have created God in my own image

[am @SearchDiscern]

This is my most pro Mamdani position

[Slime🐍 @ItsKingSlime]

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks on finding his wife on dating app Hinge, revealing that he fell in love with her at first sight, and says they both ended up deleting the app after meeting each other ❤️‍🩹🙌

“I think I was in love from the moment I saw her photo. I screenshotted her Hinge profile before she even matched back… I’m very much a romantic… And then when you meet the love of your life, to actually be living what felt like a fantasy when you first saw their face, it’s hard to believe.”

[am @SearchDiscern]

All the eating with your hands discourse is retarded and wrong. This is my most pro Mamdani position

[Renu Mukherjee @RenuMukherjee1]

Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia.

He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid.

[am @SearchDiscern]

Insightful

[Joe Norman @normonics]

Earlier today a mutual on here said that some make an idol out of liturgy

And of course, she is right.

[am @SearchDiscern]

Think about this often

[Aditya Chauhan @sirfaditya]

People are disappointed to find out that great artists don’t have moralities of the middle-class and work ethics of the corporate employees. Some of you will never get it.

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Here’s a scaffolding to see this:

Which founders have the easiest time raising? Which engineers (and PMs…) have the easiest time producing? Which artists have the easiest time painting/sculpting?

Expertise is knowing what to do. The worst struggle is “not knowing what to do”.

[am @SearchDiscern]

Reminder

[am @SearchDiscern]

A new world

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Incredible:

In 2025, SF gave out more new dog licenses than it had human births.

[am @SearchDiscern]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[dasha @0xdasha]

@8teAPi excited for this + gene editing + synthetic wombs. mass human production is the black swan that solves collapsing populations and mass immigration

[am @SearchDiscern]

“People are human beings in motion”

[Überkierkegaard @UberKierk]

The only true answer

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are saying. HT @YungPutin1

[•R•S• @Ay_Blinkin]

Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966)