John Osborne

Engineer. Pilot. Dad. Uber rating = 4.88

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@jgreenhall @PageauJonathan @BretWeinstein Have you discussed with Brett the work of Mike Levin, or other biologists in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis? The abandonment of physicalism seems to be at the core of paradigm change in his own field.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I've been self-employed for most of my life & without a schedule for 2 decades, yet I still find Friday and Saturday the most pleasant days, Monday the least pleasurable one, & Sunday evening a usually sombre moment.
It has to do with the mood of others. You don't live alone.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

This American dude on his way to his Japanese fluency decides to talk to a local Japanese grandpa, and it turned out to be the most wholesome convo ever 🥹

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@ThouArtThat Loving the recent Bergson discussions and Tim Jackson dialogues.

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

Great to see this interpretation of quantum mechanics getting more attention.

[☿ Footnotes2Plato ☼☽ @ThouArtThat]

Exciting to see Ruth Kastner @ruthekastner & her collaborator Andreas Schlatter getting much deserved attention for their account of gravity in terms of quantum transactions. This approach deals nicely with the fudges known as "dark matter" & "dark energy" https://t.co/Wk4C28BOTW

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@ThouArtThat @ruthekastner Great news

[Jordan Hall @jgreenhall]

What would a 5th generation Civil War look like? How would you know whether some event was an accident, a crime, terrorism or insurrection?

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@JoomiKim1 This got me Reading the Biosphere-2 failure modes. Welcome to complex systems indeed.

[Gabriel @gbrl_dick]

crazy how no one really talks about the european union. they embarked upon a massive experiment in post-national integration, it was a massive failure & it’s now in slow motion collapse and it gets fewer iq points devoted to it (in english) than US state races

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@PhilMickelson This was my first thought too, if there was a false horizon or depth perception thing due to the white. Wouldn’t be the first time.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Universe is going to erase everything that we've ever done.

You got a moment in time, do what you're emotionally propelled to do.

What may be right now may not be right later.

If you're driven to do it, that's what you should do.

Likely, that's not what they want you to do.

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
Oscar Wilde

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@PaulPortesi Bergson said it is the essence of reason to shut us up in a circle of the given.

[𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 @txsalth2o]

Ever see a picture and feel like a total idiot?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you're smart, wealth can buy you the lightness of absence of schedule & the ability to modulate your day to surprises as they come.
If you're stupid (like most rich pple), wealth buys you the prison of a rigid schedule, metastatic obligations, & self-feeding complications.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I am updating PRINCIPIA

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Everyone tries to attain the perfect view.

The ocean view.
The penthouse view.
The high-rise view.

Not realizing it won't be them standing there to enjoy it.

To get the view, you have to lose you and that doesn't leave you much of a view.

You don't buy the view. You sell you.

[John Osborne @UpInOz]

@ThouArtThat Great listen. I'm not sure I've heard the terms 'physical' or 'physically real' stretched to such all-encompassing lengths before. We may find ourselves stretched beyond the fallacy of misplaced concreteness at some point ;)

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

Enhancing transparency and open scientific discourse, we are launching the Journal of the Academy of Public Health (@RCJAPH) with open peer review that all can read and where good scientists can publish whatever their studies conclude. Check it out!
https://t.co/i0YqnyWgIN