daphne demekas

miscellaneous seedling

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

But my fear wasn't that of someone going toward madness, but toward a truth - my fear was of a truth that I'd come not to want, an infamizing truth that would make me crawl along and be on the roach's level.

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

richard has a sacred iconic identity. an iconic persona. everybody likes secrets. do you want to know my secret about richard? i discovered a piece of art by richie, 8.5x11, it had a clue about richie. extraordinary capacities, supernormal capacities. you need me? here i am.

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

Last night I returned to myself and embraced my own shoulders in delight and said: welcome home! for they have been stretched out and seeking, scared and resisting, furiously calculating in a feverish frenzy, my rag-tag team of highly determined and deeply incompetent engineers.

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

A band of empty-hearted people that pull on one another other. She pulls on me and I turned away to pull on him, and he turns away to pull on her, and so on, until our muscles are weak and our eyes are tired

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

something about this moment being perfect and whatever it is that you are worried for may or may not be true but that is not for you to decide or control. all you can do is integrate that which is and has been into this very moment: the only one in which you are able to choose

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

one galaxy wiggling in the broth of shiva’s mind

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

the worm of ambition was eating stealthily away at my belly

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

the graveyard is full of indispensable people

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

there is no doubt that i can be the woman of my dreams

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

now let’s hope nobody cut the tree down to steal my bicycle

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

the human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk.

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

i made a website

https://t.co/GeQDlSpN3C

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

how much of your experience are you aware of?

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

As you might have guessed from following my posts here, I've been thinking and working on questions around alignment and learning and agency for a while, particularly for digital systems.
Excited to share the work we're doing at Softmax publicly in the future!

[Paul Prudence @MrPrudence]

Niels Bohr's original drawing of the structure of the Radium atom [1922]

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

something about how wanting to be creative creates an attachment to suffering - the part which lacks love, and then instead imagining the being of love and wondering whether she is creative and concluding that she ought to be given how in-awe she is of everything around her

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

“re-member”: put me back together to continue creating

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

we think we understand what the other person is saying because they use language

[daphne demekas @daphwd]

something about desires / attachments being instrumental goals learned by association, and equanimity being the realization of that and the ability to stop calling them “needs”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.