being natty is great because you just need to sleep perfectly every night and eat the perfect diet and avoid all the toxins around you and never drink tap water and never get stressed out ever and then you can maintain normal testosterone levels into your 30s!
I’m beginning to think that people don’t really want to work at companies. what they really want is to work at a research lab or a creative studio or a think tank or some other communal setup where likeminded people can do interesting things together
Liftoff.
The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.
Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.
dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from:
- getting humiliated
- showing up terrified and doing it anyway
- admitting you might be the problem
Joke about the Kirkland Special Forces all you like, but if you ever end up with a state that can't or won't protect big corporate property it will become a reality that you really, really won't like
i think if you're a young, ambitious person, the most important thing to do right now is realise that the old ways do not work. what you're watching right now is old, antiquated, bureaucratic, slow moving structures coming to a clash with a faster than ever moving reality
we are now in an age where skills are prioritised over anything, and the old path of education -> good job has been dead for quite a while. education was always a means to an end, a stamp of approval for abilities. but with degree inflation & AI, these things are quickly becoming worthless
you can just do things is now the signal for capability - the world will always prioritise people who take action. ultimately the people who recognise this are, as usual, the ones on the fringest who move fastes and aren't bogged down with unnecessary friction - startups, small companies, and capital managers.
“What if I were tragic and weak and beautiful and someone loved me all the time sooooooo much” versus “What if I had the ultimate reason to say f it” is truly the difference between the sexes
Literally “if you stole a million dollars a year for thousands of years, under capitalism you wouldn’t make as much money as someone who revolutionized space flight” and Jacobin thinks this proves communism is good