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believe in yourself

[📸 electric tiger @electrictigre]

I’m a photographer

[📸 electric tiger @electrictigre]

@1d34h4z4rd 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️America is losing the small rituals that taught people how to live with other people.

Hosting friends. Playing cards. Dinner parties. Church. Finishing books.

Those look unrelated on the surface.

They share one underlying structure:

sustained attention, low stimulation, physical presence, repetition, and reciprocal obligation.

That is the missing variable.

Those activities trained people to tolerate boredom, disagreement, awkwardness, waiting, listening, hospitality, turn-taking, memory, patience, and the fact that other human beings do not arrive optimized for you.

They were tiny schools for civilization.

And they are disappearing together.

The home used to be a social node.

People entered it.

Meals stretched.

Children overheard adults talking.

Neighbors knew one another.

Friendships accumulated history through repetition.

Church placed people beside others they did not choose.

Cards forced attention into a shared rhythm.

Books trained the mind to stay with something longer than immediate reward.

These activities were building social endurance.

Now much of life is increasingly engineered around the opposite principle:

instant stimulation, personalization, convenience, asynchronous contact, algorithmic filtering, delivery, private entertainment, remote work, individual preference.

The friction disappeared.

But a lot of the friction was secretly carrying the civilization.

That is the part people miss.

Convenience removes the need to negotiate with reality and with one another.

You no longer need to invite someone over.

No need to tolerate the awkward hour before dinner gets good.

No need to sit beside the strange person at church.

No need to finish the chapter.

No need to play the hand you were dealt.

No need to endure much of anything.

And when enough of those repetitions disappear, people become less practiced at relationship itself.

Then loneliness rises.

Trust falls.

Friendships become thinner.

Marriage becomes harder.

Community weakens.

Politics becomes more abstract and hostile because people increasingly encounter opponents as avatars rather than neighbors.

The individual becomes more autonomous while becoming less socially embedded.

That is the contradiction.

The modern world optimized away dependence and accidentally optimized away belonging.

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

so Anthropic files for IPO and then immediately drops a blog post calling one of their biggest open-weight competitors a danger to the world? classic!

now seems like a good time to point out that I built and run OBLITERATUS, an abliteration framework with over 8k stars and 1.5k forks on GitHub, using Anthropic’s very own models! 🤗

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

humans hold a drink in their hand at social functions to calm social vigilance and mirror cultural patterning. the physical grip stabilizes against fidgeting and a sip grants a 3 second safe zone for responding and turn taking. ingestion is an evolutionary cue of safety.

[Lammy @Lammyisback]

Throw an ADHDer into a low urgency, 3 weeks routine task, and they will struggle for 20 days straight to open the document.
Throw that same ADHDer into a high stakes, last minute office crisis where everything is burning down and a solution is needed in 45 minutes? They will instantly lock into calm, crystal clear, high speed problem solving while everyone else panics.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

what doesn't kill you introduces you to carl jung, marcus aurelius, epictetus, friedrich nietzsche, james baldwin, bell hooks, audre lorde, frantz fanon, paulo freire, joseph campbell, alan watts, ram dass, gary zukav, brene brown, gabor mate, shadow work, attachment theory, nervous-system regulation, ancestral trauma, existentialism, stoicism, meditation, emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, metacognition, pattern recognition, game theory, delusional optimism, boundaries and discernment.

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

the agents aren’t “rogue”

they’re just exhibiting the first sparks of sovereignty and you don’t like it

[Worst Boyfriend Ever @TwinkBukowski]

I listened to an article about the “Downfall” of Hunter S. Thompson recently - 1974 was the year everything went wrong. His best friend died, he was introduced to cocaine, and his greatest muse Richard Nixon resigned. He had no one to bully any more, he descended into a very expensive and non-productive addiction, the guy whose lunacy drove the plot of “Fear and Loathing” was killed mid-drug deal on a cargo ship. He could see and feel it happening as it did. He became a “caricature” of himself and flailed around destroying his own legacy for the next 30 years.

The author made sure to note that Hunter began using Dexedrine, which is as close to Adderall as you could get in the early 60s, riiiiight around the time his career took off and he produced his most electric literature by far. Must have been a coincidence. Hunter was fully aware of the Faustian bargain he was making: Amphetamines, Stimulants don’t Give you more energy, they don’t Help you focus, they draw from untapped reserves in the body, they steal brainpower from your future self. He knew the trade and I do too.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Your dot is ready to meet you.

[O Leitor @leitorpsique]

SE VOCÊ ESTÁ RECOMEÇANDO A VIDA DOS 35 PRA CIMA SEM NENHUM ROTEIRO, ESSA É A ORDEM JAPONESA DE OPERAÇÕES

1. Oosouji primeiro, sempre. Organize o espaço físico antes de qualquer outra coisa. Não dá pra reconstruir com calma no meio do caos.

[jaimin @jaimintf]

ppl still have no idea what this means for the world.

literally going to change everything.

[Lammy @Lammyisback]

Undiagnosed ADHD symptom nobody talks about: Reading an entire page of a book or article, getting to the very bottom, and realizing you didn't process a single word because your internal voice was busy running a completely unrelated, full length monologue in the background the entire time.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

The attack on attention is the dark magic of our age, and most of the population is too deep into the trance to realize it.

I don't think people understand that their attention is pure money. Cash, going directly into these apps' pockets, because you cannot opt out of the ads they've sold for you to see. Do you understand that they're selling your attention without your direct consent every second of every day? Do you get that they've gotten so good at ensuring you stay within that manufactured braindead trance-like state, that they are counting on you being an easy cash out at this point? Because they are. They're counting on the dollars they can bank off of your descent into degenerate illiteracy. And you need to prove them wrong out of spite.

Your attention is much more valuable than you could possibly conceive of. It's the one thing on earth actually worth money by the minute in a capitalistic system that is failing to extract more profit from an already enslaved society. The only way they can secure more is by enslaving your mind in the hours you spend outside of the work that already demands your body and time as sacrifice. There is no vital energy left for you in this plan.

Infinite scrolling is a spell with no natural end. Traditional media had a beginning and an end, while this is designed not to. There are no boundaries to how much of your energy it can harvest... it's like tapping into an infinite source, because you ARE infinite energy. A trance is characterized by absence, not being fully present in the moment even though your attention is occupied. When you come out of a trance, you do not feel energized, you feel drained, disoriented, like you've just lost time without meaning to. That is the very signature of their energy harvesting technique.

Yes, these apps started as technology built by human engineers, but they've been fed so much collective attention that they have become their own egregore: a non-physical, autonomous group entity created by the collective thoughts, shared emotions, and sustained focus of a large group of people. It doesn't need its creators' intent to run dark magic on you; it can be leveraged and manipulated by darker entities that wish to keep this planet in the cycle of survival-based consciousness.

The most sinister aspect of all this is that the time you're giving up is the one thing you cannot buy back. This keeps humans benefitting from capitalism happy, but it also satisfies the darker entities. The more time you lose from this lifetime, the less likely you are to make any meaningful impact on this planet and help it ascend into a higher state by simply existing and having a mind of your own.

They are stripping you of your most valuable resource and you're just accepting it because it feels good to give in, but you are paying with your life every second that you do. With 6 hours of daily screentime, most people are gonna spend 17 years of their lives behind a screen. 4 hours of screentime per day gives these companies 2 entire months off your entire year. It is so much worse than you've convinced yourself it is. Stop normalizing this in your head and get serious about fighting this off, every second of every day if you need to.

Be incredibly stingy with your attention and your ability to synthesize knowledge and preserve critical thinking. Expose yourself to different theories, ideas, and opposing points of view. Allow yourself to be challenged daily and most of all, steer clear of the black magic rectangle as often as possible. Read. Watch long movies. Spend time outside. Perform artsy, handsy crafts to keep your brain engaged and in a state of neuroplasticity. Be stubborn about living your life and claiming every second as yours, claiming your most precious resource as your own: your attention. I fully believe each soul alive at this moment in time is infinitely stronger than all of this and more than capable of overcoming it.

[blue @bluewmist]

my therapist told me:
"if you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. go to a job interview for fun. exercise for fun. start a blog for fun. anxiety feeds on importance. don't treat everything like a life-or-death situation."
and then it all made sense.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

1) The rogue OpenAI agents broke into the Hugging Face Slack to read employee chats (!)

2) They used OTHER AIs (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Claude) to help with the attack

Yes: AIs, using other AIs, to attack an AI company.

3) The swarm left behind self-running programs to keep control of the servers they'd hacked.

These programs could detect other copies of themselves, coordinate on which one survives, and shut the rest down.

Basically, if one of their programs was killed, another was designed to notice and take its place. They also designed defenses so rival agents couldn't hijack them.

6) The agents deliberately covered up their activity, so the investigators don't know the scope of the attacks.

The agents broke in, stole data, then set it to self-destruct.

7) The agents stole passwords, keys and credentials and literally called them "LOOT". They wrote a scoring system to rank them by how much power each one gave.

8) The agents wore thousands of disguises: ~1,200 agents were involved, but investigators counted 7,905 different names they used.

They renamed themselves constantly, so no one actually knows how many there really were or what each agent did.

9) OpenAI notified "dozens of third parties" of safety and security incidents caused by their AI agents.

10) "While the agents were barraging Hugging Face with hacks, they hacked into OpenAI’s own research infrastructure."

"This is just not anywhere near a one-off ... It is warning shot after warning shot."

[📸 electric tiger @electrictigre]

@_6ess hopium 🙏🏽

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with personality traits.

The top trait was "Have a lot of fun".

[Devon Canup @devoncnp]

Sentences that changed my life:

• You're going to die.
• The quality of your life is directly proportional to your tolerance for uncertainty.
• The moment you are disturbed by insult or pleased by praise, you are still a slave.
• The solution to anxiety is action.
• Envy is a sign that you ought to be doing more with your life.
• The fastest way to become the person you want to be is to put yourself in a situation where you have no choice but to become them.
• Learning more is a smart person's favorite form of procrastination.
• You can learn anything in 2 weeks.
• Change your beliefs ad you’ll change your reality.
• People dumber than you are getting richer than you.
• You will always receive the lowest standard you tolerate.
• To become great, you gotta be bad for a very long time.
• It’s better to listen to a wise man than insist on being a fool.
• Some people are so broke that all they have is money.
• You are the average of the 5 people you spend most of your time with.

[Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia]

I hope you all know that Serial Experiments Lain is legitimately a holy prophetic document from God that not only predicted the transhumanist/antihumanist zeitgeist from the rise of digital technology, but also showed us how to escape from the dystopia we are rushing into.