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[fever @fevermaria]

i'm just glad they don't make fun of women techies like this because i would not be able to recover. this is 90% me except i wear thrifted ann taylor petites and the occasional niche overpriced new york small batch designer just to feel like i'm part of something

[Jimmy Heaters @CathPoaster]

Thank God I’m nothing like the San Francisco software engineer stereotype. I’m into bouldering and rock climbing, I cycle to Marin, and wear Uniqlo not cargo shorts and crocs man. Urban planning is a passion of mine, big YIMBY here. Idk what the nerds are listening to but I’m still bumping old Kanye West and Aphex Twin. I actually touch grass unlike the other swe’s so I’m always on Partiful, scheduling things. I’m smart so outside of work I’m learning Chinese and spend a lot of time on LessWrong. I’m a NeoLib (smart, again) and love Tyler Cowen and Ezra Klein. I only date Chinese women but that’s a coincidence not a fetish. Pickleball, yeah, but ironically. I work on some hardware side projects in my free time. I’m unique, basically.

[fever @fevermaria]

same hairdresser for a decade always does me right with the "no octopus" cut

[fever @fevermaria]

https://t.co/bV39lyyrSx

[fever @fevermaria]

Replace every gas stove in NYC with a countertop with a front load compact washing machine underneath and two induction plates on top.

[Benjamin @bschne]

I still can’t quite believe that this is apparently what the cab of the Shanghai maglev looks like

[fever @fevermaria]

the chicken and egg problem of intelligence and intelligibility

[Conner O'Malley @conner_omalley]

sitting infront of my computer waiting for my dreams to come true

[jackie @jackieis_online]

my fully risograph-printed website (https://t.co/AJP3ZsHM8Q) has a home in this beautiful issue <3 🥹

i am obsessed with this table of contents design!!

[fever @fevermaria]

If you feel nihilistic, you probably need to increase your overton window, not get on SSRIs

[fever @fevermaria]

are you smart or do you just have a lot of thoughts

[fever @fevermaria]

the implicit good/evil judgment that people try to map onto invented dichotomies like left/right white/poc straight/queer rich/poor labor/capital colonialism/indigeneity is a coercive and manipulative psyop

[fever @fevermaria]

write ornately, irreverently, densely. mix from all generations of the memetic lifecycle of vocabulary. pluck from every garden. resuscitate lost nuances, explore new differentiations, nerd out. contribute your vitality to the political, epistemic project of language.

[fever @fevermaria]

this is the dialectic between the normative and the peculiar

[fever @fevermaria]

anna karenina showed me the error of my ways

[fever @fevermaria]

specifically the error of trying to have galaxy brain (like Schiatsky, who accumulates socially legitimated knowledge that doesn’t actually answer the questions posed by his life and work) and big brain (Levin, the opposite)

[fever @fevermaria]

I wonder what the difference is between self indulgence that indulges positive sentiments and one that indulges negative sentiments. the effect on one’s mood is like night and day.

[fever @fevermaria]

gave myself permission to treat my own cognition as a serious research subject

[fever @fevermaria]

my cognition is self indulgent and finds other self-indulgent cognitions attractive