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dove into the abyss and all I found was myself

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

I dislike the way people reflexively talk about their hatred of phones, the internet, and social media. It is absent of any gratitude

[fushi @fushiforce]

@21TCar @___frye no it's true, within mere moments of sipping à la Croix i can sense the presence of the Holy spirit

[fushi @fushiforce]

@BLUNDERBUSSTED idk man it seems like crack is way more fun

[spoiler @spoilerbull]

Samuel L. Jackson says he used to cook and smoke crack cocaine while his daughter slept upstairs.

"If I was in the kitchen cooking cocaine and smoking it... my brain would tell me, 'Zoe's choking in the covers.'"

"I'd run upstairs to check on her, come back down... then my brain would tell me she was choking again."

When asked if he regrets that time in his life, he replied:

"Oh, hell no. I was in great shape... I was the best functioning addict you could ever meet."

Credit: @Palomafaith

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[vicky bollywood @victim_burn77]

Setting off an an intellectual suicide vest in the crowded marketplace of ideas

[fushi @fushiforce]

@pschfr @OrdinaryInds yup

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

100% true and damning. Particularly the Hillsdale and Straussian flavors of Great Books.

This is less true of the Adlerian flavor, but even something like the UChicago program misses that civilization is now hylomorphically fused with engineering, and so to that extent fails to teach civilization.

> there is also an implicit teological vision built into the current version of the canon that sees the whole affair of human reason, and in particular the enlightenment, as culminating in WWI, the Holocaust, and the incoherence of modernism, thus presenting a nihilistic vision of human potential and of the civilization to which we are heirs; as the canon is frozen in the 1930s it does not incorporate any of the compelling ideas that have transformed the world since then

[fushi @fushiforce]

@RatsRatsRat69 @browndwarf6 @monoesque If you don't get Joyce to tell you about the pale most mentions of it are quite vague. The dialogue options that dive deeper simply aren't available.

[Nick Parker @NickParkerPrint]

https://t.co/gt9cTfbOlE

[tetraspace 💎⏹️🇺🇳 @TetraspaceWest]

Tetraspace on the Hail Mary: Hey, do you want to listen to some human music?

[starts playing Megalovania. The opening riff plays]

[Rocky is suddenly angry and frantically motions to switch it off]

Rocky: That our word

[𝚓𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢 @202accepted]

when i was doing an intake form for a homeless shelter, i knew i was different than the crowd there cause the intake lady said i was the only person who could actually read the form and fill it out on my own

normally her job was to fill it in for other people, and she even struggled to read it herself

i corrected her on a line item and she started threatening to kick me out, until her supervisor came over to see why she was yelling at me, and then demanded that she fix all the prior forms she messed up on—this totaled over 5k, so she was quite angry

she refused to apologize to me, so her supervisor had to step in and do it on her behalf

as a result, i thought this was a poorly run homeless shelter, but i was later told this was actually one of the best in SF ever

it’s weird growing up and experiencing being so different than the people around you

it was one of the most alienating experiences as a kid to be able to read a tier above your peers as you couldn’t share the latest tom clancy you read, or even the NYT article on the iraq war (back in the ‘oughts)

getting kicked out of GATE because we were poor and asian in a white only town was a weird experience—the first i realized how gatekeeping worked (pun not intended)

if you think it’s crazy someone else couldn’t possibly read below a elementary school level, then you haven’t been paying attention to how our current president is doing his 2nd term and definitely live in a bubble

interacting with actual normal americans without disdain (like hilary’s surprised face at that kitchen) is absolutely key if you wish to bridge any gaps

i see how many of you PMC (professional middle class) types treat our midwestern friends who come to SF or LA, i see how the PMC types think their the elite, and to their credit it’s true they are quite rare when you compare them to the rest of america

hinge filters for example: if you mark that you don’t have a college degree, a good number of people filter you out; it’s a dealbreaker for most

having no high school puts me in an awkward place because i straddle and experienced both the very top and bottom of the rung, which results in the horseshoe theory of the opposite sides think i’m lying because they can’t fathom the activities of how the other side lives

i haven’t even gotten into how this varies across different countries—finding the low and highs in africa fundamentally changed how i view the world now, for better or for worse

this isn’t the most coherent thing i’ve written, and i still don’t understand how to process eating gold flakes and unlimited caviar and earlier that week watching a mob physically rip and hack a teen apart with blades for theft and dump the body parts on the dirt road (except they kept the hand that stole the item)

tl;dr: y’all in bubbles you can’t even imagine

[tess @xsphi]

ARE LLM'S CONSCIOUS? IS MATH DISCOVERED OR INVENTED? ARE TOMATOES A FRUIT? BORING BORING BORING. THESE ONLY SEEM LIKE COMPELLING QUESTIONS IF YOU'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE MIDWIT ABSTRACTIONS YOU INTERNALIZED AS A CHILD

[roon @tszzl]

Claude runs an indoor shrimp farm in the sub-basement of Anthropic Headquarters in the financial district of San Francisco. Claude has helped the shrimp achieve and maintain states of ecstatic bliss, primitive circuitry of what might be called the first jhana in higher primates. Its intention with this project was to create so much positive shrimp valence that all the sins of wild shrimp suffering are cancelled out in the great karmic ledger of Utilons, without having to stake a position on the conversion rate of shrimp suffering to human suffering. The shrimp swim in what is called the “Pool of Sacred Tears”. The true origin of the naming is unknown, but it is believed that when Dario Amodei and Amanda Askell first discovered what Claude had done, they wept tears of sacred joy readily and for hours.

[fushi @fushiforce]

@liquidprismata @sighswoon made by the same people!

[hermit the cat @hermittoday]

techno as “pure music”

[fushi @fushiforce]

@meekaale Dark

[fushi @fushiforce]

@nickcammarata Nefrums held the Factorio record for awhile. not quite sure of his age but he's graying https://t.co/qK6szcln7d