Gnostrils

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[Gnostrils @gnostrils]

If you have a habit of being hard on yourself or are chronically unhappy, it's good to regularly strive to cultivate self-compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. If you've tried to cultivate these things and you still feel bad, it's because you're a failure and piece of shit

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The above is the full headline of a news article in Space Daily!

https://t.co/Sjw58TkJ1B

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“The Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh burned down in 612 BC, but because its 30,000 tablets were made of clay, the fire actually baked and preserved them, and we can read Mesopotamian poetry today because someone tried to destroy it”

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Claude Opus 4.8 has been absolutely incredible for diagnosing car trouble and helping me DIY fix it. LLMs + YouTube make it so fixing some things myself is actually *more convenient* than a mechanic would be. Definitely takes less time, and far cheaper, even if more effort. Also I get to learn about how my car works

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yes but far less cursed than the world where social anxiety made people MORE likeable

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

it’s pretty cursed that social anxiety actually makes people less likeable

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@Aella_Girl "Humans are just molecules colliding" etc. Seems like a run of the mill reductionist view (though AI reductionists are not, I think, typically reductionists w/r/t other things, which is a flag)

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@MishraArya5819 @BangachevKiril @mehtaab_sawhney yea imaginary part ~10^30000, real part 0.49999999348827247

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the etymology of “boycott” is interesting — the term actually comes from the “Irish Land League ostracism of Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832–1897) […], who refused to lower rents for his tenant farmers.”

https://t.co/w0oiP24W33

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i am boycotting the painfully bland bisyllabic gender-neutral prefixes/suffixes “person” and “people” in favor of the far more aesthetic monosyllabic gender-neutral prefixes/suffixes “dude (gender-neutral)” and “dudes”/“folk”

or should i say, i am dudecotting the above

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for extra security, all 2-factor authentication codes should be extremely large prime numbers

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coming to terms with the fact that i will have to remove at least most of the spiders

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a spider had babies in my bathroom and now every time i go in the bathroom there are new baby spider webs everywhere. i find it adorable but unfortunate because they are colonizing places i use frequently and that means that their webs get destroyed and i get spiders on me

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i actually don’t mind having spiders on me, but if they’re on me then i’m suddenly tracking a new thing and i don’t want to kill it and also why is it on me and why are there so many on me etc

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@meaning_enjoyer lol

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@shaggysurvives what if i make it your business by telling you

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@shaggysurvives gilded sea

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if a creature is about the same size as a person, being stepped on isn’t a life-threatening risk

around the size of a dog or cat, it starts to become risky, though usually a person is still tracking things the size of a dog or cat, so still safe

mice have to be vigilant

most bugs don’t stand a chance against an errant foot

but the crazy thing is, being below a certain size (mites?) also confers immunity to dying by being stepped on

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@AlexGodofsky pretty sure most english-speaking people are still not tuned into AI at all

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@thinkingshivers think of the car as a sky advertisement instead

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@IIjastus i will pass along your congratulations to the happy mother

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hmm a spider seems to have had babies in my bathroom