emmanuel

flaneur / sprezzatura

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

Avoid boring people.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

wow vía @MathFlow

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

"My contention is that prior to the Trojan war, the political structures of the Greek kingdoms, especially in the island territories could most aptly be characterized as...

Ofc that's your contention. You're a young aristocrat who just finished listening to some wandering poet, probably that hack from Pylos. You'll be convinced of that until next month when you hear the bard from Sparta. Then you'll be taking about how the kingdoms of Mycenae and Thebes were models of divine rulership back in our grandfathers' time. That will last until next year when you're back to regurgitating Mentor's speeches about the sacred bonds between king and people and the divine right of succession.

"Well as a matter of fact I won't because Mentor completely overlooks the importance of...

"Mentor completely overlooks the importance of the council of elders in tempering royal authority, especially in matters of inheritance..." you got that from Halitherses' speech at last year's spring festival, right? Yeah, I heard that too. Were you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or is that your thing. You come to a feast, quote some elder, and pawn it off as your own idea to impress Penelope and embarrass my son Telemachus?"

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

[faza @fazammd]

This is what happens when you message someone on another continent.

I wrote about how the internet actually works, from first principles. Includes interactive simulations to help you grasp the concepts with less effort.

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

one of the best articles i've read in a long time. so clear: https://t.co/j4X2e8kaoQ

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Joan Didion, every day is all there is

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

curious what @HardcoreHistory thinks about this website which visualizes 5000 years of war history https://t.co/Y0Jtaw92bh

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

really cool finding if it turns out to be true glp-1 can help depression. weight and depression also have positive association https://t.co/vf3yXEY0LS

[rinko @mrinko]

lee kuan yew on american culture

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Possible scenarios (ranked in order):

1/ Your country makes the best cheapest products. You export, and your citizens also buy the best.
2/ Your country doesn’t make the best/cheapest; but your consumers enjoy them (Brazil below).
3/ Your country doesn’t make the cheapest/best AND your country blocks access to your market. So you pay more for worst products, and you don’t export. Plus your local companies become less globally competitive as they are protected.

#3 is the worst. It’s what Europe did when America thrived. And it’s what many in Washington recommend today.

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

whoa

[B-R-K @b_r_khan_]

I keep on revisiting this. You might not realize the depth of what he said. In urdu poetry, there is a concept where poets view God as a lonely being, so lonely that He created free willed humans for company. Loneliness is a Godly trait & whoever enters its realm meets God there

[emmanuel @hectoribis]

i’m self made
you just affiliated
i built it ground up
you bought it renovated
- ricky rozay

I have spent a whole lifetime building this [Singapore] and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
- lee kuan yew

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I talked with a few folks inside Anthropic and I am starting to understand what @karpathy is saying (and what lots of people are misunderstanding)

It's not about Slack, but about a cloud AI, hooked up to ALL internal company systems, that "just works." THIS is the breakthrough

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

Reminder that DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng is not 996-pilled

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

You think you're good at thinking until you write

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

GOD WOULD NOT PLANT A DREAM IN A MAN INCAPABLE OF REACHING IT.