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on maternity leave

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posting this again so I can pin it

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real reading is compulsive and unhealthy 😎

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this just shows that reading is a hobby for these people (pathetic!!!!) rather than a critical psychic defense originating in childhood and used to numb unbearable pain https://t.co/po3uL3jgqP

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I saw of video of Ethan Hawke lamenting how he's not reading half as much as he once did. This is a much deeper and darker pattern. Some of the most avid readers I know, lifelong readers, have basically stopped. They hate it and can't even explain it, the fire's just gone out

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all these fairweather fake Catholics coming out of the woodwork since the pope said AI is bad. not me. I’m a fake Catholic of 10+ years. I’m a real fake Catholic

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@AmberRayOfGrain try to extend the principle of charity when interacting with others. this will improve your understanding of the world around you

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unfortunately this is real, there is a widespread and really intense anxiety among many parents my age around exercising any authority over their kids at all, even if the issue at hand (sleep, eating, toileting, screens) has become totally unbearable for the whole family

[anu ❤️‍🔥 @taydream89]

there is a real crisis amongst millennial parents who are so terrified of inadvertently traumatizing their kids that they refuse to do anything akin to parenting lest it come across as authoritarian

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whenever I hear of a guy with an identical or near-identical first and last name I want to ring the parents and shout at them. Pete Peterson. Donald McDonald. Thomas Thompson. what the fuck were you thinking

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but when you elect to become a parent this is what you are signing up for, so you have to assimilate it somehow. one of many reasons the birth rate is going down

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I sympathise with this, I often think about how much easier parenting would be if our complex and demanding society didn’t require you to force your children to learn so many things in order to be functioning adults. you can’t really let them go at their own pace

[🐍 @andyburzum]

Western Civ guy utterly floored to discover that the Pope believes humans have souls

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I miss dank memes

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funniest ever instance of a poorly-educated naive physicalist completely unable to understand why someone might disagree with them. many such cases!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.

Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.

For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://t.co/iG3Bnlzt2J

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Instant classic

[digi prince @princemoth7]

@MildCuthbert Yeah because you don't understand what the Zinger box means to the ordinary Australian. If you are not engaged with that culture then it just shows how you alienated from the soil you stand on. Just leave already and go to Qatar where you belong.

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@MildCuthbert zinger boxes fucking suck!!!!!

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unless you’re doing proper research for some specific purpose, who cares. reading good books makes you smart and interesting through diffuse processes and that’s the important thing

[leftpain @left_plain]

it’s insane how you basically have to reread any given book once every two years to rly have the slightest idea wtf you’re talking about

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@twumblunni I was like ‘my sister is here ???’

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today at target I heard an announcement over the PA that said “at target, we have all the homosexuals you love!” and I was like, what the fuck?? but then I realised it actually said “home essentials”

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@quiet_homeboy Oh really. Well what if I want to get an STI

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holding grudges is peasant behaviour

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I’m genuinely thrilled that Sherry Turkle has lived to see this moment

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ugly people I don’t like: cursed, wearing their sin as a permanent surface, defective inside and out
ugly people I do like: nerfed by god to stop their powers from becoming ludicrously unfair to others