polar bear

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“Some are born to enjoy illusions, others are cursed to see the truth”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[polar bear @polarbearlive]

@enkidureborn one idea I like is running a fully coordinated online movement/campaign with a clear agenda. Introduce polls/opinions/supporters and workers interviews/informative content. it’ll definitely translate into a full blown ground movement very soon led by the supporters and workers

[polar bear @polarbearlive]

@enkidureborn imo most of the party supporters echo your thoughts for IK’s release. But honestly witnessing the contradictions among stances of KP government, PTI political committee, TTAP, YouTubers, social media, IK sisters, it’s hard to agree and implement on a single course of action

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Fluent in Silence - Ron Arnold

"So, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence."

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

Entering Osaka via this highway should be considered a World Heritage Site.
Japan is simply wonderful.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

To be a real Human, one needs intelligence, courage, tenacity, curiosity, and a strong sense of justice. Remove any one of the five and you end up with the equivalent of a lemon. Remove the sense of justice and you end up with a monster.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Books are so cool because there are NO FUCKING ADS IN THEM.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene said it well:

“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.”

[polar bear @polarbearlive]

@BohemianRevolt hahaha. good one

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

The people who control the chokepoints through which information flows are the most powerful people in the world.

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.

@naval

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Steve Jobs talks about who is best suited to lead a technology company 

[cokane 🪔 @cokanestudio]

like no charger no camera no screen no battery no body just an eyephone

[cokane 🪔 @cokanestudio]

i think apple's final form would be a surgery where your eyes become the phone

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence - Bukowski

[@jackbutcher @jackbutcher]

the opposite of momentum is not stillness, it's avoidance