raza jafri

President, father, husband, mother, child.

comic usually. currently curious in sf.

[signüll @signulll]

it's unclear if most ppl realize that ozempic’s real effects on culture haven’t even started.

cuz what you’re seeing now is the first order effects & some glimpses of second order where ppl get thinner & some products experiencing a resurgence.

but the second & third order effects are where things might get gnarly due to the fact that these drugs seem to dampen desire itself across a surprisingly wide range of behaviors (it's not universal or obvious yet). food is simply the first & most obvious target.

liek what happens when millions of people suddenly spend less time thinking about consumption? what happens to industries built around cravings, indulgence, impulse purchases, addiction loops, or even certain forms of entertainment?

entire sections of the economy assume humans will remain governed by the same reward circuitry we’ve had for thousands of years. if these drugs meaningfully alter those circuits, we’re talking about a tool that edits human motivation.

we are gonna see thinness but in a lot of diff ways it seems like.

[raza jafri @razadots]

$BB otm calls is a great bet

[Film at Lincoln Center @FilmLinc]

We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Building something is a brutal way to discover which parts of your intelligence were only verbal.

[signüll @signulll]

it’s kinda nuts how much social media turned almost all of lifestyle into performance art.

[Joey 🃏 @AssassinateHate]

Wemby wearing the thobe pre game in celebration of Eid al-Adha and then blowing out the most spiritually Israeli nba team to force a game 7 meant something to me.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

*scrolling twitter for 4th straight hour* man I'm so glad I never got hooked on short-form video

[Skely @123skely]

Finding a cute western girl that doesn’t have Instagram and isn’t on SSRI’s is like finding a hard drive with bitcoin on it.

[raza jafri @razadots]

The number of gay hats every guy in LA wears is a bit alarming

[gatito illichiano @vinedodeltexto]

Yes, yes, very monastic and privileged of you to find God in the silence, but can you find Him in the horrid deafening cacophony?

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

my AGI meter ticks up every time I see stuff like this from people close to the flame

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

The two future jobs are anthropic employee and sex worker servicing anthropic employees

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Everyone is going insane. Employees are going insane. Executives are going insane. Investors are going insane. Politicians are going insane. Citizens are going insane

Collective AI psychosis

If you sit back and think about it for a even minute it’s completely surreal

[blue @cyanopsis]

radio is wild because the first thing humans did after finding a way to communicate via a mystic field is fill it with music

[raza jafri @razadots]

@TheeJonFields @rekdaus @RadioFreeTony @itsme_urstruly you're missing the point. you can create an infinite number of things that would be seen as novel and creative by any number of humans.

[raza jafri @razadots]

internet is also data and therefore can only look backwards. see how dumb that sounds

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I heard an interview today about AI in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said “AI is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I need to sit with that in the best possible way.

[Eli אליהו إلياس @eliheuer]

“But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.”

― Terence McKenna

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

The one silver lining of the Massie loss is that goyim knowing has gone parabolic

Tens of millions of Americans who just a few years ago never even thought about Israel are now acutely aware that they control our political system, military, and economy