The Melancholy of Miss Distance

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

i want some kinda engineering side project to work on; what should I make, anyone have ideas?

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

wistfully researching cosmetic surgeries?

[christian @cxgonzalez]

whatever you were into at 16 is what you were born to do

[𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕒𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕟 @OstavNadezhdu]

every so often I read an offhand comment like "granted, cnc orgies ARE a crucial networking opportunity in the bay area..." and I realize I'm actually very comfortable in the permanent underclass, thank you

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

The OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir SuperPAC admits that it was “part of their strategy” to create and run a false flag “doomer” X account that posted calls to violence.

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

>5'4"

oh it was over _over_ for me before it even began...

[Noora @gynemimesis]

What is happening here? 50% of males who are 150 cm (5'0) tall are gay...

[L3Harris @L3HarrisTech]

Watch the transition that tells a big story.

Our hot-fire demonstration of a potential advanced propulsion solution for the @USArmy shows a flawless shift from solid rocket boost to ramjet propulsion. This breakthrough supports the Army’s need for extended range and faster speeds, showcasing Lockheed Martin’s offering for the Precision Strike Missile Increment 4 program: https://t.co/vyCWezhjlv

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

i feel like Spengler wrote about this

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

My concern is that a secular culture that lacks a deep anchor that is as morally ambitious and metaphysically robust as religious humanism or Silicon Valley transhumanism—one that offers a positive vision of the nature and purpose of our species—is inadequate to the AI crisis.

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

@Pixel8edF32328 both mog me

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

@Crazyuncute they cut off your upper jaw from the rest of your skull and your lower jaw from part with the jaw joint and reposition them both; it's quite invasive

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

who is he getting a $35k bimax from

[Clavicular Updates @Clav0Updates]

Clavicular hints that he may be getting his $35k Double Jaw surgery soon 👀

His Double Jaw Surgery includes:

▫️ Custom titanium implants on the cheekbones (zygomas), under eye (infraorbitals), brow ridge (supraorbitals), chin, and jaw angles (Gonions)
▫️ A Le Fort I osteotomy, where the surgeon cuts the bone of the upper jaw (maxilla) to detach it from the rest of the skull and moves it forwards along with the lower jaw (mandible)

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

@Crazyuncute the prices i've heard for bimax in US with top tier surgeons are about twice that much

[The Dark Single Mom @aerobro_cool]

egg world

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

the trick is water, salt, iron, and possibly even fludrocortisone

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Women fainting - you don’t see that anymore

[The Dark Single Mom @aerobro_cool]

they let her perform her own song

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

@420_gunna @sigfig that's for a different device (a radar by a different company) afaict

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

darkly hilarious that someone whose knowledge of counter UAS comes from the Matrix movies is in fact more directionally correct (HPM-based cUAS is a thing) than a journo

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Darkly hilarious that some people in my replies still think drones can be taken out with "EMP" because they saw that in the Matrix movies twenty years ago.

[The Melancholy of Miss Distance @softminus]

@YagharekPerdido @SIEGESISSY it's pure kino

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

My concern is that a secular culture that lacks a deep anchor that is as morally ambitious and metaphysically robust as religious humanism or Silicon Valley transhumanism—one that offers a positive vision of the nature and purpose of our species—is inadequate to the AI crisis.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Much secular discourse about AI, in contrast to both Christian humanism and Silicon Valley’s transhumanist extremism, lacks any anthropological vision, or any real answer to these questions—what are people for? What is the purpose of the species?—that goes beyond platitudes. 9/

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Silicon Valley's AI cultists ALSO have a clear (and religious!) answer to the question "what are people for": humanity's purpose is to create a superior digital "successor species" that will replace us. Our evolutionary destiny is to use tech to facilitate our own obsolesce. 8/