Tom Hyde

Drunk on wonder ❤️‍🔥 @conjectureinst fellow

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

❤️‍🔥 WONDERISM ❤️‍🔥 — my rough-sketch philosophy of Enlightenment and Romanticism, reason and feeling, science and art.

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“The aging of my body and my beauty
is a wound from an appalling knife.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595”, translated by James Merrill.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

A book here for any optimist historians: “Small Lights: The Many Ends of Unending Progress from Athens to Italy” Or something.

[allison harvard burke @alliharvard]

‘you and i are earth’, 1661 tin plate found in the sewers of london.

[Knosciwi @knosciwi]

@tomhyde_ @DavidDeutschOxf I read once: the law of comparative advantage is the most inspiring thing in the world. It proves everyone can contribute. Even you are worse than everyone at everything.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Very next sentence describes the asymmetry between verification and falsification.

I wonder: how many great minds have part-glanced this insight?

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

J. S. Mill anticipating Popper in 1831: The Enlightenment is error correction ("discussion")—not truth finding ("wisdom").

From here: https://t.co/bJ5FoK6om8

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Happy birthday to the best photo ever! 🎂

Read my celebration of it here: https://t.co/pGHyIGWxaW

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

“The Fall of Icarus” is now one year old. Still my favorite collaboration ever, with the incredibly talented @BlackGryph0n making a literal leap of faith while I captured him in freefall with a solar telescope.

Perhaps I need to come up with a way to top this preposterous shot 🤔

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Reminder: I accept Zcash as a form of financial support for the writing of my book called "Wonderism".

Shielded wallet:
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Here is a description of the book:

"This book is about two things and one.

It is, by all accounts, a book about reason: thinking, and rationality, the creation of knowledge, the methods of progress, the institutions of science and the applications of engineering, the acquisition of materials and the distribution of resources: wealth and money and cities and concrete and towers and rockets and fuel.

But it is equally a book about emotion: feeling, and sentimentality, the practices of art, the pursuits of beauty, the traditions of literature and the canons of aesthetics, the worlds of abstraction and the oceans of sensation: health, meaning, forests, flowers, sonnets, paintings, song."

If the reconciliation of reason and emotion sounds of value to you—please consider supporting me!

[Whale Narrative @WhaleNarrative]

🚨 THEY’VE CALLED ZCASH A PUMP AND DUMP SINCE $80

@arjunkhemani pushes back on Bitcoin supporters dismissing Zcash’s rally.

“A lot of Bitcoiners are getting really upset that Zcash’s price is going up, and everybody’s just calling it a pump and dump.”

“They’ve been calling it a pump and dump since it was like $80.”

“There probably will be a certain threshold where they do get in.”

📽️: @maxdesalle

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

A science fiction novel just won the Booker Prize!: https://t.co/Vo9BQE1zaG

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

See also, Eliot:

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

You fool. You foolish foolish fool.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Perhaps the most underrated insight from @DavidDeutschOxf is the most unsung miracle of Western society: it is exceedingly difficult for a person to become a malefactor (a net-negative on society).

Merely getting up in the morning, going to work, meeting friends and buying a beer is enough to leave this existence better than before.

Wordsworth said it well:

“On that best portion of a good man’s life, / His little, nameless, unremembered, acts / Of kindness and of love.”

The degree to which our institutions have automated benefit is astounding.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

See also, Eliot:

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

You fool. You foolish foolish fool.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Just listened and largely bemused. Vaden is pugnacious as usual but nothing beyond the terms of debate. (He reliably urges his interviewers to maintain their intensity *against him*. And this conversation is nowhere near the prickliness of the Doom Debates episodes.)

One of the hosts was fine. The other was merely incredulous towards the logical conclusions of his own philosophy.

[Vaden Masrani @VadenMasrani]

Well that's no good...

https://t.co/71iOQOAFX5

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

@dela3499 Can we see the before / after? 👀

Could be fun to do with other stylists also: how would Melville, Joyce, Shakespeare… write it lol?

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Altruism really does just reduce to coercion because it eagerly disregards the preferences of the people it is claiming to “help”: have you stopped to consider that different people have different tastes?; that some people like small, cosy homes?; that many people would trade floor space for a balcony with a view of the most beautiful city in the world in a heartbeat?; that the gentleman in this video is ceaselessly smiling?; that, by criminalising his happiness, you are erasing an entire class of affordable housing traded with consent?

Because that sounds far more disgusting.

[yammi @sighyam]

Disgusting. This should be illegal.

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

I say it again: the best poetry form is the extended list.

[sam buntz @SamBuntz]

Joyce from Ulysses, on woman and the moon:

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

Text from here: https://t.co/VqNbraFnZ3

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

The UK Government has once again fallen for the dramatic fallacy: believing that fiction *is* reality.

These laws are not merely illiberal—they are illiterate.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The following porn is illegal to possess or publish in England and Wales from tomorrow:

- Strangulation or suffocation, such as restricting breathing through facesitting or hand over mouth

- Penetrative sex between family members or people pretending to be related (like father and daughter), including step and foster-family scenarios where one person is or appears under 18

- Adults roleplaying as children under 16, such as wearing school uniform

Anyone who currently possesses the content above must delete it before tomorrow or face up to 3 years in prison, or 5 years if they publish it

[Tom Hyde @tomhyde_]

The real Woke 1 was The Enlightenment.

(What is currently known as “Woke 1” is more accurately known as “Nightmare 16”.)