Very handsome 1yo with a very messy shirt

I think the elephant and the rider metaphor about our cognition is overblown and at the very least misleading. Most of our lives, we implement decisions we made carefully - either as individuals or as societies. We go to jobs we planned decades ago, on roads the government planned carefully, etc.

Anyone have experience with inverter goggles? Of any of the Innsbruck Goggle Experiments types? (Make world appear upside down, etc.) Would love to own a good set

I’m prob just following the wrong people but more than half my feed is still just meta commentary about bsky rather than object level poasts about stuff Yes I’m aware this poast does not help

Rictus grin of the bless’d

mood

Montessori school sent home this photo with the caption “Introduced hammering nails into a pumpkin” like that’s supposed to be somehow self-explanatory

Just watched 4yo assertively confront another 4yo on the playground to defend her 1yo brother “You need to stop that right now. You cannot just take that toy from him.” Was instant. Unblinking eye contact, aggressive posture, all up in other child’s face Felt primal, atavistic

How I taught my 4yo how to read by (in part) setting her up to send text messages higherground.substack.com/p/friday-not...

Just remembered that this app is why I met @weisenthal.bsky.social and decided to check back in

This talk by @matt.kitchen about creating "normal" people - people who have healthy, happy lives - people who learn and work and decide for themselves and care for others - is fantastic youtu.be/hCFH9MaRO4A?...

My “everything should be on peg boards” phase continues unchecked

Every restaurant around here makes some form of mayonnaise the crucial ingredient, where without exception some form of mustard would be superior.

April showers bring may showers

you want me, a human, to play cards against humanity?

I’ve done a lot of big dinner parties with lots of variants on ritual aimed at evoking the Sacred, and so far, surprisingly, the one that’s most successfully done so is building a hog pit and eating a pig as we butcher it

3yo up fussy and incoherent from 1am to 5am because the back of her knee hurts and it turns out it’s likely just “growing pains”? Wtf

It’s 5am and 3yo is lying between @genagorlin.bsky.social and me in our bed, sound asleep and upside down, and once every 15 minutes she spazzes and literally kicks me in the face (without waking up at all), so here I am posting I guess

Why aren’t girlscout trefoils trefoils

OH: “Singapore is the Coinbase of countries”

What’s with the railroad tracks at the beginning of Frozen 2 What century is this

The lease: "Landlord leases to the tenant the real property [address], together with the following non-real property items: washer, dryer, refrigerator... The real property and non-real property are collectively called 'The Property'" Me, a philosopher: *aneurism*

Female friend struggling to let down 40yo guy about a second date and I’m like “The whole job of men in courtship is to get rejected, and your whole job is to reject, and everyone involved is old enough to know this implicitly, but here you are making me say it outright like an old sexist windbag”

Skimming through my feed it seems like we might be reaching the event horizon where the discourse here becomes interpolated with the culture wars which probably sucks for most people but it’s great for me

3yo stole four leis and my sunglasses

Given how nice it is when most of my laundry is clean and hung you’d think that I would try to achieve this state of affairs more than once or twice a year

Woke up with the sun at 6:45a and both children were still asleep. Gonna be a good day

Why am I getting followers who are you people

what phone games don't exist is almost the most interesting thing about phone games Like why isn't there a Katamari Damaci phone game? Someone at Namco seriously hates money

this has never failed me

Did not exactly dress for the occasion

Watching Mary Poppins with 3yo, and for the first time since I was very small, and totally convinced that she’s one of the many masks of Nyarlathotep

The highbrow content I come to the gas pump for

I feel most at home in world while being outside during a good thunderstorm

My content volume and audience numbers (in my profession) are now large enough that I regularly meet people who know a *lot* about me, my views, and even my idiosyncrasies before we even shake hands. Totally fine but I’m still not socially used to it, not sure how to proceed

Twitter: 30k likes > “20+” Bsky: 1 like >

Update: my job is now telling people to use AI

Crazy the extent to which big professional conferences are places for people en masse to go and have affairs Affair energy is palpable. It’s a distinct kind of flirting and it is omnipresent here

I’m at ASUGSV, a huge ed conference, which I always attend and which frankly is boring buzzword stuff (PBL/DEI/disrupt higher ed/tech/green/personalization/blah blah) But this year for once the hype happens to be something that is genuinely exciting (AI) and suddenly the conference is actually good

me: we’re all wearing stripes let’s take a selfie @genagorlin.bsky.social:

Since the last time I bought lawn machines they have all switched from gas power to electric and it is actually awesome. 5 hours of charge and no real tradeoffs in power that I can tell

The hold music for Symphony Pharmacy is a sonata. Frauds

On a purely technical level, my mapping of the new cyberspace program to space programs Farcaster = SpaceX Bluesky = Blue Origin (suborbital) Substack Notes = Virgin Galactic Mastodon = Chinese space program Twitter = Russian space program

I love having a large and completely unmanageable digital footprint. there’s no way anything bad can come from this

Tomatoes are basically meat

Gonna watch this pot until it boils

Gonna be the change I want to be in the world: let's have some object level takes Here's mine from today: Having kids do presentations in school is Bad bc most suck at it, waste huge amounts of time and hate it, bore the hell out of everyone, go on uncorrected for the rest of their schooling yrs

Tonight in child gain-of-function research: 3mo grabbed a stuffed animal and took it out of a bag 3yo learned to use stencils