When Martin Luther said "sola scriptura", he became the first programmer.

Mother Nature's husband is Father Culture.

Nature is amoral and wise.

There's an old English superstition that you can ward off the Devil by throwing 100 beans on the ground, as he is obliged by his own nature to stop and count each and every one. So likewise is a perfectionist when faced with a trivial decision.

Credulous hope --> problem gambling Credulous fear --> superstition

It has never been today before.

The "Grok Button" on ElonForum is a super useful feature, this website should have something like that too. Everyone who would be angered by that deserves it.

No one is actually "stuck", because time is always moving.

If something is Just a picture, everything it shows you is what it is showing you. If something is Just text, everything it is telling you is what it is telling you. But when text is combined with an image, a new "kind of information" is projected through the gap between them.

@scryfall.com Any plans to add the Powered Cube?

The only vice is trying to be satisfied by what doesn't.

What aspects of your phenomenological experience are YOU discounting just because they're consensus-illegible? Yes, I'm talking to YOU.

Transhumanism type stuff is worth trying to see what happens, but the people who are approaching it with the energy of making it some kind of, like, "moral imperative" are in danger of turning a blind eye when it doesn't work out.

If you're offended by AI slop then make sure your drawings have soul. Denigrating an easy target does nothing to lift yourself up.

When this sort of coincidence occurs, it leads some people to speculate Masonic conspiracies &c, but there's another, less materialistic way of justifying similar things happening to people with similar birthdays... It is, of course, #astrology. Both George and Charlie were...

The concept of behavior is a weapon: it's a picture of a person, regardless of their internality. Just whatever you're able to see. Viewing others in behaviorist terms can make you a sociopath but is sometimes tragically necessary; viewing yourself that way is farcical alienation.

There's nothing that's "the current thing", except what you're actually experiencing right now.

I can't stand that breed of moral feeling that prattles about what people "deserve". In no way does it make me "arrogant" that I stand unbowed before your golden idol, Karen.

I hypothesize that the "typical mind fallacy" is the number one reason people fail at teaching.

People shouldn't do things they don't want to unless it's really important. That state of abjection should never be normalized.

Only eye can judge.

Everyone should be somewhat lazy and somewhat selfish. These qualities are virtues in and only in moderation.

A man who praises a tiger as it's eating him goes beyond cruel reality to even crueller illusions.

Hello. I've created a diagram that proves #astrology Astrology is science now and everyone has to deal with it.

People who don't want to hear that something is subjective, it's because they want to Prove and Control things.

People are just meat, aren't they? That's how it looks like from the outside, anyway. But I'm also inside of a person.

Fatalism was invented to divert your mind from seeking alternatives.

Projecting observer-focused motivations onto the person you're observing is, of course, a self-centered delusion.

"Maturity" (Slave Morality)

People who will unperson you if you break their Secret Rules need to be filtered out fast.

Constantly presuming that others "know exactly what they're doing" makes you a stupid asshole. Fortunately for you, it's the others who foot the bill.

Corporations on July 1st

Having knowledge, skills, taste is better than being a "nerd".

it is best not to assume it’s the end of the world ever. So far that has been correct never

I expect the "culture war" of the rest of this decade and the next to revolve around Technology versus Protectionism.

The flesh seems quite sinful indeed when you don't eat enough.

Devils on both shoulders; Immaturity Devil (left shoulder): You Are Personally Entitled To Enslave The Human Race Maturity Devil (right shoulder): You Are Morally Obligated To Be A Slave

#Astrology On twitter, "the lion does not concern himself with" posting is hot right now, and in the sky, Mars is in Leo.

#Astrology Immediate impressions of Saturn in Aries (since ~30 minutes ago): -Thoughts are more verbal, explicit -Colors are more saturated -Individual objects feel more distinct -Mess/clutter is more noticeable and annoying

Religious moralists fly into empty abstraction when they categorize the libido as "sinful" -- rather than merely stating the practical maxim that it can make one act foolish.

If we all work too much, there will be no one to enjoy the fruits of that labor.

"Addiction" is just anything you do halfheartedly.

affirmations: everyone is capable of incredible evil

Think about how many creators have had TV shows they made, and would LOVE to make more of, cancelled on them by streaming services, where they *do not have the right* to make more of them. They do not own what they created, *because* of copyright

It has always been dangerous to be stupid, and it always will be.