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Soldier’s Meadow, north of the Black Rock desert playa.

I remain skeptical of the idea that you should wait until the stage that a fascist authoritarian project is completed before you can say things like 'I love Hitler' and 'blood and soil' or 'the international jewry' or 'criminal illegal aliens eat your pets' are 'fascist.'

Apple kind of conveniently integrated Keychain into Firefox, but snuck in a little secret feature: it blocks Firefox's password generation for new accounts and wants you to open the page in Safari to generate a new password.

too late; for i have already pictured myself as the hyperphantasic adult who can conjure visual fantasy worlds and you as the typical imager with pruned neuronal connections

Deeply uncool (cool zone headline) finance.yahoo.com/news/us-gets...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

I love TikTok pitching me a new tranche of videos on some evidence-adjacent (but not evidence based) potential panacea. Trauma! MCAS! POTS on its own! Nervous system regulation!

A simple proposal from the Republicans: die fast (starvation) or die slow (unaffordable health care).

@yungchomsky.bsky.social who manufactured the gourmand crewneck sweater trueanon did? My fav sweatshirt and it’s starting to fall apart, need a few more 😔

Great thread, and tangent I think @hilaryagro.com is on point here about substance abuse often developing out of trauma that people struggle to name or acknowledge (don’t want to criticize their family) and thus repeat the cycle. Saw it often in the recovery space.

Mmm magic.

After a lengthy period of difficult reflection, I have reluctantly decided to endorse my own party’s nominee. Despite being overwhelmingly popular with voters, I will be extremely careful to frame my endorsement using bad faith language cribbed directly from their opponent’s attack ads

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Isn't Mastodon the GNU/Hurd of social networks?

Relating to a line in a song and then realizing that the implication of relating to said lyrics is that you’re Not Doing Great™️

I can see why mold causes such psychic damage. It sounds like a paranoiac delusion: there's some secret substance potentially _inside your walls_ that's making you sick in ways that feel obvious and yet are nearly impossible to externally verify.

Noticed the Amazon outage via the kindle web app failing and I feel like that’s actually a fairly positive development vis a vis chronic illness and my social media consumption habits

i think it's like the weird corporate obstinance over work-from-home; in the end, control and hierarchy are more important to these people than any specific ideology, and they'll commit or ignore any sin to preserve those things

Wild that amazon suggests adding the worst blackberries of your life to make it a free 4am delivery.

Summoning all my big tent energy to accept the parents and children starting an ultra local protest outside my window chanting “no kings, more queens”

An oligarch's invitation to debate on another oligarch's platform is a trap, not a conversation. The goal isn't to discuss the structural critique of power; it's to leverage a biased stage and an army of bots to neutralize that critique entirely.

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The low histamine diet, much like the low FODMAPs diet, feels like there are little landmines lurking everywhere. For low histamine: raspberries? no. blueberries? yes. lime? hard no. orange? hard no. goji berry? ... surprisingly, yes.

Convinced this is either true on a personal level (social media addiction) or societal level (total erosion of a public consensus) of most of the major “free” web successes of the last fifteen years.

Really excellent - good intro to DSP if reading the C++ isn’t a barrier

Good write up about porting the reverb effect from C++ VST3 instrument to Rust.

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My cats love to wait until I’m actively deep in thought to jump up on me and interrupt me. They intone “Why aren’t you thinking about me?”

Few essay openings have stuck with me like this one: "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick... sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."

The way the search engines yielded the search results to SEO-optimized slop to push people onto "AI" results, sometimes using fabricated studies to confirm the user's prior assumptions and fears -- it's bad news for our collective health literacy.

Yeah it doesn't help that searching for mold yields just like chatgpt-generated SEO-optimized drivel for what seems like a lot of quack doctors. Plus it's like a paranoiac fantasy: there's a secret thing in the walls that's poisoning you!

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Anyone out there have health consequences from mold in their house or apartment? How visible was your mold and what health impacts did you have? #chronicillness #mecfs

One oddity surrounding the claim that these logs are fabricated by the state that I haven’t seen discussed is that Ken Klippenstein had access to Robinson’s chat logs in a discord server where he ALSO admitted to doing it there. Is Ken also a fed? Is the discord account hacked by feds??

Shit I could get really into this.

Something incredibly dramatic about the waltz. Signals heavy stakes.

the millennials yearn for precedented times

Well there’s the answer, lots of Robinson’s exchange is in the indictment in this thread. The right is going to go apeshit with this.

They really want all the kids on rednote? Because that brief moment where everyone got on undermined years of anti-China propaganda.

@leaypi.bsky.social speaking in the British context but it's just as applicable to the Democrats and establishment liberalism in the US. "The centre-left is completely chasing the narrative of the right because it doesn't have its own critical reading of society"

Tyler Robinson friend discord: Vaguely video game culture, barely political. Inscrutable (barely apparent) politics even if you know the video game references. No evidence of a 4chan groyper, 4chan nihilist, or left wing conspiracy.

yeah the score too

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

this is appropriately blistering. the Koreans are fucking pissed and they are entirely right to be english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

"And the people outside mock the unhoused?" "No they respond with such sympathy and compassion that the governor of California has to call off the armed raid and grant rights and jobs and housing to the people in the sanctuaries." "Wow, this is optimistic!" "It was the grimmest future imaginable"