The population is susceptible to memetic viruses of a certain shape; when it comes to neutralising the harmful ones, is the best way to engineer benevolent ones to take their place?

Europeans can hold formidable discipline when pointed at a morally-flavoured target, and the tragedy is that nowadays it doesn't mean clean streets or anything nice and productive like that, but more like, not installing AC

contracting, expanding, translating

If I'm hanging out here, it likely means I'm procrastinating something

Japanese: has katakana Korean: does not have katakana Chinese: has katakana but camouflaged

Sometimes I feel like the world needs less effort in creating new arguments and more effort in weeding out existing bad ones We need to Marie Kondo many a discourse

immune system appreciation tweet

at this point when my Polish relatives ask me about another insane piece of news from Britain I just respond with "I love the place, but I consider the modern state of the United Kingdom to have lost legitimacy to rule" and that simplifies things

"we're proudly cashless" = "we're proudly demanding you attach your government identity as a prerequisite to this transaction"

I liked a few of your tweets You liked a few of my tweets ... would you like to meet up🥺

Widespread air-conditioning would be nice, but the problem remains that a 35°C clear day is fundamentally temperamentally un-British. Inducing full cloud cover over England would solve this

What goes on over there does anybody know?

airport terminals at sunset >>

we could explore the taiwanese backrooms together 🥺

Taipei seems like such an unreasonably artsy city. Which is also an interesting contrast with the omnipresent decrepit façades. Maybe they skimped on the maintenance of those so that they could pour their care into everything else

Manga volumes can be so mesmerising, as a physical object. The little book hosts so many and such dynamic illustrations, that are tamed only by the page boundaries, neatly packaged and contained away. Such a pleasure to peruse

do I know anyone in Taipei? or do you know somebody in Taipei whom I should know?

Ironic that UK is pushing for age controls given that it's a quite difficult place to implement those Other places often have the infra to make age verification one-click, and yet they aren't the ones that want to check ID for internet access

it correctly identified that the policeman is not real at least? partial credit? x.com/mayaofspring...

2011: totally reading that 300-page T&C before agreeing 2026: totally scrutinising that 300-line inline Python tool call before approving

clicking buttons, making sounds, adjusting synapses, widening the range of my perception

the uk has become an actually existing gender accelerationist state because anywhere that is cool and hip to be is forced to exclusively have gender neutral toilets now

the learning materials for both Japanese and Chinese tend to include the word for 'overtime work' suspiciously early :c

the former gifted kid yearns for exams

Studying two foreign languages at the same time but at different proficiency levels is an interesting comparison as to what the challenge at each level is. Mainly it makes it apparent that the curve feels like this

This might sound silly but this realisation has been a breakthrough just now – turns out the charts were actually holding me back as I had been putting more faith in them than in the evidence of my own ears and those tone charts are in the 'not even wrong' territory!

The most important thing you should learn when studying Chinese is that those charts are nonsense and you should discard them past the first lesson

It's been helpful to have had small ideologies, believe in them, start implementing them, and then witness their failings. At some point one just has to accept the humility of being fallible I think one should extend this to the big ideologies too

the constraints set by microblogging platforms caused the 'grid of four photos, often spontaneously taken on a stroll' genre of posts to arise, and I can't love those enough

the realisation that there is no difference between people obsessively getting into physical exercise and me obsessively getting into Anki, other than the subject matter

walking into Kinokuniya, browsing English books in English, English books in Japanese, Japanese books in Japanese, Japanese books in English, Japanese books in Chinese, English books in Chinese, Chinese books in Chinese,

after inventing the first compiler, in a heavy voice: "software is accelerating software development"

Pleco is one of those apps that make me wish wistfully that all software were like this. So straight to the point! Oh, the things that could have been...

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Welcome to @mayaofspring 's enclosure! For optimal viewing experience, please ensure that autotranslation is switched OFF before proceeding any further. 。。。。。 川个人个川

An underexplored field: party games for LLMs. Human party games are too easy. Naming animals, shiritori, all trivial when one has read everything. Entertain your Claude by getting it to produce Youtube URLs instead

Thinking about injecting more chaos into my life still. i.e. changing my pfp every day or so until one feels right My display name is visually distinctive so people would still recognise me, right?

If I'm hanging out here, it likely means I'm procrastinating something

❀ pondering...

cat flower plant cat - try to divine something?

I promise what follows is unironic and not a critique of OP everyone should be a doctor. Everyone should be practicing medicine . You’re in your body 24 hours a day what do you mean you don’t want to bend it to your will. You’re just like… letting other people decide what your body does???

i went to a chinese restaurant and they served me your tweets

I wouldn't find Japanese/Mandarin even half as appealing as they are to me presently if not for 汉字・漢字 tbh

I sometimes realise that in some sense it's easier for me to fly to another big city in another country than to properly explore the countryside nearby

Turns out I love doing repetitive practice every day! I love the feeling of getting better at a thing! Why haven't I been doing this more! 我爱学习💜アンキ大好き

(Fluffy Yellow Ran!) Took some liberties with her dress design ...green next, hm... #東方project #YakumoRan #八雲藍

Why is that actually... or is it because I'm a browser user and it's better inside a mobile app or something