the funniest part of the californians moving to texas are the ones who complain about the problems in "your country" while being the only anti-cosmopolitans in the room

turns out i am in the bottom quartile of my family in terms of ability to speak spanish and i need to improve by christmas eve

bread. what a food. you read about how awful early agriculture was in comparison to the alternatives & why did people ever decide to do this. and while a good piece of bread doesn't answer the question it makes you very grateful they did

if the us does not obey the rules of war, our enemies are incentivized to do the same. from a strict protect-the-troops standpoint, this should be swiftly resolved by military tribunal and every hour it is not endangers those who serve

note this joke doesn't technically speaking "work". but you can imagine a nearby text universe, where it did work. take a moment to imagine that universe now.

the reverse Let Me Google That For You

camo: floral prints For Him™

an episode and a half into pluribus & it's structurally reminding me of an inverse sense8 + the unenlightenment guru story https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/04/samsara/

kristi noam out here awarding bonuses to selective IAH TSA agents -- very fucking illegal

gender is time dependent; a boy and a man are of different genders, linked only by the expectation of their future or past

so like why do people lose their minds over vaccinations but not, like, pills? dream logic correspondence. vax is snakebite, pill is eucharist.

it's been a week and i can't stop thinking about how thriller is the rare piece of art which benefits from disliking the artist due to his actions (...undead author theory?)

a reminder that cooperation does not need to come from virtue in order to be Good

void out here combining yudposting with daily affirmations

this isn't exactly relevant, but fun fact, zohran's father's expulsion was a specific loss for uganda that museveni recogized after deposing idi amin & that informed the current gov't's policies towards indian ugandans

just accidentally figured out that tapping on the bottom bar of an anisota post where it says "posted x hours/days ago" opens the post's card stack, allowing reply viewing--the main thing that causes me to navigate from anisota to bsky. exciting!

"middle" really feels like a three syllable word

nbc i am only here for kornacki and you know it, why is someone else announcing the calls

we do so much for the Time Being, it's only right that it gives back, from time to time

thank the Time Being it's still thursday

turns out that *realizing* modern llms are semi-functional patches for limited aspects of the missed mentorship in my life is way, way more destabilizing than either the absence or limited patch alone

it's finally somewhat chilly* out! *(high 60s)

to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord;

when, inshallah, we become a truly spacefaring civilization, the cishuman/transhuman discourse is going to be one for the history books

there's a fundamental inconsistency between accepting trinitarianism & rejecting plural systems

this thread holds up remarkably well for something written about specific ai risks almost 2 years ago

even as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible hills

"a nazi named fears" is some remarkable nominative determinism

no less than the neocolonialist institution deserved; the posts belong to the people

One thing that gets constantly ignore in political discourse is how much is honestly good even in practical terms, even if you don't care about the ethical ones. Feeding kids overseas strengthens American soft power. Feeding kids here makes the next generation of Americans stronger and smarter.

it is thankfully not often that i learn of entirely novel horrors that exist within living memory but, well. reading through the replies and links, late 20th c british sports fandom certainly qualifies

it stop generating eventually, after more than a page of sobbing emojis. feel kinda bad about asking

piecing some things together about why "mormon tumblrista" was such a prominent demographic at my high school. happened to me as well--online queer leftism does feel like normal, reasonable discourse as you're leaving the church

have the people who accuse yudkowsky of founding a religion ever, you know, been part of an organized religion?

very hesitant to go to sleep after last night's evil eclipse dreams. and it's too late to take sleep aids since i have an early day tomorrow. aaaahhhh

i wish i had recorded my grandmother when i spoke to her on her 90th birthday her dialect was just ever so slightly different from that of younger generations; no individual statement stood out, but the overall style was of an origin that no longer exists

sonrisa/sunrise is easily the most aesthetically pleasing false cognate pair i've encountered

i don't think i've ever heard someone who hasn't lived in the NYC metro say "mwah"? this has to be sampling bias, right?

"AM I THE DRAMA" lives up to the title like no other album i've ever heard

support for shifting the overton windows 10 ends on october 14 2025

bluesky app "crashed" such that clicking on *anyone's* post would open this link (which i have finally located the source of). coincidence or collusion between sky & bird? either way i have subscribed and am looking forward to the pigeon post

adding that urban public restrooms now predominantly use motion-activated soap dispensers and faucets that actually work. and faucets in general are much less prone to leaking

my personal beef with cuba is that their medical corp held 100% to their principles and so leave me with no ideologically consistent way to support good (classically liberal) works while hating on the french

shout out to anthropic for the best-presented update to a ToS i've ever seen: clear explanation of what's happening, with a toggle *built into the notification* to allow you to control your privacy. also, cute rotating cube

"can i talk to a trusted adult about this without triggering mandatory reporting or forcing them to choose between their morals and the law" is something i wondered about a LOT in high school

may *all beings be at peace i have no reason to believe i am at the highest possible level of cognitive potential; i have no reason to discount the experiential reality of fundamentally less agentic beings om mani padme hum

i have met many pastors & hippies who are less in awe of Creation than IABIED is. it takes as priors that the existence of life itself is cause for endless wonder & that humanity is intrinsically valuable--these aren't controversial beliefs, but they're held so fervently as to be at the overton edge

appreciating how frequently it says "according to the recordings" can torres and gebru please stop describing people who accuse each other of being the antichrist as part of the same shadowy cabal working in lockstep?

serving rosé for communion & apologizing "he's feeling a bit anemic today"

going to have to tell my wife's cool older coworker i was too much of a wuss to watch event horizon if you're looking for a space thriller & didn't have nightmares for a solid week after reading the broadcast, maybe check it out, it's supposed to be very good