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Frater’s thread of unvetted takes that popped into my head.
All working ideas, not an official take or whatever. Most of these were probably read in a book and just recalled without attribution. Not claiming novelty at all…just trying to think out loud more.
Assassination in the US and NASA announces life on mars. Somebody who’s better at astrology please tell me wtf is going on.
The spirits of war, hate, numbness feel far too close to the surface these days. Stay safe friends. Find some love out there. It never leaves us even when the world tries to mask it.
A high animist thought:
Assuming they are conscious, I think solid objects can focus their mass a bit to parts of their structure to let them fall oddly. Think ‘slipped out of your hand’, or when things land in some unexpected way.
Someone better with charts than me can probably say why today was such a huge day for AI announcements. Multiple separate companies all announcing big news.
Gotta say @AustinRCoppock and @gordon_white couldn’t have called the beginning of the year better.
Red herrings galore!
Biggest difference working for the megacorp vs a startup is that at a startup everyone internally is the harshest critic of the product. They enumerate and hate every flaw.
Big tech is about default cheerleading your product no matter how bad and shrugging of flaws.
When times are at their worst in the wider world, the mountain brings me peace. I love this misty mountain I am blessed to live on.
A true initiation is one where afterwards there is no going back. You can change again but you will never be able to be the same person you were before the initiation.
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Got a book coming out soon on 19th-century psychiatry & the supernatural. Surfing Twitter/the news these days & seeing USA & UK right wing conspiracy stuff I think, yep, they would be in an asylum by 19th-century criteria of insanity. How things change...
What’s everyone’s take on why exorcisms work in multiple religions?
All the ones I know of make appeals to authority as part of the practice but what’s a framework for how there can be so many authorities?
Reincarnation is the most important concept to adopt for life satisfaction. Thinking you have only one life can easily doom spiral someone into seeing the world as unfair and awful.






