JP @jp@schelling.pt

Meanwhile Caillou is speedrunning the eightfold path, that repellent little grub

I'm just looking for the origin of the "chop wood carry water" koan, I know it's a banger but can you western buddhist nerds please stop polluting the namespace with your books and songs

Did Dostoevsky ever realize his near-execution, the cause of his religious reawakening, was staged to teach him and his liberal buddies a lesson? And if he did eventually discover the truth, did it matter?

"I'd call that unambitious"
- Granny Weatherwax
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RT @Fortean777
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

― Rumi
https://twitter.com/Fortean777/status/1608676481336737797

Imagine the man's contributions to this Meeting Needs dialogue, he would have been an all-time posting goblin, deliriously deranged and utterly sincere
MEET THOSE NEEDS

Startups named for increasingly obscure Tolkien words until I've got to fire up an app called GROND to pay for parking and remember how to spell Cuiviénen to submit an expense report

I'm at the inflection point
I'm at the schelling point
I'm at the point of inflection of the schelling point

which machine do you wanna be close to
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RT @pmarca
The only people whose expertise counts are those close to the machine. https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1607815452872552448
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1607873477872353280

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I will blow scopolamine in your face and then, once the drug renders you suggestible, command you to accomplish your goals
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Studying chess openings is for type-A baby brain tryhards
True champions show up at the board and reason their openings out from first principles

Garnett chads having a rollicking good time with chapters like "Strain!" while PVcels scratch their heads over what "Laceration" is supposed to mean, exactly

The PV translations are the NASB of Dostoevsky and I can't decide if that's good or bad

Plus, everybody in Brothers K complaining about "realism" .. from Dmitri the deranged party animal to Kolya the insufferable tween
Is Dostoevsky joking? Is he screwing with critics who complain his novels are unrealistic, just dressed-up allegories? Or the reverse?

Seriously, how many enemies did Dostoevsky make running that lit journal
There's a thinly veiled jab at somebody every other page

Ivan predicting exactly how Rakitin's going to sell out, running not-too-edgy socialist magazine, investing his money (evil!), the neighborhood he'll build his house
Brutal roast, wonder who it was meant as a parody of

City whose football team is named after a formative gold rush blames the latest gold rush for its voter-inflicted suicide
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RT @HankPlante
The Techies came to San Francisco, made their money, drove up real estate prices and left. They strip-mined the culture, leaving behind a shell of what was once the most vibrant city on the West Coast. It became all about money. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/economy/california-san-fr…
https://twitter.com/HankPlante/status/1604183071061786624

For information, and to discover if they're actually doing automatic censoring:
My mastodon account can be found at https://schelling.pt/@jp
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RT @TwitterSupport
Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531265419591681

I'm a coder hostile to both as long as "making/writing" means "running gradient descent on chopped-up bits of other people's work and selling the output of stolen inputs as a new product"
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RT @magicianbrain
why is it that artists are so much more hostile to AI making art than programmers are to AI writing code
https://twitter.com/magicianbrain/status/1602663876163665920

.. just learned about The Affair of the Sausages, is Rakitin offering Alyosha some pocket sausage a deep cut from the Swiss reformation? Can Dostoevsky write two pages without hating on some heresy? (no)

D man chugging an old-timey vial of Dr. Zorba's Morphium Liniment, taking huge rips on the pipe, getting ready to write another Madame K passage