meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt

storms and rockets are a bad practical combination but make for awesome aesthetics
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RT @LabPadre
Talk about weird science... #SpaceX #Starbase #BocaChica #Texas #Starship
https://twitter.com/LabPadre/status/1444126120568365056

two-gun shooting looks like a fun sport

this is... a weird one

I wonder if we'll see more of this- I figured that the recent growth in anti-vax stuff (even pre-COVID) focused on things where the correlation was hard to observe, on time scale of months or years

"take this, you'll feel better" seems universally popular
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RT @HelenBranswell
1. This is horrifying. An Illinois man has died from #rabies, which is a terrible death. He awoke 1 day in mid-Aug to find a bat on …
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1443582830236237832

recently read the idea that the disgust response may be a fundamental drive, a kind of counterpart to the Panksepp SEEKING drive

given how your brain mostly seems to sort stuff into approach/withdraw that seems broadly reasonable

despite how it may seem at times, this really is an impossibly cool time to be alive

Finally, as a general rule, the baseline standard for more or less every skill should rise. The internet can't confer deep mastery, but it can get you the 80/20 fundamentals that historically most people just couldn't access

I wonder to what extent this creates more winner-take-all dynamics, where people with the necessary cognitive/skill prerequisites are massively enhanced, while those without get left behind

Second, as Icy Mike notes, this dude is highly, highly nontypical. He's athletic, mature, and very smart. Most people won't be able to learn this well.

(seriously, don't learn to fight on YouTube. unless you dislike me, in which case, uh, please do)

A couple takeways for me:

First of all, we're really still learning how to use the medium. Memories of grainy VHS training videos and stiff attemps to recreate in-person classrooms sell things short- we're still learning how to use video to teach

This is the basic concept @SamoBurja flagged a couple of years back in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5iu8wLw_Ws

high-bandwidth audiovisual communication allows you to communicate a ton of tacit details that an expert may not be able to convey

https://youtu.be/OnaRy7vz5gs

I found this video really interesting. It's the same general trend in skills transfer/online education we've seen in other domains, but in this case applied to fighting- something deeply physical and high-risk

Watching videos on guillotine chokes, tapping my feet to get back in the gym and train

I want to start keeping a list of clown world theories

Just about everyone I talk to seems to think the world's getting weirder/less predictable, but everyone has a different explanation for why

is hackernews in a bubble or am I

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00589

This is really cool! they extend of Panksepp's emotional operating systems in a way I think makes sense, and also the general idea of neuronal selection - emotional events impacting development is a feature, not bug

this thread reflects a lot of my own feelings, albeit expressed with a lot more eloquence
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RT @atroyn
technological progress is the only serious hope for natural conservation, but without a fundamentally humanistic ideological underpinning for technologists, the chance will be lost
https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1433455866489958401