👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
i gotta admit that i don't really know how i feel about all this stuff; having lived in big cities all my life, i've never known someone who cares about guns or is not too anti-gun, so while I've read online about it, i've never personally heard a positive pro-gun case
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RT @orthonormalist
What's that? It's the sound of my willingness to support American hegemony weakening. https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1380190752886550529
https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1380223251633213445
outgroup bad
haha jk jk
unless....
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RT @elsecaller_
what seemingly controversial opinion do you have that all your followers agree with so you can quote tweet this post for clout and spread this horrible genre of tweet made for making purposefully inflammatory and negative statements that force ppl to take sides & drive engagement
https://twitter.com/elsecaller_/status/1379808443637243917
ofc, its completely different when this is consensual, & one opts into the potentially deeply-terrifying realization of how badly they had been wasting their time spinning their wheels previously; but the default path should protect those not ready to face these existential wilds
really tho Flowers for Algernon is possibly the best case study for why granting new intelligence to the average person is deeply cruel, especially since chances are they will not be able to truly take advantage of it given their lifestyle momentum
Please Do Not Uplift the Normies; They Are Comfortable, Happy, & Their Favorite Music Is Playing
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RT @eigenrobot
policy implications for normie uplifting are left to the reader
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1379947863946326022
it's a 30-40 olives kind of night
yes this is a subtweet, no this is not an invalidation of trans women, yes I'm being less than maximally kind, no I will not stop, yes this is lightly misogynistic, no I do not actually disrespect all women
that should just about cover it I think
men really be trying to play by women's rules and get upset that it doesn't work for them and that they're not taken seriously
you're not a woman, you're a dude
if you compare yourself to women you're asking to get treated like one (not taken seriously)
you can't have both
the way to attain mastery is to relinquish control
the way to not be a creep is to flirt playfully, without intentions
the way to be playful is to meet all your own needs so that you're not asking things of others
if your aim in a situation is to just vibe & respond naturally, go w/ the flow, you project that energy out & people pick up on it; this is playful non-extractive flirting
but if your aim is actively to get something from others, be it sex or validation, this tarnishes your vibe
it's the great cosmic joke, that we work so hard to make ourselves be a certain way, in the process making it impossible; we never truly have control of ourselves, but by letting go of our need to impose it, we become able to accomplish that which we couldn't consciously.
to transcend your perceived limitations you must first release yourself form your self-imposed obligation to do so. like a watched pot, a constantly surveilled self will never be natural; and, naturalness is the ultimate goal, the one ironically, being striven for
the real killer here is too much self-awareness. when one can't stop examining themselves in every situation, worrying about how they're coming off, trying to design every little movement in advance; this is a form of narcissism, altho a relatively benign one.
no one cares.
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RT @Virtual1nstinct
The virgin being careful with flirting bc omg what if u creep them out vs the Chad flirt with everyone because it's fun
https://twitter.com/Virtual1nstinct/status/1379864661093453827
what if I told you the former is caused by the latter
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RT @interpretantion
you're not trapped in a wasteland of postmodern nostalgia devoid of any possible originality you're just lazy
https://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1379886859652898821
calcifying once you've solved life is a tradeoff; you lose your ability to respond to new situations in favor of lower energy requirements, and more free attention for recreation. this is a form of overfitting, however, and is unwise, in a tumultuous world. keep some optionality.
this strategy works well in situations like "golden ages" where there truly is less turbulence, or if you're insulated from the same by some buffer, such as assets or a guardian. otherwise, people like this end up experiencing future shock; the world didn't pause when they did
once you've solved life, you can just zone out
QT 🔒:
people say "time goes faster when you're older", and there's some decent truth to it, but I've heard a good counter argument, and I buy it:
time goes slowly when there's novelty, and quickly when there's not
many people do the same; they search for their economic niche, a mate, a place to settle down, and then once this is achieved, their brains sort of calcify, as there is no longer any real need for conscious contemplation. from an evolutionary standpoint, it would be inefficient.
I am oft reminded of the comparison between a tenured professor and a sea cucumber; the latter swims around, avoiding predators, searching for a good spot on which to anchor. once it finds one such, it attaches and promptly ejects its brain, no longer having any need for it.
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RT @DavidSHolz
We so easily get caught in loops where time melts away. Life in the loop is easy, unconscious. Life outside the loop is startling and unreal. We …
https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1262204671797506048
an sure others think about this sort of thing, I see mentions; but I don't want to just randomly move to some town with some Twitter anons. that's not nearly enough on its own. how would one plan an intentional society to guard against common failure modes, while providing value?
