👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
the nature of life is to ceaselessly struggle against entropy, to desperately fight for survival in a cold inhospitable universe, carve out a niche from the chaotic cosmos; this is élan vital, life force, spiral power, w/e you call it; the will to go on.
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RT @pee_zombie
homeostasis is the pursuit of biological ergodicity by living beings, an attempt to perpetually stave off the cessation of optionality, the halting state; in this wa…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1393631100497432577
this ideological attractor is a dangerous tendency among the spiritually nihilistic, those who live by fear instead of hope; too many of the brilliant people I know are stuck in this developmental dead end; this degrowth mindset is the seed of the antispiral
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RT @deepfates
I have some friends who are future oriented and into space, AI, etc. but they've bought into the academic/activist left worldview and it clearly causes them a great…
https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1471962776591495168
folklore greebles the cultural fabric
if any of you are baby and currently thinking about this, please do not take out massive loans just bc people tell you it's the right move; it very rarely is. there's almost certainly a better option for you, even tho reputation feels like the most important thing in the world.
had I known what I do now I would have almost certainly gone to a cheaper school, maybe even completed my degree without the looming financial spectre over my head
I don't regret going due to the people I met and the experiences it exposed me to, but it was an expensive lesson
far from the first to say this but it's incredibly fucked that we push kids into massive debt without first properly educating them regarding
a. what debt is and how it works
b. what the purpose of college is
c. what their other options are
d. how this will constrain their future
the most frustrating part about dropping out of college for me was that I still had to pay my student loans, which I took out as a stupid 18 yr old who had no idea what the fuck he was getting into
well, I've finally paid it all off and can close the book on that era of my life
this is also where I've arrived; being an incorrigible technocrat I'm also sorely tempted to advocate for complex proposals which COULD work, but have been forced to admit such are unviable in today's undergoverned (and misgoverned) world. all that's left is defending liberties.
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RT @phl43
This is basically the conclusion I have reached after the second wave and why I have been endlessly frustrated by otherwise smart people coming up with…
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1471854173389996034
And That's Good
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RT @cabel
I don’t know why, but this reply has really stuck with me. “web3 is promising because I once wasn’t allowed to squat on 1,200 twitter usernames that I planned to flip for profit”. It’s just… so revealing
https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1471528602072064002
bullying is kindness as it disincentivizes cringe and changes your constraint set such that you're motivated thru suffering to shift your behaviors
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RT @chaosprime
when you run loser software, it makes me want to smack you around, and it isn't because i want to hurt you or for you to feel bad, it's because i love you and i want to make you stop doing loser shit and do non-loser shit instead
something something grandmotherly kindness
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1471918400452579342
does USD have no gas fees, or are they paid ahead of time thru taxation which is then used to finance the US military, aka the consensus layer for fiat currency?
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RT @_mihirpatel
My friend just put me on this thing called dollars, literally 0 gas fees it's insane
https://twitter.com/_mihirpatel/status/1462553692956241921
memes are ephemeral physically-embedded informational patterns we often acquire inadvertently from propaganda engines and can spread to others through speech acts; this does not differ in any real significant way, besides being easier to see. in fact, these are much less virile.
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RT @JoshuaPotash
Imprinting ads on people. Unbelievably dystopian
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1465137486229876745
illegality of suicide is oppressive as it forces underprivileged groups to labor under capitalism without their consent
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RT @The_WGD
IF YOU LET THEM BUILD SUICIDE BOOTHS THEY WILL WANT TO MAKE BACK THE COSTS AND THEN WANT TO TURN A PROFIT AND WHAT WILL THE ADVERTISING LOOK LIKE IF IT DOESN'T CENTER POC ITS RACIST
https://twitter.com/The_WGD/status/1471911548008468486
me not having this is ableist
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RT @__Leucothea
gf who is curious about everything bf who loves explaining everything
https://twitter.com/__Leucothea/status/1471593285143519237
never shy away from learning something far from your core competence, nor from underpinning your trust with evidence; both practices will make you a more effective collaborator in the long run
thru thus process I've learned the value of having skilled collaborators in domains you're only minimal familiar with, but still enough to check their work; the trust they earn professionally filters back out to the interpersonal realm as well, building stronger relationships
there'd a russian saying: доверяй но проверяй, translated as "trust, but verify"; this has very much been a motto for me, and has been quite instrumental thruout the torturous process of learning to delegate work to others, which I've always struggled with, having high standards
I've found that I can build much deeper trust in someone's competence thru iterated monte carlo output validation than by simply trusting them based on character or recommendation; this validated trust allows me to release cognitive load which would otherwise be spent worrying
in the real world, not only is it quite rare to find business collaborators you trust on the level of close friends/family, but those too are capable of making mistakes; is it not then an act of kindness to release the from the burden of perfection thru mutual accountability?
