👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
this is considered massively unkosher to say in many circles, esp. left-leaning progressive American ones; it gets one branded problematic & toxic. a major reasons i came to twitter was to find better circles.
it can be rather hard to encourage personal responsibility nowadays.
however, this is unreasonable; i'd say, "so long as scarcity remains", but lets be real, even after that, there will be people who insist on being upsetting
so, if the world cannot be made as soft as you'd like your internal environment to be, what is left?
to toughen up.
they're effectively externalizing responsibility for managing their emotions to their environment, by equating "me not being upset" with "the environment not being upsetting"
this is understandable, for small children! for adults, not so much
some want their world to be soft
any reasonable adult knows the correct answer is obviously 2, and if you have to ask why, you probably wont like my profile very much and should probably leave it
now, why are so many smart people saying the answer is 1? bc they dont believe its possible for them to not get hurt
i see we're talking about autists being annoying today
ftr: autists are annoying. this is non-controversial. get over it.
the real Q is whether its the responsibility of:
1. others to not think/say theyre annoying, or
2. the autists in question to maintain their own boundaries
"im bitches" gf
"that man? einstein" bf
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RT @pareinoia
bitches be like "it's me, I'm bitches"
https://twitter.com/pareinoia/status/1390678449006825478
remember back when we were all arguing about this? that was fun. let's find something new to yell about. perhaps there's another scissor statement available in these tests
just realized that the collectivist approach is v similar to the female money allocation strategy (see linked quiz); do you optimize for the most money overall, or for fairness at the cost of the overall pie?
unironically think this is patriarchy (good)
https://www.idrlabs.com/gender-game/test.php
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RT @pee_zombie
the thing about opposition to ranking/grading is that its reducto ad absurdum is a world quite similar to that which har…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1390501081319415809
great approachable explanation on how blockchains and NFTs work, and why they're useful
it touches on they two critical points many people don't realize which really expose the value prop
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RT @owenbroadcast
heres how i explain what NFTs are to people. im posting this as i wake up + have coffee this morning because ive seen 100s of posts explaining it from a negative angle and i can tell they dont get it, so, if you have no idea a…
https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1390628477343260673
ok.... what's so bad about this tho? like actually. how is it a significant invasion of privacy? they're quite literally asking for a consensual action to be taken in a professional context. come on.
one can make the slippery slope argument but... cmon
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RT @ConserveChange
What the actual.... I'm an external on a PhD defense and they require the student to pan her entire bedroom, the only room where she can be alone, to *prove* t…
https://twitter.com/ConserveChange/status/1389268738805993472
how do we decide who should be in charge of various critical functions w/o discrimination? would you be okay w/ your surgeon being picked from the population at random?
perhaps if we accept reality, rather than ignore it, we can work to improve on it
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RT @chaosprime
so lovely, Nick's sunnily generous assumption that this impression is somehow mistaken rather than being an example of the children having a better idea of what's going…
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1390491406930784264
while material scarcity remains (& it still does, esp. considering logistical difficulties), it's simply delusional to imagine that its possible to operate a civilization w/o "unfair" distinctions based on the lottery of birth; some people are much more skilled than others
the thing about opposition to ranking/grading is that its reducto ad absurdum is a world quite similar to that which hard collectivists desire; w/o a way to determine priority in a resource constrained world, everyone gets an equal split of a single much smaller pie
suboptimal
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RT @nickcammarata
It’s messed up that we’re “graded” by authority figures every day starting from six years old. Kids that young aren’t capable of compart…
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1390439052910940160
I'm often surprised by what does well and what flops; things I think are boring throwaway tweets like the sleep thing get lots of engagement, while things I find interesting and care about (like the QT) are completely ignored
I wonder how much of a factor post time is here 🤔
damn I feel like I unlocked an achievement, several hours with exactly 0 engagement. I wonder what about this sort of content causes this? is it overly technical in a niche subject? does it make no sense somehow? or is it simply just boring
dw I'm not complaining I'm curious
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RT @pee_zombie
this is yet another step towards the unfungification of supposedly-fungible cryptoassets like BTC; there already exists a gray market for "unmix…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1390426551565565954
these effects, + the natural tendency of traders to differentiate assets so as to capture price-insensitive consumers are likely to lead to a tiering of the crypto markets, which will set the stage for credit ratings to make it into crypto, as larger institutions seek credibility
the continuous furor over BTC's energy usage, as well as anti-China sentiment, may lead users to seek out "proveably-ethical" UTXOs, ie mined using "green power" & by miners not in China
this may generate demand for UTXO-provenance verification services, which certify origin
this is yet another step towards the unfungification of supposedly-fungible cryptoassets like BTC; there already exists a gray market for "unmixed" UTXOs, as certain institutions are not willing to incur the potential risk that they'll be dinged for potentially abetting ML/TF
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RT @0xB10C
MARA Pool mined its first 'clean' block today.
https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000003f8cb66fe1ecfb38754abc9c4d4a62b71de45fef8777
https://twitter.com/0xB10C/status/1390194321127772165
in its simplest form, "privilege" just means "this is a form of advantage some people have over others that they many not necessarily even realize is a valid dimension of inquiry"
everything else is culture war nonsense overlaid on top of it
sociology isnt ALL bad
just mostly
alright seems like a lot of you dont realize this so it needs to be said
i'm using "privilege" here not in the dumb culture war sense wherein it refers to the oppression olympics
but rather as a simple term with analytic utility, w/o all the irritating implications
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RT @pee_zombie
the biggest privilege we don't talk about is sleep privilege
sometimes I realize that so many people just... don't properly get a good night's sleep reg…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1390347854401753090
