👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
how we model proximity (& hence relevance) has shifted from physical to digital space, the latter of which has many more dimensions & consequently degrees of freedom
being in a more "open" space, relatively, makes us feel agoraphobic, there being many more directions to watch
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RT @IntractableLion
@pee_zombie @CurrentCitizen Dunbar slots for experiential reality
https://twitter.com/IntractableLion/status/1409355143124971522
this is precisely my attitude towards software bugs, and why I make a point of being HAPPY and excited to find them; they were already there, but now that you've become aware, they can be fixed! I find this a powerful mindset shift to teach to neophyte engineers
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RT @Malcolm_Ocean
My favorite example is the "Litany of Gendlin", which was reified by folks on LessWrong some years ago. It totally reads like a litany when displayed li…
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1104072724744454144
realizing this made me stop mocking stupid poor people; punching down just doesn't feel right when you really think about what the life of someone in poverty is like
medieval minds can still be found in the poorest corners of our civilization
and many of them are on here too
we often mock the ridiculously superstitious beliefs people used to hold, poking holes in their contradictions and incompatibilities with reality
but do we take into account how the mind of a person in everpresent distress is inevitably warped around it to be able to function?
if you've never known a better way to be, it's easy to not be aware of the suffering you're feeling; we're quite pampered nowadays, when it comes to physical comforts, & often don't even appreciate the things we take for granted
could the medievals imagine how good we have it?
I wonder what it must have been like to live in an earlier era, what the physical state of the typical person was, how distracted by pain and discomfort they were
and then am in awe of what they accomplished in spite of all that
ofc, it's possible they didn't notice it at all
I think a lot about how the historical near-constant physical discomforts must have affected both sanity and emotional resilience
my own experiences with chronic pain have indubitably deeply shaped the way I think, & I live in relative luxury, compared to mostly every human ever
the historical role of jars (enslaved rocks cursed to hunger eternally) in enabling the project of civilization is seriously underappreciated
why invoke the West to explain the administrative failings of the USSR? do you really need to be involved so bad? can't understand historical events w/o a personal connection? it's such an odd form of reverse West saviorism... we're perfectly capable of fucking up on our own, ty
do they just not care about truth, valuing advancing their personal political narrative more? that I can understand, but if so it's... disappointing. I expect more interesting positions; this shit is, frankly, incredibly tedious. why advance such trivially disprovable theories?
I wonder how these people account for the very many people for whom these events are in living memory; my grandparents, for example, quite literally lived through this. they told me many stories of living off potato skins and bread crusts, their friends that didn't make it
i remain perpetually fascinated at the incredible levels of americentrism I see exhibited on here sometimes, wherein every event is examined primarily in relation to the US, and more broadly, the West. hard to understand tbh, being an immigrant; what about, u know, our memories?
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RT @CurrentCitizen
Holodomor was fake. The Civil War massacres and subsequent oppression of the Lenin-Trotsky regime were real though. Holodomor was a c…
https://twitter.com/CurrentCitizen/status/1409339070111748096
money can only ever bring you to zero, it can never take you past that; so perhaps what you are perceiving as money bringing you happiness, is merely unhappiness leaving you, instead
who needs to be told "if you have a problem which money could solve, use money to solve the problem"? how could this be of use? who would not use money to solve problems if they could afford to do so? perhaps, then, that's not what the saying means, & you merely misinterpreted it
these things are not meant to be taken nearly as literally as some (typically nerds) do; clearly there's an assumption implicit in the saying that all the life problems which could be solved w/ money, already have been. bc if not, why are we even discussing this? just buy stuff
great thread, but this sort of thing always strikes me as "nerds reinventing basic concepts"; this saying is very clearly not saying "money can't make you happy", but rather that money on its own can only do so much for you, and can't solve the hardest problems, which is true
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RT @hillelogram
I now despise the saying "money can't buy happiness". Money absolutely can buy happiness, and I've been conditioned to think it can't, and tha…
https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1409205712039956481
I've decided that all of ethics is pointless, just do what's obviously good, don't do what's obviously bad, and don't stress about the rest
ok now can we talk about something actually useful
holy shit lmao
it's not wrong, OSS is mostly a trash fire, it's a miracle it works at all, but it's not a sustainable model; tools should cost money and have someone's ass be on the like for their failures
but damn the spice
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RT @spakhm
Steve Ballmer was right when he said that open source is communist. We are all equal in living under a regime of crappy software with nightmare security maintained by pink-haired marxists (they/them) wi…
https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1408631729666015232
went clothes shopping in the city to refresh my post pandemic wardrobe and chase flagged the transaction as fraud. I feel like this means something but idk what it is
