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Protocol Town Hall on now: Kara Kittel and Toby Shorin on Credit Cultures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56q9Eq9bnA
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https://theneedling.com/2024/03/28/you-didnt-see-shit-local-says-to-californian-witnessing-seattle-spring/
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anyone spotted cicadas yet? https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/americas/cicadas-2024-historic-emergence-scn/index.html
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Bluesky has gifs now. I may need to rebalance my protocols protocol accordingly until farcaster achieves parity.
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Io looks like whipped cream on raspberry reduction on puddle of mustard. Got it. That’s the condiment definition of torture for sure. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/world/nasa-jupiter-io-lava-lake-mountain-scn/index.html
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Monoliths are the enemy Attack and dethrone monoliths
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Sometimes when I don’t have enough to worry about, I worry about the magnetosphere breaking somehow https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1782860207451746432
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Different people have different levels of need for how completely they want to be “seen” and the cultural default construction of “human” ends up being a strong function of “recognition minorities” who need to be seen far more fully and in higher fidelity than most people.
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This is not going to end well. https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/
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“My friend Jon Evans calls LLMs a lifeform in Plato’s Cave. We cast shadows of our world at them, and they try to deduce what’s going on in reality.” https://open.substack.com/pub/strangeloopcanon/p/what-can-llms-never-do
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I’ve been unavoidably busier than I like to be lately, and realized I haven’t had time to be gloomy in a couple of weeks, and then it hit me that this is actually why many people *choose* to be busy. They literally choose to be too busy to think because they can’t stand a bit of gloomy. This makes me metagloomy.
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https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1782654385429913973?s=61&t=Z7ogL5oXQlE-zjAQ_mFVBw
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Noooo. This is my #3 show right now 😩 https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2024/04/portland-based-show-so-help-me-todd-canceled-by-cbs.html
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Thinking about a subset of weapons of the weak: Gaslightings of the weak There’s a whole set of tactics intuitively used by children vs parents, illiterate people vs educated, poor vs rich etc. Hadn’t really noticed these before
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The Line is now more of The Hyphen https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/20/saudi-crowm-prince-vanity-project-line-cut-short-rowan-moore
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https://aiindex.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HAI_AI-Index-Report-2024.pdf
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Bong-term thinking 🤔😂
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Comportment - Deportment = Character The presentation aspect it’s tempting to focus on basically cancels out in how you are actually judged. Kyle: That’s not being nice, that’s putting on a nice sweater Cartman: I don’t understand the difference Kyle: I know you don’t
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When I came to the US I was struck by the anti-wabi-sabi temporal aesthetics here, revealed especially by car insurance principles, where the goal is to restore a car to brand-new looks regardless of severity of accidents. So well-insured things don’t “age” naturally. They merely start to look unfashionable.
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