re-reading Grendel for the first time since the summer before college. ah, so THAT’s what happened to me…

when are you gonna stop reading op eds with the feds and come read novellas with the fellas

Strictly speaking, there are no unenlightened people, there is only unenlightened activity!

god this is fascinating and so good my favorite part

the memenerds should produce a list of the predominant mimetic triangles trending in each generation. the larp list

shocking to think that the memetic Cambrian explosion hasn’t even begun. fair chance I would be baffled by what my little cousins hang up in the heart as LARP-lodestar. more than not recognizing some celebrity, but not being able to translate the concept. what dreams may come!

don’t mirror others too much or your face is going to stick like that! > but how to win friends & influence people makes clout machine go brrr what use is clout to you if it only confirms that you know how to wear a mask? > the thrills duh > (10yrs later) 🪞 👃 🪞

in middle school, playing WoW, i was trying to script extensive macros that would effectively automate combat. I got stuck, asked for help. guy in my guild told me it’s possible, but asked “don't you want to play the game?" oh yeah man, I do, I really do

I think we underestimate the degree to which human attention & caresses from hands are superstimuli for animals Someday I expect superintelligent AIs may use tFUS to do the same for us But at some point a superstimulus isn’t consensual. Maybe the best we can aim for is mutual

I will watch as much Shoresy as they can make, will recommend it to everyone I talk to, and will probably binge rewatch it many more times how is it then, HULU, that there is a whole ass new season and your algorithm never once thought to advertise to ME

turns out its entirely beautiful the whole way down. Yes I checked, no matter how far down you go - just beautiful. Sorry to break the news to the nihilists or the uneducated haters. We live in the best of all possible worlds and nature loves you back

Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA) Ant colony is totally alive. This isn't even a question to me. My family is alive, my city is alive, humanity is alive. These are all true statements and different to the claim that some collection of persons are all individually alive.