Daniel Baryon Matt here are some axioms in response. 1-we cannot expect to eliminate expectation & desire 2-systems impose values (via filters) right back onto us 3-individuals vary in their ability to thrive in systems required to achieve a their desires

Dr Draycott added: 'I'm suspicious of people . . . who attempt to venture into fields where they don't have sufficient academic expertise & claim they have suddenly discovered something that everyone else has missed." Dawin? Theology degree. Watson? Zoology. I could go on.

Google Play is the worst developer experience I've had in my career. I have never before seen such a level of institutional rot and ossification gilded with the privilege of complete effective control over billions of android devices. I have never seen an organization which has

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I like capitalism. But it’s bad at optimizing things it can’t or doesn’t measure. Social trust and the benefits of a high-quality populace don’t show up on anyone’s quarterly earnings report directly (though they do indirectly). It does not optimize the commons. Keep deporting.

X is a sweltering rectum. The maggots here are in heaven and look down on the world outside. X is their state, their culture, their religion. I'm happy they have a place of their own as to save the rest.

2024 was a masterful innovation in GOP campaign propaganda: leveraging ascendant alt-media into a hugely potent asset. Imagine telling these podcasters last fall that by July 2025, Trump would bomb Iran, terminate the "Epstein files," and become bitter political enemies with Musk

Anti-Ozempic people don’t understand that the average person isn’t supposed to be an iron-willed Übermensch. Average people simply reflect the quality of their society; they’re obese bc modernity is sick, not bc of some moral failing. Being thin should be effortless, the default!

Aaaaand right on cue, arming Ukraine is "America First"

Christian Heiens 🏛 There are many religions. Among them, you'll find the belief that we have discovered the whole of economics. You'll find that across Marxists and Capitalists.

If your brain is clogged with glutamate, you'll feel drained no matter what you try. Most people don't realize glutamate buildup can matter more than sleep hours. Here are 10 cheat codes to clear the mental buildup feel like a 20-year-old again: 🧵 1. Walk without your phone.

In my head I’ve started referring to political quadrants in terms of properties of their preferred coordination networks. Top two are centralized. Bottom two are distributed. Left two are symmetric (aka egalitarian). Right two are asymmetric.

stray dogs are like “I know a spot” and it’s heaven

When every task is automated, scarcity and wages vanish. MIT economist David Autor foresees a Mad Max-style scramble where wages drop as abundant AI skills flood the market. Wages hinge on scarcity: once AI copies a task, scarcity evaporates. Skill price falls even though the

Also upsetting that “The live tweaking of the system prompt for Grok to patch the MechaHitler problem” is a meaningful sentence

No greater loser mentality than this. At least poors have an excuse. “When I’m rich I’ll do something great.” Like a virus, replicating because it lacks the will, capacity or imagination to do anything else.

I don't think anything could possibly unseat Deafheaven for album of the year this year. It would have to be so unfathomably good that it's just not feasible. Anyway, listen to Sunny Day Real Estate & Deafheaven-- the most redeeming feature of America is our music.

Bitcoin people are so funny-- "hey look, Bitcoin value goes up when there's more inflation, this must disincentivize inflation, & proves that Bitcoin disincentivizes inflation"-- no, you have just made it possible for the ultra-wealthy to avoid inflation while everyone else has

"an epiphany is a rut waiting to happen" goes shockingly deep, every insight and integration is a rut waiting to happen, if you identify with it and stay with it eg- masculine & feminine expressions become ruts when you don't follow them to unity