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Matthew Pirkowski

@mattpirkowski

Reverent Blasphemer.

Bringing Order to Chaos, and Chaos to Order.

Transmittere in memoriam.

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Orpheas Have children with someone you love and allow that growth to displace everything you know deep down is a waste of time. I knew I was wasting time, but had no idea how effective I could become when doing so meant spending more time with them. I miss none of it, and realize I

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“Globalist” connotes the wrong frame of reference, and carries with it too much of our physically-informed intuition to make sense of the actual phenomenon in question. It would be more accurate to say that the exponential saturation of the world by communications technologies

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Very much an urban / suburban thing. I hear my neighbors’ cows and roosters far more than I hear their dogs, if I hear them at all.

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Running a business is like juggling a dozen plates & chainsaws & flaming torches & every time the government adds another tax/form/fee/permit/assessment/rule they're tossing another tennis ball in the mix that you *have* to catch

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To flesh this out a bit more, this frame imbues what would otherwise serve as a cheeky punchline—“If I were not Diogenes, I too would wish to be Diogenes”—with an additional layer of meaning. Is essence, he’s implying that while the two categories mentioned below are similar, it

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1⃣ Some body-mind tensions can't be examined head-on. (For those that have played Super Mario 64, defeating the ghosts is a favourite metaphor I've come up with on how to tackle sneaky expressions of dukkha, which otherwise escape the scrutiny of full focused attention).

1⃣ Some body-mind tensions can't be examined head-on. 

(For those that have played Super Mario 64, defeating the ghosts is a favourite metaphor I've come up with on how to tackle sneaky expressions of dukkha, which otherwise escape the scrutiny of full focused attention).
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Affordant freedom is a conception of freedom shaped by the possibilities and limits within a given context. It recognizes that while certain actions are enabled by the environment or conditions, those same factors also set boundaries on what can be done. Freedom, in this sense,

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🫡︎ Also, as someone who tends to look at human interactions through the lens of games, I was eventually confronted by the argument that marriage actually unlocks dynamics that simply aren't possible in its absence. The more I thought about it in light of my own relationships and

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One of the worst parts about X's present dynamics is that the network topology now feels far more centralized around the behavior of large accounts. Given the probable scale free structure of this network, it will always be a power law. But I'd wager that X's power law has a

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As we navigate the labyrinth of information, consider this: The algorithm isn't just a tool; it's the modern oracle. In ancient times, we sought wisdom from seers and stars. Today, our queries are answered by lines of code, predicting not just our preferences but shaping our